Up above there is a smaller version of this image: http://www.shesgeeky.org/sg/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/SGagendawall2007.jpg which shows the sessions proposed for the first she’s geeky in 2007.

There are also sessions here on these images:
She’s Geeky 2009 Bay Area:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/unknown8bit/3240089927/
She’s Geey 2009 Washington DC:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jennifermyronuk/4128521446/

I’d suggest that you review those images for past sessions (you can see large sizes by clicking on “action” and then choosing “see all sizes” if reading them is too hard at the links above).

People propose technical sessions (java script hacks or drupal hacks or cloud computing etc) or science sessions (rocket fuel and space travel or biotech hacks for new drug development etc) or policy and social sessions like (privacy and your users or identity policy etc) or leadership and business sessions (like mentorships and leadership for women — a session I’ve led twice at She’s Geeky, or funding your startup, or How to become a VC — another session I organized with women VCs from Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley) or any other kind of hack (like Body Hacks which was about things you could do to your body — not plastic surgery.. but things like chip implants and technical things.. or Bee Keeping Hacks, a session I attended last January at the Bay Area SG).

Sessions are sometime led with slides and presentations.. if it’s an instructive session.. but most things are discussions.. share a perspective on something .. like your ideas about how android programming works, and then ask questions and discuss issues.

When you propose, you’ll stand up to the mic, state your name, and say what you want to discuss and who should attend (like maybe engineers and people interested in that tech.. or maybe business people and engineers interested in starting a business). Then you walk over to the wall, and post the session in a room you think is the right size and has what you need (projector?)… while the next person tells their name, session topic and who it’s directed toward, and on and on until everyone has stated their session idea for the day.

Sometimes people realize that two sessions are the same.. and agree to combine. We just work it out in the room on the fly. But the agenda wall gets built by all of us and then after the opening session, we all disburse to different sessions of interest.

Also.. sessions are usually an hour.

I hope that helps.

mary

1. Can you give examples of conference schedules at other locations? What are some examples of the sessions?
2. Should my proposed session be added to the days schedule, what should I bring for my presentation? Powerpoint? Handouts? Additionally, how long should it be?

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