The ad, in full

Say you had 200 people in a room and you wanted to stop them from meeting.

A great way to do this would be to give one of them a microphone and put the other 199 in chairs.

Amazingly, that’s the main activity at most conferences. They call it “programming”.

Conferences aren’t for delivering information. The printing press solved that. Conferences are for bringing people together.

If you’re trying to build a field, strengthen a community, or bring about useful progress in the world, you need conversations, relationships, and collaboration.

At a 500-person conference, there are hundreds of introductions that should happen but don’t. The cost of trusting serendipity is enormous.

This should be treated as an engineering problem. It usually isn’t, which is why most conferences suck.

This problem can seem dauntingly open-ended. It’s tempting to solve simpler, more legible problems instead: Serving a good meal. Booking famous speakers.

I help tame that daunting problem.

I help plan conferences that create the relationships and trust that lead to real change out in the world.

Your conference matters. I can help make it great.