Guides for the people who organise academic and professional conferences — the call for papers, abstract management and peer review, the venue and the budget, sponsorship, the programme, and everything that has to be finished before the doors open.
Speaker plans to deliver the submitted conference paper as written A speaker who treats the accepted paper as the script is setting up the most common failure in conference presenting: reading dense academic prose…
Multiple vendors, venue staff and the client all hold separate versions of the plan An event usually runs on several documents at…
Multiple vendors, venue staff and the client all hold separate versions of the plan A caterer confirms a delivery window with the…
Meeting badges are a significant networking tool - halt wasting cash on badge styles that don’t function. “I’ve spoken at 100s of…
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Put in the date of your event and get the schedule that runs backwards from it — when the call for papers has to open, when abstracts close, when the programme has to be out, when badges go to print.
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Conference practice shifts — hybrid formats, review models, what sponsors will pay for. If a guide here is out of date, or you have run an event that worked in a way we have not covered, the editorial team would like to hear about it.
