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Friday 24 May, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
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  • Lunar Exploration
  • San Mateo Marriott - Connect 5
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • With China's landing on the far side of the Moon and NASA's administrator talking about colonizing the Moon, there is clearly waxing interest in th...
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  • Sculpey Wearables
  • San Mateo Marriott - Collaborate 2
  • 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM  | 2 hours 30 minutes
  • Want to be a unicorn at BayCon? A goblin? Dying to sport a pair of rainbow fairy ears? Make them Friday afternoon, we will bake them Friday night, ...
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  • Big Falcon Rocket Economics
  • San Mateo Marriott - Connect 5
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • At ten million dollars a launch, it would get a hundred people in orbit for $10,000 each, or a hundred fifty metric tons of payload at about $67 a ...
  • Space Opera Literary Tropes
  • San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Discussion of common themes that always seem to find their way into space opera and how to incorporate them into your writing or avoid them. What t...
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  • Sexism in Games
  • San Mateo Marriott - Connect 1
  • 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • About a third of hardcore games and half of all gamers are women; yet outside of the heavily female populated MMPORG worlds like World of Warcraft,...
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  • Cards Against Humanity
  • San Mateo Marriott - Collaborate 3
  • 10:00 PM - 12:00 AM  | 2 hours
  • "A party game for horrible people."Play begins with a judge, known as the "Card Czar", choosing a black question or fill-in-the-blank card from the...

Saturday 25 May, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
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  • Dice Bags - Family Friendly
  • San Mateo Marriott - Collaborate 2
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Make your own small bag, just the right size for dice or small treasures. Parents – smaller kids will need help with this craft, as it will require...
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  • Branding a Convention
  • San Mateo Marriott - Convene 1
  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Bay Area graphic designer and artist JC Arkham explores what it takes to design for a convention from a branding perspective and takes you from con...
  • Fannish Families
  • San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5
  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • How can we as parents teach our kids about the things we love, and what can we learn from them? Fans of different generations talk about kids growi...
  • Telling Good Science from Bad
  • San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • There are all kinds of bad science out there — simple errancy (cold fusion), crackpottery (HIV doesn't cause AIDS), fraud (vaccines cause autism), ...
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  • Rock at the Shock
  • San Mateo Marriott - Convene 2
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Writing Sex Scenes: A panel aimed at getting writers to think through the reasons for including sex in a story, how to mine it for plot and how to ...
  • Magic & Science
  • San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 4
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • A writer's perspective on how human beings have explained and interacted with the world around us, starting with magic, moving into science, then c...
  • 4 Steps to Engaging Fiction
  • San Mateo Marriott - Connect 4
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • You have characters. You have a plot. Now you have to put them together in a way that's going to make your audience fall in love with both. Every t...
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  • How Diverse is Diversity?
  • San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 4
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • As recent events show, this is still a needed discussion. What does diversity and equity look like? How can groups, organizations and communiites p...
  • Charity Auction 1
  • San Mateo Marriott - Connect 4
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Looking for that extra special memento during your weekend at BayCon? Then come and join us at a BayCon Charity Auction to benefit the Computer ...
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  • Disneybounding!
  • San Mateo Marriott - Connect 1
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • No costumes allowed for adults in the Happiest Place on Earth? No problem! Disneybounding is the perfect balance between following the rules and em...
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  • Firefly Fluxx Tournament
  • San Mateo Marriott - Collaborate 3
  • 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM  | 3 hours
  • Join us for a chance to win you own copy of Firefly Fluxx, sponsored by Looney Labs! Three tables of players will compete for a spot at the Finals ...
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  • Come Time Travel With Me
  • San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
  • 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Come Time Travel with Me: The New Wave of science fiction begins!!Blast back to March 1964: Camelot has ended in a hail of gunfire; southea...
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  • Here Is My Power Button
  • San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 5
  • 8:00 PM - 1:00 AM  | 5 hours
  • Here is My Power Button is a game about humans interacting with prototype companion AIs in a scientific study. Those playing humans will f...
  • Jackbox Party Games
  • San Mateo Marriott - Collaborate 3
  • 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM  | 2 hours
  • Join us for easy-to-play party games for your friends, family, and fellow inmates. Players join by simply using the web browser on their smartphone...
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  • Cards Against Humanity
  • San Mateo Marriott - Collaborate 3
  • 10:00 PM - 12:00 AM  | 2 hours
  • "A party game for horrible people."Play begins with a judge, known as the "Card Czar", choosing a black question or fill-in-the-blank card from the...

Sunday 26 May, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
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  • Generative Workshop
  • San Mateo Marriott - Connect 4
  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Bring something to write with and write on. M. Todd Gallowglas will take you through a series of prompts and exercises that will get your creative ...
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  • Arcade Etiquette
  • San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 1
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Back when playing video games meant a trip to the mall or the corner market, there were rules on how you acted and played. We remember those rules,...
  • The Lost Age of Gaming
  • San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 4
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  •  A look into old gaming mechanics like bit graphics, point and click, and other under appreciated elements of retro gaming that many take for ...
  • Of Their Time
  • San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Studios and writers have been working to find new ways to inject life into 19th and 20th century franchises that depended on a cultural ignorance w...
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  • Firefly Bingo
  • San Mateo Marriott - Convene 2
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Mingojerry and Fantastic Rample, known locally as Fanty and Mingo, have organized a new members-only event at the Maidenhead in the form of an Eart...
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  • Uplift Universe RPG
  • San Mateo Marriott - Collaborate 3
  • 3:00 PM - 9:00 PM  | 6 hours
  • An RPG set in David Brin’s Uplift universe, using the Alternity RPG systemIn the distant Horpie stellar cluster, the TAASF Laika dropped sev...
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  • The Prediction Problem
  • San Mateo Marriott - Engage
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • Why is it so hard to write stories that accurately predict future science, technology, and societies? Is the future just unknowable, or are writers...
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  • Secret Hitler
  • San Mateo Marriott - Collaborate 3
  • 10:00 PM - 12:00 AM  | 2 hours
  • Join us for a late night game of Secret Hitler, a hidden identity game that pits liberals against fascists. Do you have what it takes to root out t...
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Monday 27 May, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
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  • Views of Pluto
  • San Mateo Marriott - Convene 1
  • 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • 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'...
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  • Handspinning
  • San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 2
  • 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM  | 2 hours
  • Learn the ancient craft of handspinning. Come learn to make a drop spindle from simple materials and then learn to make yar...
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  • Kaiju Monsters Then and Now
  • San Mateo Marriott - Connect 5
  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • 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...
  • Designer Babies
  • San Mateo Marriott - Synergy 4
  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • 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
  • San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • 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
  • San Mateo Marriott - Connect 4
  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • 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...
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  • Why The Ninjas Drink
  • San Mateo Marriott - Convene 1
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • They're on The List. Several of our frequent panelists account for themselves, their shenanigans and why the Programming Ninjas are suffering from ...
  • Tales from the Lab
  • San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM  | 1 hour 30 minutes
  • 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...
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