People who are a fan of the khan academy might know about the concept of "flipping the classroom". The simple idea of this technique is having students watch lecture videos as homework and do problems in the classroom, rather than the reverse.
I wonder whether this same method could be applied to conferences, which often result in long, dull talks followed by interesting questions and discussions. One could imagine recorded talks made available to conference attendees a few days in advance followed by a conference entirely devoted to activities designed to promote interaction between researchers, such as poster sessions, discussion panels, small workshops and even debates. Why spend a day watching a big screen in front of the lecture hall in some convention center when we can just as easily do that in our bathrobe at home?
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