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David Kelly of the eLearning Guild has a series of interviews going on about attending conferences. Today’s interview is me, and you’re welcome to have a look at my thoughts on conferences. The point is to help attendees get some good strategies about how to prepare beforehand and take advantage after the fact, as well as what to bring and how to get the most out of it. Feedback welcome! meta-learning social strategy MORE
A couple of weeks ago I attended MIT’s Second Machine Age Conference , an event inspired by the best-selling book of the same title published earlier this year by MIT’s Erik Brynjolffson and Andy McAfee. The conference presented some of the leading-edge research that’s ushering the emerging second machine age , and explored its impact on the economy and society. The conference was truly thought provoking. MORE
The Networked Learning Conference has now posted conference papers from the 2010 conference. I want to draw attention to three papers in particular that were influenced by CCK08/09 that Stephen Downes and I have delivered over the last few years (we’re gearing up for 2010. MORE
I recently participated in MIT’s 2010 Systems Thinking Conference for Contemporary Challenges. This annual conference is sponsored by Systems Design and Management (SDM) - an interdisciplinary program between MIT’s School of Engineering and Sloan School of Management. Earlier this year I heard Professor Sterman give a similar talk at a conference on Smarter Health through Modeling and Simulation held at IBM’s Almaden Research Lab. MORE
Clayton R Wright has produced the latest version of his well-known and well-regarded conference list. “This 26 th version of the conference list covers selected events from four continents. ConferencesThe list focuses primarily on the use of technology in educational settings and on teaching, learning, and educational administration. MORE
The conference business is booming yet every participant has some major gripe about the way conferences are run. In the beginning of the year, I looked into the future of conferences. I concluded that: Flipping conference presentations can vastly improve learning outcomes. Many Next Practices for conferences (I’ve listed 30) are not difficult to implement. As in the workplace, informal learning at conferences has more impact than formal learning. MORE
Conferences are the lifeblood of knowledge exchange in academic disciplines, business, and government. While I generally have more conference options than I can attend (and certainly more than I can afford to attend), my colleagues informed me that in a continent such as Africa, academics look with envy at the rich conference options available in other regions (notably Europe and US). I’ve been reflecting on my experience with conferences in Canada. MORE
So, at the recent AECT 2017 conference, I participated in three ways that are worth noting. Unfortunately, the audience was small ( 27 parallel sessions and at the end of the conference) so there wasn’t a lot of feedback. The post #AECT17 Conference Contributions appeared first on Learnlets. I had the honor of participating in two sessions based upon writings I’d contributed, and one based upon my own cogitations. I thought I’d share the thinking. MORE
Conference blogs NewsI started yesterday with a keynote address to the BCS Agile group. I'd accepted the booking some time ago on condition that I was on first so that I could get to Cardiff in time for certain important events but it made for a packed morning. I only got back from Amsterdam late on Friday night and had to start a two week trip to Hong Kong and Singapore on Sunday so time was packed. MORE
Wright has done his 28th version of his amazing list of conferences again this year. Past years eLearning Conferences 2012 , eLearning Conferences 2011 , eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. As always, please note that events, dates, titles, and locations may change; thus, CHECK the specific conference website. link] December 3-5, 2012 Australasian Conference on Information Systems , Geelong, Australia. Clayton R. MORE
I spoke at a Development Day for senior leaders in the NHS today. As promised slides, podcast and other material are all referenced below. To all other readers - normal blogging will resume shortly, but you may find all the links here useful anyway. Those interested in taking up the methods and tools should consider the two day training (or three days if you add in the SenseMaker® day) coming up in London 2-3 November. More details here. MORE
Not long ago I mentioned over here in this blog how one of the many reasons why I went through that extended blogging hiatus towards the end of 2012 was due to a rather intense business travelling schedule that took me on a tour of several different European countries to participate, as a speaker, on various conference events, customer meetings, enablement workshops and so forth. Something other conference events should mimic and learn from a great deal! MORE
