This is the week where the North American conference really starts to heat up. The BILTna committee (along with a few stragglers all the way from Australia 🙂 will arrive into St. Louis for the workshop ahead of this years conference. It’s not all fun and games either – some serious work needs to happen. Unfortunately the hotel doesn’t look like this at the moment because picture looks like it was taken on a pleasant summer evening. This week it’ll be snowing and the highs will be just above freezing.
– Walkthrough: 2D floor plans are one thing but walking through the venue and selecting exhibition areas, class rooms, labs, BCS, plenary and social areas needs to happen IRL (“In Real Life”). The St. Louis Union Station Hotel is a really unique and wonderful venue.
– Program: Classrooms, Labs, Roundtables, Breakout Spaces. We need to separate the wheat from the chaff so to speak and select the sessions that make up the learning during the conference. This also…