There’s also the money-making aspect of hosting international conferences, which can charge astronomical registration fees. But for international conferences that want to be genuinely international, and where meeting in-person is necessary, we can do better. Colleagues can also help by inviting those denied conference visas to give talks in other locations. For instance, the Computer Vision Foundation organizes both the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) and the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Unfortunately, by defaulting to a handful of countries as locations for “international” countries, conference organizers are sending the opposite message.

Source: Forbes May 21, 2019 13:07 UTC