Few people like visiting a booth at a conference. Our talented designer Trina Hancock envisioned it as a serene oasis in an otherwise chaotic space, bringing our love of experience design to the conference room floor. So it was super important to everyone involved to figure out what our version of a conference booth should feel like. Our redesign of the conference booth was just another way of showing how experience design can create delightful results. MORE
I recently had the opportunity to attend and speak at SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, California along with roughly 8,000 other attendees. This was the first SharePoint conference since the Fall of 2009. It was also the first conference since the launch of SharePoint 2010 – the latest public version available to customers. I found the term ‘collaboration’ being used throughout the conference as well. Overall, it was a good conference. MORE
I am, surprisingly, at the first PAIR (People + AI Research) conference at Google, in Cambridge. ” I’ve already had three eye-opening conversations and the conference hasn’t even begun yet. The conference seems admirably gender-balanced in audience and speakers.). The post [liveblog] Google AI Conference appeared first on Joho the Blog There are about 100 people here, maybe half from Google. MORE
In one of the most passionate talks of the conference, she told the audience how she got her staff to understand the value of paying attention to the patron experience, from the trash in the parking lot to checking out books to the feeling of the bathroom. For our part, we will continue to bring this new community together — we’re planning the second Service Experience Conference for the fall of 2014. Events Service Design Service Experience Conference Uncategorized MORE
Responding to a frequent question yet again , I decided to post an answer to the “what about books | conferences?” Similarly, I regularly get “what about conferences?” So, for the record, let me say when and why books and lectures make sense. MORE
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As you may have seen from my recent live tweeting from over the last couple of days, I am returning back home from Zurich, Switzerland, one of my favourite European cities, after having presented at, and attended, the excellent Joint Alumni Conference 2012 event on what I think has been one of the most inspiring events that I have attended in a while. Collaboration Communities Conference Events Enterprise2.0 MORE
We may have all been drinking the same cool-aid, but at the IMS Global Learning Consortium Learning Impact Conference in Toronto, there was a meeting of the minds. A major track at the conference was Individualized Learning in K12. However, of the participants actually doing it I spoke with at the IMS conference, many believe the requirements are ahead of the market and they are being forced to make decisions from a limited set of options. Conferences MORE
It’s that time of year again… We’re running our annual end-of-year events sale and now is the time to save big on next year’s conferences and our Copenhagen UX Intensive workshop. Conferences. MX: Managing Experience Conference. Events 2015 Events Adaptive Path Events Conference Managing Experience UX Intensive UX Week Workshop MORE
Wright has done his 26th version of his amazing list of conferences again this year and has asked me to post again. Past years eLearning Conferences 2011 , eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. Please note that events, dates, titles, and locations may change; thus, CHECK the specific conference website. No liability is assumed for any errors that may have been introduced inadvertently during the assembly of this free conference list. MORE
In the course of the past month, I’ve attended (and spoken at) 4 conferences: DevLearn, WCET, VSS, and Online Educa. Each was from a different area: DevLearn is mostly corporate, WCET is largely higher ed, VSS is mostly K12, and Online Educa is more academic (and European). As a consequence, I’ve had a somewhat biased (mostly US) but reasonably broad exposure to the state of the industry. The news is mixed. There are some bright spots of innovation and excitement. MORE
I’m rather excited to announce the EdTech Innovation conference in Calgary, Alberta, May 1-3, 2013. The conference has a Canadian focus, but we welcome international attendees who are interested in EdTech innovation: EdTech Innovation is a national conference, hosted by Athabasca University in Calgary, May 1 -3, 2013, bringing together startups, researchers, and technology purchasers and venture capitalists. MORE
Back-channel: “Follow us before you get to the event at @kmworld and be sure to use #kmworld in your tweets from the conference. I’m attending KM World virtually for the next two days. Presentations are being screened live. I’ll see recordings of part of this: the gun goes off at 5:45 am Pacific and I don’t do that for anybody. The speaker line-up is great. David Weinberger. Dave Snowden. Awesome thinkers and explainers! Here’s the program. MORE
