Planning to attend the GENTECH2002 conference in Boston next month?
As of the day this article was written, the conference hotel has a few rooms
left at the conference rate. However, there aren’t many rooms left in that
block so you need to call now to make your reservations. Otherwise, you will
pay a higher rate or else end up at a different hotel.
You can call the Sheraton Boston Hotel reservations at 800-325-3535
or at 617-236-2000 to obtain the conference rate. You can also make reservations
at Sheraton’s Web site but the conference rate isn’t available there.
You will pay $20 to perhaps $50 more if you make your reservation online. Remember
that you can walk from your room in the Sheraton Boston Hotel to the conference
seminars and to numerous local restaurants and stores via indoor walkways without
wearing a sweater or jacket.
If you do miss out on the conference rates, you might want to
check out the Hilton Back Bay (617-236-1100) as well as the Colonnade Hotel (617-424-7000 and at www.colonnadehotel.com
). While these two hotels are also nearby, you will need a jacket to walk to
the conference seminars. Admittedly, the Hilton is about a ten-second dash in
the outdoor weather and the Colonnade isn’t much further away. Both the
Hilton and the Colonnade are offering discounted rates for GENTECH attendees.
In other news from GENTECH2002, the conference e-newsletter is
now available on your PDA. You can read it on your Palm device or Windows CE
handheld. You can get the newsletter by creating a channel at AvantGo.com. Signing
up is free, and if you don't use AvantGo you're missing out on a lot. When you
create a channel, name it GT02 e-News and point it at the Web page at
www.gentech.org/gt02news/enewstext.htm. After that the hotsync function
will automatically retrieve the current text version of the newsletter. You
can read it wherever you carry your PDA.
Dick Eastman Online
