People: Angela Macdonald (Lead), Lena Burova, Priyanka Erande, Pratyusha Simharaju, Perle Laouenan Catchpole, Monika Leska, Nikolett Berki, Joanna Chan, Shuo Pesko Yang, Barbara Garnell

Channel: #core-events

Event Team Weekly Meetings

EV OKRs

Draft Pages

🎯 What is the purpose of this team?

This team helps the WoCl mission by building relationships between WoCl members through events.

Building relationships between WoCl members helps build the fertile soil for our climate work movement, because people who know each other are more likely to collaborate on bringing others into the space - for example, people in a designers subcommunity who know each other are more likely to start a climate track at a major design conference.

This team is successful if, as a result of its work, many thousands of WoCl members build helpful work relationships with other members whom they have met at an event.

An event is successful if many of its attendees meet each other again face-to-face, ideally more than once.

⚡ What does this team do?

This team runs its own event series (such as Success Stories) and enables other teams (including WoCl subcommunities) to run their event series.

To involve a large fraction of the WoCl member base each quarter, the team ensures that the events are helpful, well-promoted, and convenient to attend - through running a fair number of very large events, or a very large number of moderate-sized events; currently we are betting on the former.

To be highly effective at building relationships between their attendees, the team designs event formats so that every single event dedicates a large fraction of its time to relationship-building (for example, we never run events where a speaker simply gives a talk and takes Q&A), for which we use skilled event facilitators and tweak pre- and post-event workflows to bring together attendees who are most likely to develop a working relationship (e.g. those who can help each other).

To help other teams and subcommunities run their event series, this team provides workflows, tools, guidelines/requirements, and the help of skilled facilitators for their events.

🀝 How do I work with this team?

To propose an official event

See respective section on Events: Learn from curated events

🚧 Internal use

Resources