Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/5/2013)
What about pre-submitting questions or scenarios to speakers a week in advance, giving them some idea of the parts of the topic you want to cover?
That wouldn't be a bad idea either. I guess it would depend on the format once at the conference. If it's going to be more a "classroom" type discussion with the speaker providing the information, it would work OK, if it were to be a more "free wheeling" sort of discussion with input / suggestions / other attendees tossing out suggestions / answers then you might get stuck on one topic until time runs out...