2024 Schedule

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Saturday

Time James Bonbright Rogers Cummings
08:00–9:00 Breakfast & coffee
09:00–10:25 Plenary session: ground rules, get acquainted
10:30–11:55

Sustainability at Regional Events

A roundtable discussion exploring how Regional Events can engage in the work of the Burning Man 2030 Environmental Sustainability Roadmap

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Newbie Acculturation

Brainstorming how we can better welcome, educate and get newbies to participate.

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Fire Safety: the View from 10,000 Feet

Connecting the dots between fire safety, risk management, permits, and insurance.

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Regional Ranger Roundup

A discussion on inter-regional ranger developments, and a check-in on regional ranger teams

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Noon–13:55 Break for lunch
14:00–15:25

Site Ops/DPW – Building the Canvas

Come talk through your burn with other Site Ops volunteers and leads and learn about and share best and worst practices.

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Rebuilding a Fractured Community: A Case Study and Discussion

Bringing the art of Kintsugi to rebuilding your community

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Codes of conduct

Panel discussion on CoCs, restorative justice, and information sharing

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Dust – Simplifying the What Where When

Automate registration of camps and events and get an event guide and app for your regional

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15:30–17:00

Keeping the Experiment Alive

Maintaining a spirit of experimentation in how we do things

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Volunteeripate – Burn data like you’ve never seen it

Visualization and analysis of data from tickets

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From Flames to Claims: Navigating Insurance for Burning Events

What you need to know about insuring regional burning man events – and avoiding disasters

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Bring Out the Best In Others

Learn Skills to Bring Out the Best

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Sunday

Time James Bonbright Rogers Cummings
08:00–9:00 Breakfast & coffee
09:00–10:25

Mental Health First Aid at a burn. Are we doing it right?

A roundtable talk about mental health emergency mitigation at a Burn.

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Social Media, the Good, the Bad, and the Oh Hell No!

Come discuss how social media is the necessary evil that helps year round engagement.

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Mobility: everyone gets a burn

How a couple of unused golf carts at LoF DMV developed into a program that has grown beyond anything that could be imagined.

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10:30–11:55

How to Train Your Actual—Care and Feeding of Volunteer Leaders at all Stages

A discussion on the leadership lifecycle, including a range of topics such as recruitment, training, retention, succession planning, stepping down, burnout, and mental health support.

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Civic Responsibility and Community Engagement = Civic Engagement and Community Responsibility?

What does civic responsibility and community engagement really mean to burners outside of Burning Man?

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Guerrilla Emergency Management

A discussion about keeping our burns safe

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Documentation talk

An overview of good documentation practices and an introduction to a system that embodies them.

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Noon–13:55 Break for lunch
14:00–15:25

Relationships between the board, event organizers, and departments

Facilitated discussion about the relationship between the board, organizers, and departments at regional burns.

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Safety volunteers

Recruitment and retention of safety volunteers

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Fun with Finance!

Think Finance can’t be fun? Think again! Financial statements and budgets basics for burners – no finance background necessary.

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BRCvr presents BurnerSphere, update and Q&A

Explore how *BurnerSphere* captures the magic of Burning Man through immersive VR and learn how to bring it to your local burner community.

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15:30–17:00

The Rent Is Too Damn High — Burns? In This Economy??

As community-experiment-minded event organizers, what are we going to do about it?

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What if Burning Man is a cult? What if that’s ok?

Is Burning Man a cult? Does that make me a cult leader? Is that ok? Let’s talk about it.

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Flame Effects Artist Guild

The Flame Effects Artist Guild wants you!

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Note: Sessions with gray backgrounds are roundtables.