Want to get a taste of what I do? Here's a two-minute video of some scenes from a peer conference (with cameo appearances!)
#meetings #EventDesign #Vermont #unconference #eventprofs #assnchat
#unconference — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #unconference, aggregated by home.social.
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The word "unconference" is increasingly used to describe traditional conferences. These aren't the unconferences you're looking for.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2021/10/unconferences
#unconference #popularity #definition #PeerConference #eventprofs #assnchat
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I'm reading, "September Updates: New Venues, New Team, and Tickets Coming Soon!" https://www.ukgovcamp.com/posts/september-updates-new-venues-new-team-and-new-tech/ by Daisy Wu for @ukgovcamp published 6 October 2026. #ukgc27 #unconference #PublicSector
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The words we use for meetings matter. By changing the words, we can change how we think about meetings. Here are three examples.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2022/07/words-we-use-for-meetings
#networking #connection #virtual #online #unconference #eventprofs #assnchat
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I have a funny feeling #Fediforum is going to run long today. The first sessions haven't started yet. #Unconference #fun
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The Polyglot Software Unconference is back! 📅 Saturday October 17, 8am–5pm, 📍 UBC Robson Square.
No scheduled speakers, no slides: everyone pitches topics in the morning, the room votes, and the day fills with ~40 discussion sessions across every language and stack.
This year the Polyglot Unconference team kindly gave PyLadies Vancouver members a $20 discount code. 💛
How to claim it, plus first-timer tips: https://vancouver.pyladies.com/blog/polyglot-unconference-2026/
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Last year I attended the Polyglot Software Unconference in Vancouver for the first time. I wrote notes about the event, but never really published it. 🫣
The event is back on October 17, so I thought it could help provide insight about what an unconference is actually like. So here is a belated blog post about it
https://mariatta.ca/posts/polyglot-unconference-2025-recap/
If you're a member of PyLadies Vancouver community, grab a 20$ discount code!
https://vancouver.pyladies.com/blog/polyglot-unconference-2026/ -
What's the biggest unconference mistake you can make? Probably, adding an unconference track to a conventional conference program!
#meetings #EventDesign #unconference #track #mistake #eventprofs
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Starting chat yesterday with @michogar and @psanxiao at #geocampes26 where we described the day plan. We immediately moved all chairs to a circle for the rest of the day.
Picture by @fpsampayo
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De vijfde Unconference over digitale autonomie zit erop! Over bestuurlijk commitment, de soevereine cloud, ontkoppelen, kennis & kunde en de sociale kant van verandering is volop gesproken. En we vierden dat we met het DACC nu een jaar bezig zijn! We delen snel een uitgebreider verslag.
Volgende editie: 29 januari 2027. Meld je vast aan en deel dit vooral ook met collega's of vakgenoten!
https://digitaleautonomie.pleio.nl/events/view/83a7e91e-d2a0-45f3-b064-894b7397925c/digitale-autonomie-unconference#digitaleautonomie #DACC #unconference #opensource #openbeleid
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Just read this paper by @kuf et.al. - a very good introduction on #unconference vs. classic #conference.
Budd, A., Dinkel, H., Corpas, M., Fuller, J. C., Rubinat, L., Devos, D. P., Khoueiry, P. H., Förstner, K. U., Georgatos, F., Rowland, F., Sharan, M., Binder, J. X., Grace, T., Traphagen, K., Gristwood, A., & Wood, N. T. (2015). Ten Simple Rules for Organizing an Unconference. PLOS Computational Biology, 11(1), e1003905. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003905
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Spent Friday at SoCraTes Day Switzerland in Technopark Zürich. It is an unconference, so the agenda is whatever people stick on the board in the morning.
Almost every note on that board had AI in the title. The first session of the day was "We'll all be stupid. The dark side of AI".
Bottom right, last slot, one note with one word on it. Nostalgia.
So a group of us talked about DC++, ICQ and the old Skype. I told them that building an HTML table by hand used to be an achievement for me.
No idea if that session produced anything, it was the warmest one of the day.Side quest, I wore an easylearn t-shirt and planted a small paper easylearn flag around the building. Somebody asked what easylearn does before I had even introduced myself.
Thanks to Coders Only for organising it.
