Hi Maha – thanks for this post!

I think you’e anticipated most of the issues I’d raise here. I don’t think it’s so much that people would feel cheated out of a keynote by this approach (it’s your keynote so your approach will be the right one!), but I agree with Rebecca that it isn’t a huge amount of time and people will be really keen to hear what you have to say, and your take on the conference theme – the Politics of Open. You’ll need to give yourself and everyone else enough time to frame what it is you are asking people to contribute to on the day, since not everyone will be necessarily able to participate prior to the talk, for a whole range of reasons.

I can’t comment on the technical issues relating to the venue at this point – other than to say I know the ALT team will do their absolute best to support off site participation, as they always do! Someone will be keeping an eye on online participation to ensure that there is an opportunity to feed in the questions of distance attendees.