Main Hotel Building 921 SW Sixth Avenue Valet Parking is located on SW 6th Avenue Self Parking is located on SW Taylor TAKING THE MAX LIGHT RAIL FROM THE AIRPORT Purchase your fare before you board (all zone required) Board the Max just outside of baggage claim Exit at Pioneer Square North Walk across Pioneer Courthouse square southbound The Main Building is located on SW 6th, occupying the entire block of SW Taylor to SW Salmon Allow yourself...

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AMIA Announces Keynote Speakers for Digital Asset Symposium Program Will Run Simultaneously with AMIA Annual Conference LOS ANGELES (October 15, 2015) – The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) has enlisted keynote speakers Erik Weaver and John Downey for the Digital Asset Symposium (DAS), which takes place Nov. 18-19 in Portland, Ore., at the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower. This year marks the first time that DAS will run...

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This three program Advocacy Stream is to provide attendees with useful information and inspiring case studies that will help them to be more effective advocates in their own situations. SESSION 1: INTERNATIONAL REFERENCE POINTS Moderator: Caroline Yeager, George Eastman House; co-chair AMIA Advocacy Committee Speakers: Hila Abraham, Digitization and Access Project Director at the Jerusalem Cinémathèque – Israel Film Archive Christophe Dupin,...

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Join us in the Vendor Cafe!  Our supplier and service provider partners are a great resource about what is new, what works and what’s around the corner. Thursday and Friday , November 19th and 20th Hilton Portland & Executive Tower _______________________ AheadTeK AheadTeK manufactures video heads and other specialty heads used in the video broadcast, tape data and disk data storage industries. Founded in 1972 as CMC, AheadTeK...

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Wednesday . November 18  .  1:30pm – 5:30pm Get it in Writing: The First Annual AMIA Writer’s Workshop Led by AMIA colleagues with experience on both sides of the writing process (Donald Crafton and Susan Ohmer: authors, professors and current co-editors of The Moving Image; Devin Orgeron: author, professor, co-chair of AMIA’s Publications Committee, and former editor of The Moving Image; Regina Longo: author and associate editor at...

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For those 2015 AMIA Conference participants who are interested in sharing accommodation in Portland, AMIA will maintain a list of attendees searching for roommates. You will be emailed, faxed, or mailed a copy of the list so that you may contact potential roommates directly. Please try to submit your information as early as possible while appropriate room accommodations are still available. #AMIA15

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Please note that this is a preliminary schedule and is subject to change. Events may be added or times changed.

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The conference offers three parallel session tracks as well as workshops, screenings, receptions and the Vendor Cafe.  More information will continue to be posted.  If you register now, you will be able to adjust your registration as new events are added. Also – OnWednesday, November 18th, there will be a half-day Reel Thing Technical Symposium from 12:30pm – 5:30pm. Opening with a keynote address on Wednesday, November 18th (after...

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