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San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Sessions

Friday 25 May, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
1:30 PM
1:30 PM
The Perfect Poison
1 hour 30 minutes, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Howard Davidson, Facebook (Participant)

Pat MacEwen (Moderator)

Megan Messinger (Participant)

Lillian Csernica, Sense of Wonder Press (Participant)

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3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Youth Track - Youth Art Event
1 hour 30 minutes, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Margaret Organ-Kean (Participant)

4:30 PM
4:30 PM
Gender in fandom and genre media
1 hour 30 minutes, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Cayden Coronado (Moderator)

Lady Phoenix, Masquerade (Participant)

Jean Batt (Participant)

Saturday 26 May, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Black Panther
1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Dr Wanda, H Pleasant (Moderator)

Leslie Light, Black Nerd Problems.com (Participant)

Stephen "Dirk" Libbey, CinemaBlend (Participant)

Gregg Castro, Association of Ramaytush Ohlone (Participant)

Synita Luckey, Variety Show (Participant)

11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Summer movie preview
1 hour 30 minutes, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Stephen "Dirk" Libbey, CinemaBlend (Participant)

1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Fans of Color in SF/F Fandom
1 hour 30 minutes, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Lani Bassett, Dynamic Cosplay (Participant)

Gregg Castro, Association of Ramaytush Ohlone (Moderator)

Synita Luckey, Variety Show (Participant)

Sean Bassett, Cosplay With Pride (Participant)

Fans of color have been part of fandom since the beginning, but still the question about diversity comes up again and again as creators still seem ...
2:30 PM
2:30 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Jean Martin, Greater Bay Area Costumers Guild (Moderator)

Debbie Bretschneider (Participant)

Taunya Gren, 5Rainbow Productions (Participant)

Christopher Erickson (Participant)

4:00 PM
4:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Megan Messinger (Participant)

Chad Peterman (Participant)

Ms. Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Book View Cafe (Participant)

Deborah J. Ross (Moderator)

Paul Preuss (Participant)

5:30 PM
5:30 PM
A Dramatic Reading
1 hour 30 minutes, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Steven Mix, Green Machine Comics (Participant)

Mark Gelineau, Gelineau and King (Participant)

Emerian Rich, Self and HorrorAddicts (Participant)

Sir Goofybutt, Charity Head (Participant)

Because there are people even more prone to shenanigans than our Programming Ninjas and they're our guests. Our ensemble presents their interpretat...
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Why?
1 hour 30 minutes, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Eric "in the Elevator" Z Zuckerman, Kosher Ham Studios (Moderator)

Tory (Participant)

JC Arkham, The NerdVana Podcast (Participant)

Camille Wright, Cosplay With Pride /Elladan & Elrohir cosplay (Participant)

8:30 PM
8:30 PM
Let's Not Kill Hitler
1 hour 30 minutes, 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Douglas Berry, Santa Clara Police Department (Moderator)

Margaret Organ-Kean (Participant)

Tamora Pierce (Participant)

Steven Mix, Green Machine Comics (Participant)

J.L. (Jim) Doty, Bourgeois Capitalist Establishment (Participant)

Sunday 27 May, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Artistic Solutions Board Meeting
1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Can You Go Home Again?
1 hour 30 minutes, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Katharine Kit Kerr (Moderator)

Deborah J. Ross (Participant)

Kevin Andrew Murphy (Participant)

Jon Chaisson (Participant)

A good many authors these days are returning to the worlds of their successes in years past. Some critics and readers sneer.  But why shouldn'...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Old Ain't Dead! Cosplaying over the age of 30, or 50
1 hour 30 minutes, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Darth Solar, TRMN (Participant)

Jean Martin, Greater Bay Area Costumers Guild (Participant)

Lani Bassett, Dynamic Cosplay (Participant)

Kai MacTane (Participant)

Sean Bassett, Cosplay With Pride (Participant)

2:30 PM
2:30 PM
YA Genre Fiction - Digging Deeper
1 hour 30 minutes, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Edward Kukla, Kukla Consulting (Moderator)

Rebecca Inch-Partridge (Participant)

Tamora Pierce (Participant)

YA Science Fiction and Fantasy novels have exploded in popularity. But do they offer more than just disposable entertainment; are they a boon or a ...
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
GM trials & Tribulations
1 hour 30 minutes, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Darth Solar, TRMN (Moderator)

Paul Kwinn (Participant)

Douglas Berry, Santa Clara Police Department (Participant)

Michelle McNeill (Participant)

5:30 PM
5:30 PM
Outlasting the Jedi
1 hour 30 minutes, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Derek McCaw, Fanboy Planet (Moderator)

Ric Bretschneider, Fanboy Planet (Participant)

JC Arkham, The NerdVana Podcast (Participant)

Elwin Cotman (Participant)

Monday 28 May, 2018

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Gallowglas Does a Thing
1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

M. Todd Gallowglas, Gallowglas Army (Participant)

11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Wild Weather
1 hour 30 minutes, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Pat MacEwen (Moderator)

Vanessa MacLaren-Wray, RPG Power Systems (Participant)

Dr Heidi L Stauffer, Lydian Academy (Participant)

For the first time, science can show that three extreme weather events would not have happened without global warming, including the rain bomb that...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Generational Theory and Character Building
1 hour 30 minutes, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Sumiko Saulson, Iconoclast Productions (Moderator)

Kai MacTane (Participant)

Anne Killpack (Participant)

Elwin Cotman (Participant)

Many of us are fond of vast generational stereotypes based on Generational Theory, which groups us by cohorts, assigning sheltered fragility to Mil...