Last conference we announced our plans for a new edition of our RIOT publication, The State of Responsible IoT 2025, and positioned the conference as a launchpad for publication.
We started this publication in 2017 , delivering four impactful editions in subsequent years. After some years of with the ThingsCon turning 10, we are rebooting RIOT for its 5th edition.
Call for authors
We’ve been pleased by the enthusiastic response to our initial announcement. Now, we’re thrilled to share our finalized plans and timelines, and we invite you to contribute your work to RIOT 2025.
Submission Process
To curate a diverse and impactful collection, we’re implementing a two-stage submission process:
- Article outline: Submit a compelling title and brief description of your idea, max 1 A4 PDF
- Contact with editors: After the deadline we will contact you to let you know and if necessary discuss the outline.
- Full Article: If invited, you can submit your complete work.
RIOT aims to bridge academia and practice, fostering a rich dialogue without the constraints of traditional academic review processes. We trust in your expertise and vision to deliver thought-provoking content.
Launch Event
We are planning for all participating authors to attend an unconference-style launch event. This hybrid gathering will connect our global community of contributors, including location, date, and other details to be announced.
Theme and Format
As we connect this to the last conference and the celebration of 10 years of ThingsCon, we invite you to connect with the theme Generative Things. That can be interpreted in various ways, from diving deep into things with AI capabilities and the consequences to more from a distance, discussing the expectations of the next decade of Things. We invite you to open up new questions we can address rather than provide the answers.
We also specifically invite workshop hosts at the conference to build on their experiences. We can imagine different forms: using the topic and learnings for a new article or having more of a report on the workshop. We also welcome adapting existing articles as long as they are not direct copies. We also plan to include exhibition projects as part of the publication.
We are also open to different formats, from a (short) essay, an op-ed, an academic paper, a pictorial, an annotated immersive experience, etc.
Timeline
Announcement: 7 February 2025
Idea Submission Deadline: 28 February 2025
Article Submission: 30 April 2025
Final Revisions and Lay-out: 19 May 2025
RIOT 2025 Launch and Unconference: expected late May 2025
Editors and contact
Editors of RIOT 2025 are Andrea Krajewski and Iskander Smit. You can always contact us via the dedicated email riot(at)thingscon.org.