Monday 27 May, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)

10:00 AM

Meet the Brass - TRMN

1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 1

McCovey Cove Garcia, Hotel Head (Participant)

Small Gathering - David Brin

1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

San Mateo Marriott - Strategy

David Brin (Participant)

Views of Pluto

1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

San Mateo Marriott - Convene 1

Pat MacEwen (Moderator)

Frank Wu, Toastmaster (Participant)

Dr Heidi L Stauffer, Lydian Academy (Participant)

G. David Nordley, ERPS (Participant)

New Horizons has now shot past Ultima Thule, after finally fying past Pluto/Charon. What's the data say about this odd little snowman? Now that we'...

The Ink That Rushes from Your Heart

1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

San Mateo Marriott - Engage

Lillian Csernica, Sense of Wonder Press (Moderator)

Jay Hartlove, JayWrites Productions (Participant)

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

Dorothy Parker wrote "Never never dip your quill/In ink that rushes from your heart." Being willing to do exactly that is what will bring the deepe...

The Multimedia Philosophy

1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

Keliana Tayler (Moderator)

Gary Villarreal, Method EXP (Participant)

Jeremy Erman (Participant)

Lest We Forget

1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 4

Randy Smith (Moderator)

Ebooks, Audio, and Good Old Fashioned Paper

1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3

Kathleen, Self-employed (Moderator)

Mx Sarah Williams, Merrie Pryanksters (Participant)

Marjory Kaptanoglu (Participant)

Dr Wanda, H Pleasant (Participant)

How many hundreds of books do you keep in boxes? And yet, does your heart belong to e-books? If yes, why? If no, why not? Is there a future for mix...

Bubbles, Blocks and Dinos - Family Friendly

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

San Mateo Marriott - Collaborate 2

Toddler Reading and Game Time

1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

San Mateo Marriott - Collaborate 2

Artemis: Open Mission 1000

1 hour, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 3

Faith and Fantasy

1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

San Mateo Marriott - Connect 4

Laurel Anne Hill (Moderator)

Melissa Snark, Nordic Lights Press/Melissa Snark (Participant)

Tory (Participant)

S.P. Hendrick, Pendraig Publishing (Participant)

Should I Hire a Freelance Editor?

1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

San Mateo Marriott - Connect 1

Rebecca Inch-Partridge (Moderator)

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

Jennifer L. Carson, Freelance (Participant)

Many agents now ask authors pitching novels to them if they have had the manuscript professionally edited. I work as a freelance editor and find th...

11:00 AM

Handspinning

2 hours, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 2

Learn the ancient craft of handspinning. Come learn to make a drop spindle from simple materials and then learn to make yar...

Preteen/Teen Games - Family Friendly

3 hours, 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Collaborate 2.

BeyBlades – Let it Rip!! - Family Friendly

1 hour 30 minutes, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Collaborate 2

Artemis: Open Mission 1100

1 hour, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 3

11:30 AM

What Apollo 11 Meant to Me

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

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 1

Peter N. Glaskowsky (Moderator)

Arthur Bozlee (Participant)

Jay Freeman, Me ... organized? (Participant)

Bradford Lyau, Community Guest of Honor (Participant)

FanBoy Planet

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

San Mateo Marriott - Convene 1

Ric Bretschneider, Fanboy Planet (Participant)

Derek McCaw, Fanboy Planet (Participant)

Kaiju Monsters Then and Now

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

San Mateo Marriott - Connect 5

Denise (Moderator)

Cliff Winnig (Participant)

Colin Fisk (Participant)

Margaret McGaffey Fisk, TTO Publishing (Participant)

How do the latest incarnations of Godzilla and King Kong rate compared to their predecessors? Of course the CGI and special effects have improved s...

Archetypes and Mythologies: What's New and What's on the Way Out?

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

San Mateo Marriott - Engage

Sandra Saidak, Silicon Valley Authors (Moderator)

David Brin (Participant)

Jay Hartlove, JayWrites Productions (Participant)

While the European fairy tales may have finished their run in modern pop culture (Once Upon a Time, Grimm, Maleficent and Disney live-action remake...

Designer Babies

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

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 4

Pat MacEwen (Moderator)

Brian Williams, Contra Costa College (Participant)

G. David Nordley, ERPS (Participant)

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

Two Chinese babies have been born, with edited genes. What were they trying to do? Was it successful? Was it ethical? What's the latest on genetic ...

Urban Legends in Science

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

San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3

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

Deborah J. Ross (Participant)

Kathleen, Self-employed (Participant)

Salt causes high blood pressure. We only use 10% of our brains. Vaccines cause autism. Where does this stuff come from, and why do these fallacies ...

Be Our Guest

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

San Mateo Marriott - Connect 4

Susie Rodriguez, Programming Head (Participant)

Ever wanted to be a guest at BayCon? Used to be one and not sure how to get back in? Not sure what it's all about? Come chat with the Head of Progr...

Defending THOSE Movies

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

San Mateo Marriott - Connect 1

Ctein (Moderator)

Taunya Gren, 5Rainbow Productions (Participant)

Cayden Coronado (Participant)

12:00 PM

Artemis: Open Mission 1200

1 hour, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 3

1:00 PM

Not So Super Comics

1 hour 30 minutes, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Convene 2

Derek McCaw, Fanboy Planet (Moderator)

Ric Bretschneider, Fanboy Planet (Participant)

Randy Smith (Participant)

Why The Ninjas Drink

1 hour 30 minutes, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Convene 1

Douglas Berry, Santa Clara Police Department (Participant)

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

Carrie Sessarego, Smart Bitches Trashy Books (Participant)

They're on The List. Several of our frequent panelists account for themselves, their shenanigans and why the Programming Ninjas are suffering from ...

Buddhist Gathering

1 hour 30 minutes, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Connect 5

Dr Wanda, H Pleasant (Participant)

By Any Other Name

1 hour 30 minutes, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5

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

Heather Rose Jones (Participant)

Deborah J. Ross (Participant)

Cartoons, Mental Health, and You

1 hour 30 minutes, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 4

Mx. Fauna Frutchey, BABSCon (Moderator)

Grayson McNeill-Coronado (Participant)

Cayden Coronado (Participant)

A look into animation in the past decade and the influence this has had for social minorities, the mentally and physically disabled, and more. This...

Tales from the Lab

1 hour 30 minutes, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3

Brian Williams, Contra Costa College (Moderator)

Laurel Anne Hill (Participant)

Howard Davidson, Facebook (Participant)

Those who've done lab/field/real-world testing of science or engineering share their more memorable stories of things that went right, wrong, or ju...

Slime! - Family Friendly

1 hour, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Collaborate 2

Artemis: Open Mission 1300

1 hour, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 3

Changing Views of our Solar System

1 hour 30 minutes, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

San Mateo Marriott - Connect 4

Vanessa MacLaren-Wray, RPG Power Systems (Participant)

Cliff Winnig (Moderator)

Candace Lowe, Silicon Valley Authors (Participant)