🗣️ A self-run meeting 🗣️ To hold informally

to unconference

8.3

To hold a meeting where people choose the topics and lead sessions

verb
/ˌʌnˈkɒn.fəns/

: unconferenciar

This year, the organizers chose to unconference the event, letting attendees decide the topics.

Examples

Many tech communities prefer to unconference so everyone can contribute ideas and lead sessions.
After years of traditional meetings, the team decided to unconference their annual retreat.
We will unconference next weekend!
The team decided to unconference this year.
This year, the organizers chose to unconference the event, letting attendees decide the topics.
After years of traditional meetings, the team decided to unconference their annual retreat.
Many tech communities prefer to unconference so everyone can contribute ideas and lead sessions.

Synonyms

to convene

vsto unconference

Formal

45 5.7

To bring people together for a formal meeting

focuses on organizing self-directed events where attendees set the agenda

to conference

vsto unconference

Formal

6 4.0

To talk with others to make a decision or share ideas

lets participants set and lead sessions rather than following a set program

How Structured

to organize

662 1.6

to convene

Formal

45 5.7

to unconference

8.3

to meet

∞ 1.0

to improvise

141 4.0

Surface Forms

unconference infinitive

unconferenced past

unconferenced past participle

unconferencing present participle

unconferences third person singular

Morphology

unconference = unconference (semi-transparent) = un + conference

The verb is a direct conversion from the noun 'unconference', so the form change is minimal and the action meaning is straightforward once the noun is known.

Etymology

Unconference comes from un- ('not') + conference ('meeting'), like in 'undo' or 'unpack' where un- means 'not' or 'remove'. To unconference a meeting is to run it without a fixed program, letting attendees decide topics and lead sessions themselves.