 Hi Hello, how are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm so good. I don't know if you remember me. I am Barbara Tint I'm president of the applied improvisation network. I remember now we talked One was it last year's conference? Yes We talked last year. You were on a big Skype screen and we were all sitting in the audience Listening to your brilliance about empathy and communication. I just love it that improv has spread so far and In so many different ways You if you started to list the different ways that improv is used by the folks who get together under your banner You'd go on and on again. I just love that because I think there isn't anything that can't be helped by experience in improv Well, I want to say that at the end of the interview one of the things you said When we asked you how to stay connected and how do we spread this work? You said Just be brave and call people So so I'm calling you So Are you calling about the idea that we'll do a conference together? I was thinking maybe it would be awesome for us to do a conference together because you have this awesome center at Stony Brook and You know, I hear it's your 10th anniversary We're very excited. We've done we've accomplished so much in 10 years. So what's this about singing that you want to do? I Have the great fortune of directing the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at lovely Stony Brook University Where you are going to come and join us next summer? I know it's a little different from Paris, but I promise it'll be beautiful and fun And maybe we can coax Alan to come out and meet with us here on our beautiful campus Have a great time in Paris see you next year in New York. I'm Jew Trader Wolf chair of the 2019 AIN World Conference, which we are so excited to be doing in partnership with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science Based at Stony Brook University on Long Island in New York some significant and important features of The learning journeys happening in New York City And I'm Joey Novick. I'm your treasurer and you can trust me as I'm also a lawyer. Hi everyone This is Kat Cuppett. I'm the upstate liaison to the programming committee. I am John Martin I am Long Island liaison to the program committee. I'm Marion Rich I'm the New York City liaison to the program committee Hi, I'm Martha Conn. I'm the entertainment coordinator Hi, I'm Richard Krzysztoforski the program chair We're excited to be partnering with the Alda Center for AIN 2019 at Stony Brook University At AIN Stony Brook When do you think this conference is going to take place? Well, we were thinking maybe we could come summer I'll be there