Episode 18 - How plurality strengthens evaluation: interview with May Pettigrew about the EES Autumn Event

REvaluation Podcast

This time we take the opportunity to share our take-aways from the 2023 Autumn Event by the European Evaluation Society (EES) under the Motto "Alternative Futures: What role for evaluation in a just transition?". As our interview guest, we invited May Pettigrew, EES Vice Chair and main organiser of the Autumn Event to discuss with us the impressions we had. We chat about the diversity of contributions to this online conference, learn how plurality is key for just transitions as well as meaningful evaluations, and we get recommendations what evaluators need to understand and do now to cope with AI technologies entering the field. In particular, we focus on two sessions:
1) Session "Evaluating the Impact of Innovation and SME Support Programs:
Unleashing Entrepreneurial Potential" - Full recording of the session [via YouTube]

• Contribution by Cliff Paredes, Massachusetts SBDC Network
• Contribution by Raffaele Trapasso, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions & Cities
• Closing by Mita Marra, Editor In Chief at Evaluation and Program Planning

2) Keynote "A just Transition" by Linda Raftree, MERL Tech Initiative
- Full recording of the keynote talk [via YouTube]
Thank you for this great conversation!
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Chapters

1. Welcome & Intro (00:00:00)

2. European Evaluation Society presented by May Pettigrew (00:02:03)

3. The ESS Autumn event (00:05:10)

4. Tobias on the session evaluating SME innovation support (00:14:34)

5. Cliff Paredes about the MSBDC (00:16:17)

6. Cliff on the role in advising for private sector clients (00:18:30)

7. Raffaele Trabasso on entrepreneurial education at the OECD (00:22:07)

8. Raffaele on ecosystems and their borders (00:26:08)

9. May Pettigrew on plurality in evaluation (00:29:00)

10. Mita Marra on moving along networks in evaluations (00:33:24)

11. Isabella presents the ESS Autumn event's keynote (00:34:54)

12. Linda Raftree gives a realist view on how AI might impact evaluation (00:37:18)

13. What we as evaluators need to do now, to cope with AI (00:41:52)

14. Coming back to plurality and how AI might reduce it (00:49:23)

15. Outro: Likes, Feedback and further fteval services (00:55:48)