An Amazing LCHF Conference
Standing ovations from 600+ participants at the end of the conference
Now the LCHF conference is over and the final activities for the speakers are also over. It’s about time to leave for the airport.
It’s been a few amazing, insightful and highly inspirational days with several of the most impressive people I’ve met (including two great people I met for the first time – Dr Aseem Malhotra and Dr Jason Fung).
The *only* thing that could have been better is the opportunities to connect to fast internet and blog effectively. Sorry about the lack of updates, there’ll be a lot more coming as soon as I’m back home again.
We’ve recorded five longer video interviews in high quality (using four cameras) with the most exciting experts that were here. You’ll be able to see these interviews here on the blog as soon as they are ready. We’ve also recorded around 20 super short interviews with participants onsite. They’ll also be online here as soon as possible.
Online Conference and London 2015 (!)
ALL the superb talks of the four days of the conference were recorded in high quality by the organizers. Pending approval by the speakers they’ll be online soon for anyone to see, at a cost that’s a tiny fraction of being here live. A total bargain if you ask me, because even though I’ve done this for years I learned a lot by being here.
The cost of the online summit will help pay for the professional video production crew (6 people onsite!) and an insane amount of editing (it will likely take 5 people working full time for one month). Any surplus will help fund the next conference.
One more piece of good news: The upcoming LCHF conference in London in 2016 that was discussed earlier may be coming as early as in September this year. That’s the latest plans. The Food Revolution is spreading across the world and it’s moving faster than ever.
Earlier
Video From the LCHF Conference in Cape Town – check out what it looked like in this 1 minute video
The LCHF Conference Could Come to London and Washington D.C.
Personally I feel that they charged more that enough for the conference to cover the cost for the camera men. The extreme cost of the conference is why I didn't attend ( I am a South African, maybe with the rand/dollar exchange it wasn't so expensive for you all)
Another point is that I think it is the delegates messages that inspired the people, how can the organizers of convention take your work and your speech and charge money for it. I think the lectures have the final say and copyright on their own work.
It's not unusual for these types of conferences to keep the copyright, although you'd have to look to see what the contracts between presenters and organizations were, and you'd have to know South African copyright law (which I do not). It is too bad they did not provide this for free or at least a nominal cost. Low carb needs all the help it can get. The US is refreshing its eating guidelines and are preparing to remove "lean meats" from the list of "approved" foods. Already, my daughter cannot get full fat milk in her school, but can get highly sugared, non-fat chocolate milk. Does that make sense to anyone? Will she now no longer be able to get meat at school? That's ridiculous. We need to advocate low carb or at least a reversal on saturated fat, and requiring people to pay to see information about low carb isn't a great idea.
"One more piece of good news: The upcoming LCHF conference in London in 2016 that was discussed earlier may be coming as early as in September this year. That’s the latest plans. The Food Revolution is spreading across the world and it’s moving faster than ever."
Thanks for all the info you've been able to share so far ..... appreciated.
All the best Jan
As for them charging for the videos...they have every right to charge for the videos. It will take time and money (as mentioned above) to edit them and make them ready for us to watch, and any money made above the cost of the recording and editing of the videos will go toward paying for the next conference. It looks like this is not put together to "Make money" but rather to spread the word, and it takes Lots of Money to put something like this together.
Speaking of the LCHF message "moving faster than ever". Here is an article that promotes dietary changes to help with mental illness: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/24/diet-mental-health_n_6566376...
Do you ever get paid when you work? If you do, why shouldn't other people be paid for their work?
The five-six video professionals who are producing this extensive video material – using extremely expensive cameras and other equipment – both deserve and need to get paid for the work they do.
Some people are happy with low quality video of lectures with poor sound and no slides. If so they can find any number of such recordings for free already by going to YouTube and searching for "LCHF" or "low carb". There is no shortage of them.
This is going to be twenty hours plus of excellent-quality video recordings. I'm super impressed by the people involved. It's going to be way better than what's typically found for free. And the price will be a relative bargain. And the people who produce it are going to get a fair wage for their work. And any surplus helps fund future conferences.
Personally I think it's a great way to do it.