The NDB festival runs November 20 across all time zones, with 90-minute sessions starting at midnight UTC. Backstage-pass holders get a half-hour debrief after each session, while press-pass holders join large-group experiences with facilitators like Markus Groh and Michelle. Open rooms and a staffed lobby run 24 hours for help and re-entry.
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Do you wonder what kind of workshop or experience you can join at Never Done Before on November 20th, depending on your time zone? I got the feedback that this mural map of our agenda is not so intuitive, so let me walk you through it. So over here you have the overview of What time it is when we kick off? So we start at midnight Universal Time, which will be on November 20th midnight in London. At this time, it's 1 a.m. in Amsterdam. So when I join the festival, it's 1 a.m. at my place. It's 2 a.m. in Cairo. It's 6 a.m. in Dakar. The time we start, it will be one. PM in Tonga, it will be 3 PM in Alaska, it will be 6 PM in Chicago. And this is basically what you see here. We start at midnight UTC, it's going to be 1 AM in Central Europe, it will be 11 AM in Melbourne, 4 PM in San Francisco, 7 PM in New York City. So Here in the upper part, you can see when in the different time zones most people are probably sleeping. So when you are joining from San Francisco, for instance, then you can see that at 4 PM we have the opening, and then the first session with Tennyson and Juanita will start at 5 PM in San Francisco and at 8 PM in New York City. At the same time, we have a parallel session with Howard Gray on making a movie, and all the sessions will take 1.5 hours, 90 minutes. Then we have a pause where our backstage pass users can stay in the room for debriefing with our facilitators. Then after half an hour, You will have Jacinta who will start at 3 AM in London, 4 AM in Amsterdam, 2 PM in Melbourne, 7 PM in San Francisco, and then in New York City at 10 PM, maybe some people are already going to sleep. And this is how you can move through this agenda. You can see that we are still waiting for some sessions to be joined. You'll see here in these sections most of the world might still be awake. Then we have the large group experiences that our press pass holders can join, where it follows the same flow. It's going to be Markus Groh to kick it off and then someone will join— surprise, surprise— and then we have Michelle, Joop, Matthew, Laure, Daniel, Mary Alice, and then Diana and Candace. In addition to that, we also have open rooms. These are 24-hour open sessions that you can hop in, explore, meet fellow festival guests, and there will be a lobby that is 24 hours open. So If you join the festival, you can be sure that there's a smiling face waiting for you, explaining what to do, where to find what, and what to do next. And if you have lost the link or your buddy or orientation, you can at any time drop into the Never Done Before lobby. So that's it from my side. I hope this helps a little bit. If you have questions, then Just reach out to me. You know how to find me. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
