The Boston Chapter meets from 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM on the third Wednesday of each month. Our meetings are graciously hosted by Foley Hoag LLP at their Emerging Enterprise Center in Waltham, Massachusetts. Continental breakfast is provided by Rebecca's Café. Our meetings are organized into several segments including some combination of the following:
- Presentations: A member or a guest volunteers to present a topic of interest to the group. A typical timeslot is 45–60 minutes. However, the Council is very interactive, so presenters are advised to prepare a presentation that assumes that there will be many questions asked. A slide deck that is aimed for a twenty minute presentation is usually ideal.
- Roundtables: A member or a guest volunteers to moderate a discussion among the group. Prepared materials are typically just "discussion catalysts". This is often preferable to a presentation when the topic is not necessarily an area of expertise of any one member.
- Rapid Reports: Something notable in the press, a new discovery or revelation, or the newest buzzword or acronym; the general criteria is that it’s interesting, useful, stupid, or just funny.
- What's Keeping You Up at Night?: One of our most popular segments, where we go around the room and each convey our toughest current issue. We often find that most problems are not truly unique and that someone has been there before.
- Guest Speakers: While most of our meetings are inward facing among the group, we do occasionally invite guest speakers to present to the group or specialists in a related profession to participate in our roundtables.
