<font face="arial" size="2"><p style="margin:0;padding:0;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: normal; background: white; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #333333;">The NASIG Program Planning Committee (PPC) invites ideas for topics and for volunteer discussion facilitators for Informal Discussion Groups and User Groups. The deadline for proposals is <strong><span data-term="goog_497549782">May 11th, 2018</span></strong>.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: normal; background: white; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #333333;">The Program Planning Committee invites suggestions for 1) topics to be considered by these groups and 2) would like to hear from any conference attendee who would like to facilitate an Informal Discussion Group or a User Group. The facilitator must be registered for the full conference.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: normal; background: white; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #333333;">Informal Discussion Groups (formerly known as Networking Nodes) serve to promote discussion among NASIG attendees who have a shared interest in a topic, idea, workflow, or problem. The emphasis of these sessions is open discussion and the generation of new ideas. Informal Discussion Groups will take place on <span data-term="goog_497549783"><span>Friday, June 8th</span></span>, from <span data-term="goog_497549784"><span>1 pm to 3 pm.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: normal; background: white; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #333333;">Please Submit your suggestions or volunteer to lead a group at </span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"><a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2018NASIGUserGroups" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2018NASIGUserGroups&source=gmail&ust=1524768806257000&usg=AFQjCNH90BlsLDJIO0UFH_XlBZTL6LySBw">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2018NASIGUserGroups</a><span> </span>.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; color: #222222; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; line-height: normal; background: white; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #333333;">If you have any questions, you can contact the Program Planning Committee at </span><a style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:prog-plan@nasig.org"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1155cc;">prog-plan@</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;">nasig</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #1155cc;">.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #333333;">. The deadline for submissions of topics and volunteers is <strong><span data-term="goog_497549785">May 11th, 2018</span>.</strong></span></p>
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