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	Newbie Acculturation Brainstorming how we can better welcome, educate and get newbies to participate.	Fire Safety: the View from 10,000 Feet Connecting the dots between fire safety, risk management, permits, and insurance.	Regional Ranger Roundup A discussion on inter-regional ranger developments, and a check-in on regional ranger teams
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.	Rebuilding a Fractured Community: A Case Study and Discussion Bringing the art of Kintsugi to rebuilding your community	Codes of conduct Panel discussion on CoCs, restorative justice, and information sharing	Dust – Simplifying the What Where When Automate registration of camps and events and get an event guide and app for your regional
15:30–17:00	Keeping the Experiment Alive Maintaining a spirit of experimentation in how we do things	Volunteeripate – Burn data like you’ve never seen it Visualization and analysis of data from tickets	From Flames to Claims: Navigating Insurance for Burning Events What you need to know about insuring regional burning man events – and avoiding disasters	Bring Out the Best In Others Learn Skills to Bring Out the Best

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.	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.	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.	—
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.	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?	Guerrilla Emergency Management A discussion about keeping our burns safe	Documentation talk An overview of good documentation practices and an introduction to a system that embodies them.
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.	Safety volunteers Recruitment and retention of safety volunteers	Fun with Finance! Think Finance can’t be fun? Think again! Financial statements and budgets basics for burners – no finance background necessary.	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.
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?	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.	—	Flame Effects Artist Guild The Flame Effects Artist Guild wants you!

Note: Sessions with gray backgrounds are roundtables.