2017 Call for Presentations Workshop for

Commercial Users of Functional Programming 2017

Sponsored by SIGPLAN

CUFP 2017

Co-located with ICFP 2017

Oxford, UK

September 7-9

Talk Proposal Submission Deadline: 9 June 2017

CUFP 2017 Presentation Submission Form



The annual CUFP event is a place where people can see how others are using functional programming to solve real world problems; where practitioners meet and collaborate; where language designers and users can share ideas about the future of their favorite language; and where one can learn practical techniques and approaches for putting functional programming to work.

Giving a CUFP Talk

If you have experience using functional languages in a practical setting, we invite you to submit a proposal to give a talk at the event. We're looking for two kinds of talks:

Retrospective reports are typically 25 minutes long. Now that CUFP has run for more than a decade, we intend to invite past speakers to share what they’ve learned after a decade spent as commercial users of functional programming. We will favour experience reports that include technical content.

Technical talks are also 25 minutes long, and should focus on teaching the audience something about a particular technique or methodology, from the point of view of someone who has seen it play out in practice. These talks could cover anything from techniques for building functional concurrent applications, to managing dynamic reconfigurations, to design recipes for using types effectively in large-scale applications. While these talks will often be based on a particular language, they should be accessible to a broad range of programmers.

We strongly encourage submissions from people in communities that are underrepresented in functional programming, including but not limited to women; people of color; people in gender, sexual and romantic minorities; people with disabilities; people residing in Asia, Africa, or Latin America; and people who have never presented at a conference before. We recognize that inclusion is an important part of our ission to promote functional programming. So that CUFP can be a safe environment in which participants openly exchange ideas, we abide by the SIGPLAN Conference Code of Conduct Policy.

If you are interested in offering a talk, or nominating someone to do so, please submit your presentation before 09 June 2017 via the

CUFP 2017 Presentation Submission Form

You do not need to submit a paper, just a short proposal for your talk. There will be a short scribe's report of the presentations and discussions but not of the details of individual talks, as the meeting is intended to be more of a discussion forum than a technical interchange.

Nevertheless, presentations will be recorded and presenters will be expected to sign an ACM copyright release form.

Note that we will need presenters to register for the CUFP workshop and travel to Oxford at their own expense. There are some funds available to would-be presenters who require assistance in this respect.

Program Committee

Alex Lang (Tsuru Capital), co-chair

Rachel Reese (Mulberry Labs), co-chair

Garrett Smith (Guild AI)

Danielle Sucher (Jane Street)

Jasper Van der Jeugt (Fugue)

Yukitoshi Suzuki (Ziosoft)

Evelina Gabasova (University of Cambridge)

More information

For more information on CUFP, including videos of presentations from previous years, take a look at the CUFP website at http://cufp.org. Note that presenters, like other attendees, will need to register for the event. Acceptance and rejection letters will be sent out by July 15th.

Guidance on giving a great CUFP talk

Focus on the interesting bits: Think about what will distinguish your talk, and what will engage the audience, and focus there. There are a number of places to look for those interesting bits.