Action researchers strive to create an interface between theory and practice. Different methods to organize learning events seeking to create such interface have been developed in Scandinavia. These methods have been used for over forty years and they have influenced different Scandinavian action research perspectives. One method to bridge the gap between theory and practice in large scale development projects is the dialogue conference. Lately in Sweden a new method to integrate theory and practice in large scale projects has emerged, the Analysis Seminar. In the conference paper we will compare a late generation of dialogue conferences (Gustavsen, 2006) with analysis seminars (Halvarsson and Öhman-Sandberg, 2009). Whereas the dialogue conference is quite well documented in the research literature, less is written about the analysis seminar. We will therefore in the paper present two Swedish cases to portrait the use of analysis seminars as a departure for the comparison. As interactive researchers we have used analysis seminars in the presented research projects over a four year period. Democratic dialogue and joint learning are a common ground for the dialogue conference and the analysis seminar. The implications of the differences and the similarities of the two methods will be highlighted and discussed in the paper.