Now if we can just get something to draw folks through the
vendor area. I noticed at ACA not many folks went in after
the first day.
--- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:
I think it will be nice to have the breathing room. The
focus
groups essentially replace two talks, so that means four
"talks" on
Saturday, two on Friday night, plus banquet speakers.
Okay. That makes sense to me.
And I think we had suggested to GWAPA that the Amano piece
should probably have more than the "normal" alotment of
time.
In all other conventions except for 2003, ALL the talks,
including the
banquet, fit on 6 hours of VHS tape. There were always
five speakers.
Hmmm, won't we be moving soon to all DVD ;-)
It was the nutty Texans that added six focus group
presentors to the five
speakers.
Yes, we've Ben over that ground and it's a struggle Larry
and I couldn't sway. At least they pulled it off just in
the Rick of time. But it was an overstuffed agenda with
very little shmooze time -- not to mention things might
easily have gone awry if Ben and Rick weren't policing with
clocks in hand.
So I think four main speakers, two of which are "big big
names", will be
quite good.
Not to mention, fewer comps :-) We lucked out in Dallas on
the hotel comps and ending up paying, well, less than we
signed up for.
sh
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