Ballrooms with rows of chairs, cloth-covered tables, the panel or expert speaker up front (we'll talk at break). It's been that way for over 30 years. As a former journalist and full-time speaker for several years I've never understood the lack of change in conference and meeting formats - especially in this peer-powered New Normal World. Every once in awhile someone suggests radical changes to the meeting professionals, most recently Eliott Maisie.