1.
Open Space
Technology
The SoCraTes Conferences Format
By Houssam FAKIH

2.
Traditional
Conference

3.
The Program is
Set by Organizers

4.
Hiring Speakers
by Invitation

5.
Hiring Speakers
by Call for papers

6.
Speakers
Attendees

7.
What Open
Spacetechnology
changes?

8.
All Participants
are Equal

9.
Both as Knowers
and Learners

10.
Everyone
is Speaker

11.
You Set the
program
yourself

12.
Your Schedule
Your Time

13.
“I can’t believe that after all these meetings,
workshops and conference sessions, the most
valuable time for me was still
during the coffee breaks, when I met
with people I wanted to meet
with and talk about the issues I
wanted to talk about”
- Harrison Owen, author of Open Space Technology: A Users Guide

14.
Participants should have:
Passion&
Responsibility

15.
Without Passion:
Nobody is interested

16.
Without
Responsibility
nothing
will get done

17.
Based
on 4
principles

18.
Whoever
comes is
the right people

19.
Whateverhappens
is all that
could have

20.
Whenever
it starts
is the right time

21.
When
it is over,
it is over

22.
The law of
two feets

23.
You have
the permission
to leave
ifyou are
not interested

24.
Bumblebees &
Butterflies
use their feet and
flit from meeting to meeting

25.
people come
together
around topics
they careabout

26.
Voluntary
self-selection

27.
Open Space
by Example

28.
from
Thursday
to
Saturday

29.
English : Official
Language

30.
Thursday Evening:
World Café

31.
Thursday Evening:
Lightening Talk
@ SoCraTes-UK

32.
Creating
the Agenda

33.
Retro - at the end
of the day

34.
Evening
activities

35.
After midnight
discussions

36.
After SoCraTes
Sunday

37.
SoCraTes-DE
200 attendees

38.
SoCraTes-DE
169 sessions
per day

39.
SoCraTes-DE
crafts developers
from all Europe

40.
The Community is growing:
channel Slack

41.
Grab your invite at http:
//scslackin-rradczewski.rhcloud.com

42.
SoCraTes in
UK, BE, SP

43.
Freeze Code
iTake

44.
and
this year

45.
SoCraTes-FR

46.
Target:
35 attendees

47.
Be Prepared
to be surprised