Saturday
| Room | Birmingham | Smithfield | Ft. Pitt |
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| 9:00–10:25 | |||
| 10:30–11:55 | Steal This Data: Lessons from the 2025 Regional Events 94 events, 18 countries, 110,000 participants: see what Regional Events built in 2025 and what it means for your next event. By: Iris “Rainbow Trout” Yee Weston Stiegelmeier Muse Williams Kristen “Fancypants” Vogt |
The Care and Feeding of Volunteers An introduction to the craft and practice of leading volunteers. |
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| Noon–13:55 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00–15:25 | Robert’s Rules for Small Boards An easy-to-follow tutorial on how to run a small (12 or fewer members) Board Meeting using Robert's Rules of Order |
Burner Training Channel and Burner Scouts Two Frameworks You Can Start Using Right Now |
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| 15:30–17:00 | Workshop: Long-term continuity of knowledge How do we help our successors avoid reinventing the wheel? By: Adam Rice |
Thread on Fire?: Stories and Practical Tips for Online Community Moderators Learn from social media case studies, solve your toughest challenges together, and help build a shared tips guide for Regional Event social media leads and community moderators. |
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Sunday
| Room | Birmingham | Smithfield | Ft. Pitt |
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| 9:00–10:25 | From Flames to Claims: Risk, Insurance, and the Future of Regional Burns Insurance for regional burns is complicated, expensive, and changing. Let's unpack the risks, coverage gaps, market realities, and what we can do together. By: Erik Vogt |
From Scene Control to Interacting with Outside Authorities [Presentation] By: Renegade |
Volunteerism – What’s working, what isn’t Round Robin discussion on all things Volunteers By: Burnapedia |
| 10:30–11:55 | a roundtable discussion on ticketing - policies, successes and failures, new ideas and more By: Burnapedia |
Small and Mighty: Producing High Impact Intimate Events Discuss challenges and potential solutions for events hosting less than 500 participants. |
Event Leadership and Art Production A facilitated conversation exploring how Regional Burning Man events approach art production, including governance, resourcing, volunteer management and the relationship between artists and event leadership. |
| Noon–13:55 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00–15:25 | Bring Them to the Playa: BurnerSphere as a Window into Black Rock City A live demo of BurnerSphere, an official virtual Burning Man experience, showing how we capture the playa and how it can help your community, first-timers included, experience Black Rock City before they go. By: Athena Demos |
The future of burnable structures What is the community at large doing with the structures they build and what can we learn from each other By: Mark Doyle (Oak) |
Keeping the Magic Alive [facilitated roundtable convo] |
| 15:30–17:00 | Mixer | ||