San Mateo Marriott - Connect 5

Sessions

Friday 26 May, 2017

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
13:30
13:30
Mark Gelineau Reading
20 minutes, 13:30 - 13:50

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Mark Gelineau, Gelineau and King (Participant)

13:50
13:50
Juliette Wade Reading
20 minutes, 13:50 - 14:10

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Juliette Wade (Participant)

14:10
14:10
Chaz Brenchley Reading
20 minutes, 14:10 - 14:30

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Chaz Brenchley (Participant)

14:30
14:30
Loren Rhoads Reading
20 minutes, 14:30 - 14:50

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Loren Rhoads, Loren Rhoads (Participant)

15:00
15:00
Policing Space
1 hour 30 minutes, 15:00 - 16:30

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G. David Nordley, ERPS (Moderator)

Candace Lowe, Silicon Valley Authors (Participant)

Pat MacEwen (Participant)

We don't want terrorists dropping rocks on our heads at 40 km/s, right? We don't want someone to turn a place on the Moon into a Meth lab, right? W...
16:30
16:30
People of Color in Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Fandom - Is everyone invited?
1 hour 30 minutes, 16:30 - 18:00

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Gregg Castro, Association of Ramaytush Ohlone (Moderator)

Dr Heidi L Stauffer, Lydian Academy (Participant)

Dr. Dr. Yvonne White, Teen Lounge (Participant)

Bradford Lyau, Community Guest of Honor (Participant)

Fandom often prides itself on being open and inclusive. Join us for a discussion about whether that is a universal truth or whether the experience ...

Saturday 27 May, 2017

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
10:00
10:00
Peter Beagle Reading
45 minutes, 10:00 - 10:45

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Peter Beagle (Participant)

10:45
10:45
Tad Williams Reading
45 minutes, 10:45 - 11:30

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Tad Williams (Participant)

11:30
11:30
Cosplay Is Not Consent
1 hour 30 minutes, 11:30 - 13:00

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JohnO (Moderator)

Tory (Participant)

Celeste GreerWalker, Saber Guild Golden Gate Temple (Participant)

Tyler Hayes, N/A (Participant)

13:00
13:00
Stealing From The Best
1 hour 30 minutes, 13:00 - 14:30

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S.P. Hendrick, Pendraig Publishing (Moderator)

Helen Stringer (Participant)

Thaddeus Howze, Ebonstorm Media (Participant)

M Christian, Renaissance E Books/Digital Parchment Services (Participant)

Jay Hartlove, JayWrites Productions (Participant)

So many of our books, movies & TV shows had their inception ass other stories. Forbidden Planet started out as Shakespeare's The Tempest, Once Upon...
14:30
14:30
Fantastic Beasts, and how to write them
1 hour 30 minutes, 14:30 - 16:00

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Kevin Andrew Murphy (Moderator)

Teresa Edgerton (Participant)

Chaz Brenchley (Participant)

Helen Stringer (Participant)

Mark Gelineau, Gelineau and King (Participant)

16:00
16:00
Charity Auction 1
3 hours, 16:00 - 19:00

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Sunday 28 May, 2017

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
10:00
10:00
The Edible Microverse
1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 - 11:30

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Vanessa MacLaren-Wray, RPG Power Systems (Participant)

Use delicious treats to build a set of models of atoms & subatomic particles and visualize their interactions and scales. All-ages activity (who do...
11:30
11:30
Firefly Bingo!
1 hour 30 minutes, 11:30 - 13:00

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Sarcastro, Chairperson (Participant)

Mingojerry and Fantastic Rample, known locally as Fanty and Mingo, have organized a new members-only event at the Maidenhead in the form o...
13:00
13:00
Marie Brennan Reading
20 minutes, 13:00 - 13:20

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Marie Brennan (Participant)

13:20
13:20
C. Sanford Lowe Reading
20 minutes, 13:20 - 13:40

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Candace Lowe, Silicon Valley Authors (Participant)

13:40
13:40
Lillian Csernica Reading
20 minutes, 13:40 - 14:00

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Lillian Csernica, Sense of Wonder Press (Participant)

14:00
14:00
Chris Garcia Reading
20 minutes, 14:00 - 14:20

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Christopher Garcia, Computer History Museum (Participant)

14:30
14:30
The Care and Feeding of Your Creative Muse
1 hour 30 minutes, 14:30 - 16:00

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Deborah J. Ross (Moderator)

Skye Allen (Participant)

Jennifer Nestojko, San Jose City College (Participant)

Mark Gelineau, Gelineau and King (Participant)

R. L. King, Magespace Press (Participant)

16:00
16:00
Disaster preparation and Urban Survival
1 hour 30 minutes, 16:00 - 17:30

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Michael Sarkisian, JOAT Survival (Moderator)

Christine Doyle MD, CEP America (Participant)

Stephen (Participant)

Laurel Anne Hill (Participant)

17:30
17:30
Romantic SFF / Paranormal Romance
1 hour 30 minutes, 17:30 - 19:00

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Teresa Edgerton (Moderator)

Jean Martin, Greater Bay Area Costumers Guild (Participant)

Kevin Andrew Murphy (Participant)

19:00
19:00
Bay Area Ghost Hunters Paranormal Panel
1 hour 30 minutes, 19:00 - 20:30

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Monday 29 May, 2017

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

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11:30
11:30
Podcast - Fanboy Planet With Ty and Daniel
1 hour 30 minutes, 11:30 - 13:00

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Ric Bretschneider, Fanboy Planet (Participant)

Derek McCaw, Fanboy Planet (Participant)

Ty Franck (Participant)

Daniel Abraham (Participant)

13:00
13:00
Ultranationalism
1 hour 30 minutes, 13:00 - 14:30

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Pat MacEwen (Moderator)

Margaret McGaffey Fisk, TTO Publishing (Participant)

Colin Fisk (Participant)

Anne Killpack (Participant)

Prof. David McGaffey, InterConsultGlobal; St.Mary's College of California; Holy Names University (Participant)

Why is ultranationalism suddenly so widespread? Is it a reaction to multi-culti mores? To globalization? To demographic change? What are we all so ...