 Some delegates at Science Foo Camp in 2009 | |
| Venue | Googleplex |
|---|---|
| Location | Mountain View, California |
| Type | Foo Camp Unconference |
| Theme | Interdisciplinary |
| Organised by | Google Digital Science O'Reilly Media |
| Website | www |
Science Foo Camp (scifoo) is an annual interdisciplinary scientific unconference organized by O'Reilly Media, Digital Science, Alphabet Inc., based on an idea from Linda Stone.[1] The event is based on the spirit and format of Foo Camp, an event focused on emerging technology, and is designed to encourage collaboration between scientists who would not typically work together. As such, it is unusual among conferences in three ways:
- attendance is by invitation-only
- the delegates come from many different areas of science rather than one subject, such as physics, chemistry or biology
- the meeting has no fixed agenda; the invited scientists, technologists and policy makers set the conference program during the conference itself, based on their shared professional interests and enthusiasms, aka unconference
The first event in 2006 was held under the Chatham House Rule. The policy at the second event was to allow open reporting by default; attendees were expected to indicate if their comments were off the record. Science Foo Camp has taken place annually at the Googleplex campus in Mountain View, California, United States.