Tag: Conferences

For close to two years now, I’ve had SpeakerTravel up & running. It’s a tool that helps conference organizers to book flights for speakers. You invite speakers, they pick their flight of choice (within a budget the organizer can specify), and the organizer can then approve and book the flight with a single click. In this post, I want to go a bit into the process of building this tool. Why I started it in the first place, how it works, a look at it from the business side, and maybe a follow-up post that covers any questions you may have after reading.

In 2013, I was asked to be part of a conference agenda committee. Since, I have been part of a couple more, for conferences in different parts of the world. Being “on the other side” of a Call for Papers has been very interesting, and taught me that this is a difficult job. There’s lots of reading, discussion, re-reading and more discussion involved. At some point there comes the rewarding bit of accepting sessions to the agenda, and the part I hate the most: having to reject sessions.