It’s conference season, and that means we will soon be suffering together in some drab meeting room. The minutes will tick by as an earnest scholar reads — word for excruciating word — a jargon-filled ...

Should we kill the conference panel? Panel sessions seem to be increasingly popular at the edtech events that I attend. Is the same true at your conferences? An edtech panel usually consists of a ...

Why get a projection screens for conference rooms when flat panels are getting so much bigger and cheaper? It’s a fair question. Flat panels have drastically improved. But for rooms larger than 15 ...

Panels are ubiquitous at conferences. There’s a practical reason for this–panels allow the organizers to bring in three times as many speakers as solo speeches would. With enough big names on the ...

Most academic conferences are preceded by some effort to make the sessions different from the usual format, but the usual format overwhelmingly prevails. That is: Each panel discussion runs no longer ...

Dan Laughlin is SVP and GM of HyprMX. Conference panels can be irresistibly attractive on paper: the hot topic, the cadre of industry luminaries, the gregarious moderator! The brochures reads so well, ...

2013-03-16T13:51:43-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/d24/20130316143036001_hd.jpgSusan Combs, Representative Steve Pearce (R-NM), Jeanette Hernandez Prenger, and ...

I started my career as one of a handful of women students in a tech field where few women preceded me. I could tell a lot of stories. Yet the worst of my stories pales in comparison to the abuse that ...

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