3 ms·
Change the physical conference into a virtual one, this way it respects the speakers, allow people to mingle and ideas to flourish. It's no replacement for an
by PradeetPatel 5mo ago
Change the physical conference into a virtual one, this way it respects the speakers, allow people to mingle and ideas to flourish.
It's no replacement for an in-person conference, but this approach is better than straight up cancelling everything.
- cubefox 5mo agoIt was actually less than eight days out before they knew they were cancelled. It's hard to do something in so little time.
- eduction 5mo agoIt's Friday and the conference is Tuesday. Half their people, it sounds like, at least, are on the ground in Zambia already. You'd take a conference a year in the making and shift it online over a weekend from your hotel room in a developing country? No you would not. I don't blame them for not doing that.