An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. The term "unconference" has been applied, or self-applied, to a wide range of gatherings that try to avoid hierarchical aspects of a conventional conference, such as sponsored presentations and top-down organization.[1][2]
^ Atkinson, Cliff. The Backchannel: How Audiences are Using Twitter and Social Media and Changing Presentations Forever. New Riders. p. 85. ISBN 9780321659620. The term unconference refers to any loosely structured gathering that is distinguished from a formally organized conference (such as BloggerCon, an early unconference for bloggers).
^Craig, Kathleen (June 6, 2006). "Why "unconferences" are fun conferences". Business 2.0 Magazine. Archived from the original on May 21, 2008. But that changed in February when O'Grady arrived at Mashup Camp, an exclusive two-day gathering of Silicon Valley geeks billed as an "unconference." Attendance was free but limited to the first 300 people to sign up on the Mashup Camp wiki... Though the event had sponsors like Sun Microsystems , its agenda was created on the fly by attendees. As chaotic as that sounds, it sparked a ton of ideas.
An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. The term "unconference" has been applied, or self-applied, to a wide range of gatherings that try to avoid...
regional in-person and online unconferences. In 2020, more than 10,000 members attended the Sixth National unconference, which became the biggest online...
RecentChangesCamp (2006–2012), an unconference on wiki-related topics. RegioWikiCamp (2009–2013), a semi-annual unconference on "regiowikis", or wikis on cities...
Stream is a series of digital unconferences hosted by WPP. It is run by volunteers and sponsored by some of WPP's agency clients. Stream Europe takes...
standard conference event styles, structured, unconference, and hybrid. BSides falls into the unconference, or anti-conference, event style and is completely...
worship Robert's Rules of Order Scientific meeting Town meeting Task list Unconference Meeting and Convention Planners. (2009, December 17). U.S. Bureau of...
Kinnernet is a series of invitation-only unconference events formed by entrepreneurs, technologists, startup founders, scientists, media professionals...
A hybrid event is a tradeshow, conference, unconference, seminar, workshop or other meeting that combines a "live" in-person event with a "virtual" online...
dispute without proceeding to trial Trade fair, or trade conference Unconference or open space conference, a participant-driven meeting that tries to...
to optimize the schedule; this type of event is sometimes called an unconference. The event started as a joke between Tim O'Reilly and Sara Winge, O'Reilly's...
requirement that participation should be open to all. (Foo Camp, an early unconference, was organized by Tim O'Reilly and Sara Winge; Winge had been a student...
RecentChangesCamp was an unconference focused on wikis, held from 2006 to 2012. It was named after the "recent changes" feature that is found in most wikis...
itself. Several other approaches share one or more features with OST: "unconferences", e.g. FooCamp and BarCamp. Both FooCamp and BarCamp are participant-driven...
Cunningham, and David Weinberger. Dan Gillmor held a citizen journalism unconference the day after. Wales' plenary speech was covered by the Associated Press...
BIL is an unconference organized and observed by the participants. It was founded in 2007 by Cody Marx Bailey, Todd Huffman, Bill Erickson and others who...
Code Camp is a type of unconference that was initially established to assist software developers who were unable to participate in professional activities...
board on a first-come, first-served basis on the day of the Unconference. Five Unconference talks took place at IGF 2016: Freedom of Expression and Religion...
conferences take more interactive formats, such as the participant driven "unconference" or various conversational formats. Academic conferences have been held...
gender bias, and the socialization of new editors, as well as a one-day unconference. Approximately 250 people attended. According to O'Dwyer's magazine,...
established in 2008 as Social Media Exchange. Bread & Net is an annual unconference that has been held by SMEX in Beirut since 2018 that brings together...
FreedomHEC (a play on WinHEC) was an "unconference" for computer hardware engineers and device driver developers that ran from 2006 to 2012. It focused...
community Camp, a term commonly used in the titles of technology-related unconferences Camp meeting, a Christian gathering which originated in 19th-century...
original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2012. "Will Bentinck at Shine Unconference 2012". Archived from the original on 11 December 2013. Retrieved 5 December...
rather than profit. Some coworking participants are also involved in an unconference such as BarCamp. Some coworking spaces are geared towards particular...
Science Foo Camp (scifoo) is an annual interdisciplinary scientific unconference organized by O'Reilly Media, Digital Science, Alphabet Inc., based on...
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