What is the difference between a knowledge festival and a conference?

A conference is usually formal: speakers on a stage, audience in rows, little interaction. A knowledge festival has a more open structure.

Participants move freely between different sessions, workshops and informal encounters. The threshold is lower, the energy higher. Knowledge festivals are becoming increasingly popular as a format for internal knowledge sharing or as a client event.

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