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</style></head><body><div>Hi John,</div><div>We have reviewed and approve of the contract. </div><div><br></div><div>I think we may need some additional details about who to contact outside the 1 hour of AV tech support in case anything unusual occurs, but that doesn’t need to be addressed in contact itself. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your assistance with this!</div><div>-Travis Janssen and Mai Zheng</div><div> HotStorage’26 General Chairs</div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, May 27, 2026, at 6:00 AM, John Otero via Hotstorage-generalchairs wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><div class="qt-WordSection1"><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">Hi Jalil, and General Chairs –</span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">I hope this finds you well. I have reviewed the attached contract from the Clarion Congress Hotel. In addition, I have provided a contract overview sheet. ACM finds this contract acceptable.
I would need approval from the general chairs to have the contract signed.</span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">All the best,</span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">John</span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">John Otero, Program Coordinator, Site Selection</span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">Email: <a href="mailto:otero@hq.acm.org"> <span style="color:rgb(70, 120, 134);">otero@hq.acm.org</span></a></span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">Phone: 212.626.0612</span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">Association for Computing Machinery</span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">1601 Broadway, 10<sup>th</sup> Floor</span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">New York, NY 10019</span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/volunteer-resources/conference-planning/table-of-contents"><span style="color:rgb(70, 120, 134);">Conference Planning Guide</span></a></span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><a href="https://cms.acm.org/cms_conference_RFP_status.cfm"><span style="color:rgb(70, 120, 134);">Request for Proposal and Contract updates</span></a></span></p></div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p><div><div style="border-right-width:medium;border-bottom-width:medium;border-left-width:medium;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-right-color:currentcolor;border-bottom-color:currentcolor;border-left-color:currentcolor;border-image-source:none;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-width:1;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-top-width:1pt;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(225, 225, 225);padding-top:3pt;padding-right:0in;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:0in;"><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><b><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> Jalil BOUKHOBZA <jalil.boukhobza@ensta.fr> <br> <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 21, 2026 4:02 AM<br> <b>To:</b> Kotašková Pavla (CZ) <p.kotaskova@clarion-hotels.cz><br> <b>Cc:</b> John Otero <otero@hq.acm.org>; generalchairs26@hotstorage.org<br> <b>Subject:</b> contract review ACM / Clarion hotel</span></p></div></div><p class="qt-MsoNormal"> </p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">Dear Pavla,</span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I hope you are doing great.</span><span lang="FR"></span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Please, let me introduce John Otero, who is in charge, at the ACM, of the HotStorage wokshop sponsor. He will be the main contact for the offer and quotations.</span><span lang="FR"></span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="FR"></span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear John,</span><span lang="FR"></span></p><p class="qt-MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Pavla is our main contact at the Clarion Hotel, the main workshop an conference venue. 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