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Satisfaction: 2
Liked_Best: The topics variety and the way the conference was managed
Short_Talk: Like
Short_Talk_Length: 15
Short_Talk_Format: Horizontal
Parallel: Fewer
Number_Of_Parallel: 5
Format: 1+3+
Later_Sessions: No
Exhibit_Hall_Hours: I feel the current schedule is quite OK
OS_Pavillion: Yes
Keynotes: No_change
Keynote_Speakers: none to be specific
Improve_Next_Year: Before scheduling the talks, it would be better if we estimate (approx. rating) the level each talk could create interest among the attendees based on the topic and the track it falls into. i.e. Figure out the hot topics and schedule them in vertical sesssion instead of parallel session. This will help attendees not to miss a second popular topic in the conference while attending the first hot topic incase if both were scheduled on the same parralel session. I could understand one topic might be intersting for one group but not for the other. But if we include this scheduling rule, atleast to an extent we can serve a majority of attendees with some good topics (probability is >0.5).

The other thing is there should be some way to provide all the updated presentations/tutorials/ s/w demo recorded video clips for all the sessions after the conference through download site unlike just providing materials for sessions with few missing and not updated before the conference. I appreciate your plan of providing them before conference. But at the same time, it would be great if you make sure that any updated and missing presentaions and especially recorded movie clips on demos are available for the attendees after the conference is completed. This will compensate the cons of parallel sessions to an extent.
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