ACM SIGIR Annual Business Meeting 2018: Secretary’s Notes

The 2018 ACM SIGIR Annual Business Meeting took place on Wednesday July 11, 2018, at the SIGIR'18 Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. The meeting was held between 13:00-14:30 and was led by the chair of SIGIR Executive Committee, Diane Kelly. The meeting started with an introduction to the executive committee, which involves Diane Kelly (University of Tennessee) as the chair, Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam) as the vice chair, Emine Yilmaz (University College London) as the secretary, Ben Carterette (University of Delaware) as the treasurer and Charles Clarke (University of Waterloo) as the past chair. Apart from the executive committee, volunteers play an important role in running SIGIR. Diane introduced and thanked the volunteers for 2017-2018. The volunteers for this period were Nattiya Kanhabua & Guido Zuccon (Information Directors), Jaime Arguello (Student Travel Awards Chair …