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Thank you for your interest in participating at the SCIP 2008 Annual Conference as a session presenter. The SCIP08 program committee is pleased to be hosting the conference in San Diego this year, and we look forward to the insights and content you will share with our conference attendees.

Each year, our Annual Conference scores highly with attendees, giving them new information, tools and techniques that they can take back to their workplace. Our members and conference presenters continue to tell us of their positive experiences, as well as what we can do to make the 2008 Annual Conference even better. So, as you begin work on your conference proposal, I’d like to share with you some of the recent feedback that attendees shared with us.

Our members and attendees tell us that we assembled a great program in 2007. SCIP staff and volunteers labored mightily to create a memorable conference experience, and the survey results tell us that they delivered.

Our speakers at SCIP07 expressed that the value of presenting at the SCIP conference is very high and resoundingly recommend future participation, not only for themselves, but for their colleagues as well.

And our attendees continue to want more – more sessions, more new insights, and more interaction with other participants so as to connect with their own community, be it as a CI practioner, a service provider or with others in similar industries.

Based on what we’ve heard, we have written specific guidance for each of the conference tracks – you can access that information before you actually submit your proposal. I encourage you to read the track-specific guidance carefully; it will guide our decisions about which sessions to include in the program.

There are, of course, some things to consider in preparing for how and what you might present at SCIP08. Feedback from conference attendees each year shows that, regardless of the conference track, participants have recurring expectations:

• Show me something new. Members and attendees are smart, intellectually curious people. They’re eager to hear about ideas that will help them improve their practice of CI, especially when those ideas relate to analysis: “[I’ve done] CI 101 and would like the next level. I would like sessions that work through various analytical techniques.”
• Help me deliver an impact. A seat at the table is a nice start, but it’s what you do with the seat that matters. Our practitioners seek guidance on “how our clients can sharply improve the impact information and analysis have on their decision making.”
• Give me some starting points. Many of our attendees are practicing CI with constraints on their resources. They have to lobby hard for funding to attend the conference, and when they get back to the office, they need that investment to pay dividends quickly: “Sessions should be very nuts and bolts, with instantaneous applicability.”

Your presentations and case studies keep attendees have been key to our past success and the 2008 Annual Conference Planning Committee looks forward to your submission and again thanks you for your participation.

Thank you and I hope to see you next spring in San Diego.

Donna Hawryliw, SCIP08 Chair