San Mateo Marriott - Connect 5

Sessions

Friday 24 May, 2019

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

San Mateo Marriott - Connect 5

Cliff Winnig (Moderator)

Michael Schulkins (Participant)

Peter N. Glaskowsky (Participant)

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...
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Big Falcon Rocket Economics
1 hour 30 minutes, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

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G. David Nordley, ERPS (Moderator)

Candace Lowe, Silicon Valley Authors (Participant)

Peter N. Glaskowsky (Participant)

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

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 ...

Saturday 25 May, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
007- A Look Ahead
1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

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Ric Bretschneider, Fanboy Planet (Moderator)

Spacemonster Meyn, TRMN and SFI (Participant)

11:30 AM
11:30 AM
The Explosion of the Use of Bodily Fluids in Video Games
1 hour 30 minutes, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

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Jacob Fisk (Participant)

Ms Fara Otterbeck (Moderator)

1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Social Anxiety and Video Games
1 hour 30 minutes, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

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Jennifer Nestojko, San Jose City College (Moderator)

Keliana Tayler (Participant)

4:00 PM
4:00 PM
Why Do Writers Kill Characters?
1 hour 30 minutes, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

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Fred Wiehe (Moderator)

Jennifer L. Carson, Freelance (Participant)

Rebecca Inch-Partridge (Participant)

Lillian Csernica, Sense of Wonder Press (Participant)

5:30 PM
5:30 PM
Gender and Your Gaming Character
1 hour 30 minutes, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

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Mx Sarah Williams, Merrie Pryanksters (Moderator)

Grayson McNeill-Coronado (Participant)

Dec (Dess) (Participant)

Ian Grey (Participant)

How important is it that your character is a woman and how do you make her convincing when you're not? Veteran gamers offer insight into how to pla...
8:00 PM
8:00 PM
Open Singing Saturday
5 hours, 8:00 PM - 1:00 AM

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Sunday 26 May, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
How to Work with an Audio Engineer to Record an Album
1 hour 30 minutes, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

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Kristoph Klover, Flowinglass Music (Participant)

Jeff Bohnhoff (Moderator)

11:30 AM
11:30 AM
OK Computer: How Science Fiction Inspired Music from the 90s to the Present
1 hour 30 minutes, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

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Jon Chaisson (Moderator)

Jean Batt (Participant)

Charon Dunn (Participant)

A conversation about how the genre has influenced and inspired the music of today, whether directly through theme and imagery, or indirectly throug...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
What Does it Mean that Spock is Half Human?
1 hour 30 minutes, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

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Denise (Moderator)

Juliette Wade (Participant)

Dec (Dess) (Participant)

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

Inter-planetary or inter-species matings with offspring in science fiction or fantasy as allegory for inter-cultural relationships on present day E...
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
How To Write A Heroine
1 hour 30 minutes, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

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Marjory Kaptanoglu (Moderator)

Jennifer L. Carson, Freelance (Participant)

Deborah J. Ross (Participant)

Katharine Kit Kerr (Participant)

4:00 PM
4:00 PM
How to Write Parody
1 hour 30 minutes, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

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Jeff Bohnhoff (Participant)

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

Michael Schulkins (Participant)

Monday 27 May, 2019

Time Zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
11:30 AM
11:30 AM
Kaiju Monsters Then and Now
1 hour 30 minutes, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

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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...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Buddhist Gathering
1 hour 30 minutes, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

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Dr Wanda, H Pleasant (Participant)