How to get through your conference peer review process in one piece.
How to get through your conference peer review process in one piece.
A great conference cannot be achieved without great planning! As we have said a number of times: Failing to plan, is planning to fail! Before you do anything, you should take time to carefully plan out your conference. Do so by giving yourself enough time in advance to outline everything you expect to be involved. The initial conference…
Organizing a research conference is a wonderful thing to have on your CV… But it is no easy task. We here at Ex Ordo have worked with hundreds of conferences all around the world, including 11 of the top 20 universities. We understand of the importance of organizing a great conference, but are aware of the amount of hard…
Here at The Conference Mentor we aim to bring you tips and advice for organising and promoting conferences. Let’s take a look at the top three most popular articles over the past year, and summarise the key takeaways. #1 Organising a Conference? Here are some tips to rise to the challenge. Organising an academic conference involves a…
On one hand, many research conference Chairs have to juggle the organisation of their event with a full time job as academics. This means they can’t afford to waste time on admin work that has little added value. On the other hand, putting together a technical programme involves a lot of tasks that can be…
Since 2013, we’ve been attending IEEE’s Panel of Conference Organizers (POCO) as a preferred partner for IEEE, participating in panels on peer review. At this year’s POCO in Glasgow, we had the opportunity to lead a group session with IEEE volunteers. We asked the participants what would be the characteristics of the perfect Peer Review…
There used to be a time that organizing conferences required an army, equipped with standard phones, notepads or notebooks, different colored ink pens and highlighters. A list of people invited to the conference was always on hand and every update and announcement had to be delivered to each attendee through email, text or a phone…
