About the Event: Maitreyee is IBM Research Labs (IRL) - India's women student outreach event with a mission to enable computer science researchers from academia and industry to collaborate, learn, and network with each other. Every year, the IBM Research India Labs organizes an event to promote women in the computing and technology community. This unique initiative aims to bring together the brightest in technology, including students, researchers, faculty members, industry speakers, and domain experts for an active exchange of thoughts and ideas. It also provides a platform for students to present their ongoing research as well as interact with IBM researchers on how they can successfully grow their technical careers.

Research Showcase: The Maitreyee 2025 event invites submissions of vlogs/elevator pitches from diversity students in technology willing to showcase their knowledge. Out of all the submissions, the top three vlogs will be selected for a short presentation during Maitreyee by the authors themselves and will receive a prize.

Submission Guidelines:

• Submission must be original and an outcome of the author’s own efforts.
• A max 3 minutes video
• Submission should be on technical topics related to Security and Cryptography
• The goal of the submission is to talk about at least one of the following as an author:
  • Own research work
  • A tool developed
  • Short how-to-tutorial on a technology.
• The vlog file should be uploaded to Easychair.

For any further queries, please reach out at: maitreyee1@ibm.com