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

10. Both as Knowers
and Learners

11. Everyone
is Speaker

12. You Set the
program
yourself

13. Your Schedule
Your Time

14. “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

15. Participants should have:
Passion&
Responsibility

16. Without Passion:
Nobody is interested

17. Without
Responsibility
nothing
will get done

18. Based
on 4
principles

19. Whoever
comes is
the right people

20. Whateverhappens
is all that
could have

21. Whenever
it starts
is the right time

22. When
it is over,
it is over

23. The law of
two feets

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

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

26. people come
together
around topics
they careabout

27. Voluntary
self-selection

28. Open Space
by Example

30. from
Thursday
to
Saturday

31. English : Official
Language

33. Thursday Evening:
World Café

35. Thursday Evening:
Lightening Talk
@ SoCraTes-UK

36. Creating
the Agenda

42. Retro - at the end
of the day

43. Evening
activities

44. After midnight
discussions

45. After SoCraTes
Sunday

46. SoCraTes-DE
200 attendees

47. SoCraTes-DE
169 sessions
per day

48. SoCraTes-DE
crafts developers
from all Europe

49. The Community is growing:
channel Slack

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

51. SoCraTes in
UK, BE, SP

52. Freeze Code
iTake

53. and
this year

54. SoCraTes-FR

56. Target:
35 attendees

57. Be Prepared
to be surprised