Venue: Hyatt Regency Miami

Our venue in 2008 is the Hyatt Regency in downtown Miami. Those who attended the Summit in Austin, Monteal or Vancouver will recognize the similar style and downtown location (in stark contrast to Las Vegas!)

Road trip to the hotel

Since we received so many comments about the 2007 venue in Vegas (almost all of them negative, in fact it incited "hotel rage" in some!) I thought i'd share some thoughts and pictures about the 2008 hotel.

Dick Hill (ASIS&T Executive Director) and I visited for a day in April and to sum up ... I liked what I saw! The hotel itself is much smaller than the Flamingo (about 600 guest rooms) and we should have the entire conference facilities to ourselves (much like Austin, Montreal and Vancouver).

There are ample open spaces which we plan to use for informal seating and chatting areas and we'll even try to find a way to use the outside space next to the river!

Next up in the news - i'll try to find someone who knows Miami (as opposed to myself who spent 23 hours there) to write about the area the hotel is in and what there is to do (i.e. where we can eat and drink!).

Upper hallway near conference meeting rooms. Possible use for this area is for the tea/coffee and snacks.

Lower hallway near conference meeting rooms, upper hallway is on the right. Likely use for this area is the reception desk and informal seating for between session discussions.

Typical meeting room.

Outside space accessed by doors from the upper hall.