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Conference Planning Is Just Risk Management in a Better Outfit

January 27, 2026
The Myth of the “Quiet Season”

January 19, 2026
Your Conference Timeline Is Lying to You

January 12, 2026
Starting the New Year as a Conference Planner: What Actually Needs a Reset

January 6, 2026
New Year, Same Conference Chaos: How Planners Actually Set Goals

December 29, 2025
What Conference Planners Really Want for Christmas

December 22, 2025
Email Templates That Save Your Sanity (And Keep Your Speakers From Ghosting You)

December 15, 2025
The Art of the Pre-Conference Checklist: Or Why My Brain Runs on Excel and Hope

December 8, 2025
The Calm Before the Conference: Lies We Tell Ourselves in the Final Week

December 1, 2025
The Session Grid: Where Sanity Goes to Die

November 17, 2025
The Great Chair Fiasco of 2009: A Conference Planner’s Worst Wake-Up Call

November 3, 2025
So You Want to Be a Conference Planner? (Or… Maybe You Just Fell Into It Like the Rest of Us)

October 29, 2025
Confessions of a Spreadsheet Addict

October 11, 2025