Comments on: The “Impact” of the 2009 Net Impact Conference: Suggested Improvements http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/11/2009-net-impact-conference-suggested-improvements/ Business, Better. Since 2005 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Managing Conference Waste: The Little Things Count | Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profithttp://www.triplepundit.com/2009/11/2009-net-impact-conference-suggested-improvements/comment-page-1/#comment-65475 Managing Conference Waste: The Little Things Count | Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit Sat, 30 Oct 2010 14:19:50 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/?p=19014#comment-65475 [...] felt let down when the environmental impacts of the conference appeared to be taking a back seat.  Check out Matthew Savage’s observations for Triple Pundit from the 2009 conference. My biggest issues are usually with the [...] [...] felt let down when the environmental impacts of the conference appeared to be taking a back seat.  Check out Matthew Savage’s observations for Triple Pundit from the 2009 conference. My biggest issues are usually with the [...]

]]> By: Cornellhttp://www.triplepundit.com/2009/11/2009-net-impact-conference-suggested-improvements/comment-page-1/#comment-20580 Cornell Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:24:08 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/?p=19014#comment-20580 I thought I'd provide some behind-the-scenes insight / alternative perspective to the comments above.1) While Cornell may seem remote, it is actually within a 6 hour driving distance of a huge number of business schools and major cities. (Boston, NYC, DC, Philly, Montreal, Toronto, Detroit, Pittsburg...) It's easy to suggest that holding the conference to a more traditional hub would be a better option, but I think there are few locations that are actually this central to the conference audience! A side benefit of being in a remote location - people stuck around till the end of the conference instead of jumping ship on Saturday. And they networked more. Having attended the event at Wharton, I know that many people opted to spend the evenings visiting with friends we had living in the city in lieu of the conference social events.2) I think most large institutions are still trying to figure out how to get this right. Good luck to the next team in trying to figure out how best to scale up their waste management to handle the extra 2000+ people on campus.3) Recording sessions was explored this year, but it was deemed too expensive to be feasible with the current budget. As video conferencing becomes more common, hopefully this will be easier to accomplish with existing infrastructure. I thought I’d provide some behind-the-scenes insight / alternative perspective to the comments above.

1) While Cornell may seem remote, it is actually within a 6 hour driving distance of a huge number of business schools and major cities. (Boston, NYC, DC, Philly, Montreal, Toronto, Detroit, Pittsburg…) It’s easy to suggest that holding the conference to a more traditional hub would be a better option, but I think there are few locations that are actually this central to the conference audience! A side benefit of being in a remote location – people stuck around till the end of the conference instead of jumping ship on Saturday. And they networked more. Having attended the event at Wharton, I know that many people opted to spend the evenings visiting with friends we had living in the city in lieu of the conference social events.

2) I think most large institutions are still trying to figure out how to get this right. Good luck to the next team in trying to figure out how best to scale up their waste management to handle the extra 2000+ people on campus.

3) Recording sessions was explored this year, but it was deemed too expensive to be feasible with the current budget. As video conferencing becomes more common, hopefully this will be easier to accomplish with existing infrastructure.

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