Upcoming EA conferences in 2024 and 2025

By OllieBase @ 2024-08-05T17:20 (+100)

We’re very excited to announce our EA conference schedule for the rest of this year and the first half of 2025. EA conferences will be taking place for the first time in Nigeria, Cape Town, Bengaluru, and Toronto, and returning to Berkeley, Sydney, and Singapore.

Here are the full details:

EA Global

EAGx

 

 

We’re aiming to launch applications for events later this year as soon as possible. Please go to the event page links above to apply. If you'd like to add EAG(x) events directly to your Google Calendar, use this link.

Some notes on these conferences

Feel free to email hello@eaglobal.org with any questions, or comment below. You can contact EAGx organisers using the format [location]@eaglobalx.org (e.g. berkeley@eaglobalx.org and berlin@eaglobalx.org).

Peter Wildeford @ 2024-08-07T08:00 (+8)

I really appreciate these dates being announced in advance - it makes it much easier to plan!

Bryce Robertson @ 2024-08-07T22:07 (+4)

This is a very useful summary, thanks. I've added those that were missing to AISafety.com/events-and-training.

I'm curious about why the Nigeria and South Africa events are called Summits instead of EAGx – would you mind expanding on the reasoning there? What will be the difference between a Summit and an EAGx? 

OllieBase @ 2024-08-08T10:43 (+7)

Thanks Bryce!

Yes, we're testing out another tier of event with Summits. Summits are typically smaller, operate on a smaller budget, are often 1 day instead of 2–3 days and don't use CEA's application platforms. The idea here is that we can see if a location might be suitable for an EAGx event before we invest significant resources in supporting an EAGx.

We hope to share more about these events in a future post. 

Bryce Robertson @ 2024-08-08T16:23 (+1)

Seems pretty reasonable – thanks!

Cathy Bogaart @ 2024-08-07T15:30 (+4)

So exciting to see so many NEW EA conferences (Nigeria, Cape Town, Bengaluru, and Toronto). I'm on EA Canada's EAGxToronto organizing team and I see how much work it is to organize these events. Looking forward to attending my first one Aug 16-18. Then maybe I will apply for Boston's EAG in Nov! Are there any concerns about nearby conferences cannibalizing each others' potential audiences? Is there a maximum number of conferences that we think will produce the most effective outcome? I'm interested to know how CEA thinks about these things.

OllieBase @ 2024-08-08T10:41 (+5)

Thanks Cathy :) 

Are there any concerns about nearby conferences cannibalizing each others' potential audiences? 

Yes, this is something we're tracking. We try and coordinate the European conferences in particular so that there isn't too much overlap. Most others serve very large regions so I'm less worried about those.

Is there a maximum number of conferences that we think will produce the most effective outcome?

We don't have an answer to that but it's also something we're thinking about. We hope to run more EAGx events in the coming years, since a lot of people travel a long way to attend the nearest EAGx event, and the costs of that travel can sometimes exceed the costs of running another event. The bottlenecks are around our capacity to support more events and strong regional organising teams (please apply if you’re interested!). We aren't currently planning to run more than three EA Globals a year. 

Adebayo Mubarak @ 2024-09-05T00:41 (+1)

There is no link for the application of the EA South Africa Summits in Cape Town. 

Is that due to error or the registration is not open yet? 

OllieBase @ 2024-09-05T07:44 (+2)

Thanks, it wasn't open at the time I posted this, but I've added the link now.