AMI 2024 Annual Conference

Save the Date: July 24 – 27, 2024 in Rochester, New York

Mark your calendars now to attend and gain new professional insights while connecting with your peers.

The call for Presentation, Tech Showcase, and Workshop Proposals opens on September 15! 

The AMI is composed of professionals working in a wide variety of sub-specialties and industries. We welcome speakers from all areas of practice, on a wide variety of subjects.

Submission Dates:

• Submission Open: September 15, 2023
• Submission Deadline: November 30, 2023
• Notification of Acceptance: Early 2024

Session Type Descriptions:

• Plenary - A one-hour session given from the main session room.
• Concurrent - A 30-minute or 60-minute session that takes place at the same time as another session given
  from either the main session room or alternate session room.
• Tech Showcase - A demonstration of a technique that will be shown by the presenter; demonstrations will be
  shown on a flow restarting every 20-30 minutes (for a total of a three hour block of time). A break will be given
  approximately halfway through.
• Workshop - A 2-hour, 4-hour, or 8-hour workshop that can introduce attendees to fundamental issues, provide
  background material for more focused subjects, or present innovative concepts in a specific discipline.
  Workshop objectives should offer a valuable resource for scientific or medical knowledge and/or a technical
  artistic aspect of an AMI discipline.

Presentation and Tech Showcase Proposal Information

Submissions related to the following topics are of particular interest this year:

• Visualization in cutting-edge research
• The science of learning
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact on biomedical visualization
• UX / UI / Human-Computer Interaction in interactive media
• Visualizing medical and scientific data [data visualization]
• International subjects
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in biomedical visualization
• Setting up and/or operating a biomedical visualization business
• Graphic Design within medical illustration
• Tips and tricks for common software applications
• Refreshers in a particular area of anatomy and physiology
• Understanding medical imaging
• Topics of interest to professionals (i.e. business, marketing, employment, work/life balance, wellness, etc.)
• Research updates/resolution from past AMI speakers
• History of Medical Illustration
• Patient education

Submissions outside of these topics are welcomed and encouraged.

Workshop Proposal Information

Potential topics of interest for 2024 Workshops include, but are not limited to:

• 3D modeling or animating
• Balance/scheduling for studio owners
• Dissection
• Diversity
• Figure Drawing
• How to paint/psd various skin tones and different facial features
• Mental health for the Medical Illustrator
• Museum/Zoo/Botanical Sketching
• Photoshop tips and tricks
• Playcanvas
• Project Management
• Substance Workflow
• Try new art materials
• Unity
• Zbrush Modeling

Again, submissions outside of these topics are welcomed and encouraged.