Keeping this vague because I don’t want to doxx myself. I’m a first-time reviewer for a large, well respected international conference. One of the abstracts describes an app that was used to provide a specific service in an under-resourced area. Everything looks pretty solid and I think the results are very worthwhile and definitely relevant to the conference theme. However, the abstract references the company that created the app and describes the history of the company and its other products. One of the scoring criteria specifically prohibits any sort of commercial, product, logo, or brand promotion. So what do I do?
At prior conferences I certainly remember seeing posters that were affiliated with specific institutions or industry. Is that not promotion?
I would love to ask my former advisor for guidance, but he recently passed away. I guess there’s others at my university I could run this by, and I suppose I could reach out to the conference organizers… Anyhow, I’d appreciate any insight. And if this is a dumb question that I should already know the answer to, then by all means lmk that as well.
Thanks.