Write-up with photos
https://www.dol.ch/en/blog/socrates-day-switzerland-2026-en/#SoCraTesDay #SoCraTesCH #Unconference #Zurich #AI #Nostalgia #ICQ #Blog #Thoughts
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Want to discover the experts at your conference? Peer conferences allow participants to discover the experts in the audience.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2013/11/drive-by-experts-at-your-conference
#meetings #EventDesign #experts #PeerConference #unconference #events #eventprofs
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Traditional conferences are dying like music albums did. Peer conferences allow us to create events that truly meet participants' wants and needs.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2015/05/traditional-conferences-dying
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Guten Morgen ☀️
Beachcamp #SPO (#Barcamp / #Unconference) startet um 8:30 Uhr. Es sind glaube noch Plätze frei. https://beachcamp-spo.de Jemand noch spontan dabei? St. Peter Ording. -
Scenes from a peer conference: The Third Annual Vermont Vision For A Multicultural Future peer conference, November 6-7, 2014
#meetings #EventDesign #Vermont #PeerConference #unconference #MulticulturalFuture #eventprofs #assnchat
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Is Conferences That Work the right choice for every meeting? No! Here are five reasons not to use a Conferences That Work meeting design.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2016/09/five-reasons
#meetings #MeetingDesign #ConferencesThatWork #unconference #eventprofs
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How to use sticky notes to crowdsource sessions and level of interest dot voting to choose the sessions your attendees need & want
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2017/09/dot-voting
#meetings #EventDesign #GroupWork #crowdsourcing #SessionSelection #DotVoting #PeerConference #unconference #eventprofs
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Three common mistakes associations make when planning events—and how to fix them to create more engaging, participatory conferences.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/associations-2/2025/05/mistakes-associations-make
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The Conference Arc contains the key components of every successful participation-rich conference: a structured beginning, middle, and end.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2018/02/the-conference-arc
#meetings #MeetingDesign #TheConferenceArc #unconference #eventprofs
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Most meeting planners think that conference session topics must be preplanned. Instead, build a program that reflects actual wants and needs.
#meetings #EventDesign #predetermined #MeetingProgram #unconference #PeerConference #eventprofs #assnchat
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The Association for Software Testing issued a free guide to creating peer conferences. I contributed suggestions and it's well worth a look!
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2020/01/free-peer-conference-guide
#meetings #EventDesign #PeerConference #unconference #free #guide #AssociationForSoftwareTesting #eventprofs
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The Future Of Conferences Is Unconferences. That's the published conclusion of social and computer scholars in a 2023 #ACM paper.
#meetings #EventDesign #unconference #PeerConference #events #eventprofs
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#book: Akribie & Obsession – Ästhetiken und Praktiken der kybernetischen Konjunktur [Meticulousness & Obsession: Aesthetics and Practices of the Cybernetic Conjuncture]; Anneliese Ostertag, Tabea Rossol (Eds.) / Zentrum für Netzkunst; Spector Books, Leipzig, July 2026 [language: German]
https://www.spectorbooks.com/de/buch/akribie-&-obsessionAuthors: Alexander Amberger, Christian Booß, Wolfgang Ernst, Francis Hunger, Maroš Krivý, Katharina Loeber, Birgit Schneider, Oliver Sukrow, Martin Supper, Michaela Wünsch
— part of Calculating Control: (Net)Art and Cybernetics; Haus der Statistik & @pankegallery, Berlin, April – October 2021 · exhibitions, symposium, journal
https://netzkunst.berlin/cc#symposium – video archives:
https://www.youtube.com/@netzkunst.berlin/streams
— with Oliver Sukrow, Katharina Loeber, Francis Hunger @databasecultures, Clemens Apprich, Anna-Verena Nosthoff @ANosthoff, Felix Maschewski, Oleksiy Radynski, Matthew Fuller, Annet Dekker, Marialaura Ghidini, Gaia Tedone#exhibitions – guided tour (live streams, during Covid-19):
https://youtu.be/UVBnkci1EAs
— with Francis Hunger, Roland Kayn, Oleksiy Radynski, Andreas Siekmann, Suzanne Treister, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Lisa Jevbratt, Mongrel, Kybernet, Kerblochkarte, UBERMORGEN, Constant Dullaart (Haus der Statistik and panke.gallery)#unconference: with Jaime Lobato, Anna Zett, Martina Raponi
#journal: with Birgit Schneider, Krivý Maroš, Alexander Amberger, Wolfgang Ernst
Concept and Curation: Tereza Havlíková @tereza_max, Paloma Oliveira, Anneliese Ostertag, Tabea Rossol, @sakrowski (Zentrum für Netzkunst)
Research, Graphic Concept, and Design: Anna-Luise Lorenz
Programming: Jakub Fiala
Symposium Assistance: Noemi Garay
Exhibition Architecture: Omer Polak, Cäcilia Verweyen -
Here is a real-life comparison of pre-conference and at-conference crowdsourcing at a peer conference (aka #unconference)
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RE: https://foojay.social/@cayhorstmann/117105895977486477
"Now with AI, it is easy to start with an instant brownfield."
Very insightful, hand written article about what you can experience on an #unconference . -
Why we should be calling traditional conferences "unconferences", reserving the word "conference" for participant-driven event designs.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/01/why-i-dont-like-unconferences
#meetings #EventDesign #unconference #conference #eventprofs
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📍 Sept 10–13, Seminarzentrum Rückersbach 🎟️ https://pretix.eu/play4agile/p4a26/
Know someone who'd love this kind of event? Boost or tag them.
#p4a26 #FromFrictionToFlow #UnConference #CommunityRulez (5/5)
