After logging in to apply I'm getting the below message (the My Applications page then says "No applications were found").
I'm fairly confident I haven't already applied and forgotten about it in the last 2 hours. (I have previously applied for EAGs in 2022.)
Update (22:26 GMT) — This has now been fixed!
Hi Tom, thanks for flagging this!
Sorry that you're experiencing this issue. We've recently migrated to a new system, and trying to keep past application data has been a little tricky — I imagine that's what's caused the problem here.
We're working on a solution right now, and I'll update here once this is resolved!
Thanks Ivan!
Does this post serve as an EAG discussion megathread (as I've proposed before)?
Thanks for the reminder — I think we're likely to post one of these megathreads soon, though do feel free to ask any questions here or email [email protected] (though we may not be able to answer all questions).
We've just posted one of these now, here — thanks again for the suggestion!
I'm getting this error repeatedly:
It looks like you may already have a portal account! We're connecting your portal account to your EA Global account behind the scenes - this will be a one-time process. Try waiting ~15 seconds and then logging back in.
Hi thanks for flagging, we're working on this and should have it fixed soon!
I was getting this error a week ago and still getting it today.
Okay weird, checking in on this now thanks for letting us know!
Would love to attend! I'm 17, is it okay to apply?
Hi sorry for the slow reply, we're currently not letting under 18s attend our events, sorry about that (you can see more detail in other comments below)!
Was the 18+ requirement recently added? I know a couple under-18s that were at EAGx in previous years
We decided to introduce the age minimum recently because there’s a lot of logistical and legal work we‘d have to do to allow minors to attend in a way that’s by the book. We've only had interest from a handful of minors in the past, so decided this wasn’t worth the trade-off and that we should just not allow U18s to attend for now.
We recognize this is annoying and it wasn’t a decision we were happy about making. I hope one day we’ll have enough capacity to allow minors to attend.
For extra context: the amount of logistical/legal work you need to do depends a lot between jurisdictions, and it's a lot more work in the UK compared to the US for example.
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I would love a way to interface with EAGs where (I pay no money, but) I have access to the Swapcard interface and I talk only with people who request meetings with me. I often want to "attend" EAGs in this way, where I don't interface with the conference but I'm available as a resource if people want to talk to me, for which I will schedule remote 1:1s over Zoom. It'd be nice to be helpful to people at a time where they're available and can see I'm available on Swapcard. Are there any kind of "virtual, restricted" options like this?