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The Less Obvious Conference Checklist

This is a checklist of less obvious things for conference organisers that help build amazing, wonderful, welcoming and inclusive events. It’s easy to remember to book a venue, look for speakers and sell the tickets, but you could overlook many things that can help your conference stand out. I mainly compiled this list from my own experience and from what I’ve seen other conferences do. So although I compiled the list, many recommendations are the result of hard work of others. See the AUTHORS file for a more extensive attribution.

This is not a checklist of things you must do in order for your conference to be any good. Or a list of requirements for me to do something for your conference. Consider this more as a list of actionable and practical suggestions to help us make better conferences. You will probably not be able to follow every single suggestion, and that’s fine.

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Inclusivity

The importance of inclusivity is becoming well known in most communities. In general, remember that inclusivity has many dimensions, beyond just gender.

Additional resources:

Accessibility

Additional resources with many more great pointers:

Code of Conduct (CoC)

Making attendees feel at home

Speakers

Tickets

Recordings

Children

Footprint

Additional resources:

Team

Other