Clayton Wright has done his amazing list of conferences again this year and has asked me to post again. Past years eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. Please note that events, dates, titles, and locations may change; thus, CHECK the specific conference website. No liability is assumed for any errors that may have been introduced inadvertently during the assembly of this conference list. MORE
After watching President Obama at the Republican Caucus, it’s clearer than ever that press conferences need to go the way of press releases. So, what do we replace press conferences with? But, in the Age of the Web it seems clear to me that we need to supplement press conferences with forums that replace objectivity with transparency, timidity with passion, and professionals with all of us MORE
I just want to take a few moments to consider Bryan Alexander's comments about flying to conferences. As most readers know, I have flown to hundreds of academic conferences over the years. Flying to conferences is just one of the things I've done over the years. MORE
I’m investigating the future of f2f conferences. Will conferences be disrupted à la newspaper business? What’s the future for L&D conferences, say five years out? How can we make conferences more effective? First of all, Why do people attend conferences? Participants attend conferences to network and to learn. Why do you attend conferences? Related: my Scoop on the future of conferences. MORE
Just read a great post by Clive Shepherd - Cutting the Pie - where he discusses what the appropriate balance is at conferences. As you know creating Better Conferences is something that very much interests me. Check out that post, the poll results and the discussion for lots of ideas on how to make conferences better. He'd like to see a balance: This is interesting timing for me having just returned from the ASTD Conference. MORE
I will be speaking tomorrow at the AITD national conference in Sydney, NSW. Can you give us an overview of what we can expect from your From Training to Performance to Social pre-conference workshop? Sydney Harbour. Here is the interview I had with the staff prior to leaving Canada. AITD: Without giving too much away can you tell us about your Work is learning and learning is the work keynote address? MORE
It is time to start planning your 2019 learning conferences to attend, we are! Here is a list of some of our favorite conference to go to, but we would love your input also! Email Us the details of any conferences we have missed or that aren’t on our radar yet. ATD TechKnowledge Conference. ATD TechKnowledge is the premier conference and exposition at the intersection of technology and learning. Learning Solutions 2019 Conference & Expo. MORE
I have been working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the past year on organizing a grant, whitepaper, and conference on MOOCs. The Conference. As part of this work, we are organizing a conference at University of Texas Arlington December 5-6, 2013: MOOCs and Emerging Educational Models: Policy, Practice, and Learning. Basically, this conference will be an outstanding opportunity to get a pulse of MOOC trends and trajectories. MORE
As part of the Digital Learning Research Network, we held our first conference at Stanford last year. The conference focused on making sense of higher education. This year, we are hosting the 2nd dLRN conference in downtown Fort Worth, October 21-22 The conference call for papers is now open. The discussions and prsentations addressed many of the critical challenges faced by learners, educators, administrators, and others. The schedule and archive are available here. MORE
At this year’s Service Experience Conference , it was clear: playtime is over. The third-annual conference took place November 16-17 in San Francisco, bringing together various industries and organizations to address how we design and deliver great service experiences that create value for both people and organizations. The theme of this year’s conference seemed to hang on that question. Service design has matured. We must get out of the sandbox. MORE
To kick things off, this blog entry will focus though on my overall impressions of the event itself and what I thought about the whole atmosphere altogether, and if I were to summarise it in a single sentence I would probably say that the #sbf11 event has just redefined, for me, the way conference events should be like. How come very very few other conferences do that for guest speakers? but also for the overall conference. MORE
34 world-class speakers have waived their fees to deliver a series of free … Continue reading "Speak Aid 2020 (a free virtual leadership conference) Is Now Open For Public Registration". Speak Aid 2020 speaking conference leadership speakaid2020 MORE
Over the past six months, we’ve been working on pulling together a conference to evaluate, highlight, explore, and engage with prominent trends in wearable technologies in the educational process. The aWEAR conference will be held Nov 14-15 at Stanford. If you have questions or are interested in sponsoring or supporting the conference, please send me an email. The 2016 aWEAR conference is the first international wearables in learning and education conference. MORE
