An Architect's View

A few people have asked on Twitter and via email what is happening with submissions that have been sent in to Jim and myself. We're a bit behind. We hoped to have reviewed all the submissions last week and to have been notifying everyone this week about accepted and rejected sessions. Sorry! We're actually about two weeks behind (which is just as well for a few speakers that are still submitting their sessions!). We've had over a hundred submissions so far and we will only be able to accept about half of them. There are some fascinating topics being submitted - in addition to the great topics suggested by the Content Advisory Board for the first round of invited speakers. We've also had multiple submissions from a number of speakers (up to six submissions from a single person!) which helps us a lot because we have a fixed limit on the number of speakers we can accept (for budgetary reasons). We should be able to get through the reviews next week and then we'll be notifying speakers the week after (the holiday week). We're hoping to have a list of sessions posted by year end and a rough schedule posted the week after. Registration should be open next week for those who want to get cf.Objective() into this year's budget without waiting for a published schedule.