Membership cost varies and can be as low as USD $10/year depending on membership type. 

Prospective Special Session organizers are expected to submit a proposal document, including the following information:

• Title of the Special Session
• List of organizers with names, affiliations and personal websites (or Google Scholar profiles)
• Email of the primary contact person
• Abstract (max 4,000 characters) highlighting the motivations, objectives, novelty, relevance to IJCNN 2025, and potential impact of the topic covered by the special session
• Link to previous editions of this special session (optional)
• Title, list of authors, and short abstracts of at least five committed papers (optional but highly recommended)
• List of potential reviewers for Special Session papers (mandatory after acceptance of the proposal)

Special Session proposals must be submitted as pdf files via the IJCNN 2025 CMT System.

Prospective Competition organizers are expected to submit a proposal document (please limit it to 4 pages), including the following information:

• Title of the Competition
• A brief introduction to the Competition
• The expected impact and significance of the challenge in the research and/or industry community
• Details of the rules for participation
• Details of datasets that will be used for the Competition
• Criteria that will be used to evaluate the submitted solutions
• Details regarding the eventual funding of the Competition to support the prize for winners
• Details of the Competition organizers including names, affiliations and short bios
• The full challenge schedule including dates for data release, submission deadline and announcement of results
• List of potential reviewers for Competition papers (mandatory after acceptance of the proposal)

Competition proposals must be submitted as pdf files via the IJCNN 2025 CMT System.