Program Overview

[mcawley]

Program Needs

• Call for presentations
• Encouraging interesting speakers to submit
• Setting up the talk submission system
• Review of the submissions
• Working out a great schedule
• Communication with speakers
• Coordination with scholarship team
• Canceling, changing, rearranging talks
• Keynote speakers
• Plan social events (space, catering, music)

[mvexel]

For context, this is the sheet we mainly worked in after exporting from Sessionize: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d8ePmc3a-dhJWqmXtW4A4Ni5togV_4s3Y-iwPO-Pbt0/edit#gid=1344315386

Here is last year's Sessionize project: https://sessionize.com/app/organizer/event/1541

[mcawley]

Key Milestones (suggested)
CFP Open - April 1 (7 months out)
CFP Close - June 15 (4.5 months out)
Announce keynotes - July 15 (3.5 months out)
Announce program - August 1 (3 months out)