Are there any plans to split EAG into “conference” vs “meetup”? I know a lot of people don’t go to the programming at all and just go to have meetings and meet people. Which is totally fine but if CEA is going to the trouble of planning a conference, it would be interesting to see how many people actually go to the conference programming (aside from opening and closing talks). Reduced priced tickets could be for meetups only and higher prices for those going to the talks in a separate area of the venue.
I’ve seen professional conferences publish the agenda once tickets are available and attendees indicate which sessions they’ll go to. This helps with space/room configurations, not sure if it would be helpful for EAG or not since agendas seem to be released closer to the event date. I’ve also seen conferences that have “room counters” who take note of how many people were in each session to gauge attendee behavior for future events. Again, not sure if that’s helpful or something you already do.
We don’t have any current plans to split EA Global into multiple sub-conferences. We have used the fact that not everyone attends talks to increase attendance (for example, at EA Global London 2019, we accepted more attendees than could fit in the venue for the opening talk on the assumption that not all of them would attend the opening).
We will keep the sub-conference idea in mind for the future.
Are there any plans to split EAG into “conference” vs “meetup”? I know a lot of people don’t go to the programming at all and just go to have meetings and meet people. Which is totally fine but if CEA is going to the trouble of planning a conference, it would be interesting to see how many people actually go to the conference programming (aside from opening and closing talks). Reduced priced tickets could be for meetups only and higher prices for those going to the talks in a separate area of the venue.
I’ve seen professional conferences publish the agenda once tickets are available and attendees indicate which sessions they’ll go to. This helps with space/room configurations, not sure if it would be helpful for EAG or not since agendas seem to be released closer to the event date. I’ve also seen conferences that have “room counters” who take note of how many people were in each session to gauge attendee behavior for future events. Again, not sure if that’s helpful or something you already do.
We don’t have any current plans to split EA Global into multiple sub-conferences. We have used the fact that not everyone attends talks to increase attendance (for example, at EA Global London 2019, we accepted more attendees than could fit in the venue for the opening talk on the assumption that not all of them would attend the opening).
We will keep the sub-conference idea in mind for the future.