Sessions/talks offered
Corie Lok
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 19:19 UTC
Based on feedback we’ve gotten from you and others, we’ve decided that the conference format will be a hybrid one. Most of the session topics, speakers and schedule will be established by July. But we will reserve a few of the rooms and time slots for sessions that will be self-organized the morning of August 30. We’ll make sure there’s time on the 30th to do that.
So let’s begin with a call for session topics. Post ideas here for sessions (talks, panel discussions, workshops, etc) that you want to be a speaker for. Please specify what sort of format you want for your session: for example, a one-person talk, a panel, a hands-on workshop, something else?
In particular, we are looking for:
- 1 or 2 keynote speakers
- one panel discussion to wrap up the day
- concurrent sessions/talks (preset)
Have a read through the other ideas here before posting your own. If you find one that’s similar to yours, please approach that person about doing a session jointly.
If you want to be a speaker and are looking for topics to talk about, or you want to suggest an idea but don’t want to be a speaker, have a look at the other thread, "Sessions/talks wanted.":http://network.nature.com/forums/sciblog2008/1565
Deadline: please post your ideas by Friday June 6. Depending on how many ideas we get, we may do an informal poll online after June 6 to see which ideas are most popular. Based on that, we’ll invite the speakers and set the programme by July.
You can also email us at network@nature.com with session ideas.
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‘How about Ben Goldacre as a keynote speaker? He even wrote about the power of blogging last weekend.’
As one of the bloggers mentioned there, I’d be up for doing something involving psychology (particularly educational psychology) and blogs.
Note: I’m an undergrad & not particularly used to public speaking, no promises to do anything complicated, polished, or not just stand there for 10 mins pretending to be a goldfish.
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He was already suggested, a couple of entries up.
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Where can I find the program? I’m also supporting the idea of an invitation letter that was posted somewhere else on the forum – we need to be able to convince our respective bosses that this is a real conference.
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The programme hasn’t been posted yet – we’re just putting the finishing touches to it. If it’s not on the site in the next 48 hours, I will eat my own keyboard.
We can send official invitation letters round if that would be useful. We’ll be emailing everyone about the programme, so I can attach an invitation letter to that.
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