Committee member

Shapes the scientific content. Sets the call, agrees the review criteria, and has to defend the decisions the programme is built on — so wants a review that is defensible, not merely finished.

Persona

Committee member

Side

External — Works for a client, exhibitor, supplier, hotel, or attends the event.

Reference

committee-member

Where they work

In the submission and review areas of the event, on one project. They are not employed by the operator — they are the subject-matter authority the programme answers to.

A committee's chair is this same persona, not a senior one above it. Chairing is a fact about the person and belongs in their job title; it opens no screen an ordinary member cannot open, so ema does not model it as a separate role.

What they are responsible for

The content standing up to scrutiny. They set the call, agree what reviewers are being asked to judge, and have to defend the decisions afterwards — so they want a review that is defensible, not merely finished.

What they can do

• Agree what the call for submissions asks for and when it closes.
• Agree the review criteria and the scoring reviewers work to.
• See how review is progressing and where it has stalled.
• Take part in the accept, reject, and revise decisions.

What they cannot do

• Score a submission they have a conflict of interest in without declaring it.
• Publish the schedule or run the event — the project lead does that.

Journeys they take part in

These are the end-to-end chains of work that name them — the steps they own, and the ones that only affect them.

Journey pages need an operator sign-in to open.

Delivery

• Call for papers to published programmeSubmissions are reviewed, accepted, scheduled, and published.
• Open the call for papersAffected, no step of their ownAuthors can find the call while it is open, submit a complete abstract with the right co-authors, and change or withdraw it only while the rules allow.
• Review, score and decide submissionsEvery submission is scored by eligible reviewers under the blinding the committee chose, and every author receives a decision — and only the feedback they were meant to see.

Pages that relate to the Committee member

• Event program model
• Holding and Releasing DecisionsSign-in required
• Prize JudgingSign-in required
• Programme MilestonesSign-in required
• Review ConfigurationSign-in required
• Reviewer AssignmentSign-in required
• Submission ConfigurationSign-in required
• Talk AcceptanceSign-in required
• Talk Acceptance ConfigSign-in required