You may probably spend less time than I do at conferences as well as events. But you must have wondered too about how we can manufacture better utilize of technologies to replace enrich conferences as well as workshops?
Things I’ve seen as well as been involved in:

make the papers available beforehand as well as utilize the time on behalf of discussion as well as demos, because of the fact that those are more difficult to do remotely or asynchronously;
use twitter as a real-time backchannel on behalf of conversation between the participants as well as feedback to the presenters;
enable remote presentations or remote attendance;
make recordings of the presentations, the presentation material, etc. available post event.

You may have experienced other technical enhancements of conferences? Please share below in the comments! Of course, there are numerous un-conference experiments that look at this topic to0…
In any case, the AACE is trying to figure out how to manufacture utilize of technology in the numerous events it is organizing. And they do this … through an on-line conference on “Spaces of Interaction: An Online Conversation on Improving Traditional Conferences“. You can enroll at the web site… We’re getting some Really Good People involved, so this should be really interesting!