Agenda¶
The EL should consider the goals and objectives and the duration of the event to decide the agenda and details such as type and duration of particular sessions. The agenda and reasoning around balance of timings and session types should then be discussed with the steering committee (or equivalent) for comment.
The EL may consider the following types of sessions:
- Informing,
- Exploring,
- Creating,
- Learning,
- Networking.
Informing¶
This includes sessions that inform and inspire:
- Keynotes,
- Short talks,
- Lightning talks,
- Allowing ad hoc presentations (e.g. additional lightning talks).
Exploring¶
This includes sessions that aid people working together to explore solutions or identify problems:
- Collaborative ideas or hackday ideas sessions,
- Discussion sessions & speed blogging,
- Q & A panels.
Creating¶
This includes building things together:
- Hack days,
- Bring your own data sessions,
- Paper/Standards generation.
Networking¶
This includes sessions for building relationships between people:
- Around food (e.g. lunch/coffee, conference/workshop dinner, lunch):
- Protecting these times is important to allow networking to take place.
- Other social programmes:
- Guided walks or/and
- Museum or visits to other points of interest nearby.
- At the end of the day or first thing in the morning can be a good time for these to be scheduled.