Conferences organized by Germans and by Italians are so different as to constitute experiences of an entirely different order. Germans create a community at their conferences, a mini Volk that is bound together by commonality and emotional investment. By the end of the conference, everybody is best friends forever and ever.
Nobody else is good at this but Italians are even less so than everybody else. Wonderful people but Volksgeist is not their thing. I’m loving it in Spain but I miss my German conference organizers like crazy.

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