It’s hardly news to say that outside of the fabulous and densely packed session schedule for the conference, we know that often the key experiences are what happens at an in person conference is in between, aka the hallway conversations.
As an attempt to provide that for our online participants and making it part of the Hybrid Conference Experience, we are organizing in the schedule gaps what I have called Hybrid Connecting sessions (and for those who remember this is a total nod to the era of Virtually Connecting).
These are drop in session for both online and in person attendees to pop into one of our OEGlobal Zoom rooms to catch up, connect, and just talk about what they have seen/hear or planning to do later. And there is a slot after the end of the days programming for a recap of the day and maybe a few more surprises.
We welcome too anyone in person wiling during the breaks to even pop in for five minutes via your mobile device to maybe share a “live field report” - if this is possible, please let us know via our Field Reporters for Hybrid Connecting Sessions form or just show up.
Registered conference participants will find the zoom links the week of the conference in Sched for these online hallway conversations. Please add them to your schedule and feel welcome to drop in!
Wednesday Hybrid Connecting
- 2026-10-07T16:55:00Z→2026-10-07T17:40:00Z Wednesday Mid Day Online Hallway Conversations (during the lunch break in Cambridge).
- 2026-10-07T23:00:00Z→2026-10-08T00:00:00Z OEGlobal 2026 Wednesday Online Recap including a report from the Vancouver Satellite event (1 hour after the last session)
Thursday Hybrid Connecting
- 2026-10-08T14:00:00Z→2026-10-08T14:30:00Z Thursday Morning Online Hallway Conversations (during the morning break in Cambridge).
- 2026-10-08T16:55:00Z→2026-10-08T17:40:00Z Thursday Mid Day Online Hallway Conversations (during the lunch break in Cambridge).
- 2026-10-08T23:00:00Z→2026-10-09T00:00:00Z Thursday Online Recap: OEG Voices Podcast Recorded Live including a report from the Vancouver Satellite event. We are organizing this as one we will record to publish as a future OEGlobal Voices Podcast. Our special guest is podcaster extraordinaire @greeneterry (1 hour after the last session)
Friday Hybrid Connecting
- 2026-10-09T14:00:00Z→2026-10-09T14:30:00Z Friday Morning Online Hallway Conversation (during the morning break in Cambridge).
- 2026-10-09T16:55:00Z→2026-10-09T17:40:00Z Friday Mid Day Online Hallway Conversations (during the lunch break in Cambridge).
- 2026-10-08T19:00:00Z→2026-10-08T20:00:00Z Friday Online Recap and Lightning Talks Rewatch Together Here we will let those present to select a few of the pre-recorded Lightning Talks to watch together (during the final program slot).
Again, we are casting these efforts as part of Inventing the Hybrid Conference Experience Together (paging Adam the Zedonk!)
I hope you are intrigued to drop in.
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