I am sorry to report that the decision has been made to cancel CSICon again this year. Although recently the news has become somewhat encouraging regarding the pandemic—vaccinations are up, and infections seems to be trending lower—it is just too uncertain as to when things will be safe again for people to travel and gather in large convention rooms and meeting areas. There are too many questions that have no answers yet for us to continue to move forward with the large amount of background work that would need to be done before October rolls around.

Plans are now underway to make CSICon 2022 the best CSICon conference ever! We have invited all our projected 2021 speakers to come in 2022, including Neil deGrasse Tyson, Penn & Teller, Richard Dawkins, Piff the Magic Dragon, and a host of others. We will work hard to try and bring them all in 2022. We also have reason to think we will have a few extra surprises as well. We will be updating information regarding scheduling and registrations on a regular basis.

The conference will be held at the Flamingo Hotel and Resort, October 20–23, 2022, which gives us a wonderful opportunity to bring back our Flamingo mascots (who were not happy having been put to work guarding our Coronavirus sanitizer stash).

Please stay safe and be well. We look forward to seeing you soon at CSICon 2022!