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How many volunteers were present at the Congress? : |
At least 250 had participated at this conference. |
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Delegates from which countries presented in the congress? : |
Participants were come from across the world. However, the majority of them were Europeans. Italy, Netherlands, England, Germany, France, Spain, and couple of other countries had the largest number of participants. |
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Were the delegates of any other organizations present in the congress? : |
Yes |
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If yes, please write the names of the organizations in the box : |
There were so many from mostly universities. |
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What were the responses to your talking points? Were specific questions or concerns raised? : |
I received positive feedback from people attending the session on operations management. From those comments I learned how to improve the paper based on which I had prepared the talk. A specific question that was raised by the chair of the session regarded how we can provide best practice recommendations to managers based on evidence of my research. |
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If you met staff members, please list their full names & positions. : |
Of course I met several people such as Kim Putters, Walter Sermeus, and my ex colleagues. |
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Please inform us if there are any follow up actions we need to talk with the members of the congress : |
At the moment I need to work with people that I met on shared interests. |
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Your experiences about the travel processes(Providing ticket, accommodation,...) : |
All went well. |
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Please give a briefing of your own observations and outcomes of the congress: : |
Taking a couple of days off, preparing a presentation, and being in a conference are great experiences for an academic. You can exercise your presentation and networking skills there.
“Thought provoking†was a term that I had frequently heard in this conference. I noticed that presentations with challenging conceptual frameworks or those that triggered pondering on challenges got more audiences and raise further questions. I personally believe mere presenting data and analyses without points to discuss or to challenge audiences would not be able to involve audiences. However, we need to think twice about our presentation, to build it upon a convincing conceptual fame and a set of questions and wherever possible to go through detail of research methods |