Participation Criteria
HOW PARTICIPANTS TO THE SUMMIT WERE SELECTED
- Hard cap at 200 Participants
- Construct designed to provide transparency to all and manage expectations
- Summit Co-Chairs, Steering Committee, and Program Committee each have allocations and selection criteria
- Selections will balance across two sets of functional areas: 1.) Science, policy, operations and 2.) Providers, intermediaries, and end-users
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Motivation |
Criteria |
Executing Agent |
# Invites |
Comments |
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Contribution to Summit Proceeding |
One Rep for each of the top 30 submissions as rated by quality, relevance, and helpfulness (format/style) |
Chapter Leads and Co-Chairs |
45 |
30 selects based on submissions received by 30 June (incentive) We also need to allocate for Chapter Leads plus 2 writers for each chapter (15 – these people likely key players in Summit Program) |
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Diversity from IOOS sectors |
Cover various sectoral interests by reflecting diversity as represented in Steering Committee (Feds here need to act as sectoral reps) (Identified sectors include: Industry; Academia; Educational; State, Local, Tribal, International, EPO) |
Steering Committee (minus co-chairs) |
44 |
Accounts for Steering Committee (12) plus 2 picks each to cover similar sectors(24) plus additional (8) not covered by Steering Committee (e.g. EPO, Tribal) |
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Geographic Representation |
Covering all 11 IOOS regions + global component (Identified targets include IOOS implementer and key functions such as remote sensing) |
Program Committee |
43 |
Three per region + 10 from global |
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Federal Agency Representation |
11 Federal agencies are members of IOC (Feds as providers and users, funders and recipients: asked to consider some geographic spread) |
Agency nomination |
22 |
Two per agency (including IOOC member) |
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Co-chairs and Staff support |
Staff to support conduct of Summit |
Co-chairs |
16 |
4 co-chairs +IOOC staff (2)+IOOS Program Office (6)+other support(4) |
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Invited speakers and dignitaries |
Voices needed to bring the Summit program to life (possibly nominees from outstanding papers: steering committee: congressional staff, other sources) |
Program Committee |
16 |
4 per day for 4 days of Summit |
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At-large picks for balance or special needs |
Invitations held in reserve (use these after other pools are exhausted and holes in the attendance identified) “Alternates” may be accounted here. |
Co-chairs |
12 |
Small number of slots held for solving unforeseen circumstances |
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Total |
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198 |
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