- Bill Poucher will kick off the 2025 ICPC CLI Symposium with a welcome message.
- Chair Christian Yongwhan Lim will preside over the 2025 CLI Symposium which will be held August 31st – September 5, 2025 at the 2025 ICPC World Finals in Baku, Azerbaijan.
- There are three tracks:
- ICPC Compete
- ICPC Educate
- ICPC Library
- Please refer to this page for the biographies of each speaker.
- Please refer to this page for presentation abstracts.
ICPC Compete Track
- In this track, we will discuss competitive programming competitions at different levels including news, instructions, and tools for entering ICPC contests, ICPC endorsed contests, and practice contests.
| Presenter | Title |
| Etienne Vouga, Session Chair | The Future of ICPC Problems |
| John Buck | Contest Control Systems: Shadowing |
| Marc Furon | Really? They Missed That?? |
| Mateusz Radecki | Don’t copy ideas – get inspired by them! |
| Tolga Can, Ryan Farrell, & Christian Yongwhan Lim | ICPC vs IOI |
ICPC Educate Track
- In this track, we will discuss tools and resources for learning about competitive programming, including scholarly works, tutorials, algorithms from theory to application, strategies, how to coach, and programs for quick development.
| Presenter | Title |
| Erich Baker, Session Chair | ICPC Journal – The Journal of Competitive Learning |
| Christian Yongwhan Lim | Internships at ICPC Foundation |
| Jerzy Jaromczyk | Using sports analogies, metaphors and quotes in coaching competitive programmers and teams |
| Bob Roggio | Computers at War |
| Zhou Yu | User Simulation for Agent Evaluation |
ICPC Library Track
- In this track, we will discuss a living library of ICPC history including news, analytics, problem sets, solutions, judge archives, contest archives, awards, and other artifacts of ICPC history.
| Presenter | Title |
| Fredrik Niemelä, Session Chair | ICPC Standardizations |
| Arup Guha | Use of AI in Programming Competitions |
| Joshua Andersson | An introduction to problemsetting |
| Rasmus John Hulthe | Uses of the new Problem Format |
| Miguel Revilla Rodríguez, Emilio Revilla Rodríguez, & Cristina Redondo García | Building a Collaborative Digital Archive for the ICPC |