### Please distribute as appropriate Due to growing participation interest we decided to move the venue to a larger space at Estrel Hotel Berlin, to the *"La Terrasse" Atrium* (see photo below). Consequently, and to ensure we order sufficient meals for all attendees, *we urge you to register up-front *by means of online registration available through http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/reception/. If the head count is off significantly on the evening of the event, we otherwise might have to turn away last-minute registration and attendance requests. We appreciate your understanding and support. The IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG) will like in past years host its member-exclusive reception on Monday evening of the IEEE VIS conference week, on *October 22, 2018, starting at 7:00 pm.* To become a member of the VPG, one simply needs to have at least *20 years of contributions to some aspect of visualization and visual analytics*, as e.g. evidenced by their first publication in this space. If that applies to you and you plan to attend this year's VPG reception at VIS, we encourage you to join VPG or renew your membership as soon as possible, so that we can have a more accurate head count for the reception. For more information on how to join VPG and to attend the VPG reception, please see http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/reception/ On behalf of the VPG operating committee, Dr. L. Miguel Encarnação Innovation Management Executive & Consultant Professor of Practice, Tippie College of Business Prof. (Adj.) of Computer Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences The University of Iowa *"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers. (Richard Hamming)"* -- LME@computer.org <lme@computer.org> @mencarna http://www.linkedin.com/in/drmiguel