I will be giving an Intro to Pirk talk at ApacheCon - see below. I will tweet it out on @ApachePirk in a couple of weeks. Are any other committers planning to attend the conference?
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Apache Big Data Europe 2016 <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 4:20 PM Subject: Apache Big Data Europe 2016: Talk accepted! To: [email protected] Hi Ellison Anne Williams, Congratulations, and welcome to Apache: Big Data Europe! Your submission, "Scalable Private Information Retrieval äóî Introducing Apache Pirk (incubating)", has been accepted. We are thrilled to have you present at the conference taking place November 14-16, 2016 at the Melia Sevilla in Seville, Spain. We ask that you please review the information below regarding your session and complete all required items to confirm your speaking engagement. To confirm that you will be presenting, please register as a speaker by Friday, October 14th. Please select “Speaker Registration” and use the access code: ABDSPK16 https://www.regonline.com/register/checkin.aspx?EventId=1844439 In the instance that your submission has multiple presenters, only the primary speaker for a proposal will receive a complimentary pass for the event. Additional speakers will receive 20% off the registration fee. Please ask additional speakers to register as an “Attendee” and in the discount code box use code: ABD2SPK16. For panel discussions, all panelists will receive a complimentary event pass. If you are not registered by Friday, October 14, there is a possibility that your speaking slot will be replaced by a session on our waiting list, so please register promptly. The schedule will be live by October 3. You will receive an email directly from sched.org (our online scheduler) asking you to create your account and upload a photo. If you have a conflict with the timing of your talk, or find that it conflicts with another talk scheduled at the same time; or are having problems uploading your bio and photo, please contact Jillian Hall ( [email protected]). Hotel Reservations We’ve negotiated a discounted room rate at the Melia Sevilla: Melia Room*: 97.90EUR Single Occupancy / 108.90EUR Double Occupancy *Room rate includes VAT The room rates listed above include high speed in-room internet and daily breakfast at the hotel restaurant. To book your room at the discounted rates, please click the link below. We encourage you to book early to ensure you receive the conference rate. http://meetings.melia.com/en/ApacheConApacheBigData.html Slide Due Date We will be contacting speakers as we get closer to the event but please note that your presentation slides are due on Monday, October 31. These can be submitted (in .PDF format only) through the CFP manager by logging into the site here. 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Once again, thank you in advance for your participation and we look forward to seeing you at Apache: Big Data Europe! Kind Regards, The Linux Foundation Events Team & the ApacheCon 2016 Program Committee
