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Return of the 24 Hours of PASS

In case you missed it I wanted to let everyone know that we are planning on doing our third 24 Hours of PASS. I sent out a call for abstracts recently to the people that have been selected to present at the PASS Summit in November (about 70 people in total). I got back about 40 responses to my initial email and 35 expressed interest in participating. I know, I know, 35 is a lot more than 24. After I figure out the schedule and assign slots then we’ll have more than enough people available to serve as a backup in case someone needs to back out at the last possible minute (hey, it happens!)

I targeted the PASS speaker list because we are looking to promote the PASS Summit and thought it was best to ask people if they were interested in promoting their sessions. This can be a great way to drive attendance for those speakers that are doing a pre/post con session. For others it can be a way for then to practice their session one more time before the Summit, or just some general shameless self-promotion.

The biggest change to our format this time is that we are going to spread the event over two days (September 15th and 16th). We are keeping the same start time(s) as the last event, promptly at 12 noon GMT for both days. We’ll run twelve straight sessions, then take a twelve hour respite, and then crank it back up again the next day. Hopefully that will allow for more people to attend all the sessions they want to see.

Yeah, I know…people on the other side of the Earth have a less than optimal viewing time. When we looked at the numbers for the last event we found that an overwhelming majority of the attendees are from the USA and Europe. So we decided to switch up the format a bit in order to make it easier for those attendees to attend more sessions this time around. If you were one of the few from the Asia/Pacific region and are miffed that you will be forced to spend your overnight hours watching the sessions live, feel free to send me an email and we can discuss everything in more detail.

You should be able to begin registering for the event on or around August 11th. Don’t hesitate to ask any questions about the event, I will do my best to answer them.

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