Our pitch to conference organizers

  1. Optimize the virtual

Choose appropriate platforms

From Zoom to spatial conferencing to virtual reality, consider which platforms best suit your needs.

Match activities to your goals

Conference priorities may include knowledge sharing, community building, networking, and sales. Tailor your conference activities based on your priorities.

Supercharge informal networking

Utilize a variety of tools to help attendees find and interact with one another, such as advanced profiles, spatial networking and inclusive social norms.

2. Alternate each year

In-person

Easy networking. Sightseeing. Mealtimes.

Virtual

Affordability. Inclusivity. Low carbon.

Achieve the best of both

What’s the problem with in-person conferencing?

Pollution: People take about 85 million conference trips in the U.S. every year.

That travel emits approximately 170 million metric tons of carbon dioxide—3% of the entire nation’s annual carbon emissions.

We could cut that in half today by alternating between in-person and virtual conferences.

Exclusion: Many students and professionals can’t afford to travel to conferences; and many people with disabilities and parents with young children can’t get there either.

Virtual conferences have been shown to attract more early-career professionals and more total participants. This often means diverse ideas injected into the conversations.