Missing the old days of developer conferences, I’m working with some friends to plan a new lightweight online Lightning talks series. 

More in the coming days!

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Only online but trying to incorporate casual conversation after talks

I've done a lot of experimenting with this too. Not a developer thing, but one of my favorites now is a Jeffersonian dinner format.  25ish people, many of whom have never met but may have heard of each other.  2-3 seed speakers, speaking at the table for < 5 minutes each with provocative ideas. The conversation follows from the last seed speaker, not as Q&A but as discussion.  Go until the room gets tired or it becomes to awkward to eat.  We've done a bunch of these over the past few years and they're always inspiring.

I would love more stuff is happening IRL. We are always online.

Once in a while I am wondering what IRL format we could bootstrap to create a vibrant exchange of beautiful minds.