We are experiencing a pivotal moment in the history of our profession. Our community’s technology finds applications in various fields, including machine learning, integrated sensing, processing, and communication; robotics and autonomous systems; medical and computational imaging; communication systems; and speech and language processing systems, among others. As signal processing technology continues to advance, these applications will likely expand. The need to narrow the gap between academia and industry has seldom been greater.

The Golden Jubilee edition of the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s (SPS’s) flagship conference, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), was held on 6–11 April 2025 at the Hyderabad International Convention Center in Hyderabad, India. This was the first time an ICASSP was organized in India. Here, we provide a brief summary of the event. The goal of the organizers was to provide an affordable, inclusive, memorable, and sustainable (AIMS) event that lived up to the lofty technical standards of an ICASSP.