It seems timely, as we take some time off to enjoy the holiday season with family and friends, to reflect on how thankful we are at ISIS for all of our friends and collaborators who give us the opportunity to do deep and meaningful work together. We're very grateful that we are able to partner with such like-minded innovators.

From all of us here at ISIS, we wish you a warm and wonderful holiday season and a new year full of peace and happiness. We'll be back next week and looking forward to an exciting 2012 and the best Sex::Tech conference yet!

Best,
ISIS Team

There’s now a LinkedIn group for ISIS’ annual SexTech conference – you can join it by clicking here. Read more »

Just a brief reminder to all of our colleagues that the early bird registration deadline for Sex::Tech 2012 is coming up on December 31st . Sex::Tech is being held at the Stanford Court Renaissance San Francisco, April 1st-3rd, 2012.

Attendees can book the room rate of $159/night by calling the hotel directly at 1.800.468.3571 or 415.989.3500. Read more »

Thank you to everyone who submitted an abstract for Sex::Tech 2012. We were extremely impressed by the quality and quantity (more than 100–double last year’s number) of submissions this year. The call for abstracts is now closed. The review process will be conducted over the coming weeks and authors will be notified of the status of their submission via email in late December/early January.

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Are you utilizing new media and/or technology-based strategies to increase knowledge, awareness and enhance young people's reproductive health? Submit your abstract to ISIS for Sex::Tech 2012 and share your work with fellow health professionals, technology experts, researchers, funders, youth and community leaders.

ISIS is currently accepting abstracts of 250 words or less for Sex::Tech 2012. There are four tracks for program submission: Read more »

Hello and welcome to Sex::Tech 2012!

It's hard to believe that it's been over six months since our 2011 conference in San Francisco. After a busy summer of working on some very exciting projects, the ISIS team is now hard at work preparing for Sex::Tech 2012 and what we're sure will be our best conference to date.

We'll be bringing you weekly updates here on this blog as the conference program and schedule takes shape, so stay tuned.

For now, here's some basic information and dates that you need to know:
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