Upcoming EA conferences in 2024 and 2025

[OllieBase]

We’re very excited to announce our EA conference schedule for the rest of this year and the first half of 2025. EA conferences will be taking place for the first time in Nigeria, Cape Town, Bengaluru, and Toronto, and returning to Berkeley, Sydney, and Singapore.

• EA Global: Boston 2024 applications are open, and close October 20.

• EAGxIndia will be returning this year in a new location: Bengaluru. See their full announcement here.

• EAGxAustralia has rebranded to EAGxAustralasia to represent the fact that many attendees will be from the wider region, especially New Zealand.

• We’re hiring the teams for both EAGxVirtual and EAGxSingapore. You can read more about the roles and how to apply here.

• EA Global will be returning to the same venues in the Bay Area and London in 2025.

Here are the full details:

EA Global

• EA Global: Boston 2024 | November 1–3 | Hynes Convention Center | applications close October 20

• EA Global: Bay Area 2025 | February 21–23 | Oakland Marriott

• EA Global: London 2025 | June 6–8 | Intercontinental London (the O2)

EAGx

• EAGxToronto | August 16–18 | InterContinental Toronto Centre | application deadline just extended, they now close August 12

• EAGxBerkeley | September 7–8 | Lighthaven | applications close August 20

• EA Nigeria Summit | September 6–7 | Chida Event Center, Abuja

• EAGxBerlin | September 13–15 | Urania, Berlin | applications close August 24

• EA South Africa Summit | October 5 | Cape Town

• EAGxIndia | October 19–20 | Conrad Bengaluru | applications close October 5

• EAGxAustralasia | November 22–24 | Aerial UTS, Sydney | applications open

• EAGxVirtual | November 15–17

• EAGxSingapore | December 14–15 | Suntec Singapore

We’re aiming to launch applications for events later this year as soon as possible. Please go to the event page links above to apply. If you’d like to add EAG(x) events directly to your Google Calendar, use this link.

Some notes on these conferences

• EA Global conferences are run in-house by the CEA events team, whereas EAGx conferences (and EA summits) are organised independently by members of the EA community with financial support and mentoring from CEA.

• EAGs have a high bar for admission and are for people who are very familiar with EA and are taking significant actions (e.g. full-time work or study) based on EA ideas.

• Admissions for EAGx conferences and EA Summits are processed independently by the organizers. These events are primarily for those who are newer to EA and interested in getting more involved.

• Please apply to all conferences you wish to attend—we would rather get too many applications for some conferences and recommend that applicants attend a different one than miss out on potential applicants to a conference.

• We offer travel support to help attendees who are approved for an event but who can’t afford to travel. You can apply for travel support as you submit your application. Travel support funds are limited (though will vary by event), and we can only accommodate a small number of requests.

• Find more info on our website.

Feel free to email [e-mail] with any questions, or comment below. You can contact EAGx organisers using the format [location]@eaglobalx.org (e.g. [e-mail] and [e-mail]).

[Peter Wildeford]

I really appreciate these dates being announced in advance—it makes it much easier to plan!

[Bryce Robertson]

This is a very useful summary, thanks. I’ve added those that were missing to AISafety.com/​events-and-training.

I’m curious about why the Nigeria and South Africa events are called Summits instead of EAGx – would you mind expanding on the reasoning there? What will be the difference between a Summit and an EAGx?

[OllieBase]

Thanks Bryce!

Yes, we’re testing out another tier of event with Summits. Summits are typically smaller, operate on a smaller budget, are often 1 day instead of 2–3 days and don’t use CEA’s application platforms. The idea here is that we can see if a location might be suitable for an EAGx event before we invest significant resources in supporting an EAGx.

We hope to share more about these events in a future post.

[Bryce Robertson]

Seems pretty reasonable – thanks!

[Cathy Bogaart]

So exciting to see so many NEW EA conferences (Nigeria, Cape Town, Bengaluru, and Toronto). I’m on EA Canada’s EAGxToronto organizing team and I see how much work it is to organize these events. Looking forward to attending my first one Aug 16-18. Then maybe I will apply for Boston’s EAG in Nov! Are there any concerns about nearby conferences cannibalizing each others’ potential audiences? Is there a maximum number of conferences that we think will produce the most effective outcome? I’m interested to know how CEA thinks about these things.

[OllieBase]

Thanks Cathy :)

Are there any concerns about nearby conferences cannibalizing each others’ potential audiences?

Yes, this is something we’re tracking. We try and coordinate the European conferences in particular so that there isn’t too much overlap. Most others serve very large regions so I’m less worried about those.

Is there a maximum number of conferences that we think will produce the most effective outcome?

We don’t have an answer to that but it’s also something we’re thinking about. We hope to run more EAGx events in the coming years, since a lot of people travel a long way to attend the nearest EAGx event, and the costs of that travel can sometimes exceed the costs of running another event. The bottlenecks are around our capacity to support more events and strong regional organising teams (please apply if you’re interested!). We aren’t currently planning to run more than three EA Globals a year.

[Adebayo Mubarak]

There is no link for the application of the EA South Africa Summits in Cape Town.

Is that due to error or the registration is not open yet?

[OllieBase]

Thanks, it wasn’t open at the time I posted this, but I’ve added the link now.