I found out last week that the talk I'll be giving in Aptos, CA (on the Monterrey Bay) for the Innovation@Sun (IAS) conference was also accepted as a talk for Sun Service's annual technical conference, CEC (Customer Engineering Conference).
CEC is a much larger conference, because Sun Service is a bigger group than our population of Distinguished Engineers, Technical Directors, and Sun Fellows. CEC used to be hosted every year out of San Francisco, but this year, it's being run in Las Vegas. I've never been to Las Vegas, but the reviews I've heard so far are all good.
CEC is only a few days after IAS, so we'll likely stay out West in the interim. We have family to visit, so the three of us will go on the lecture circuit together. Truth be told, we were doing that anyway, because my husband will be attending CEC this year. Now we have to wait to find out when my talk is scheduled to see if Tom can take Rachel during my talk, or whether we need my mom to join us for a day or two ... logistics ... I was impressed when I got all the flights worked out (4 legs, none of which are round trip, for 3 people, one using frequent flyer miles, all sitting together), so now we just need a little more info and we can figure out the rest.
I just hope that the reviewers for the ACM CHI conference are as interested in this work as Sun has been, and that the paper we submitted yesterday gets accepted ... please keep your fingers crossed for me!