Leadership conference is reimagined from the Edge

The organisers of the Leading At The Edge – the conference originally planned for the Galmont Hotel in Galway – have re-invented the programme and how it’s delivered for a virtual audience.

Kevin Kelly and Dave Hickey chose to completely re-engineer Leading At The Edge Online rather than cancel a conference that was over twelve months in the making.

“The switch to virtual is a key challenge in what I describe as an attention deficit world,” says Kevin. “We’re grateful that our main sponsors Grant Thornton and SSL have continued to support what will be a very different event.”

“As a speaker I relish the challenge of engaging a room – in virtual world, you need a different plan. With Leading At The Edge Online we are re-engineering even how virtual events are run, creating a new hybrid.”

With eight different speakers or sessions from several locations in Ireland, Europe and the US, running throughout the day on October 7 they recognise that retaining and engaging a virtual audience for the day will be a challenge.

“We know there is demand for the content, the speakers we have are top class and the technology for delivery is now well-proven,” says Dave Hickey. “But many people have been over-exposed to Zoom webinars and virtual meetings since March.”

So to counter this Zoom-fatigue, they have added fireside chats, Q and A’s and roundtable discussions all in an effort to vary content delivery and maximise engagement.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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