Sure! A quick caveat: I don’t want people to anchor too much on my examples. Please stay imaginative. We’d really like to end up supporting an event type we didn’t even think of at first.
Some more examples:
The first global conference for a new EA-aligned field (e.g. global priorities research, wild animal welfare research)
Events to connect people working in an EA-aligned field (e.g. a conference for biosecurity policy experts in Europe)
Retreats for people to launch new projects in a certain space (e.g. a retreat for people working on a specific approach to AI safety)
Retreats to identify people early in a certain career path and connect them with opportunities (e.g. the operations forum, our events retreat)
A really cool thing I’d like to see happen is:
A subject matter expert proposes an event they’d like to see happen in their field but can’t run themselves (via the form)
Someone interested in event organising is from the same place and offers to make that event happen with our support (also via the form).
Specifically I’d be curious whether this is only for conference-style events or also smaller and more targeted things like running multi day retreats or workshops.
I think CEA’s support group funding for group retreats, just so your group’s support is all with the groups team and not spread across CEA. If you’re a city / national group supported by CEA, you should contact my colleague Rob Gledhill directly instead :)
Hey Ollie, I think it’d be valuable if you added a few more examples of the kinds of events that you’d be interested in supporting.
Sure! A quick caveat: I don’t want people to anchor too much on my examples. Please stay imaginative. We’d really like to end up supporting an event type we didn’t even think of at first.
Some more examples:
The first global conference for a new EA-aligned field (e.g. global priorities research, wild animal welfare research)
Events to connect people working in an EA-aligned field (e.g. a conference for biosecurity policy experts in Europe)
Retreats for people to launch new projects in a certain space (e.g. a retreat for people working on a specific approach to AI safety)
Retreats to identify people early in a certain career path and connect them with opportunities (e.g. the operations forum, our events retreat)
A really cool thing I’d like to see happen is:
A subject matter expert proposes an event they’d like to see happen in their field but can’t run themselves (via the form)
Someone interested in event organising is from the same place and offers to make that event happen with our support (also via the form).
I hope this helps!
Specifically I’d be curious whether this is only for conference-style events or also smaller and more targeted things like running multi day retreats or workshops.
We’re also interested in supporting smaller and more targeted things :)
For EA group retreats, is it better to apply for the CEA event support you introduced, or for CEA’s support group funding?
I think CEA’s support group funding for group retreats, just so your group’s support is all with the groups team and not spread across CEA. If you’re a city / national group supported by CEA, you should contact my colleague Rob Gledhill directly instead :)
Thanks :)
I don’t know what format the Operations Forum had, but I suspect that it was an example of a smaller multi-day retreat.