Society Program Oversight Committee:
The Society Program Oversight Committee is an ad-hoc committee chaired by the Program Chair for the current calendar year and having as members the Program Chair for the upcoming year, the Program Chairs from the past two years, the VP Meetings, the VP Publications, the VP Electronic Presence and the Executive Director.
The Society Program Oversight Committee is responsible for recommending a Program Chair for future conferences as well as determining the Threads or topic areas around which the conference program is organized. It is the responsibility of the committee to appoint Thread Chairs and review their performance. This committee is also responsible for reviewing the types and nature of sessions to be presented at the conference. Changes to threads, Thread Chairs [Link to Conference Organization Guidelines, Revision 1 Bob Eberlein, February 2009].
In order to enable better transfer of learning about program content from conference to conference, the position of Chair of the Society Program Oversight Committee shall be semi-permanent. The first appointee is Rogelio Oliva, for an initial period of three years (2011, 2012, and 2013) [motion 108, the 2011 Winter Policy Council Meeting].