Roses, Crowns and Thorns: Feedback from 2019 SOUCABL Conference
| Crown | Networking opportunities; make food time collaborative time? | 4 |
| Crown | Short presentations | |
| Crown | Vendor participation & networking with them | 3 |
| Crown | Food, peanuts, catering GREAT! | 2 |
| Crown | Do an NCAA March Madness, Bonding time. | |
| Rose | Susan Klopper's keynote | |
| Rose | Intimacy of size of conference | 3 |
| Rose | Being regional | |
| Rose | Competency workshop after Susan Klopper's keynote | 2 |
| Rose | Location amazing, size, price, Athens | 6 |
| Rose | Having the vendor tables and being able to get trials | |
| Rose | Vendor - having it on Saturday was better to escape office demands | |
| Thorn | Want more time to talk about projects we want to do with other people | |
| Thorn | Want to be able to ID common interests/research/writing before the conference; have a message board in advance? | 2 |
| Thorn | Tight time for transitions between sessions; need time to decompress and absorb what happened in between, more breaks? | 2 |
| Thorn | Make it two days? Time was fast, too compressed? Day from 7 am to 9 pm too long | 6 |
| Thorn | Morning start too early; maybe have coffee first then brunch instead of breakfast and lunch? | 3 |
| Thorn | Have more lead time from request for posters & presentations to conference/ Jonathan Torres volunteer to manage | |
| Thorn | Do peer review of presentations, maybe technical papers, prior to conference; supports those with faculty status | 4 |
| Thorn | Saturday vs. during the week - attendee | |
| Thorn | Have a way to follow-up with content; backload it |