Discovery Americas
Agenda with TBD items
as of Aug 26
Monday, September 14 Registration Opens
Registration is free but required to attend.
? We may offer an incentive to get users from strategic accounts to register.
? We will also try to get new, non-users to register by promoting keynotes.
Monday, Sept 28 - Wednesday, Sept 30 Prepare Participants
Series of meetings to ensure that participants know what they’re doing. Examples of meetings…
1:00-1:45 p.m. [LIVE] Pre-conference Steering Committee Meeting
2:00-2:45 p.m. [LIVE] Pre-conference training for SimuLive presenters
3:00-3:45 p.m. [LIVE] Pre-conference training for Developers
4:00-4:45 p.m. [LIVE] Pre-conference training for …
Monday, September 28 Drop Day – on JMP User Community
7:00 a.m.: We put conference materials online and tell attendees something like, “Drop everything and watch as much Discovery Summit content as you can fit into one day! Or, take your time and make it last until we get together the week of October 12.”
[RECORDED] All papers Each paper should be under an hour in length…some significantly so
[RECORDED] All posters 10- or 15-minute recordings - Videos uploaded into the community?
Monday, October 12 Conference Day 1
-Will launch from Hubb platform
-Will either use Hubb Zoom license or WebEx depending on how many attendees we have
-If Hubb, there is a daily cost for Hubb support staff
-We will need to provide Tech Support
12:30-3:30 p.m. [LIVE] JMP Scripting Forum - hosted by Stan Koprowski
[LIVE] JMP Predictive Modeling Forum - hosted by Peter Hersh
Tuesday, October 13 Conference Day 2
11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. [RECORDED] Yoga: East Coast Stretch or Sunrise in the West with Arati
12:30-12:40 p.m. [LIVE] Welcome (red carpet/witty banter) 10-15 min
Hosted by Jeff Perkinson and Jessica Marquardt
- Welcome attendees; explain format and content to come
- Attendees introduce themselves, maybe Jeff will call out individual, they can turn on mic or video (easy to do in Zoom)
- Remind people to watch papers and vote for favorites
- Administer Pop Quiz: “Who is wearing a JMP T-shirt right now? We want to know who you are, and what JMP shirt you're wearing. Show us, and then we'll send each of you a new JMP shirt." Will be done within Zoom
- Do JMP Live Data Challenge
- JMP Trivia Questions with real-time answering
12:40-12:44 p.m. [RECORDED] Movie theatre slides with count-down clock (created by Ryan DeWitt) 3-5 min
12:44 p.m. 30 second Opening Video (created by Ed Harriss) Jeff P control - TBD
12:44 p.m. Jeff/Jessica come back on and Introduce John Sall
12:45-1:45 p.m. [LIVE] PLENARY: John Sall (use Hubb’s Zoom License)
John Sall - NO Q & A *During plenary talk, have developers & other experts answering questions/comments that come in through Zoom Q&A panel (chat feature disabled within Hubb during plenary)
1:45 p.m. 5-sec transition stinger
1:45 p.m. Jeff will come back on to transition to next section. Screen shot of Discovery Expo (Zoom call ends)
1:50-4:45 p.m. Discovery Expo
- Meet the developers [LIVE] Use our Zoom license. Need moderators that assign people to rooms (within Zoom)
- Birds-of-a-feather sessions [LIVE] Use our Zoom license. Need moderators in Zoom
- Take a selfie and post it on social media [ACTIVITY] (This is in the Interactive Lounge)
- Vote for your favorite papers [ACTIVITY] (This is in the Interactive Lounge)
- Do the Data Challenge (Play with Data?) [ACTIVITY] (This is in the Interactive Lounge)
- Exercise break [RECORDED] (This is in the Interactive Lounge)
- New user welcome link [link to JMP.com]
- Browse/buy books/training at a discount - Send to Books or Training booth in Expo [link to JMP books] [LIVE CHAT with staff]
- Browse and buy JMP wear at a discount [link to a JMP store]
1:50-4:45 p.m. [SIMU-LIVE] Paper Presentations
We will have 5 Paper Authors each day available to answer questions via chat. These will be live (some will overlap) Use our Zoom license.Timing TBD Need hosts for these Zoom meetings. Host will facilitate Q&A. Host should let people know to join Closing Zoom call
5:00 pm. 5-sec Stinger Video to social hour
5:00-6:00 p.m. [LIVE] After-hours social hour
This will be the same zoom call. Need host for this. Host will end.
