CIC Global 2025

Submissions must use the provided CIC powerpoint template.

• Only one presentation submission per main author.  
• A title and a one paragraph abstract overview/description 
• Names of the author and speaker, plus any co-authors (up to 9 co-authors). If a speaker is not based in the U.S., provide a name of a U.S. based co-author or team member who can present as a backup in case the speaker cannot attend due to international travel restrictions.
• Speaker notes for any included diagrams. 

Note: Presentations that have been created for other events (such as DAC or CadenceLIVE) will be considered but should be tailored for the CIC audience. 

If you’re intending to file a patent on a particular innovation, and you want to describe that innovation at CIC, the patent must be filed before the conference. If this isn’t possible, please defer the presentation to next event.

Submission Tips

You can submit an idea for a poster and/or a presentation. 

• Make your submission as descriptive and close to its final presentation version as possible, to give the review committee enough information about your idea, the innovation and what your presentation would look like. 
• We highly discourage single slide presentations or just abstracts. Please remember that the more information the committee has, the better they can assess how your submission could fit into the program.  
• We recommend doing an internal peer review of your work prior to submission to increase the quality of your submission.
• It is acceptable to present innovations that span multiple years, such as “Five Years of Innovation in Innovus Placement” or “The Inner Workings of the Clarity 3D Solver”. 
• Presentations are generally 30 minutes long (20 minutes of content, and 10 minutes for questions). 
• Posters are a highlight of CIC and have equal standing with the presentation tracks. Posters provide an opportunity to connect with the audience that presentations lack, allowing for in-person brainstorming and collaboration, and are a terrific forum for more narrow technical content that may not be suitable for a broader audience. 
• For poster submissions, submit your content for a poster on the PPT template. The poster template will be available after the selections are finalized.
• For the posters, there is a maximum of 3 of the portrait (vertical) layout or 2 of the landscape (horizontal) style layout. You can also mix and match styles with 1 portrait and 1 landscape.

If we’ve submitted our slides/poster and we notice a mistake, can we amend them before review? 

• Once submitted, you cannot update a presentation on the submission website without automatically generating a new submission ID. 
• If you need to make updates to your submission before review, we recommend you send your submission ID, title, and requested change to cic_team@cadence.com. The core team can let you know whether changes can be accepted. 

Is what we submit the final version of our presentation? 

• If your submission is accepted for the conference, you will be able to refine it up until our presentation deadline (TBD, but generally a few weeks before the conference). 

Do you have examples of accepted presentations? 

• Due to the sensitivity of the topics presented at CIC, we are unable to distribute materials from past conferences. 

Is there a limit on the number of authors per submission ? 

• Please limit the total number of authors to 10 or less, including the submitting author. Feel free to add an “Acknowledgments” slide to recognize additional contributors in your slides.

How do I secure an invitation to CIC? 

• The best way to secure an invitation to CIC is to have an accepted presentation or poster. One presenting author will get an invitation to attend and present at CIC for each accepted paper and poster. 
• For non-presenting attendees,  technical chairs will work with their executive team and HR business partner to disperse the remaining invitations.