Content Committee

Thank you for volunteering to be on the OTC’25 Content Committee!
I respect your time and will endeavor to keep this process efficient for you. I appreciate your willingness to contribute to OTC! Timeline/dates are a good approximation but could change.

This page is meant for committee members only, please keep the links to yourself. As we move forward through the planning stages, you will find the flexible timeline, processes, links to submit  keynote suggestions, and instructions for reviewing/scoring proposal submissions will also be found on this page (as time appropriate). If you have questions, please email me at thickey@palomar.edu. Thanks again!

Responsibilities of the committee: 

• Provide feedback on pre-conference workshop topics (also provide other recommended topics as we may have additional space for 3 more)
• Provide feedback on theme
• Provide feedback on the tracks
• Propose keynote topics and speaker recommendations, contribute to selection decision
• Review session proposals and select OTC’25 sessions 

Content Committee
Please see the table below for team assignments – the team number is in parenthesis with the Team Lead in bold.

Pre-conference workshops (October 15-31, noon)

• Provide feedback and suggestions (completed)

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Theme (October 15-31)

• Provide theme feedback (completed)

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Tracks (October 15-31)

• Provide tracks feedback (completed)

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Rubric Review and Update (October 21-25)
This work will be done by a sub-committee (volunteers) – (completed)

• Jill Bonds
• Anthony Breakspear
• Mauricio Cadavid
• Cynthia Hamlett
• Rhiannon Lares
• Lené Whitley-Putz

Updated rubric for OTC’25 can be found here.

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Keynote Speakers (November 1, 2024 – December 15, 2025)
This committee is responsible for proposing potential keynote speakers/topics and contributing to the selection thereof.
Submit a Keynote speaker suggestion (closed, view only)

In process March 1, 2025

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Call for Proposals (November 15, 2024 – February 17, 2025)
Opens: November 15, 2024; Closes: January 31, 2024 Extended to midnight, February 17, 2025)

Members (including Team Leads):

• Committee members received proposals for review: February 18
  • Instructions on how to use the scoring portal were distributed February 18
• Committee members review/score proposals: February 18-March 10 (deadline extended)

Team Leads 

• Cynthia Hamlett
• Simantini Karve
• Saša Stojić-Ito
• Tracy Stuntz
• Lené Whitley-Putz
• Mario Perez
• Debbie Angeles

In addition to the Member responsibilities, Team Leads have these responsibilities:

• Be the ‘voice’ of and guidance for their team, (their point of contact)
• Attend ‘norming’ session with other team leads and distribute outcome of that to their team: January 14 (complete)
• Set up team meeting to communicate norms/process during the period of: (February 10-17)
• Receives team scores from TechConnect: (March 7) (March 10)
• Schedule and lead a team meeting/discussion for feedback/any necessary changes: (March 10-12)
• Complete scoring response form and send back to Tiffiny by: (March 13)
• Attend Team Lead meeting to discuss team feedback of all selections: (approximately March 18) (team leads will receive an email invitation from Tiffiny)
• [If necessary] If team review included requests from submitter for more information and/or clarification, the team lead will reach out to the submitter directly to resolve: (approximately March 18-25)
• Finalize sessions: TBD (approximately April 7)

Please note that being part of this committee/subcommittee does not prevent you from submitting your own proposals. In fact, we encourage you to submit and share the call for proposals with your colleagues! To keep the process equitable, we will exclude you from reviewing your own proposal should you be assigned to the group reviewing it.