BIL Conference
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 BIL Conference facts

• It was founded in 2007 by Cody Marx Bailey, Todd Huffman, Bill Erickson and others who volunteered to help with the idea
• BIL started as an unaffiliated unconference satellite to TED’s structured ‘invite only’ paid conference
• BIL is an open, self-organizing, emergent arts, science, society, and technology conference
• Anyone can come, and anyone is able to sign-up to speak, limited only by space and time
• The unconference structure allows for egalitarian treatment of anyone in any role; everyone is encouraged to participate where they can, whether that's clean up, set up, getting coffee, listening, AV work, blogging the conference, registration, etc