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.
Thanks Cathy :)
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.
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.