Welcome and Overview (0-2 mins)

Andrew Kun (VP Finance) will moderate this meeting, and go over the agenda and code of conduct. 

Pandemic Preparedness at SIGCHI Events (2-10 mins)

Stacy Branham (AC Accessibility) will moderate a discussion around COVID-safety/pandemic preparedness and conferences. What steps shall we take in the immediate, medium, and long term to ensure that our conferences are COVID-prepared? 

Hybrid SIGCHI Events (10-18 mins)

Adriana Vivacqua (VP at Large) will moderate a discussion around hybrid events. What steps are we/should we be taking in the immediate, medium, and long term to ensure that our conferences are hybrid-ready? She will share updates from our SIG at CHI, and CHI survey recommendations, and talk about the working group she is co-leading with Susanne Boll. 

Safety at SIGCHI Events (18-26 mins)

Cale Passmore (AC Equity) will moderate a discussion around safety and conferences. What steps shall we take in the immediate, medium, and long term to ensure that our conferences are safe, especially for junior and early career members of our community? We will share conversations that came up at CHI, summarize CHI survey results on this topic, and our thoughts thus far. 

Open Calls (26-30 mins)

We will briefly go over current and upcoming open calls for awards, equity committee, futuring and SDF committees, pubs, and hybrid. 

Miscellaneous Updates/Q&A (30-35 mins)

Andrew will leave room for other updates and/or questions from participants. 

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The EC conducts public meetings on a monthly basis. These take place virtually on Zoom. We welcome participation from members, within time constraints. We will be providing a video recording and meeting notes for all meetings on our website.

Please let us know (via email: sigchi-access@acm.org) if you have specific accessibility requests, and our Accessibility Committee will do their best to accommodate them. We also aim to provide SLI at all meetings.