Preliminary schedule. Subject to change.
Conference Hours
- Monday, August 21, 5:30pm-9:30pm
- Tuesday, August 22, 8:30am-5pm
- Wednesday, August 23, 8:30am-12:30pm
- Wednesday, August 23, 2:30-4:30pm, ONA-wide event
Conference Purpose
Connect the adventurers who are reimagining journalism to pool what we have learned and take our work to a new level in strengthening people, their communities, and democracy.
Monday, August 21 Setting the Stage
Temple University Student Center
Room 200 Student Center South
1755 N. 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
We’ll lay the groundwork for a working conference by getting a sense of who’s in the room and what we intend to accomplish.
5:30pm Registration
6:00pm Reception/Dinner
6:30pm Welcome
7:00pm Connecting to each other and the work
9:30pm Adjourn
Tuesday, August 22 Discovery: Explore/imagine/invent
Temple University Student Center
Room 200 Student Center South
1755 N. 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
We’ll use Open Space Technology to set the agenda for breakout sessions hosted by participants on topics of their choice.
Outcomes: Topics of most interest explored in-depth. Individual and collective insights into what we have learned from our many experiments will emerge as we share the philosophies, principles, and practices that inform our work.
8:30am Breakfast
9:00am Welcome, agenda creation
10:30am Breakout sessions, round 1
Noon Lunch
1:00pm Breakout sessions, round 2
2:30pm Breakout sessions, round 3
4:00pm Evening News: Highlights from the day
5:00pm Adjourn
Wednesday, August 23 What’s Next?
ONA Conference Hotel – Marriott Philadelphia Downtown
Salon A/B 5th Floor
1201 Market St., Philadelphia, PA
[Participation in ONA is NOT required.]
We will seek to name core principles that inform our work. And we’ll provide space for shaping initiatives that have life beyond this event.
Outcomes: Ideas generated, partnerships formed, current initiatives revitalized, new initiatives identified, principles articulated to widely share.
8:30am Registration
9:00am
Morning Announcements
What have we learned? Coalesce our insights to share with others.
Pro-Action Café – Turn ideas into action through diving in more deeply into your next steps.
12:30pm Adjourn
2:30pm ONA session – Engaging Emergence: Advancing the Future of Journalism for All
Using an engagement practice called The World Café, we’ll share the principles we named through conversations with other ONA participants. Described this way in the ONA schedule:
What does a career in journalism look like that strengthens people, their communities, and democracy? Join a conversation with journalists and fellow adventurers who have spent years developing innovative responses to that question.
4:30pm Adjourn