[huskyr]

> Next time I get a chance to organise an online conference, I'll steal from Jamie's playbook and invert the model. Viz. ask for pre-recorded talks, distributed to attendees just prior to the conference, with curated live chat + demo sessions with the speaker(s) about the talk. Make the Hallway Track as big and boisterous and charming as possible.

Agreed. This is so much better than having to watch live talks of people stumbling with their camera setup causing the Q&A to be canceled because of that.

[em-bee]

when i spoke at an online conference in india i insisted that my talk be prerecorded to make sure there were no interruptions since i was worried that from china the quality might suffer some times. i sent the talk to the organizers to stream and after the talk we did a live q&a. i don't know if the participants felt a difference, but i thought it was the prudent thing to do.

[acidburnNSA]

That's very smart. You could even be in the q&a during the talk answering questions while pre-recorded-you is still speaking! This could give a lot more time for focused interaction.