[ExI] Question: Conference in San Francisco Venue Options

[spike]

Try down in San Mateo. Adrian 

 

 

Ja, or Monterey.  We have a low-budget engineering society that meets down
there regularly.  That's where I gave my MBrain pitch last fall.  It is low
cost, scenic, out of the mainstream, access to some cool stuff such as the
excellent Monterey Aquarium, Cannery Row for Steinbeck fans, 17 Mile Drive
for those who for some incomprehensible reason like to gawk at rich people's
homes, golf courses and that kinda stuff.  You can still get up to SF in a
reasonable time if that is your thing, and you can go do the San Jose Tech
Museum, that kinda thing, tour the Silicon Valley internet Fly-by-nights,
stuff like that.  Monterey is where the Silicon Valley should have been
placed, but missed it by about 50 miles.

 

Monterey is about an hour drive south of the San Jose Airport.

 

spike

 

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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 1:09 PM
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Subject: Re: [ExI] Question: Conference in San Francisco Venue Options

 

Try down in San Mateo.  That's as accessible from the local airport,
and most rates are cheaper.  Plus, being out of SF's celebrity status,
you tend to look more like a conference that actually wants to get
stuff done - in this case, actually develop the future - rather than
just talk about it.

If you're willing to look a bit further south, the San Jose Convention
Center specifically markets to this type of conferences.  I don't
know if it's too expensive, but I'm told it's cheaper than most
similar venues in SF (and I don't know what your budget is).
http://www.sanjose.org/plan-a-meeting-event/venues/convention-center

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Natasha Vita-More <natasha at natasha.cc>
wrote:

Hi Everyone!

 

Humanity+ hopes to hold a conference in San Francisco this fall/winter.  We
had a possible venue option, but that fell through.  I have been hunting but
am coming up short.  Most venues are too expensive and I don't have any
contacts at universities to get info on auditoriums.  I found a possibility
in Berkeley at the International House at UC Berkeley in the Chevron
Auditorium.  Another possibility is directly in SF and it is Rally Pad but
it is more like our Summit in Irvine venue (not an auditorium) and it only
seats about 115 people.

 

Does anyone have a suggestion for us?   It would be great to get this
conference up and running!

 

Thank you!

 

Natasha

 

 <http://www.natasha.cc/> Natasha Vita-More, PhD


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