Imagine a hall filled with 4000 delegates and 800 stewards plus 100 or so guests. Now imagine them all sitting at tables, six per table. That’s the consistent look of the main plenary sessions. Why? I think one reason is because they like the idea of giving everyone an equal voice, whether African, Asian, European, North or South American, or Australian. It kind of levels the playing field. Here will be some important big-wig sitting right beside a tribal guy from Africa who is right beside a twenty-something girl from Asia. And when the table discussions amp up (which occurs often, but often for too brief a time), everybody has an equal say. This is the “whole table, talking to the whole hall, talking to the whole world.”
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