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To ensure the best possible experience for folks attending our UNconference session, we've decided to limit attendance to 200 people.

Why?

• Productive group conversation: we have one (very big) room for the session, within which we'll break into sub-groups for breakout discussions. We've designed the schedule with four 25-minute segments. During each segment, six different sub-groups will be meeting, led by whomever wants to lead a segment. With one room and 200 people, we hope that we'll enough room between groups to make for great dialogue.
• Time is finite: we're packing 24 breakout sessions and 3 lightning talks into 3 hours, and it'd be tough to manage more than 200 bodies moving quickly from breakout to breakout. We feel confident that between the four of us, we can guide the schedule and keep things moving along nicely with a manageable crowd.

This is a great problem to have! Julie from the IABC conference team let us know that there might be well over 300 attendees interested in the unconference session, and we decided this is the best way for us to ensure a quality event.

What does this mean for you? Arrive early! And be prepared to participate. We'll get rolling at 2pm sharp on Sunday, so get on the train early to ensure your seat.

We'd also encourage you continue to share your ideas for breakout(s) that you'd like to lead...there's no reason we can't start the conversation early on this site.

If you miss out, we plan to capture as much output and ideas as we can across this group and the other TorontoTalks channels--photos, video, audio, and text. The unconference session is only the beginning of a sharing session that should continue throughout the conference and beyond. Plus, there are four skills builder sessions on the agenda from 2:30-3:45 (damn, I'd love to go to that photography session!).

See you in a week!