Please note the following important dates for SummerFest '08.
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Early Registration Opens; Call for Workshops submissions | August 19th |
| Call for Speed Paper submissions | August 28th |
| Full Registration Opens | September 15th |
| Deadline for Speed Paper submissions | September 27th |
| Deadline for Workshop submissions - Extended | September 27th |
| Notification of acceptance for Workshop and Speed Paper submissions; Notification of travel bursary awards | October 10th |
| Early Bird Registration Closes; Late Registration Opens | October 31st |
| Deadline for receipt of materials for printing | November 10th |
| On-line Registration Closes | November 17th |
| SummerFest ’08 begins | December 1st |
| Summer School | December 1st–2nd |
| Skills Sessions | December 3rd |
| Speed Papers Session | December 3rd |
| Designing the Australian National Corpus | December 4th–5th |
| Voice and Voice Disorders | December 4th |
| Embodied Interaction in Mobile, Physical and Virtual Environments | December 4th–5th |
| Search and Information Extraction from Audio Data | December 5th |