September 19, 2013
Holiday Inn Harrisburg/Hershey, Grantville, PA
Call for Presentations
The Pennsylvania State Data Center (PaSDC) is seeking presenters for the 2013 Pennsylvania Data Users Conference. The annual Data Users Conference serves as Pennsylvania’s most comprehensive single-day forum for research and developments in demographic data.
The PaSDC Data User Conference seeks to educate its audience on the demographic and socioeconomic research and policy affecting Pennsylvania. Past presentations have focused on research themes (i.e. Marcellus shale, prison populations, labor force, and rural Pennsylvania); community development (i.e. case studies and community planning); innovations in technology (i.e. American FactFinder and GIS technology), and other data related topics.
Sessions at the Conference are non-commercial and vendor neutral. Under no circumstance should a session be a direct promotion of an organization’s product, service or monetary self-interest. The emphasis should be on the application of the demographic/socioeconomic data, technology, and other data-related topics.
Submission Details – Team, individual or panel proposals, which include the proposed topic and a brief description or outline, should be e-mailed to either Jennifer Shultz (jjb131@psu.edu) or John R. Maurer (jrm55@psu.edu) by Friday, June 7, 2013. The proposals will then be reviewed by the conference planning committee and selections will be made based upon desired topics, content and educational value. All selected presentations will be published in conference publications and on the conference Web site. The PaSDC will notify all selected speakers by Friday, July 12, 2013.
Presentation Rules:
Presentation proposals will be reviewed by the conference planning committee and selections will be made based upon desired topics, flow of content, educational value and understanding of the content. All selected content will be published in Conference publications and online.
Agenda Schedule – The conference organizers will set the day and time for each presentation, in order to optimize the sequencing and flow of content and tracks. Sessions will end by 4:00 pm on Conference Day.
Speaker Benefits:
The PaSDC does not pay fees or travel expenses to its speakers. All speakers will receive a complimentary Conference registration including meals. Speakers will be featured in the Conference publication and on the Conference web site. The above benefits speaker(s); not support staff or colleagues who may accompany the speaker(s).
The PaSDC reserves the right to decline a submission for presentation
at the 2013 Pennsylvania Data Users Conference.
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The Pennsylvania State Data Center (PaSDC) is the commonwealth’s official source for population and economic statistics and is housed at Penn State Harrisburg within the Institute of State and Regional Affairs. The PaSDC also serves as Pennsylvania’s liaison to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of the Census and as representative to the Federal State Cooperative Program for Population Estimates and Federal State Cooperative Program for Population Projections.
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John R. Maurer
State Capital Office Coordinator
Pennsylvania State Data Center
Penn State Harrisburg
777 Harrisburg Pike
Middletown, PA 17057