Event Apart Chicago Schedule & Details

May 30, 2006

We’re just three days away from An Event Apart Chicago and can’t wait to see you. This post contains late-breaking event details emailed to Chicago attendees in our email newsletter of Thursday, May 25th, plus new tidbits about Flickr photos and post-event cocktails. If you’re attending An Event Apart Chicago and didn’t receive our May 25th email newsletter, check your SPAM filters and whitelists to be certain you’ve allowed yourself to receive messages from aneventapart.com.

Location

Gleacher Center Room 100
450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive
Chicago, IL 60611-4316

For driving directions, use our Google Maps widget. (Alternatively, you can go to gleachercenter.com and wait for the pre-loading to finish, then quickly click the “mute” link in the top right corner and the “skip” link in the bottom right corner. Once you’ve done that, click on “Driving Directions.” We’d point you directly to a specific page but it’s a Flash site.)

Schedule

An Event Apart Chicago runs from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm. We have a lot to cover, so the event will start promptly. Arrive early to get a good seat! Doors open at 8:00 am; for best results, plan to show up between 8:00 am and 8:30 am.

Here’s the schedule for the day:

8:00am Registration opens

9:00am Welcome
9:05am The Cutting Edge of CSS Layout
9:30am Textism
10:30am BREAK
10:45am Solving (Re)Design Problems
11:30am Bringing A List Apart Together

12:30pm LUNCH

1:45pm Fully Em-Based Designs
2:15pm What’s the Story?
3:00pm BREAK
3:15pm Jim Coudal: Staying Happy in a Creative Business
4:15pm Design Critiques
4:55pm Wrap-up

6:00pm HAPPY HOUR & A HALF (see below)

Times and topics are subject to change.

Happy Hour and a Half

Friday night at Timothy O’Toole’s
622 N. Fairbanks Court
Starts at 6:00 pm
Sponsored by Jewelboxing

Join us for a post-event schmooze fest sponsored by our good friends at Jewelboxing, makers of professional-grade DVD and CD packaging systems.

Laptops

Laptops are not necessary but they are welcome, and might come in handy. The Gleacher Center assures us that there will be sufficient wi-fi access for all.

Details

It’s a non-smoking event. Sorry, smokers! Still photography is permitted, but audio and video recording are forbidden. Sorry, recordists and videographers! As always, please be considerate when taking pictures.

Flickr Group

We’ve established a Flickr group for those of you who want to share your photos with the world: Flickr: An Event Apart: Chicago 2006.

Food

Catering begins at 8:00am with fruit kabobs, coffee, and tea, and will continue ’til the end of the day. Coffee, soft drinks, and energy-providing snacks will be available as the day progresses.

For lunch, we’ll be enjoying a wonderful menu that should satisfy both vegetarians and omnivores. The main event is a buffet selection of the following:

• Margerita Pizza with Fontina, Mozzarella, Sliced Roma Tomato and Basil
• Focaccia Pizza with Pepperoni and Cilantro
• Wild Mushroom Pizza with Spinach and Blue Cheese
• Rotelle Pasta with Chicken, Mushrooms and Herb Garlic Sauce
• Butternut Squash Ravioli with Spinach and Hazelnut Brown Butter Sauce
• Spinach Salad with Endive, Apples, Pecans and House Vinaigrette
• Caesar Salad with Sun-dried Tomatoes and Garlic Croutons

As if that weren’t enough, the above feast will be accompanied by fresh baked breads and flat breads, a dessert assortment, and fresh sliced seasonal fruits. Our biggest concern is that you’ll all be too full to stay awake in the afternoon!

Disclaimer

Please note that the schedule is subject to change, and that some things are not entirely within our control. We’ll do our best to make the experience live up to what we’ve mentioned here, but cannot absolutely guarantee a perfect 1:1 correspondence. We thank you in advance for your understanding of any changes we may be forced to make.