What To Expect
In no particular order, here is some of what you can expect from the festival!
- Expect to:
- Make new friends and join - or create - new communities.
- Recharge and energize yourself and your work with the incredible people and projects at MozFest.
- Face challenging issues and questions in pursuit of more ethical, Trustworthy AI.
- Learn something new from every session you attend.
- Find a safe and inclusive environment backed up by strong community participation guidelines and expanded accessibility options.
- Have a lot of choices for which Spaces and Sessions you can attend at MozFest.
- Also expect to:
- Draw inspiration from the people working together for local and global change.
- Learn from the happy collisions and random encounters you have with others you meet in sessions or in our virtual social spaces.
- Hear us organizers ask for help in making things even more welcoming, inclusive, and accessible than we could imagine on our own.
- Call on our fantastic staff and community Volunteers to help you make sense of it all on your way to a wonderful festival experience!
- Think about what it might be like to come back as a Facilitator, Wrangler, or Volunteer in 2023.
What are you expecting or looking forward to at MozFest? What questions or concerns do you have that our community might be able to address? Ask away on our community Slack!
Spaces and Session Types
MozFest is home to all kinds of sessions run by an amazing, diverse, and global community of Facilitators. There are several types of sessions happening at MozFest all across the weekend. You can keep these session types in mind while planning your schedule and thinking about how to meet the needs of participants who prefer to learn and interact in different modes.
This year, our session types include:
- Art & Media
- These include art exhibits, films, and podcasts that you can explore at any time.
- Discussions
- These are live, synchronous sessions that allow for lots of conversation and engagement.
- Lightning Talks & Skill Shares
- These are pre-recorded, asynchronous sessions that you can explore at any time.
- Social events
- These are virtual sessions focused on bringing the MozFest community together for communal activities like a fitness or yoga session, baking classes, or games.
- Workshops
- These are live, synchronous sessions that allow participants to learn or make something together.
There are also a number of Dialogues & Debates panels, as well as local and partnered events going on throughout MozFest; you can learn more about them from the MozFest schedule.
You can review the Schedule, Arts & Media sessions, Lightning Talks, and Fringe Events to add sessions that interest you to your own personal festival schedule. Community plenaries like the Opening and Closing Circles and our Dialogs & Debates series will be livestreamed on the front page of the Plaza, as well.