On the dates of 25 January through 26 January, 2012, I had the opportunity to participate for the first time in the Learning Without Frontiers “ Future of Learning Conference and Festival ” held at Olympia in London, England. As the title of this post suggests, I believe it truly is the TED of all Learning Conferences. And since 1990, I’ve attended roughly 100 different conferences of all shapes, forms and sizes so my sample size is relatively good. MORE
And, what’s nice, is that they’re experimenting with conference design, not just moving straight online. To be fair, the Learning Guild has had a continual practice of trying different things at their conferences, and it’s been good. MORE
Our edtech innovation conference, held in Calgary May 1-3, is now more or less planned: [link]. I don’t think I’m overstating things when I say that there won’t be an edtech innovation conference in Canada this year that will have as stellar a line up of keynote speakers and panels: [link]. MORE
The Core77 Conference speaker line up includes, among others, a UX lead at Google X, a wearable technology designer and a guy brazen enough to suggest that putting a floating swimming pool in the East River would be a great way to clean it up. At first glance, this event may not look like a typical conference for an interaction designer, but at the core of each presentation, you’ll find a reverence for the human experience and the way we interact with the world around us. MORE
I’ve been working with several colleagues on arranging the upcoming Digital Learning Research Network (dLRN) conference at Stanford, October 16-17, 2015. The conference will include social scientists, activists, philosophers, researchers, and rabble rousers. For a more thoughtful analysis of the conference and our call for submissions, see Bonnie Stewart , Kate Bowles , and Kristen Eshleman. MORE
Conference Related Topics Clark Quinn
MAY 18, 2021
Responding to a frequent question yet again , I decided to post an answer to the “what about books | conferences?” Similarly, I regularly get “what about conferences?” So, for the record, let me say when and why books and lectures make sense.
Clark Quinn
MAY 13, 2020
And, what’s nice, is that they’re experimenting with conference design, not just moving straight online. To be fair, the Learning Guild has had a continual practice of trying different things at their conferences, and it’s been good.
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Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
I just want to take a few moments to consider Bryan Alexander's comments about flying to conferences. As most readers know, I have flown to hundreds of academic conferences over the years. Flying to conferences is just one of the things I've done over the years.
Dan Pontefract
APRIL 12, 2020
34 world-class speakers have waived their fees to deliver a series of free … Continue reading "Speak Aid 2020 (a free virtual leadership conference) Is Now Open For Public Registration". Speak Aid 2020 speaking conference leadership speakaid2020
Dave Snowden
MARCH 17, 2013
Conference blogs NewsI started yesterday with a keynote address to the BCS Agile group. I'd accepted the booking some time ago on condition that I was on first so that I could get to Cardiff in time for certain important events but it made for a packed morning. I only got back from Amsterdam late on Friday night and had to start a two week trip to Hong Kong and Singapore on Sunday so time was packed.
Clark Quinn
MARCH 3, 2014
David Kelly of the eLearning Guild has a series of interviews going on about attending conferences. Today’s interview is me, and you’re welcome to have a look at my thoughts on conferences. The point is to help attendees get some good strategies about how to prepare beforehand and take advantage after the fact, as well as what to bring and how to get the most out of it. Feedback welcome! meta-learning social strategy
Clark Quinn
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
So, at the recent AECT 2017 conference, I participated in three ways that are worth noting. Unfortunately, the audience was small ( 27 parallel sessions and at the end of the conference) so there wasn’t a lot of feedback. The post #AECT17 Conference Contributions appeared first on Learnlets. I had the honor of participating in two sessions based upon writings I’d contributed, and one based upon my own cogitations. I thought I’d share the thinking.
David Weinberger
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
I am, surprisingly, at the first PAIR (People + AI Research) conference at Google, in Cambridge. ” I’ve already had three eye-opening conversations and the conference hasn’t even begun yet. The conference seems admirably gender-balanced in audience and speakers.). The post [liveblog] Google AI Conference appeared first on Joho the Blog There are about 100 people here, maybe half from Google.
