planning a conference any conference is a major undertaking planning CHI though
that's some next level s**t everything you might know about planning a conference for
100 or 1000 people just doesn't scale with thousands of pieces of content to
solicit review curate and publish the work expected of the Technical Program
chairs is unreal I mean 700 papers to schedule into sessions alone
nevermind late-breaking work and SIGs and courses and panels and student
competitions and two days of workshops and the work needed from the general
chairs is equally ridiculous planning a six-day event for 4,000 people who come
from all over both literally and figuratively attendees range from
researchers to practitioners universities to industries and from
first-timers to Brad Myers CHI's general chairs have to coordinate
a massive effort of securing spaces and food and beverage AV support keynotes
and more and every decision gets multiplied by twenty parallel rooms or
four thousand people adding up to budgets nearing the three million dollar
mark for the TPCs and GCS of CHI their work begins in earnest two or
three years before the conference and in the months leading up to CHI it's a
full-time job except it's not a job it's a volunteer position that someone does
on top of the regular job and they do it because they care about this community
of researchers and practitioners they care about defining the future of CHI
it's generally a bit of a thankless role as the return of a nice dinner that they
actually have to plan themselves of course it doesn't really make up for all
those invested hours but in a year where the conference is suddenly cancelled
weeks out through events beyond their control
well it's heartbreaking as chair of the CHI steering committee it would have
been my pleasure to publicly thank the GCs and TPCs of CHI 2020 at the
conference itself for all of the effort that they put in since now I have to do
this in a video I've decided to enlist the help of a few other people who also
want to say thanks to Regina and Floyd and to Andy and Joanna for all the
hard work I guess that paper fits only the hodgepodge everything else that
didn't fit in session now it doesn't work Oh bother
well anyway cocktails are ready now we can have a drink to celebrate our efforts
even though virtually
Thank you everyone thanks heaps GCs and TPCs thank you so that was quite the
emotional rollercoaster still I think you did an amazing job goodbye
and thanks thank you so much for your amazing efforts I'm sorry we weren't able
celebrate in Hawaii I know it would have been an incredible conference Regina
Floyd Joanna and Andy thank you so much for all the nice time working together
in the preparation of CHI 2020 it's a bit of a shame that we had no chance to have
a drink together to celebrate in our way but I'm looking forward to it
next time we meet thank you very much Hello Regina hello Floyd many thanks for your great work
Organizing CHI 2020 What a pity that it didn't work out
Thank you Floyd and Regina for letting me be part Of the most memorable adventure in
CHI history and well done for the bravery You have shown through this adventure
Thank You Floyd and Regina for all you
have done the CHI 2020 Thank you very much for the Great work it was awesome to be part of it
It has been a pleasure to collaborate with you thank you oh no not not late-breaking
long sorry can we say it again will you say thank you well we're just gonna
we're not thanking ourselves are we no
thanks for all of your hard work we appreciate everything you've done hi
Regina Floyd Andy Joanna thank you for all your hard work from
the data team thank you thank you l thank you
thanks so much for your service thank you very much for all your hard work and
everything that you do for the CHI community Thank You Regina Floyd and all the other
chairs for your amazing work for CHI 2020 thank you very much GCs and TPCs
it was a pleasure working with you even though we didn't make it to Hawaii
thanks for your hard work thank you a big thank you for supporting
accessibility work that will benefit many future CHIs
thanks for all the hard work Regina and Floyd Regina
Floyd Joanna Andy thank you so much From The SIGCHI executive committee to the CHI
2020 team we thank you for all of the work that you have done this past year
and a half on an amazing conference and I look forward to the time when we can
have one of you together from 2019 to 2020 thank you for awesome amount of work
That you don't finally get to enjoy but we so appreciate it
Aloha Regina and Floyd and Mahalo for all your work on CHI 2020 we'll see you
in yokohama in 2021 where we can celebrate together so please join me in
expressing your thanks to these TPC and GCs of CHI 2020 please feel free to comment
or retweet or do whatever one does on social media and make them feel
appreciated for the countless hours that they put in to this task thank you
♪ Danke an Floyd und auch Regina, Danke an Andy and Joanne, ♪
♪ Thank you for all your hard work that you did for CHI this year. ♪
♪ Thank you to all assistants helping, Thank you, what a fantastic crew. ♪
♪ Thank you, even remotely, we can celebrate with you! ♪