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Wednesday, October 14 Conference Day 3
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Fun Run This will be promoted but not broadcasted. There will be a link in the agenda to participate.
12:30-12:40 p.m. [LIVE] Welcome (red carpet/witty banter) 10-15 min Use Hubb’s Zoom license
Hosted by Jeff Perkinson and Jessica Marquardt
- Welcome attendees; explain format and content to come
- Attendees introduce themselves, maybe Jeff will call out individual, they can turn on mic or video (easy to do in Zoom)
- Remind people to watch papers and vote for favorites
- Administer Pop Quiz (this will be done from within Zoom)
- Do JMP Live Data Challenge
- JMP Trivia Questions with real-time answering
12:40-12:44 p.m. Movie theatre slides with count-down clock
12:44 p.m. 30-second Opening Video
12:44 p.m. Jeff/Jessica come back on, Jessica introduce Anne Milley (host) and Caroline Criado Perez
12:45-1:45 p.m. [LIVE] PLENARY: Caroline Criado Perez
Keynote and Conversation about Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. Caroline Criado Perez will be hosted by Anne Milley. Audience questions will be addressed in real time. First audience question is to come from a woman. (Need to prep/stage this question.) Need moderator to feed questions to Anne.
1:45-4:45 p.m. Discovery Expo
- Meet the developers [LIVE] Use our Zoom license. Need moderators that assign people to rooms (within Zoom)
- Birds-of-a-feather sessions [LIVE] Use our Zoom license. Need moderators in Zoom
- Take a selfie and post it on social media [ACTIVITY] (This is in the Interactive Lounge)
- Vote for your favorite papers [ACTIVITY] (This is in the Interactive Lounge)
- Do the Data Challenge (Play with Data?) [ACTIVITY] (This is in the Interactive Lounge)
- Exercise break [RECORDED] (This is in the Interactive Lounge)
- New user welcome link [link to JMP.com]
- Browse/buy books/training at a discount - Send to Books or Training booth in Expo [link to JMP books] [LIVE CHAT with staff]
- Browse and buy JMP wear at a discount [link to a JMP store]
1:45-4:45 p.m. [SIMU-LIVE] Paper Presentations
We will have 5 Paper Authors each day available to answer questions via chat. These will be live (some will overlap) Use our Zoom license.
Timing TBD Need hosts for these Zoom meetings. Host will facilitate Q&A. Host should let people know to join Closing Zoom call
5:00 p.m. Stinger video to social hour
5:00-6:00 p.m. [LIVE] After-hours social for industry/academic connections
Curt Hinrichs to host with conversations and activities designed to get people connecting, sharing and learning around this topic.
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Thursday, October 15 Conference Day 4
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. [LIVE] Bike Ride with Peter Hersch This will be promoted but not broadcasted. There will be a link in the agenda to participate
12:30-12:40 p.m. [LIVE] Welcome (red carpet/witty banter) 10-15 min Use Hubb’s Zoom license
Hosted by Jeff Perkinson and Jessica Marquardt
- Welcome attendees; explain format and content to come
- Attendees introduce themselves, maybe Jeff will call out individual, they can turn on mic or video (easy to do in Zoom)
- Remind people to watch papers and vote for favorites
- Administer Pop Quiz (this will be done from within Zoom)
- Do JMP Live Data Challenge
- JMP Trivia Questions with real-time answering
12:40-12:44 p.m. Movie theatre slides with count-down clock
12:44 p.m. 30-second Opening Video
12:44 p.m. Jeff/Jessica come back on and Introduce Julian and Panel
12:45-1:45 p.m. [LIVE] Data Journalism Panel featuring three data journalists: Andrew Tran,Anna Flagg and Aleszu Bajak - hosted by Julian
The panelists will be sharing stories about communicating via graphs.
