Congrats on the launch, Wally! Great to hear your voice and perspective again HH after such a long gap. I can’t even imaging what SKO is like these days.
You nailed it, random collisions are the most valuable aspect of any large event.
Thank you John Roberts. this place is so big it’s hard to imagine a time when we actually had a “John Roberts.” Those types of heroes don’t really even exist anymore. Hope you’re doing great & thanks for signing up.
After 20+ years of SKOs, mainly organising sessions and content - I agree that the magic is in the spaces. I suppose, much like music, it's the gaps, whether big or small or the 'pocket' that distinguish between the meh and the marvellous.
My biggest bone with execs when organising SKOs is that less is more. 8 - 6 with almost no spaces isn't what's going to do it. It's efficient to the left-brained cast but not effective, which is the measure of a great SKO.
They're adults; their life is a contact sport; they're not designed to be talked at by average presenters and a million slides that won't be remembered.
Right on, JB. Funny, at one of the conferences in the article--I won't say which--we were exhorted to not perpetrate "death by powerpoint" while being shown endless slides about "death by powerpoint." Thanks for reading and listening!
Congrats on the launch, Wally! Great to hear your voice and perspective again HH after such a long gap. I can’t even imaging what SKO is like these days.
You nailed it, random collisions are the most valuable aspect of any large event.
Thank you John Roberts. this place is so big it’s hard to imagine a time when we actually had a “John Roberts.” Those types of heroes don’t really even exist anymore. Hope you’re doing great & thanks for signing up.
After 20+ years of SKOs, mainly organising sessions and content - I agree that the magic is in the spaces. I suppose, much like music, it's the gaps, whether big or small or the 'pocket' that distinguish between the meh and the marvellous.
My biggest bone with execs when organising SKOs is that less is more. 8 - 6 with almost no spaces isn't what's going to do it. It's efficient to the left-brained cast but not effective, which is the measure of a great SKO.
They're adults; their life is a contact sport; they're not designed to be talked at by average presenters and a million slides that won't be remembered.
Rant over, and you're onto something.
Right on, JB. Funny, at one of the conferences in the article--I won't say which--we were exhorted to not perpetrate "death by powerpoint" while being shown endless slides about "death by powerpoint." Thanks for reading and listening!