Positive feedback from INET 2002 and earlier INETs

topic posted Sun, May 16, 2004 - 4:35 AM by  Michael
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What did you find particularly interesting and/or useful about the INET 2002 conference and earlier INET conferences?
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Michael
Washington, D.C.
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  • What has always been most useful to me is the personal networking.
    • I should go on to say that I think a constructive suggestion for future INET conferences would be to provide a way to network. One way might be to open up tribes-or-whatever for INET conference tracks and suggest that attendees join them and start meeting up. That way speakers can gauge audience interest level, play with topics, and generally blue sky, so that people feel like they know each other somewhat when they show up. Another thought might be to provide an interpersonal-connection board at the ISOC booth at the conference; people could click on sessions that they are interested in attending, other folks who want to talk with them could ask Terry-etc where they might be, and occasionally link up. Another thought might be to provide a social center of some kind (but don't ask me about that; I'm an engineer, and you really want someone who is party-central to set that kind of thing up).
      • I think this is exactly the kind of thing that INET conferences should do. We should use the Internet to make INET a unique and unforgetable conference. There are so many IT and Internet conferences these days. We need to do something that sets INET apart.

        I've been impressed with some of the virtual conferences that have enabled people to meet face-to-face or participate in real time over the Net using Webcasts and instant messaging. I spent 8 hours doing that at David Isenberg's recent WTF conference. Kevin Werbach has held a very successful conference called Supernova where 150 met in real space while 100+ people, including top experts from around the world, listened in and joined the conversation via Weblogs and IM.

        If we want INET to have a lasting impact, having a dialog online before and after the meeting would certainly help.

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