Program Co-Chair Duties
The Program Co-Chairs are responsible for assembling the main conference program. This includes
- selecting the Program Committee
- constructing and distributing the Call-for-Papers
- setting up the mentoring service for authors from countries where English is not the language of scientific exchange
- overseeing the reviewing process
- organizing the Program Committee Meeting
- overseeing the selection of accepted papers
- communicating the review results to authors
- overseeing the Best Paper Award
- selecting invited speakers
- creating the conference program
- constructing a program handout
- communicating with the General Chair and the Executive Committee
- providing updates to the Program Chair section of the Conference Handbook
Some suggestions made by Jan Wiebe and Su Jian (program chairs for ACL-AFNLP 2009): http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Program_chair_suggestions
See also the detailed set of notes from Jason Eisner on how to be a program chair: http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~jason/advice/how-to-chair-a-conference.html