SUSTAINABLE

CONFERENCE DESIGN

OF THE FUTURE

Arrival
Welcome
Organisational matters

Zoom

• Rhetoric, expectations and performance – The cost-benefit ratio of conference activities (Nicholas Rowe, independent academic, dual fellow of the UK's Higher Education Academy and Society for Education and Training, Finland)
• How sustainable are sustainability conferences? – Comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment of an international on-site conference series in Europe (Sabrina Neugebauer, iPoint systems gmbh, Germany)
• Emission reduction potentials for academic conference travel (Stijn van Ewijk, University College London, UK)
• Why virtual conferencing matters and what needs to be improved: Some insights from a recent survey (Anna Schreuer, Transflight/University of Graz, Austria)

• Susann Görlinger (ifeu Insitute – FlyingLess, Germany)
• Dylan Ruediger (Ithaka S+R, Project "The Future of Scholarly Meetings", USA)
• Holger Finken (DAAD [Germany Academic Exchange Service], Germany)
• Astrid Eichhorn (Junge Akademie, ALLEA Working Group on Climate Sustainability in the Academic System, University of Southern Denmark)
• Lorraine Whitmarsh (Director of the Centre for Climate Change & Social Transformations (CAST), UK)
• Jason Hartline (President and Co-Founder of Virtual Chair, USA)

Gather Town hosted by Virtual Chair

Welo

Cozy Juicy Real

9:00 - 

10:00

• The Future of Meetings: Going Beyond “Being There” (The Future of Meetings Community)
• Virtual UNconferences (Tracey Weissgerber; QUEST Center, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité, Germany)
• Eric Sodomka (Virtual Chair)

• VirtualChair
• Welo
• Sci-an
• CozyJuicyReal

Focusgroups for conference organisers on the benefits and challenges of different conference formats (virtual, hybrid, in-person)

World Café

• More sustainable conferencing: What are the options? Which actors can drive change? What systemic changes are needed? How do we overcome different hurdles?
  A potpourri of questions and the joint search for answers