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Tag: ESOF16

Break-ups, body clocks and the mad mob: ESOF16 Day 3

Posted on 28th July 20169th August 2016 by Sarah

It’s going to be a long time before I sit through another closing ceremony like that of ESOF2016. Usually, in a post chronicling of the day, I’d offer you some form of chronological structure, but this was just too good: tinged with entertainment, nostalgia and a serving a discomfort. We shuffled into the hall like…

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Awkwardness, the bugs in your body and Twinkling satellites: ESOF16 Day 2

Posted on 26th July 201627th July 2016 by Sarah

The second day of a conference is when things start to get awkward. On the first day, with your misguided sense of exuberance and nervous energy, you try to meet everyone. You insert your ready-to-be-shaken hand into circles of people like a knife in a birthday cake. (This is also the day when most people…

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Manchester, robot cars and the apocalypse: ESOF16, Day 1

Posted on 25th July 201627th July 2016 by Sarah

There’s a bright-eyed eagerness to the first day of a conference. People bustle from session to session, take notes while speakers talk, and are prepared to wait their turn in the line for coffee. It won’t last. In two short days, the polite veneer rubs off. The coffee queue will become a mosh pit, all…

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