/learn/publications/b/blog/posts/startup-accelerator-6---high-tech-business-un-conferenceMost everyone has attended a business conference, gone to a seminar or breakout session there, and discovered that the talk wasn’t what they thought it was about. To avoid offending the speaker, it’s polite to sit through the presentation, avoi...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/learn/publications/b/blog/posts/startup-accelerator-6---high-tech-business-un-conferenceTue, 26 Jul 2011 00:19:16 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9b472c90-8616-471f-bef7-e7f9d5c56b5bDAB0<p>I highly recommend informal sessions like this one.&nbsp; Some people respond to well structured events, but you get the most useful information during informal discussions during lunch, dinner, and break time.</p><p>In many respects, a conference is one of those activities that the more you put into it, the more you get out of it.&nbsp; If you just sit in a room and consume air, then you most likely did not learn much.</p><p>The big advantage to an informal setting is that it puts a lot of people at ease.&nbsp; In formal sessions, some people feel obligated to try to prove how smart they are in front of a group of their peers.&nbsp; In an informal session, you can get more people to discuss truth, not just party line.&nbsp; To the attentive, you can gleen a lot of useful information from what is said and what is not said.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks,</p><p>DAB</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=12769&AppID=45&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">