Autumn Conference · standard tier · booked 14 Aug.
Your details
What you need
Consent
Each consent is a separate question with a date. Bundling them into one tick box is how consent stops meaning anything.
Three sessions chosen. One has changed room since you booked.
Your sessions
Why it changed
Room 2 holds 40 and the workshop filled, so it moved to Room 5 which holds 60. You were told because you are in it, the other 140 attendees were not.
Step-free route to Room 5 is confirmed, because you told us you needed one and the change checked against it.
The register
Six attendees have not chosen sessions with ten weeks to go. Chasing them now is easier than sorting it at a registration desk.
For the caterer
Access
Totals for the caterer, names for the team on the day. The nut allergy is flagged separately because it is the one that is not a preference.
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Recent messages
Three messages, and only one went to everybody. That ratio is why people still open them.
How three small venues share a booking system without sharing their audiences.
If you cannot get in
Slides go up before the session rather than after. Taking notes on somebody else structure is easier than reconstructing it, and it helps anybody who cannot see the screen.
The eleven thirty clash is flagged rather than silently resolved. Both are recorded, so picking either one costs nothing.
The fourth option is real. A day with no gaps in it is a day nobody remembers, and the corridor is where most of this happens anyway.
No email address and no direct message. Speakers are here for two days and being reachable through an app afterwards is not part of the deal they agreed to.
Not recorded, and that is why people say things in it. A workshop that is filmed becomes a lecture with chairs in a circle.
Room 4 is up a flight of stairs and there is no lift. It is stated here rather than discovered on the day, and every session in room 4 also runs in room 2.
No booking, no sign-up, nobody counting. A quiet room somebody has to ask for is not a quiet room.
There are no direct messages. Two days is short, the yard is small, and an app that lets strangers message you is one more thing to manage rather than a way to meet anybody.
Name and organisation only, and only for people who chose to appear. Ninety-two people did not, and that is not a failure of engagement.
No parking is a choice rather than an oversight, and it is why the ticket is $60 rather than $85. The nearest car park is eight minutes away and costs $12.
Three organisers are on duty at all times and their names are on this screen. A code of conduct with no named person is a paragraph nobody uses.
Sent to three organisers and nobody else. It is not published, not aggregated into a marketing number, and every comment is read.
Published within a week, captioned, and free to anybody whether they came or not. A conference that puts its recordings behind the ticket is selling the same thing twice.
Nobody is turned away at a registration desk over a system. Add them, give them a badge, work it out at lunchtime.
Room 3 is over capacity and room 4 is a third full. Moving the eleven thirty session between them takes one announcement and the app updates everybody agenda.
Two messages in a day. A conference app that sends nine is one people close, and then the room change does not reach anybody.
Appearing on the list is off until you turn it on, and turning it off again removes you immediately.
Three organisers are in the yard at all times, wearing lanyards that say organiser rather than a company name. Asking a person is faster than this screen.