Members of the organising teams of all four major Elm conferences – elm-conf, Elm In The Spring, Elm Europe, and Oslo Elm Day – come together to discuss what goes into a successful Elm conference, the lessons they've learned along the way, and what we can expect at their next conference!

Thank you to our sponsors, Ellie, Culture Amp and Joel Clermont.

Special thanks to Xavier Ho (@Xavier_Ho) for editing and production of this episode!

Recording date: 14 April 2019

Guests

• Blake Thomas (@dijjnn)
• Danielle Pham (@quelledanielle)
• Erik Wendel (@ewndl)
• Thibault Assus (@tibastral)

Show Notes

00:00:00 Introduction

• elm-conf
• Elm In The Spring
• NoRedInk
• Elm Europe
• Not Only Meetings
• Oslo Elm Day
• Bekk

00:04:50 Sponsors

• Ellie
• Culture Amp
• Joel Clermont

00:06:53 Blake: How Elm In The Spring got started

00:08:43 Danielle: How they joined NoRedInk and elm-conf

00:10:08 Thibault: How teaching led to Elm Europe

00:11:53 Erik: Oslo Elm Day was “the ambitious approach”

00:14:30 Blind CFPs and curating for diversity

• Speak at elm-conf
• ElmBridge
• Global Diversity CFP Day

00:27:13 Doing it all again next year

00:29:35 The organising teams

00:31:04 Elm In The Spring coming up soon

• SPRINGTIME10 – 10% off Elm in the Spring

00:32:39 Blind CFPs and curating for diversity (part 2)

00:35:44 The organising teams (part 2)

00:39:06 Lessons: Respect the schedule

00:41:55 Lessons: Audience Q&A is usually a bad idea

00:45:37 Evan and Richard’s involvement

00:48:29 Elm Europe coming up in June

• ELMTOWN10 – 10% off elm-europe until the end of April 2019

00:49:01 Be there for the hallway track

00:52:35 Speaking at a conferece

00:54:38 Outro