After participating in the last seven LiveLinkUp conferences and reading your feedback over the years, I've come to the conclusion that we can't make the conference be everything to everyone.
Inevitably, there are scheduling conflicts with several of your "need to see" sessions. There may even be sessions you were hoping for that never materialized. My goal is to minimize both of these factors in the program design for Content World.
So here's what we're doing to give you the best possible experience:
1) Repeat all morning roadmap sessions in the afternoon - You'll have to make a choice as to which morning "conference in a conference" track to attend. Picking a track just establishes your primary focus for the conference. It doesn't mean that you're not interested in the other tracks. This year, every roadmap presentation that is delivered in the morning tracks will be repeated in the afternoon program.
2) Increase the number of customer case studies - These are undeniably the most popular sessions at our conference. We are aiming to have over 50 customer case study presentations on a variety of topics, on the agenda. As a result, you'll find that there will be 5-10 customer stories to choose from, at any given afternoon breakout timeslot .
3) Dynamic creation of sessions onsite - We are investigating ways of communicating at the conference so you can help us identify sessions that you were hoping to see, but were not offered. If we receive a certain number of requests on a particular topic, we will develop a session onsite. We have left space in our program design for these sessions on the Thursday afternoon. We'll have all the details ready for you at the conference.
In the meantime, I invite you to browse the program online. If you have any questions, or input about sessions you'd like to attend, but are not currently available, please get in touch with me on the Content World discussion forum.
Program Manager - Open Text