San Mateo Marriott - Connect 3

Sessions

Friday 24 May, 2019

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

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Kevin Andrew Murphy (Moderator)

S.P. Hendrick, Pendraig Publishing (Participant)

Randy Smith (Participant)

4:30 PM
4:30 PM
AI Characters: Faves and Flops
1 hour 30 minutes, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

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Aviya Amir (Moderator)

JC Arkham, The NerdVana Podcast (Participant)

Cayden Coronado (Participant)

From Marvin to Data to Vision, who are some of the most interesting AI/robot characters? Who are some of the worst? What types of conflicts plague ...

Saturday 25 May, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Keeping Our Children Involved
1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

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Dr Wanda, H Pleasant (Moderator)

Lillian Csernica, Sense of Wonder Press (Participant)

Juliette Wade (Participant)

Mx Sarah Williams, Merrie Pryanksters (Participant)

11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Telling Good Science from Bad
1 hour 30 minutes, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

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Ctein (Moderator)

Vanessa MacLaren-Wray, RPG Power Systems (Participant)

G. David Nordley, ERPS (Participant)

Pat MacEwen (Participant)

There are all kinds of bad science out there — simple errancy (cold fusion), crackpottery (HIV doesn't cause AIDS), fraud (vaccines cause autism), ...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Whatever Happened to the FFWs?
1 hour 30 minutes, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

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Katharine Kit Kerr (Moderator)

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

Ms Diana L. Paxson (Participant)

Back in the 1980s, critics and fans of SF sneered that fantasy writing was only for "girls", while "men" preferred SF. Then epic fantasy became rea...
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
10th Expeditionary Force Meeting
1 hour 30 minutes, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

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Geoffrey Kramer (Participant)

Bill Farley, TRMN and StarFleet (Participant)

James Olsen (Participant)

Michael Houghtaling, TRMN (Participant)

4:00 PM
4:00 PM
Is Friendship Ever Artificial?
1 hour 30 minutes, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

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Heather Rose Jones (Moderator)

David Brin (Participant)

Colin Fisk (Participant)

Tory (Participant)

If you can't tell whether a virtual or online entity is "real" or not, does it matter? Suppose you make a friend online and then discover that your...
5:30 PM
5:30 PM
Come Time Travel With Me
1 hour 30 minutes, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

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Lorelei Esther Esther, Galactic Journey and Cool Comics (Participant)

Gideon Marcus, Galactic Journey (Participant)

Janice Marcus, Journey Press (Participant)

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...
7:00 PM
7:00 PM
Super Awesome Advice Panel!
1 hour 30 minutes, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

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

Linden Tarr, PhotoBOMBincorporated (Participant)

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

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

Sunday 26 May, 2019

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

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

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Jeff, Reito Design (Moderator)

David Brin (Participant)

Lillian Csernica, Sense of Wonder Press (Participant)

Mark Gelineau, Gelineau and King (Participant)

Sandra Saidak, Silicon Valley Authors (Participant)

Patrick Farley (Participant)

1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Of Their Time
1 hour 30 minutes, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

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Derek McCaw, Fanboy Planet (Moderator)

Bradford Lyau, Community Guest of Honor (Participant)

Synita Luckey, Variety Show (Participant)

Ms Fara Otterbeck (Participant)

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...
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
How Many Coins Would You Insert?
1 hour 30 minutes, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

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Jay Hartlove, JayWrites Productions (Moderator)

JC Arkham, The NerdVana Podcast (Participant)

Tory (Participant)

Cayden Coronado (Participant)

Our convention theme is "Insert Coin to Continue," so how much are you willing to pay to be entertained? Ten bucks lets you watch a movie that cost...
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
Service is the Reward: When Recognition Leads to Toxic Expectations
1 hour 30 minutes, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

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CDRE CDRE Tracy Newby, D5SL Newby, TRMN (Moderator)

Joe Harney (Participant)

Jennifer Nestojko, San Jose City College (Participant)

David Nottage, Commander STARFLEET (Participant)

McCovey Cove Garcia, Hotel Head (Participant)

Dan Toole, STARFLEET (Participant)

Many fan groups offer awards to their members for work within the organization. This panel discusses how to avoid the pitfalls of doing something j...
8:30 PM
8:30 PM
The Future Of Sex: A Discussion About the Possibilities
1 hour 30 minutes, 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM

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SallyRose Robinson, Rose Red Consultations (Moderator)

Ms Fara Otterbeck (Participant)

Andrew Clark (Participant)

Monday 27 May, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
Ebooks, Audio, and Good Old Fashioned Paper
1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

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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...
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Urban Legends in Science
1 hour 30 minutes, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

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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 ...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Tales from the Lab
1 hour 30 minutes, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

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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...