[opendtv] Re: HPA 2010 Technology Retreat - Call for Presentations
- From: ShLampen <shlampen@xxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 21:37:16 -0700
Mark and HPA,
Upon opening this email, I received an immediate virus alert for a variation on
a Trojan virus.
Just thought you should know.
Steve Lampen
Belden
In a message dated 09/07/09 07:22:01 Pacific Daylight Time,
TVMark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Call for Presentations and Breakfast Roundtables at the 16th Annual Technology
Retreat, conducted by the Hollywood Post Alliance
The retreat will take place February 16-19, 2010 at Rancho Las Palmas Resort in
Rancho Mirage, California (Palm Springs area, about two hours drive from LAX
airport).
Presentations:
Main-program presentations must be technology-related but can relate to any
characteristic of motion-image, sound, and related fields, including (but not
limited to): acquisition, storage, processing, distribution, presentation, test
& measurement, perception, 3-D, interactivity, metadata, mobile, cinema,
broadcast, internet, law & regulation, workflow, archives, asset management,
content security, hardware, software, convergence, history, future, etc. They
may be individual or joint presentations, panels, tutorials, etc. Main-program
presentations are not to be marketing or sales pitches.
No formal proposal is required. A line or two of description is usually
sufficient (if it isn't, you will be contacted for more info). No "paper" is
ever required. Presenters are encouraged (but not required) to post material
on the HPA web site before, during, and after the event.
Presentation slots are nominally 30 minutes long, including set-up and Q&A.
Longer (especially for panels) and shorter slots can be accommodated before the
schedule is finalized. Once time slots are finalized, they are STRICTLY
enforced.
The selection process involves not only what is in a proposal but also trends
that seem to be identified by other submissions and comments. Rejection does
not necessarily have anything to do with the proposed presentation's quality.
We usually receive about six times more proposals than can be accommodated.
Proposals that are accepted give the presenter/moderator/panelist a substantial
discount on full-event registration. There is no charge for a presenter to
attend her or his session.
The deadline for main-program submissions is October 23. Final decisions are
expected by mid-November.
Breakfast Roundtables:
These are literally round tables at which event participants eat breakfast.
Each is numbered, and the numbers relate to a particular topic. Breakfast
roundtables are available on Thursday and Friday mornings. They begin at 7:30
am and last for one hour.
Any registered participant may moderate a breakfast roundtable on any
motion-image and sound-related topic until we run out of tables (around 30 each
day). Moderators may lecture, ask questions, mediate fights, etc. Anything
goes at breakfast roundtables (including marketing pitches). Topics and even
moderators may be changed for assigned tables up to the last minute, but, once
a table is assigned, it must be covered. Because there is no selection process
for the roundtables (first-come, first served), they do not provide any
discount, and moderators must be registered for the full conference.
There is no deadline for breakfast-roundtable submissions, but, when the tables
run out, they run out.
Demo Area:
There is a separate selection process for the technology demo area. It has not
yet begun. Check the HPA web site beginning in November.
Sponsorships:
Those interested in sponsoring some portion of the retreat should contact HPA
Executive Director Eileen Kramer. There is no relation between sponsorships
and presentations, breakfast roundtables, or demo space.
Submissions:
Please send all proposals for main-program presentations and breakfast
roundtables to Mark Schubin <tvmark@earthlink>. You will receive an
acknowledgement e-mail. If you do not receive the acknowledgement, your
proposal has probably not been received.
ALL PROPOSALS MUST COME FROM THE PROPOSED PRESENTER OR MODERATOR. Proposals
may be prepared by PR firms, but the submission MUST come from the person who
will do the presentation or moderating. Sorry, but we have been burned in the
past by people who think it would be a good idea (without checking) for their
boss or client to make a presentation.
Comments on topics that should be of most interest are also welcome to assist
in the selection process. Unfortunately, we cannot put together panels; if
you'd like to see one on a particular topic or featuring a particular group,
please try to wrangle it yourself.
New This Year:
Ralph Brown, Chief Technology Officer of CableLabs, the joint cable-industry
orghanization, will join the other CTOs and directors of engineering.
Links:
Main HPA web site: http://www.hpaonline.com
HPA contacts: http://www.hpaonline.com/mc/page.do?sitePageId=21780&orgId=hopa
FAQs: http://www.hpaonline.com/mc/page.do?sitePageId=23995&orgId=hopa
2010 retreat: http://www.hpaonline.com/mc/page.do?sitePageId=89641&orgId=hopa
Retreat hotel: http://www.rancholaspalmas.com/
If you have any questions (AFTER reading the FAQs), please do not hesitate to
contact me.
Please feel free to forward this to anyone in any form.
Thanks!
TTFN,
Mark
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