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  • Email Templates That Save Your Sanity (And Keep Your Speakers From Ghosting You)

    There comes a point in every conference cycle when half your job becomes sending emails that say, “Just circling back…” while your soul quietly circles the drain. Speaker management is one of those things no one warns you about. You start out thinking you’re coordinating brilliant professionals, and you end up feeling like you’re herding…

  • The Calm Before the Conference: Lies We Tell Ourselves in the Final Week

    The week before a conference lives in its own strange universe. A place where hope and chaos hold hands. A place where we tell ourselves beautiful little lies with the confidence of someone who absolutely refuses to look directly at the to-do list growing behind them like a hydra. We’ve spent months planning, organizing, color-coding,…

  • The Session Grid: Where Sanity Goes to Die

    There’s a special kind of panic that comes when you realize your color-coded session grid—your masterpiece, your magnum opus—has somehow sprouted three double-booked rooms and one presenter scheduled to be in two places at once. You stare at the spreadsheet, take another sip of cold coffee, and whisper to yourself, “It’s fine. Everything’s fine.” For…

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

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

    Ever wondered who’s behind those seamless conferences where everything magically happens on time, the coffee never runs out (hopefully), and name badges appear like clockwork? Spoiler alert — it’s people like me. And let me tell you, none of us planned to be here. We just somehow tripped, stumbled, and fell face-first into the world…

  • Confessions of a Spreadsheet Addict

    Every conference planner has a list… and a list of their lists. There are the things that need to get done today, the things that need to get done tomorrow, and the things that haven’t even made it to a list yet but somehow haunt your dreams at 2 a.m. (usually involving room sets or…