Our SIGIR 2018 Welcome Guide is a summary of useful information to help with your travel and conference preparations. Get it here: bit.ly/2lY5yfH

SIGIReCom program available at: bit.ly/2zcuF89 Keynotes by Liangjie Hong, Feminist Killjoy Panel:"Which technologies will drive eCommerce in the near future?" by Jaap Kamps @gsingers Feminist Killjoy Alistair Moffat, Mohit Sharma ACM SIGIR 2018 #sigir2018 #sigirecom ACM SIGIR

Some fun extras we've arranged at #sigir2018 include carts serving free espresso drinks all day during the main conference and picnic blankets you can check out to enjoy summer outside (for lunch, or any time).

We've posted new links to the #sigir2018 homepage that include the ACM Table of Contents for #sigir2018 (access to all paper PDFs begins Sun July 8) and information on the Whova event app. sigir.org/sigir2018

It isn't too late to sign up for the Buddy Program at #sigir2018! Make your attendance count. bit.ly/SIGIRBuddyProg…

We're excited to start the first day of ACM SIGIR 2018. The summer weather is perfect and a full day of excellent tutorials is ahead, starting at 9am. The day wraps up with a welcome reception at 5:30pm at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

We're having lunch under beautiful shady trees between tutorial sessions.

Calling all students! Attend the free student social event tomorrow (7/9 Monday) at 6:30pm. Free food AND drink provided ;) Details here: regonline.com/builder/site/e…

While the vendor fixes DoubleMap, here is the complete, detailed shuttle schedule with time and location of all stops, for all buses, for every day of the conference. The bus route # will be displayed in the window of each bus. regonline.com/custImages/230…

It's a packed room at the Students Luncheon!

Reminder for students. The social is tonight! x.com/sigir2018/stat…

Women in IR meeting in full swing. It's standing room only! "How to mentor women in IR" is the topic of the day.

Wonderful evening at the student social. Good drinks, better company!

The banquet bus info can be found in the program book page 77. Reproduced here for your convenience! P. S. Don't forget your name badge and banquet ticket!

Banquet venue is looking fancy!

To dinner!

The band had us clapping and dancing until they kicked us out! #motown rocks!

The SIGIR business meeting is starting. Come for a sneak peek of the future of our conference!

The second SIGIR workshop in ecommerce workshop will be held in Koessler (3rd floor michigan league) tomorrow. Liangjie Hong(Liangjie Hong), head of data science, Etsy inc. , will keynote at 9 am. - "Search For E-Commerce: (Not) Solved (Yet)" ACM SIGIR 2018 #sigir2018 #sigirecom