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Can't comment on the ACM conferences. But for most conferences, interesting speakers provide the whole value of the conference - it is what attracts attendees.
by jazzyk 10y ago
Can't comment on the ACM conferences.
But for most conferences, interesting speakers provide the whole value of the conference - it is what attracts attendees. Therefore, organizers make decent money off of speakers, so no, they are not like regular attendees.
- chrisseaton 10y agoI think the organiser of the conference is providing the value to the speaker, not the other way around. They're providing a platform for the speaker to talk about their project.
- ThrustVectoring 10y agoReally? My mental model is that the value of the conference lies entirely in network effects. That is, it's valuable for people deep in topic X to go to a conference for X because they expect many other people who are also deep in topic X to go to that conference. The speakers are just a means to an end, to get the initial core group interested and start the quadratic snowball going.