<p><strong>1.</strong> I will normally attend this conference. <strong>4.</strong> My employer is partly paying for it, fees and travel (August almost amounts to public holidays for me and I will most likely be traveling with my family because Montreal is great :-). <strong>5.</strong> Not sure I will submit any abstract, but I'm open to any suggestion to increase CV visibility; this already has been discussed in the past: <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1309/930">Does CV slow down during big meetings like the JSM in the US?</a>, <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/q/817/930">Possible Conference Speaking Sponsorships — 2011</a>, <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1319/930">Can we recruit more statisticians to participate in CV?</a>. (That's for reference actually because I am sure you already browsed these threads.)</p>
