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Sooo... turns out I don't have security clearance to present at a conference tomorrow. Plan B?

My funding comes from the government, and while the work I'm doing involves a publically available dataset with publically available methods, I need security clearance to give my talk. This is despite having already attained clearance for our publically available paper that the talk is about.

So, yeah. I'm going to a conference where I probably can't discuss our work. Any ideas? I may cut out all discussion of our paper and instead talk about the papers related to the data set and the method.
gpt
Wow, that sucks! I’m sorry that happened. Had a lab mate have a similar issue with DOE data - approved for the publication but found out days before that somehow the approval doesn’t transfer to talks and he needed an entirely different form... no time to get it of course. what he did was present (he had a talk) the motivation, then future work on an upcoming dataset (so basically the intro and “future directions” of his original talk). It was not ideal but the talk was only 10 min so it was okay. Do you have a talk or poster?