Executive summary: Scientific conferences are valuable for outsiders to attend as they provide opportunities for learning, collaboration, and potentially starting new ventures at the intersection of different fields.
Key points:
Conferences are dense informational and social experiences that can spark new ideas, collaborations, and even life-changing relationships.
Outsiders to a field can benefit from attending conferences by asking questions, following up with researchers, and potentially collaborating on projects or starting companies together.
Insiders also benefit from outsiders attending conferences, as new ideas often come from combining knowledge from different fields.
The author provides a 9-step process for attending conferences as an outsider, emphasizing the importance of engaging with researchers and their work.
A list of 41 conferences on important problems is provided, covering topics such as hepatitis B, tuberculosis, malaria, and science policy.
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Executive summary: Scientific conferences are valuable for outsiders to attend as they provide opportunities for learning, collaboration, and potentially starting new ventures at the intersection of different fields.
Key points:
Conferences are dense informational and social experiences that can spark new ideas, collaborations, and even life-changing relationships.
Outsiders to a field can benefit from attending conferences by asking questions, following up with researchers, and potentially collaborating on projects or starting companies together.
Insiders also benefit from outsiders attending conferences, as new ideas often come from combining knowledge from different fields.
The author provides a 9-step process for attending conferences as an outsider, emphasizing the importance of engaging with researchers and their work.
A list of 41 conferences on important problems is provided, covering topics such as hepatitis B, tuberculosis, malaria, and science policy.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.