Thursday, 29th June 2017 – Circo Bar, Bath
Well, if a conference is a line-up of speakers who stand at a podium with a PowerPoint presentation, talk for 55 minutes, take questions for 5 minutes and then move on to the next speaker … then a #tru event is the complete opposite of that!
First of all, there are no speakers, no presentations, no podiums and no being stuck in your seat for an hour being bored by someone who just isn’t entertaining or relevant to you. Instead we have track leaders, people whom we have invited to start a conversation around topics that they feel passionately about with people who share that passion.
We are delighted, along with our partners Candidate.ID, Meet and Engage and Purple House to be bringing the #tru circus to the South West of England. First stop Bath.
Tracks here mean topics, themes, which are navigated by a track leader, who sets a direction the discussion goes. Track leaders lead a 45 minute “track” on a chosen topic which typically involves participants sitting around in a circle with the track leader opening the discussion with a 5 minute background on his or her topic and then opening the topic up for discussion within the group. For the next 25 minutes anyone can contribute, offer an opinion, ask questions, tell a story or even direct the conversation into a brand new topic!
