Open up your panel !

A recent post by Jeff Clavier rang a bell. It said that he (Jeff) had tried to open the conversations during a conference session, letting the audience participate as well as the invited panelists. Jeff ended up with the conclusion that :

“Even with this, the event was deemed successful, and my panelists (who have had their fair share of participating or moderating panels) provided positive feedback. But there was still a bit of frustration in me about the fact that we did not cover as much as I wanted, especially on enterprise transaction and integration processes.”

He tried it again in another conf, and this time asked -beforehand- the audience to provide a to-do list of subjects they wanted to cover.

All on your own, no way out !

Short story by way of a lead-in:

When one person meets another person and they exchange a coin, they each go away with one coin.

When one person meets another person and they exchange an idea, they each go away with two ideas…