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Six reasons why unconferences aren’t more popular

Conferences that Work

An event that: Asks potential presenters to submit pre-event proposals for sessions isn’t an unconference. The solution to this is to design your unconference before choosing the venue. When this doesn’t happen (sadly, most of the time in my experience) the conference design, no matter how good it is, suffers.

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Doing peer conferences right

Conferences that Work

The queues to briefly present the proposed topics were really long, and the emerging schedule looked amazing. Can you see why software testers like Lisi think that peer conferences rock?! Here’s another example from a software testing peer conference, TestBash Brighton 2018. And that’s what happened.

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The Ultimate List of Conferences to Attend in 2023

Stova

Business of Software USA March 27 - 28, 2023 – Cambridge, England The Business of Software (BoS) USA is a friendly conference designed for founders, CXOs, and emerging leaders in software and SaaS companies who want to run very successful software businesses and learn from others like them.