I agree, I was speaking to @Jordan Pieters 🔸 about this and I think it’s often unclear whether an EAG or an EAGx is valuable for animal advocates as you can’t see the talks or attendees (I appreciate attendees provide most value at such networking events and it’s hard to see who is going before people have committed to going). Since there are now many more animal welfare-only conferences, I think it’s easier for people to just go to those rather than attend EAGs if they are not sure that it will be relevant for them. To be clear, I think most EAGs will have enough animal welfare attendees for you to meet, but it’s not immediately clear when the conferences are advertised, and it’s also harder to calculate the value of the attending the conference without this knowledge.
I agree, I was speaking to @Jordan Pieters 🔸 about this and I think it’s often unclear whether an EAG or an EAGx is valuable for animal advocates as you can’t see the talks or attendees (I appreciate attendees provide most value at such networking events and it’s hard to see who is going before people have committed to going). Since there are now many more animal welfare-only conferences, I think it’s easier for people to just go to those rather than attend EAGs if they are not sure that it will be relevant for them. To be clear, I think most EAGs will have enough animal welfare attendees for you to meet, but it’s not immediately clear when the conferences are advertised, and it’s also harder to calculate the value of the attending the conference without this knowledge.