When you’re organizing an event, you need to plan for the unexpected. By mitigating potential problems, you’ll be able to recover more quickly. But sometimes, that preparation will lead to deeper questions that need to be answered as well.
Read MoreIn the first part of Lessons Learned while Running a First-Year Conference, I talked about how to strip down your conference to an MVP. In this post, I’ll address how to make all of those items a reality. You’ll need to treat them as non-negotiable, which means no accepting excuses. It’s time to make it work.
Read MoreMany people have asked just how we pulled off some of the things that we accomplished with REdeploy as a first year, volunteer-run conference. This series is a quick look at some of the high-level points that we focused on to accomplish our high-level goal: to create a good experience for our speakers and attendees that would foster a conversation around the importance of Resilience Engineering in technology.
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