George Siemens
MAY 21, 2015
I’ve been working with several colleagues on arranging the upcoming Digital Learning Research Network (dLRN) conference at Stanford, October 16-17, 2015. The conference will include social scientists, activists, philosophers, researchers, and rabble rousers. For a more thoughtful analysis of the conference and our call for submissions, see Bonnie Stewart , Kate Bowles , and Kristen Eshleman.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
Wright has done his 28th version of his amazing list of conferences again this year. Past years eLearning Conferences 2012 , eLearning Conferences 2011 , eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. As always, please note that events, dates, titles, and locations may change; thus, CHECK the specific conference website. link] December 3-5, 2012 Australasian Conference on Information Systems , Geelong, Australia. Clayton R.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
Wright has done his 26th version of his amazing list of conferences again this year and has asked me to post again. Past years eLearning Conferences 2011 , eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. Please note that events, dates, titles, and locations may change; thus, CHECK the specific conference website. No liability is assumed for any errors that may have been introduced inadvertently during the assembly of this free conference list.
Dan Pontefract
OCTOBER 10, 2011
I recently had the opportunity to attend and speak at SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, California along with roughly 8,000 other attendees. This was the first SharePoint conference since the Fall of 2009. It was also the first conference since the launch of SharePoint 2010 – the latest public version available to customers. I found the term ‘collaboration’ being used throughout the conference as well. Overall, it was a good conference.
Dan Pontefract
JANUARY 29, 2012
On the dates of 25 January through 26 January, 2012, I had the opportunity to participate for the first time in the Learning Without Frontiers “ Future of Learning Conference and Festival ” held at Olympia in London, England. As the title of this post suggests, I believe it truly is the TED of all Learning Conferences. And since 1990, I’ve attended roughly 100 different conferences of all shapes, forms and sizes so my sample size is relatively good.
Adaptive Path
DECEMBER 1, 2014
It’s that time of year again… We’re running our annual end-of-year events sale and now is the time to save big on next year’s conferences and our Copenhagen UX Intensive workshop. Conferences. MX: Managing Experience Conference. Events 2015 Events Adaptive Path Events Conference Managing Experience UX Intensive UX Week Workshop
Harold Jarche
MAY 13, 2014
I will be speaking tomorrow at the AITD national conference in Sydney, NSW. Can you give us an overview of what we can expect from your From Training to Performance to Social pre-conference workshop? Sydney Harbour. Here is the interview I had with the staff prior to leaving Canada. AITD: Without giving too much away can you tell us about your Work is learning and learning is the work keynote address?
Xyleme
MAY 30, 2012
We may have all been drinking the same cool-aid, but at the IMS Global Learning Consortium Learning Impact Conference in Toronto, there was a meeting of the minds. A major track at the conference was Individualized Learning in K12. However, of the participants actually doing it I spoke with at the IMS conference, many believe the requirements are ahead of the market and they are being forced to make decisions from a limited set of options. Conferences
Adaptive Path
DECEMBER 3, 2015
At this year’s Service Experience Conference , it was clear: playtime is over. The third-annual conference took place November 16-17 in San Francisco, bringing together various industries and organizations to address how we design and deliver great service experiences that create value for both people and organizations. The theme of this year’s conference seemed to hang on that question. Service design has matured. We must get out of the sandbox.
George Siemens
MAY 18, 2010
The Networked Learning Conference has now posted conference papers from the 2010 conference. I want to draw attention to three papers in particular that were influenced by CCK08/09 that Stephen Downes and I have delivered over the last few years (we’re gearing up for 2010.
Dave Snowden
OCTOBER 12, 2010
I spoke at a Development Day for senior leaders in the NHS today. As promised slides, podcast and other material are all referenced below. To all other readers - normal blogging will resume shortly, but you may find all the links here useful anyway. Those interested in taking up the methods and tools should consider the two day training (or three days if you add in the SenseMaker® day) coming up in London 2-3 November. More details here.
Jay Cross
JANUARY 6, 2015
I’m investigating the future of f2f conferences. Will conferences be disrupted à la newspaper business? What’s the future for L&D conferences, say five years out? How can we make conferences more effective? First of all, Why do people attend conferences? Participants attend conferences to network and to learn. Why do you attend conferences? Related: my Scoop on the future of conferences.
