Thanks for your time today to review duties at Discovery Summit. Below is a recap of the call. Please let me know if you have any questions. If you need to reach me once in Cary, my mobile number is 919-793-5114. See you soon!
1. Logistics
- Steering committee will be introduced during the opening session on Wednesday, Oct 24.
- There will be reserved seats in the front of the plenary room. Please look for the “reserved” signs on chairs in the front of the auditorium.
- Incoming steering committee members will be sit in this reserved section on Thursday and will be introduced then.
2. Pre-conference meeting will be Salon III at Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley Tuesday, Oct 23 from 5 – 5:30 pm.
- Please pick up your conference materials at registration at the Crabtree Marriott on Monday and Tuesday from noon – 5 pm.
3. Post conference meeting will be in SAS Building C: Executive Dining Room 1, 12:30 – 2 pm on Friday, Oct 26.
- There will be pre-signed copies of Susan Cain’s book for you at the post conference meeting since his book signing is during this meeting.
- Lunch will be provided.
4. Emailed breakout paper introductions. Please review documents and find your name. Please arrive to your breakout room 15 minutes before the presentation starts.
- Please meet the presenter, make sure you know how to pronounce names, and meet the JMP staff room host.
- Each room will be staffed by a JMP employee who is your go to person in case you need something, and they will hold up time cards at the back of the room to keep the presenter on time.
- Please be sure to check with the presenter(s) to make sure there are no last-minute adjustments needed.
- Please note that some of you will need to give instructions after the presentation – lunch instructions, dinner instructions, etc.
- If you are double booked for introductions or have any questions, please let me know.
5. Each steering committee member should have a question ready for the paper presentation they are introducing so there is no lull when Q&A begins.
6. Below are the lunch table/birds of a feather topics for Discovery. We will have a table for each topic. Feel free to sit at one of these tables to help with conversation. The topics will not be the same each day.
Oct 24:
- Statistics
- DOE
- Modeling and Predictive Analytics
- JSL Scripting
- Data Visualization
- Quality Engineering
- Reliability
Oct 25:
- Consumer and Market Research
- Six Sigma and Quality Improvement
- Drug Development
- Energy, Ecology and Conservation
- Banking and Finance
- Education and Teaching
- Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
7. Incoming members:
- Patti McNeill, Alder Biopharmaceuticals
- Tom Mercier, Magic Leap
- Cameron Willden, W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
- Fuding Lin, University of Oregon
- Mark Bailey, SAS Education
8. Outgoing members:
- Elaine Daniloff, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
- Phil Ramsey, North Haven Group
- Dan Beitzel, First Solar
- Mike Adams, Retired, The University of Alabama
- Ledi Trutna, SAS Education
9. Breakout Presenters Meeting on Wednesday 8 – 8:30 am in EBC 7.
- Brad, Ledi, and Rob have volunteered to run this meeting.
- Worked well last year.
- Presenters will not be able to test their laptops in the breakout rooms since the SAS technical staff will be getting ready for the plenary session. Presenters will be notified to arrive 15 minutes before their scheduled presentation to test laptops. SAS technical staff will be available at this time.
