Floor Plan Fanatic
If an Explorer wants to meet a coworker at a highly specific, crowded spot outside the convention hall center (like a particular food truck or a specific bench), you can use this 3-word tool to give them an exact 10-foot grid location to share.
What is what3words?
This specific Slack channel is where VIs must look to find or communicate immediate, crowd-sourced convention updates, such as last-minute agenda shifts or newly discovered service animal relief areas.
What is #current_happenings?
An Explorer landing at AUS needs to catch an Uber, Lyft, or taxi. To guide them to the official ground transportation pick-up zone, you will need to direct them to Level 1, located directly beneath this massive airport structure.
What is the Consolidated Rental Car Facility?
This built-in dashboard mapping integration allows you to drop down to eye-level outside the venue, making it perfect for checking hotel entrance facades, identifying rideshare pickup lanes, or describing the physical curb setup to an Explorer.
What is Street View?
When an Explorer calls in from a convention geofence, this specific Dash tab automatically activates to house direct links to the relevant convention resource drive documents.
What is the Resource Tab?
An Explorer wants to attend the NFB session titled "Aira! Access Is a Human Right" on July 4th. According to the agenda, you will need to guide them to this specific second-level room.
What is Room 202?
///comment.flows.long is the precise location of a designated service animal relief area at this convention hotel?
What is the JW Marriott Austin?
Suggesting to take a picture of this before airport check-in can help your Explorer find their belongings at their destination if they are lost by the airline.
What is their luggage (or checked bags and baggage tags)?
An Explorer is invited by colleagues to catch up over small plates and skyline views at the lush, seven-story-high rooftop terrace known as "Zanzibar." You will need to map them to this official NFB overflow hotel.
What is the Austin Marriott Downtown?
Aira is stationed at a prime table in the main exhibit hall layout at NFB. If an Explorer at the Aira table wants to browse the neighboring setups, which two major tech giants will they find immediately adjacent to Aira's booth on either side?
What are Microsoft and Tesla?
When an Explorer asks "What's next on the schedule?", this document found via the convention app, website, or Dash Resource Tab is your master guide to all session times, speakers, and room locations.
What is the convention agenda?
An Explorer in the main Exhibit Hall wants to check out the latest assistive technology from Vispero. If you pull up the exhibitor directory, you will need to guide them directly to which specific double-booth location?
What is Booth B1–B2?