Have design conferences grown so big, and expensive, that they have outlived their usefulness? An interesting essay by Alissa Walker on planning and executing
design conferences.

If you’re really hankering to plan some kind of get-together, don’t! In all likelihood what you think you need to say can be accomplished in the form of a blog, a film, a book, a social network. If you want to make a big statement about your institution’s policies–cancel the conference! Especially if your proposed conference title contains any of these words: eco-, green-, sustainable-, earth-. I’m not going to name names here, but does anyone else appreciate the irony of a press release that touts a “new sustainability conference attended by eco-savvy professionals from all over the world?”