An excellent question well worth asking! Here’s my list.
* Live talks are more current than recorded ones (at least after a few days)
* Live talks _feel_ different because speakers act differently in front of a live audience, even if they can’t see them. More authentic. 1/5
I'm not sold on IT virtual conferences. Why are these better than watching selected Youtube videos about the topic?
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* Speakers and audience can interact. The audience can ask questions. The speaker can ask for a show of hands, or even for opinions.
* Speakers can refer to other talks that happened before theirs, or will happen after theirs.
* Speakers can refer to other current events. 2/5
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* Audience shares the experience of listening to a session. If the tooling supports it, they can talk to each other and share their thoughts
* The audience can connect with the speaker because they’re actually (virtually) there
* The audience can provide feedback to speakers 3/5
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* The set of sessions will be part of a curated whole, hopefully set up by a program committee who knew what it was doing
* The fact that it’s a live event means you’ll have to make time for it, and focus while it’s happening
* Speakers *and* audience can interact 4/5
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