Sounds about right 
I was wondering how they were going to navigate having all of these different voices in one physical room with the clock ticking. That’s the thing about real-time “broadcast” conversations where one person at a time has the floor - there is simply not enough bandwidth for everyone to be heard on their own terms and relationship to language. And a nightmare for introverts.
Perhaps it is rather a question of untangling the various needs that this, and any other, event is trying to fullfill…
Seeing and being heard?
Access to structured, easy to digest, information?
Building relationships?
Other?
We were discussing the other day with @alberto and @noemi the purpose of physical events. Especially international conferences where a lot of people travel to get there. If for no other reason than that travelling unless it is absolutely unavoidable is really starting to bother us.
I cannot let go of this idea to run federated events - you know, global date for local events type format. Auonomous groups organise their local events, but collaborating and coordinating online to build a strong, interesting program. Then document and post learnings online so people everywhere can learn what happens in different places and build on it.
@christina_jordan has experience with organising gatherings for/with people in different contexts - rural uganda, thailand, us. A while back she started this thread on co-creative processes which includes some formats for events Create a Wiki with links to information about co-creative processes
Would be interesting to explore this a bit more