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 28, 2015
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George Siemens
MAY 28, 2016
Over the past six months, we’ve been working on pulling together a conference to evaluate, highlight, explore, and engage with prominent trends in wearable technologies in the educational process. The aWEAR conference will be held Nov 14-15 at Stanford. If you have questions or are interested in sponsoring or supporting the conference, please send me an email. The 2016 aWEAR conference is the first international wearables in learning and education conference.
Jane Hart
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
Clayton R Wright has produced the latest version of his well-known and well-regarded conference list. “This 26 th version of the conference list covers selected events from four continents. ConferencesThe list focuses primarily on the use of technology in educational settings and on teaching, learning, and educational administration.
Adaptive Path
NOVEMBER 11, 2013
In one of the most passionate talks of the conference, she told the audience how she got her staff to understand the value of paying attention to the patron experience, from the trash in the parking lot to checking out books to the feeling of the bathroom. For our part, we will continue to bring this new community together — we’re planning the second Service Experience Conference for the fall of 2014. Events Service Design Service Experience Conference Uncategorized
Luis Suarez
JANUARY 16, 2013
Not long ago I mentioned over here in this blog how one of the many reasons why I went through that extended blogging hiatus towards the end of 2012 was due to a rather intense business travelling schedule that took me on a tour of several different European countries to participate, as a speaker, on various conference events, customer meetings, enablement workshops and so forth. Something other conference events should mimic and learn from a great deal!
Adaptive Path
JUNE 2, 2014
The Core77 Conference speaker line up includes, among others, a UX lead at Google X, a wearable technology designer and a guy brazen enough to suggest that putting a floating swimming pool in the East River would be a great way to clean it up. At first glance, this event may not look like a typical conference for an interaction designer, but at the core of each presentation, you’ll find a reverence for the human experience and the way we interact with the world around us.
Xyleme
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
It is time to start planning your 2019 learning conferences to attend, we are! Here is a list of some of our favorite conference to go to, but we would love your input also! Email Us the details of any conferences we have missed or that aren’t on our radar yet. ATD TechKnowledge Conference. ATD TechKnowledge is the premier conference and exposition at the intersection of technology and learning. Learning Solutions 2019 Conference & Expo.
George Siemens
OCTOBER 2, 2013
I have been working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the past year on organizing a grant, whitepaper, and conference on MOOCs. The Conference. As part of this work, we are organizing a conference at University of Texas Arlington December 5-6, 2013: MOOCs and Emerging Educational Models: Policy, Practice, and Learning. Basically, this conference will be an outstanding opportunity to get a pulse of MOOC trends and trajectories.
George Siemens
NOVEMBER 5, 2012
I’m rather excited to announce the EdTech Innovation conference in Calgary, Alberta, May 1-3, 2013. The conference has a Canadian focus, but we welcome international attendees who are interested in EdTech innovation: EdTech Innovation is a national conference, hosted by Athabasca University in Calgary, May 1 -3, 2013, bringing together startups, researchers, and technology purchasers and venture capitalists.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 11, 2010
Clayton Wright has done his amazing list of conferences again this year and has asked me to post again. Past years eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. Please note that events, dates, titles, and locations may change; thus, CHECK the specific conference website. No liability is assumed for any errors that may have been introduced inadvertently during the assembly of this conference list.
George Siemens
JUNE 21, 2016
As part of the Digital Learning Research Network, we held our first conference at Stanford last year. The conference focused on making sense of higher education. This year, we are hosting the 2nd dLRN conference in downtown Fort Worth, October 21-22 The conference call for papers is now open. The discussions and prsentations addressed many of the critical challenges faced by learners, educators, administrators, and others. The schedule and archive are available here.
