Note: This AMA is now live. Please ask your questions below!
Welcome to our Ask Me Anything session with the Animal & Vegan Advocacy (AVA) Summit organizers.
With the AVA Summit DC just around the corner (May 16-19), now's the time to get your questions about the event answered. From speaker applications to VIP networking, Grantees' Day details, exciting aspects of our programming, and anything/everything in between, we're here to provide insights and information. Ask away!
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Questions are answered live by:
- Julia Reinelt, Executive Director
- Taylor Waters, Program & Partnerships Lead
- Amie Albright, Communications & Design Lead
- Amanda Cramer, Event Manager
We can't wait to answer your questions!
Note: This AMA is now live. Please ask your questions below!
Hi David, we’ve actually gotten pretty good feedback on Whova in general from our attendees – most of them are using it to see who is coming and arrange 1:1 meetings with other attendees.
The defining difference between AVA Events and other conferences is that our audience consists of dedicated individuals working or looking to work in the animal and vegan advocacy movement professionally. Our audience consists of >80% full-time advocates working for organizations (using all kinds of strategies) towards our shared goals. We are an “internal facing” event, not targeting the mainstream. The beauty of this — and that’s what most of our speakers tell us — is that we can truly speak as animal advocates, use the term vegan, and don’t "need to" wrap up our content for a more mainstream audience.
Another thing that makes us unique is the amount of international attendees and speakers. We’ve had 48 nations represented at our last US Summit!