TFOM: Generic Facilitation Template

This spreadsheet is based on one created initially to manage "The Future of Meetings" symposium in 2020. It was developed from scratch to help track the various tasks and deadlines associated with managing an online meeting, though it would be useful in hybrid and in-person contexts too. Since then, it has been used in other events TFOM has been associated with, including ICWIP2021, SP21, S4PGxTFOM and the A4E symposium. It has also been improved over time, based on experience with later events.

We are uploading it here in case it might be useful to others in terms of tracking your own conferences, meetings and events. We note that this spreadsheet is only indicative in terms of appropriate categories and items to track and expect that people will need to customise or improve it to match their own context better. We have always used it in an online cloud form (since this is the easiest way to manage multiple editors), and so we also make available the original Google sheet version here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QwST-ETBYEw4llWZjtcv8za2hziweFIB8K84b4HKUYE/edit?usp=sharing

We welcome feedback on the spreadsheet and any possible suggestions for improvement: https://twitter.com/futuremeetings