Jay Cross
OCTOBER 16, 2012
Back-channel: “Follow us before you get to the event at @kmworld and be sure to use #kmworld in your tweets from the conference. I’m attending KM World virtually for the next two days. Presentations are being screened live. I’ll see recordings of part of this: the gun goes off at 5:45 am Pacific and I don’t do that for anybody. The speaker line-up is great. David Weinberger. Dave Snowden. Awesome thinkers and explainers! Here’s the program.
Jay Cross
JULY 29, 2015
The conference business is booming yet every participant has some major gripe about the way conferences are run. In the beginning of the year, I looked into the future of conferences. I concluded that: Flipping conference presentations can vastly improve learning outcomes. Many Next Practices for conferences (I’ve listed 30) are not difficult to implement. As in the workplace, informal learning at conferences has more impact than formal learning.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
SEPTEMBER 24, 2014
A couple of weeks ago I attended MIT’s Second Machine Age Conference , an event inspired by the best-selling book of the same title published earlier this year by MIT’s Erik Brynjolffson and Andy McAfee. The conference presented some of the leading-edge research that’s ushering the emerging second machine age , and explored its impact on the economy and society. The conference was truly thought provoking.
David Weinberger
FEBRUARY 6, 2010
After watching President Obama at the Republican Caucus, it’s clearer than ever that press conferences need to go the way of press releases. So, what do we replace press conferences with? But, in the Age of the Web it seems clear to me that we need to supplement press conferences with forums that replace objectivity with transparency, timidity with passion, and professionals with all of us
Adaptive Path
JUNE 30, 2010
Few people like visiting a booth at a conference. Our talented designer Trina Hancock envisioned it as a serene oasis in an otherwise chaotic space, bringing our love of experience design to the conference room floor. So it was super important to everyone involved to figure out what our version of a conference booth should feel like. Our redesign of the conference booth was just another way of showing how experience design can create delightful results.
Clark Quinn
DECEMBER 10, 2010
In the course of the past month, I’ve attended (and spoken at) 4 conferences: DevLearn, WCET, VSS, and Online Educa. Each was from a different area: DevLearn is mostly corporate, WCET is largely higher ed, VSS is mostly K12, and Online Educa is more academic (and European). As a consequence, I’ve had a somewhat biased (mostly US) but reasonably broad exposure to the state of the industry. The news is mixed. There are some bright spots of innovation and excitement.
Luis Suarez
JUNE 14, 2011
To kick things off, this blog entry will focus though on my overall impressions of the event itself and what I thought about the whole atmosphere altogether, and if I were to summarise it in a single sentence I would probably say that the #sbf11 event has just redefined, for me, the way conference events should be like. How come very very few other conferences do that for guest speakers? but also for the overall conference.
George Siemens
SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
Conferences are the lifeblood of knowledge exchange in academic disciplines, business, and government. While I generally have more conference options than I can attend (and certainly more than I can afford to attend), my colleagues informed me that in a continent such as Africa, academics look with envy at the rich conference options available in other regions (notably Europe and US). I’ve been reflecting on my experience with conferences in Canada.
Luis Suarez
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
As you may have seen from my recent live tweeting from over the last couple of days, I am returning back home from Zurich, Switzerland, one of my favourite European cities, after having presented at, and attended, the excellent Joint Alumni Conference 2012 event on what I think has been one of the most inspiring events that I have attended in a while. Collaboration Communities Conference Events Enterprise2.0
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
OCTOBER 29, 2010
I recently participated in MIT’s 2010 Systems Thinking Conference for Contemporary Challenges. This annual conference is sponsored by Systems Design and Management (SDM) - an interdisciplinary program between MIT’s School of Engineering and Sloan School of Management. Earlier this year I heard Professor Sterman give a similar talk at a conference on Smarter Health through Modeling and Simulation held at IBM’s Almaden Research Lab.
Clark Quinn
JUNE 6, 2008
Just read a great post by Clive Shepherd - Cutting the Pie - where he discusses what the appropriate balance is at conferences. As you know creating Better Conferences is something that very much interests me. Check out that post, the poll results and the discussion for lots of ideas on how to make conferences better. He'd like to see a balance: This is interesting timing for me having just returned from the ASTD Conference.
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