“Update on EA Global costs and 2024 CEA Events Team activities” by OllieBase, Amy Labenz

In August 2023, we shared that: EAGs from 2022–2023 each cost around $2M–$3.6M USD at around $1.5k–2.5k per person per event. These events typically cost a lot because the fixed costs of running professional events in the US and UK are surprisingly high. We’re aiming to get these event costs down to ≤$2M each moving forwards. We’ve already started to cut back on spending and will continue to do so, whilst also raising default ticket prices to recoup more of our costs. Since then, our team has cut the cost of running EA Global significantly. Our average gross cost-per-attendee (CPA) has fallen from ~$2,000 in 2023 to ~$1,600 in 2024. We also met our target of getting total event costs down: every EA Global this year cost <$1.5M. We’ve cut costs by: Reducing the amount of food we serve. We cut dinners on [...] ---Outline:(06:01) Other 2024 updates and 2025 goals(06:14) EA Global(09:39) EAGx(12:38) Partner Events(14:27) Impact stories from our events(14:56) Donate to support our work(15:34) Appendix: MetricsThe original text contained 10 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. The original text contained 4 images which were described by AI. --- First published: December 20th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8mCsYwmZC7DCA7cYD/update-on-ea-global-costs-and-2024-cea-events-team --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.