As an employee in a company or organization, there will be instances when you will be tasked to attend a seminar, training, conference, etc. Usually those conventions are closely related to what the company organization does on a daily or how the company or organization can improve on other aspects. These conventions are important since new information, techniques, or strategies will be taught and discussed helping the company grow even more. Sometimes, it can also be required by the law that a representative of a company is sent to attend conventions.
With that in mind, if you are the chosen representative of the company to attend these conventions, you will have to report back to the company regarding what has been discussed during the formal forums. Doing so will inform executives in the company or even the other employees about new information and other topics that was discussed in the convention.
By definition, a conference is “a meeting of two or more persons for discussing matters of common concern, a usually formal interchange of views, or a meeting of members of the two branches of a legislature to adjust differences.” With this, a conference is usually a gathering attended by a group of people with relative similarities in profession, culture, industry, etc., to discuss specific topics in order to disseminate information, discuss new information, settle conflicts, and so on.
In this case, a conference report is a document made by an attendee of the conference intended to spread the learned information from said conference to colleagues or executive officers. It puts into writing what the entire conference is about, what has been discussed, who were the key speakers, how the new information can be applied to the company or organization, and others. The main purpose of a conference report is to give the people who were not present during the conference a comprehensive idea on what has transpired during such event.
Basically, the conference report summarizes the entirety of the conference. It explains the main idea of what the speaker has discussed and basically all the other activities that occurred on the said conference. It is usually required to submit a conference report almost immediately after the attendee reports back to work in order to preserve the information he/she was able to learn. In addition to that, it is also distributed to other employees especially when there is a need for immediate action to what has been discussed in the conference.
To sum it up, a conference report is basically a feedback report an attendee makes in order to inform others of what important information was taught and discussed during the conference. It keeps the others updated and informed especially if it is somehow concerned with some of the company’s employed processes and procedures.
