Hi, there is some advice out there for (successfully) attending academic conferences: - http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/mernst/advice/conference-attendance

Hi, there is some advice out there for (successfully) attending academic conferences: - http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/mernst/advice/conference-attendance.html http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/mernst/advice/conference-... (Michael Ernst's homepage has other excellent information, too) - http://www.cs.indiana.edu/how.2b/how.2b.community.html#conferences http://www.cs.indiana.edu/how.2b/how.2b.community.html#confe... All in all, I think this complements some of the already mentioned comments. However, some advice in here is clearly geared towards non-acacdemic venues (for example, I never saw anyone at an academic venue speaking about business ventures and/or monetary issues--aside of ill-fated research policies.)