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 continue to participate in panels on a variety of topics and have hosted my fair share as an emcee. I’m shocked by the degree to which panels still exhibit a huge spectrum from terrible to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Schools are inundated with potential solutions that improve student safety and therefore enhance educational outcomes. Each school incident offers insight into how we can improve both student safety ...

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 ...