EA - EAGxVirtual: Speaker announcements, timings, and other updates by Sasha Berezhnoi

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: EAGxVirtual: Speaker announcements, timings, and other updates, published by Sasha Berezhnoi on November 2, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.EAGxVirtualis fast approaching and we're excited to share some more details about the event!This post covers updates from the team, including dates and times, content, unique features, and demographic data. In theprevious post, we covered the conference theme, reasons to attend, and reviews from the previous attendees.Content: what to expectWe're very excited to announce our key speakers for this event:Peter Singeron the most pressing moral issues facing humanity.Bruce Friedrich, President of The Good Food Instituteon longtermism and alternative proteins.Carl Robichaud, Co-lead on nuclear policy grantmaking at Longview Philanthropyon a turning point in the story of nuclear weapons.Olga Kikou, Head of the EU Office of Compassion in World Farmingon ending the cage age in the EU.Neel Nanda, Research Engineer at DeepMindon open problems in mechanistic interpretability.We are working hard on the program. Beyond the above talks (and many more talks and workshops!), you can expect office hours hosted by experts and EA orgs, fireside chats, group meetups and icebreakers, lightning talks from attendees, and unofficial satellite events.The tentative schedule is availablehere(all times are in UTC).Please note that the schedule is subject to change. The final schedule will be available on the Swapcard app, which we aim to launch next week.Taking action anywhere in the worldWe have already received 600 applications from people representing over 70 countries. We welcome all who have a genuine interest in learning more or connecting, including those who are new to effective altruism. If you are a highly-engaged EA, you can make a difference by being responsive to requests from first-time attendees.The map below shows the geographical distribution of the participants:We would love to see more applications.If you know someone who you think should attend the conference, please encourage them to apply by sending them this link:eagxvirtual.comThe deadline for applications is 11:59 pm UTC on Thursday, 16 November.Apply hereif you haven't already.Dates and timesThe conference will be taking place from 10 am UTC on Friday, November 17th, until 11:59 pm UTC on Sunday, November 19th.We don't expect you to always be onlineyou can be flexible with your participation! It's completely okay if you can attend only on one of the days. Recordings will be available for registered attendees, so you can watch the sessions you missed later.Friday will feature introductory-level content for participants who are relatively new to EA and a career fair onGather Town.Saturday and Sunday will have full-day schedules, starting at 7 am UTC each day.There will be a break in the program on Sunday between 2 am and 7 am UTC.Conference featuresOur main content and networking platform for the conference is theSwapcard. We will share access to the app with all the attendees on November 6 and provide guidance on how to use it and get the most out of the conference.We collaborate with EA Gather Town to make analways-available virtual venuefor the attendees to spark more connections and unstructured discussions throughout the conference.Extensivestewardship program. We will highlight ambassadors across different cause areas whom you can speak to get advice or feedback on your career plans.Evergreen discussion space: we are inviting everyone to use EA Anywhere Slack as a discussion space. No more Slacks that are abandoned immediately after the conference is over!Ways to contributeIf you want to represent your organization at the career fair or host office hours, please,fill out this form.Apply to give a Lightning talkif ...