Conversation topics and partners!

Now we're going somewhere! Today we had our first planning + volunteer meeting! We did a little extra brainstorming and our brains came up with even more cool ideas this time!! Here's the planning meeting if you want to see what creating a conference from scratch looks like. Desiree and Carrie have been leading the sessions and on demand content workstream and are kicking ass on the tracks and the ideas. While most of the content is being created from our outbound outreach, I encourage you to comment on this post or reach out to us directly if you think you have a conversation topic that needs to be covered during this event!

I'm definitely finding that a 1-hour meeting is not NEARLY enough time together for everything we need to accomplish, so there's a lot of chatter in Slack, which makes planning feel less cohesive and hard to follow. It will be a learning curve to make this feel more like the well-oiled machine we want it to be.

We've spent a lot of time on the experience we want to create and the people we want to attract, and the outcomes we are hoping for, but I don't think we've spent enough on it. But this is the conundrum... we have enough to be dangerous and enough to make an amazing event, but are we stopping to ensure that all decisions align to a north star? Because do we have a north star? I think we do, it's just got some clouds in front of it right now. But by Monday, it'll be clear skies with a clear north star!

So here's my 1:00am Vvog as I wait for my 2am Asia virtual event to kick off... Ah, the glamorous life of an event professional!

Here's how you can get involved in this journey with us:

• Watch our progress: Daily LinkedIn updates (like a journal!)
• See it get created: You can watch our twice-weekly planning meetings live on our YouTube Channel (subscribe to get notified when we go live)
• Join in the process: You can join the Age of Conversation Slack channel and be part of the creation of this event
• Register for the event: The Age of Conversation Summit, September 9th!
• JOIN THE 6-WEEK CHALLENGE: What will you accomplish over the next 6 weeks? (join the Slack channel to make your commitment!)

Liz Lathan, CMP is co-founder and CEO of Haute Dokimazo, a "spontaneous think tank” company that empowers participants to solve their business challenges through conversation fueled by the wisdom of peers. Haute Dokimazo is part of Haute Companies, a family of companies anchored in human connection, from events to media (podcasts, videos, and more) to direct mail to swag to entertainment talent management to strategy session facilitation.

Haute Dokimazo is partnering with QiqoChat to create The Age of Conversation Summit on September 9, 2020 to bring conversation back to the digital world.