*This panel will be LIVE. Panelists will not be pre-recorded. They will be taking questions. Need moderator(s) to moderate/vet/publish questions, assist Julian - TBD
1:45-4:45 p.m. Discovery Expo
- Meet the developers [LIVE] Use our Zoom license. Need moderators that assign people to rooms (within Zoom)
- Birds-of-a-feather sessions [LIVE] Use our Zoom license. Need moderators in Zoom
- Take a selfie and post it on social media [ACTIVITY] (This is in the Interactive Lounge)
- Vote for your favorite papers [ACTIVITY] (This is in the Interactive Lounge)
- Do the Data Challenge [ACTIVITY] (This is in the Interactive Lounge)
- Exercise break [RECORDED] (This is in the Interactive Lounge)
- New user welcome link [link to JMP.com]
- Browse/buy books/training at a discount - Send to Books or Training booth in Expo [link to JMP books] [LIVE CHAT with staff]
- Browse and buy JMP wear at a discount [link to a JMP store]
1:45-4:45 p.m. [SIMU-LIVE] Paper Presentations
At this time during Discovery Summit Expo we can show as many recorded papers as we can, running one after another, with the presenters available to answer questions via chat. Not all papers will be presented this way; some will only be available as recordings.
5:00 p.m. Stinger Video to social hour
5:00-6:00 p.m. [LIVE] After-hours social for Users Groups
Robin Moran will host. We will invite anyone and everyone who is active in users group leadership in some way. We will have members of Customer Care to keep the conversation on track and moving well. Use multiple breakout rooms
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Friday, October 16 Conference Day 5
12:00 -12:15 p.m. [RECORDED] Mindfulness Moment with Lori
12:30-2:55 p.m. Discovery Expo
- Meet the developers [LIVE] Use our Zoom license. Need moderators that assign people to rooms (within Zoom)
- Birds-of-a-feather sessions [LIVE] Use our Zoom license. Need moderators in Zoom
- Take a selfie and post it on social media [ACTIVITY] (This is in the Interactive Lounge)
- Vote for your favorite papers [ACTIVITY] (This is in the Interactive Lounge)
- Do the Data Challenge [ACTIVITY] (This is in the Interactive Lounge)
- Exercise break [RECORDED] (This is in the Interactive Lounge)
- New user welcome link [link to JMP.com]
- Browse/buy books/training at a discount - Send to Books or Training booth in Expo [link to JMP books] [LIVE CHAT with staff]
- Browse and buy JMP wear at a discount [link to a JMP store]
12:30-2:55 p.m. [SIMU-LIVE] Paper Presentations
1:30-2:55 p.m. [LIVE] Poster Presentations
Posters will go into 12 breakout rooms, one for each poster.
2:55-3:00 p.m. [RECORDED] Movie theatre slides with count-down clock
3:00 p.m. [LIVE] Welcome by Jessica, introduce Shankar and Jeff Use Hubb’s Zoom license
3:00-4:00 p.m. [LIVE] Fireside Chat with Shankar Vedantam of Hidden Brain.
Jeff Perkinson will host Vedantam for this story-telling time, where audience questions will be addressed in real-time.
4:00-4:20 p.m. [LIVE] Farewell/Wrap up
Hosted by Jeff Perkinson and Jessica Marquardt
- Best paper announcements –these will be determined ahead of time
- Best poster announcement – these will be determined ahead of time
- Pop Quiz how will this be done? Winners?
- JMP Live Data Challenge how will this be done? Winners?
- JMP Trivia Questions, live answers how will this be done? Winners?
- Close and call-to-action
4:30-5:00 p.m. [LIVE] Post-conference Steering Committee Toast and Social (not in agenda)
Use our Zoom license for this, invited by Kathy Walker
Hosted by Jeff, Kathy, Diana. Include John Sall, Jon Weisz, event team
Kathy to order/send 3-bottle wine box (red, white and non-alcoholic cider) mailed to each Steering Committee member (Committee members given a survey, there will be a follow-up meeting the next week.)
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Monday, October 19 - Post-Conference Meetings Series of meetings to get feedback while it’s fresh. TBD
Host meetings in Teams or Zoom
3:00-4:30 p.m. [LIVE] Post-conference Steering Committee Meeting - where we look at Steering Committee survey results together (staff and steering committee) and invite additional feedback and discussion (this has been set up)
Examples of meetings…
1:00-1:45 p.m. [LIVE] Post-conference celebration for Events Team with other integral players
2:00-2:45 p.m. [LIVE] Post-conference executive de-briefing (John Sall and Jon Weisz with Diana and Jeff and Events Team)
