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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The "Coming Back: Reconnecting Princeton's Black Alumni" conference held Oct. 16-18 at Princeton University featured a variety of panel discussions with Princeton faculty, alumni, graduate students ...

Why get a projection screens for conference rooms when flat panels are getting so much bigger and cheaper? It’s a fair question. Flat panels have drastically improved. But for rooms larger than 15 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mondo.NYC, the New York-based music, arts & technology conference, has announced several more panels, events and showcases taking ...