[Make-wifi-fast] Fwd: #WLPC Phoenix 2023 - Deep Dive Instructors

[Dave Taht]

Anyone up to do a joint deep dive in phoenix in a major wifi conference?

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To all those who submitted a Deep Dive session ideas for #WLPC Phoenix 2023

Thanks for your willingness to engage with this community and present
a Deep Dive idea.

The next step is asking the potential attendees to vote on which Deep
Dives they might like to attend. This allows the conference organizers
to get an idea of what may or may not bring in enough registrations to
warrant holding a session.

We will sort all the Deep Dive by the number of votes. Then the top
voted sessions will be added to the conference website.This should
happen the middle of November and give potential attendees a chance to
review, choose, and get approvals. At that time we will ask you for
the upper limit of how many students you would want to attend your
Deep Dive session.

On 15 DEC 2022 we will open the website to accept registrations. For
all previous years, we’ve sold out at least 80% of seats within a few
hours. So we will easily know by the 16th which of the proposed Deep
Dives will meet the minimum requirement for breakeven and get back
with all instructors the status of your Deep Dive.

We will contact you to have you register for the conference early - so
we can have a locked registration for all instructors. If, for
whatever reason your session does not clear the break-even point - we
will have a conversation with you about the status and work out the
situation with you directly.

Just so everyone knows the commercial aspects of hosting Deep Dive
sessions at the #WLPC conference…

We need at least 15 attendees to register for your session - and will
register as many as choose your class up to the limit you define.
If you have more than 20 register for your deep dive, we will offer a
free conference registration for an assistant to help with classroom
management.
We pay the boot camp instructors $2,000 USD for teaching the course,
as well as cover your conference registration and hotel/food the
conference. We do not cover travel, that needs to come from you $2,000
stipend.
We also budget up to $300 per student for student materials, etc. -
this is NOT something you need to spend - it is merely a way to cover
the costs for student materials if your deep dive requires them.
If you can get these items to the conference organizers EARLY will
make things go much smoother during the weeks leading to the
conference - (Amazon links are most appreciated)

We can get you names/emails of your deep dive attendees prior to the
conference so you can be in contact and help them prepare for your
session.

The survey for #WLPC Phoenix 2023 will go out later this week and we
will include your deep dive in the options folks can choose from.

We are looking to include a NEW thing at #WLPC in Phoenix 2023… a BOOT
CAMP special offering of the top Deep Dives from voting. This would
entail allowing attendees three choices from the top 6 Deep Dive
sessions in lieu of a normal Boot Camp. We would offer any instructor
the ability to come to the conference early - and teach the Deep Dive
two additional times on two of the Boot Camp days - then you could sit
in one of the other Deep Dives yourself for free.

As conference organizers, we don’t know it this will get enough
registrations to warrant the Deep Dive/Boot Camp combination, but
wanted to give it a try for Phoenix #WLPC - if you are interested in
such a pre-conference deep dive experience, please let me know and
we’ll keep you informed of the status as we move forward. Of course
we’d pay you an additional $3,000 to deliver the session twice over
the boot camp times and cover your three days of hotel/food during the
boot camp pre-conference days.  Please let me know if this extra
session would be of interest to you.

If your Deep Dive session is chosen for the conference - we expect a
pre-conference practice session to review and go over all the deep
dive content, lab exercises, and lecture PRIOR to the conference. We
will work with you to schedule a day to come to your location, and go
through the entire deep dive live and in person. We’ve found many
benefits to taking this extra effort prior to the conference. One, it
gives you a DEADLINE to work towards. We all procrastinate, and by
having an artificially early deadline you will have your session
materials ready well before the conference proper. Second, it gives
you practice, teaching to a live audience, with feedback on the
hands-on lab exercises and help work with timing and flow. These have
added greatly to the sessions delivered during the conference proper
as most of the bugs and fixes were already addressed weeks before the
conference.

If you have any questions or ideas, please contact me via email.

We are looking forward to a great conference in Phoenix next year -
glad to have you and your deep dive as part of our community!

Keith

Keith R. Parsons
Managing Director
Wireless LAN Professionals, Inc.
Wireless LAN Consulting
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Elk Ridge, UT 84651-4599
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