Anarchy OK
There are no fixed sessions at Stream. You just write what you want to talk about on the big boards, and at the allotted time, a group of people turn up at your conference room, or lawn, or bar table, ready to talk about it.
No one is in charge, because no one can be in charge. Such is the speed of change and transference of ideas in Web 2.0 that any discussion scheduled three months before the conference would no longer be worth having.
And that leads on to the thing that is different about Stream.
Most conferences are full of managers dressed to impress, cautiously agreeing with their bosses about measured corporate objectives. Not so at Stream. Here anything goes, and anyone can – and does - disagree with anyone.
Most conferences are about etching a corporation’s policies into the minds of its managers.
This unconference is different. The discussion is genuine. And the outcome is genuinely useful.