Around 80 percent of the planning budget and team time goes into the weeks leading up to an event. For post-event follow-up, teams are often left with whatever time remains between dismantling the event setup and starting the next project – usually just a few days, often only a few hours. Yet this phase is […]
In most conference planning processes, the majority of attention is focused on the attendee side: ticketing, check-in, networking matching, and follow-up. Speaker coordination tends to run alongside it – spread across email threads, Excel spreadsheets, and personal messages from the project team. That is remarkable, because a speaker cancelling three days before the event has […]
For mid-sized conferences with 300 to 1,000 guests, an average of one staff member or volunteer is needed for every 25 to 40 attendees – covering entrance management, the information desk, catering coordination, speaker support and technical assistance. With 500 guests, this quickly adds up to 15 to 20 people who need to know exactly […]