What this is
Conference selection, submissions and curator relationships. Programme committees reject company stories and accept propositions, so submissions are written accordingly.
What you get
Where it sits
Getting on the right stage, then being worth the slot.
Frequently asked
Some. More usefully, we know how submissions are actually assessed and write them accordingly, which matters more than a warm introduction to a committee that still has to justify the choice.
Sponsored speaking slots are advertising and audiences read them that way. They have a place in a marketing plan and they do not build authority.
Six to nine months for the events worth having. We build a rolling calendar rather than reacting to invitations.
A submission saying here is what we do gets filed. One saying here is a claim I will defend, and here is why your audience needs to hear it, gets read. Programme committees are looking for tension, not credentials.
A five-hundred-person event where a hundred are your buyers beats a five-thousand-person one where none are. Attendance is the vanity metric of the events world.
Speaking at one recognised event makes the next booking materially easier. Early placements are chosen for what they unlock as much as for the room itself.
Most conferences close speaker submissions four to six months before the event. Founders who decide in March that they want a stage in May have already missed it.
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