2027

Draft Schedule

4 day with ala carte excel file can be downloaded here.

Questions:

  • Will HVO provide oxygen to the symposium in exchange for a comped booth and sponsorship visibility?
  • Can first timers get a registration discount?
  • If you stay in the primary hotel do you get  a registration discount?
  • Is there way to “work the symposium” and have no registration or seminar costs?
  • Can we comp every presenter?
  • Can we do a contest?
    • Decanter and vessels (Beer? Wine? Bourbon?)
    • All glass coffee maker
    • Gerflunken apparatus (object of your choice must include 1 graded seal, 2 glass to metal seals, coil, 3 ring seals etc) reboot
    •  Frankenstein (Greatest number of contributors to one piece which must have no cracks after sitting 1 hour unannealed)
    • 6 piece table service: plate, bowl, cup, fork, knife, spoon 
    • Build a glass bridge: winner holds the heaviest weight.

Issues:

  • Where do all the setup/teardown volunteers come from?
  • How much can be video taped? Do we have multiple cameras and operators?
  • How to set up livestreaming from the demo floor for virtual demonstration attendance?