Following his series of videos started here, Robin Good further explores what in his opinion is going to be the future of conferences: engaged audiences and extended events.
Robin pitches two ideas for events to move from the classic (and rather obsolete) top-town broadcasting model, where the attendees are just a passive observer, to a participative model, where the audience is engaged and co-creates the conference (eg. by deciding which topics or speakers are more relevant). He calls these events “extended”, and the physical meeting is just a climax point someway in the center of the event’s time-line.
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