Whenever I go to a conference, the thing I dread most is panels. A typical panel is a show about nothing. Sure, it worked on Seinfeld—but they had comedic geniuses obsessing over the perfect script ...

It’s conference season, and that means we will soon be suffering together in some drab meeting room. The minutes will tick by as an earnest scholar reads — word for excruciating word — a jargon-filled ...

Should we kill the conference panel? Panel sessions seem to be increasingly popular at the edtech events that I attend. Is the same true at your conferences? An edtech panel usually consists of a ...

I’m writing this post as I travel home from the North American Victorian Studies Association meeting, one of the professional conferences I regularly attend. Thinking over the panels I attended at the ...

The annual intimate industry confab, slated for next month, will convene top execs in the live music industry for panels, networking, skiing and more. By Dave Brooks Aspen Live, the annual live music ...

Setting up panels: why are conference organizers doing this? So you have four entrepreneurs on stage, all really good in what they do – I assume. You ask a moderator to do her job. And here we go: an ...

Panels are ubiquitous at conferences. There’s a practical reason for this–panels allow the organizers to bring in three times as many speakers as solo speeches would. With enough big names on the ...

Sadly, the value of most conference panels is questionable, due mostly to the lack of effective moderation. Just recently I heard that one nervous moderator asked the panelists to introduce themselves ...

Mondo.NYC, the New York-based music, arts & technology conference, has announced several more panels, events and showcases taking place at this year’s edition, which takes place Oct. 12-15. While ...

A full-day conference this week hosted by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights didn’t have any speakers on panels who were Latinos. And it wasn’t just Latinos who weren’t visible at the conference, as ...