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Community Event Manager @ Centre for Effective Altruism
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CEA Community Events Retrospective

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Yes, unfortunately, the EAGxLondon team couldn't secure a date in early April. The university venue we were working with initially said that they had dates available in April but, frustratingly, this turned out not to be the case and the team didn't have enough time to find an alternative. We're exploring other options, including an event later this year.

Next month, two EAGx events are happening in new locations: Austin and Copenhagen!

Applications for these events are closing soon:

These conferences are primarily for people who are at least familiar with the core ideas of effective altruism and are interested in learning more about what to do with these ideas. We're particularly excited to welcome people working professionally in the EA space to connect with others nearby and provide mentorship to those new to the space.

If you want to attend but are unsure about whether to apply, please err on the side of applying!

If you've applied to attend an EA Global or EAGx event before, you can use the same application for either event.

Yes, we also run follow-up surveys, usually 3 months after the event. We think these are better for measuring impact.

We don't expect attendees to estimate the overall impact of the event for them while at the event, that's our mistake (we had written "The EA Global team uses several key metrics to estimate the impact of our events" but we've changed that to "The EA Global team tracks several key metrics for our events").

We do ask for valuable experiences, but we're not asking people to estimate the impact of the event, per se. Our post-event metrics primarily track if the event is something they'd recommend to others, and if it seemed like a good use of their time which are decent proxies for overall event quality and value.

There are other surveys such as Open Phil's Longtermist Survey and the EA Survey which ask people (often several years after the event) whether it played an important role in their career.

Hi Kyle, I'm either working or will soon be working to make all of these events happen in the second half of this year. We don't have teams or specific locations confirmed for any yet.

If anyone here is excited to help make these events happen, please reach out to me on ollie@eaglobal.org !

Thank you! Fixed. I had forgotten what year we're in.

Thanks for sharing this! It's great to hear about the growth of EA groups around the world. Good luck!

I'm very excited about this! Where's that huge American flag emoji when you need one.

Thank you for flagging this!

We've now made this talk public. All EAGxVirtual 2023 talks were unlisted. I think (90% confidence) the team hadn't yet received confirmation from the speakers that they should post, and I'm just checking that with them. I've asked the team to post all the videos that they have received consent from the speaker to share.

This is broadly correct from an EAGx perspective :) (I run EAGx)

Minor correction: 

It is also my understanding that there will be an EAGxRotterdam in 2024.

CEA and EA Netherlands are planning an event in the Netherlands, but it won't necessarily be in Rotterdam.

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