Day 2 wrapup of Sunbelt conference

It was a great and long day at Sunbelt today on Day 2 (it sounds like I'm talking about the Olympics!). Anyways, it first started in the morning with sessions. I blogged about the talks that I was in from the IML research blog. Then, there was lunch and me and a couple of people that I met at the conference (one from Yahoo Research) went to an all you can eat lunch at a Japanese restaurant. Photos from lunch are shown below:






In the afternoon, there were sessions. Here's what I wrote from them. I presented my talk at 3:20 pm as part of the Online Communities A session. My talk went pretty good, I gave out my paper (about 70 copies) and I had lots of discussion afterwards. However, I found out that my podcast of the talk didn't record, the iTalk wasn't on (that sucks, sometimes the iTalk will do that). But, no worries, because I practiced my talk twice last night and so I will upload one of those talks, which is pretty much the same.

Edward Laumann then gave the keynote address, I didn't really listen much because it didn't seem that interesting.




Then, the most interesting part of the day, the conference dinner! It was a great dinner, I have photos to prove it!

Before dinner


Dinner





Dessert



Then, there was a funny guy who was invited by Bill Richards (organizer of the conference) to speak.



After that, there was after dinner entertainment with some East coast music


All in all, it was a great day, I dramatically increased my social network from my talk and I grabbed lots of business cards. Lots of people were interested in my work, I met a guy from Microsoft Research, Yahoo Research, and IBM Research. Some people expressed interest to keep in contact with me for my research, one offered to provide me data for the blogs that he has.

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