After every Think Visibility we send out a questionnaire, which attendees fill in anonymously, we’ve already had some great responses but because we cannot directly respond to them… I’d like to do some of them here.
Lunch could have been better with more variety – Food is one of the areas than can bump up a ticket price very quickly, adding a few extra sandwiches can add £5 / £10 per person very quickly, we decided to sacrifice a massive range of sandwiches and concentrate on the amount of food we received (after last years ‘lack’ of food)
Sandwiches need to have labels to show what they are – Yep, we will do this.
Change the coffee and tea - This was brought up several times and it’s something we will be looking at (if your interested, we actually drank over 8 times the amount of coffee we paid…so we got in trouble)
Sponsors didn’t have high profile – We encouraged all sponsors to send us a display or bag drops but in some cases the times were just too thin, I’ve spoken to a few of the sponsors about this and they were very happy with the coverage received at the conference.
Why was it Beer and Wine only? – That was my call and I apologise, we had some technical difficulties at the start of the party and I wasn’t able to sort the bar properly, we restrict to Beer and Wine to stop people taking the piss but had I thought cider and some other drinks should have been on the whitelist (next time I forgot, just poke me and I’ll sort it) as for subsidizing the cost of higher value drinks, It’s something we will certainly look into and talk to the venue about.
The After Party started too late – starting the after party at this time allowed us to clean up and set up each room.
The After Party started too early – you just can’t win sometimes 
Dom went to bed too early - What can I say, I’m a lightweight
More hands on talks, with take home information, too much duplication from the first and second conference – Take home information is one of the things Think Visibility tries to provide so I’m sorry that we may have failed with it, as for the duplication point, we try and mix things around each time so duplication is avoided but we will look into this a bit more.
Pre Party BOGOF Deal Didn’t Happen – That wasn’t intentional but the bar changed the offer without telling me, I will be sitting down with the pub manager next week to discuss the party.
More networking opportunities - A few people have noted that they were on there own and wanted a hand being introduced to others, we tried to kickstart a bit of this with the lanyards but it’s something we will look into .
Blackhat vs Whitehat techniques – noted and we will try and put a session on next time.
Can you not schedule it next to mothers day – blame the salsa conference that double booked us with us.
Technical level of talks – we will be giving each talk a technical rating next time.
Eyetracking should have been better publicised – yep, as one of the little extras for attendees the eyetracking was displayed, however because it clashed with three decent sessions, a lot of people didn’t see it.
Make it a two day conference and charge more – Okay!, no just kidding, we do have something planned for September which will hopefully make travelling down on friday worth it but Think Visibility is going to be a one day conference.
The Sessions are too long / The Sessions are too short - we seem to have an even number of these so I think we will keep the session times as they are.
Its not all negative, there are some fantastic comments about the conference, but we will be using them shortly for something else
I will be updating this post over the next few days while more responses come in.
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March 14th, 2010
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