Talk

2020 Mars Society Virtual Convention

James Burk volunteers as the IT Director for The Mars Society; who are pioneering the exploration of Mars. He’s a member of the Steering Committee and responsible for keeping their online presences on the cutting edge since 2011. He also leads the MarsVR project to create research and training experiences using the latest virtual reality […]

Vendor Demo

XEO: a tool for audience engagement

Perry Lawrence will demonstrate XEO. It is an audience participation and engagement tool used by the NFL for stadium interaction. Now this tool is available to you for your virtual events! XEO let’s your audience interact with votes, sounds, sentiment sliders, polls, quizzes, games and more. Perry Lawrence has been involved with audience interaction for […]

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Ineffable Con and more

Dr Rachael Livermore is Co-Chair of The Ineffable Con, a fan convention that went online for the first time in 2020 with a total of over 650 participants from around the world. She has chaired six science fiction and fantasy conventions, and had staff positions on dozens more. Her background is in Astrophysics, and she […]

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Scheduling Tools

Steve Davidson is the publisher of Amazing Stories magazine. He put on a virtual convention; AmazingCon in June 2020. He will talk about the tools he developed that allowed him to schedule 42 readings, along with workshops and performances, in a very short timeframe. Discuss this in the group for this presentation or in the […]