This is a reminder about the forthcoming teacher/coach conference organized by RealBridge and BAMSA. The conference will feature speakers from all around the world, on a range of topics that will be useful to teachers and coaches.

It takes place on 7th and 8th October 2023. The event website is here: https://realbridge.online/teacher-coach-conference-2023.html

It is a free event. Please sign up to learn more about the schedule, and to receive updates.

MAIN TOPICS OF DISCUSSION;

· Information on new approaches to teaching
· Channels, ideas and tools to market the game and the services
· Benefits of providing or earning accreditation
· How teachers can become the best version of themselves through personal development
· Youth players: organizational considerations, successes, issues, attitudes of schools
· Best ways to teach children and youth: practices, techniques, interactions, differences from adult teaching
· Approaches to coaching: supporting and overseeing the entire development of a player (as distinct from instructional teaching)

Where and when?

Dates: 7 & 8 October 2023, depending on time zones. Each session is 3 hours.

	UTC	EDTNew York	BSTUK	CESTParis	AEDTSydney	NZDTNew Zealand
Session 1	Sat 7 Oct 08:00		Sat 7 Oct 9:00 am	Sat 7 Oct 10:00	Sat 7 Oct 7:00 pm	Sat 7 Oct 9:00 pm
Session 2	Sat 7 Oct 20:30	Sat 7 Oct 4:30 pm	Sat 7 Oct 9:30 pm	Sat 7 Oct 22:30	Sun 8 Oct 7:30 am	Sun 8 Oct 9:30 am
Session 3	Sun 8 Oct 13:00	Sun 8 Oct 9:00 am	Sun 8 Oct 2:00 pm	Sun 8 Oct 15:00	Mon 9 Oct 00:00

This conference is online, on Zoom. This is a free conference. Anyone can attend.

Live presentations will typically be 20 minutes long, with an additional 5 minutes for Q&A. Pre-recorded and subtitled presentations may be a little longer than that, and will be available for view in advance of the conference. The provisional plan is that there are 5 presentations per session. So, in total 15 live presentation over all three sessions, and a further 10+ pre-recorded presentations.  Some of them will be translated to French, Italian and Spanish.

How to take part?

Please complete this form so that we can send you more information about the event, pre-conference material, and joining link. The information we collect from you is solely related to this conference.

What to do now?

As an NBO or teaching association: please announce this to your teacher community. Let the conference organizers know if you would like to propose speakers. Ask people if they want to be on the mailing list.

As a practitioner: publicize this to your colleagues, or the club you teach at. Ask people if they want to be on the mailing list.

As a prospective presenter: Please contact us, submitting a short abstract (we suggest about 100 words). We now have 15 live presenters allocated to all the slots. We very much welcome presenters who can pre-record their presentations so that we can add them to the conference website.

As an interested person (researcher, journalist): let us know if you would like to be involved in the organization of the conference. Are you willing to help with writing a press release, previewing presentations, or other assistance?

Mailing list sign-up: https://forms.gle/Bv8vhqZDvDTBqbdWA

There will be 15 speakers presenting live. There will be 10+ who have created videos in advance.

Speakers confirmed are:

Australia: Joan Butts, Paul Marston. Canada: Darwin Li. Czech Republic: Milan Macura. Denmark: Morten Bilde. France: Jean-Pierre Desmoulins. Germany: Ulrich Bongartz.  Iceland: Matthías Imsland. Ireland: Dermot O’Brien. Italy: Benedetta Ragazzi.  New Zealand/UK: Lyn Fry. Norway: Ane Haaland, Marianne Harding. Singapore: Gary Yee, Kelvin Ong. Sweden: Linnea Edlund. Tunisia: Meriem Daldoul Dorai. UK: Alan Shillitoe, Michael Rushworth, Sam Knox, Sam Punch. USA: David Loeb, Deborah Drysdale, Allison Evans, Patty Tucker, Rob Barrington, Robert Todd, Michael Berkowitz,  Tracey Bauer. USA/Canada: Gavin Wolpert.

This is being sent to all NBOs / Zonal Authorities as well as to any Youth Representatives we are aware of and to tournament directors as many of them are involved in teaching and coaching for bridge