Hmm, I find this a surprising result, even though it seems roughly in line with the outcomes of EAGxNetherlands 2018.
I really hope EAGx conferences will continue to be organized (in Europe and elsewhere), perhaps in an improved form. (Fewer talks, more workshops maybe? More coaching?) I am afraid these events will be cancelled when impact is i) hard to see directly, and ii) heavily skewed. For example, few people made big changes after EAGxNetherlands, but the seed was planted for the Happier Lives Institute, which might not have formed otherwise.
It seems to me like you and Halffull (previous comment) puts more weight on the goals we didn’t achieve than was our intention with this report. I would like to note that we did not conclude the conference to be a failure and that the results are more nuanced.
It is true that we mostly failed at reaching the specific goals of engaging “inactive” EAs with the conference as we defined it. But the results report also show that there was a 10 percentage points increase in interests in applying for an EA Job and also an increase in interest of being responsible for an EA project.
In addition to these results being more nuanced than concluding with “EAGxNordics19 was a failure”, on more traditional conference engagement targets we did quite well. An NPS of 45 is very good, 70% said the conference influenced their plans and 85% of the attendees found at least some interactions valuable. 92% of the respondents reported that the conference keeps them motivated to do good and 88% feel like they are part of a community because of the conference.
Because of this, we do not think our evaluation of EAGxNordics to be a case against running EAGx-conferences. If anything, our strongest take away for later EAGxs is that is it hard to use the conference as a tool for engaging “inactive” community members, and if you are aiming to to that, intensive, targeted outreach is needed to get them to participate in the first place.
Hmm, I find this a surprising result, even though it seems roughly in line with the outcomes of EAGxNetherlands 2018.
I really hope EAGx conferences will continue to be organized (in Europe and elsewhere), perhaps in an improved form. (Fewer talks, more workshops maybe? More coaching?) I am afraid these events will be cancelled when impact is i) hard to see directly, and ii) heavily skewed. For example, few people made big changes after EAGxNetherlands, but the seed was planted for the Happier Lives Institute, which might not have formed otherwise.
It seems to me like you and Halffull (previous comment) puts more weight on the goals we didn’t achieve than was our intention with this report. I would like to note that we did not conclude the conference to be a failure and that the results are more nuanced.
It is true that we mostly failed at reaching the specific goals of engaging “inactive” EAs with the conference as we defined it. But the results report also show that there was a 10 percentage points increase in interests in applying for an EA Job and also an increase in interest of being responsible for an EA project.
In addition to these results being more nuanced than concluding with “EAGxNordics19 was a failure”, on more traditional conference engagement targets we did quite well. An NPS of 45 is very good, 70% said the conference influenced their plans and 85% of the attendees found at least some interactions valuable. 92% of the respondents reported that the conference keeps them motivated to do good and 88% feel like they are part of a community because of the conference.
Because of this, we do not think our evaluation of EAGxNordics to be a case against running EAGx-conferences. If anything, our strongest take away for later EAGxs is that is it hard to use the conference as a tool for engaging “inactive” community members, and if you are aiming to to that, intensive, targeted outreach is needed to get them to participate in the first place.