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$1500 for a conference ticket :o in Canada? Woah. How do the locals afford this?

by appleaday1 1y ago

jpfr 1y ago
They don‘t personally. It’s typically a training event paid by the employer.
LoganDark 1y ago
C++ developers can afford this just fine
- abcd_f 1y ago
  ... but they just won't be interested unless someone else's paying.
  - LoganDark 1y ago
    Speak for yourself.
wk_end 1y ago
Well, $1300CAD. How much is a four day conference supposed to cost? Like...I dunno, it does seem like a lot. But JSWorld was apparently 250EUR for a one-day ticket, so it comes out a slightly worse value. VueJS Amsterdam is two days for 700 EUR - so that's a considerably worse value. React Miami is $550USD for two days, so that's also a little worse. PyCon, on the other hand, is substantially cheaper - nine whole days for only $450USD.
- Teever 1y ago
  I dunno man, I can go to a 4 day music festival that costs like $250-$300 for the weekend, I'm sure that the budget for the performers is a hell of a lot more than whatever the budget for the speakers at this event is.
  - bawolff 1y ago
    The music festival comes out of your budget, not your employer's staff training budget. These conferences can be expensive because the costs are not directly paid for by attendes
  - goodcanadian 1y ago
    A music festival has tens of thousands of attendees. A large conference might have a few hundred . . . and not all conferences are large.
    - Teever 1y ago
      I've only attended one tech conference in my life and I think the cost was approximately $200. There were approximately 500 attendees. Something doesn't make sense with these prices here.
      - zem 1y ago
        I'm guessing the event space is the largest fraction of the cost.
bawolff 1y ago
That's sounds pretty standard to me. Conferences come in two types - the ones that are cheap (to attract average people) and the ones that are super expensive (that corporations pay to send staff to). E.g. the blackhat security conference in las vegas cost $2900 usd.
- ginko 1y ago
  > E.g. the blackhat security conference in las vegas cost $2900 usd. Meanwhile CCC standard tickets are 175€..
  - bawolff 1y ago
    Indeed. CCC is a "hacker" conference, blackhat (despite its name) is much more corporate [i have not attended either]
  - tlavoie 1y ago
    That, I'd love to attend, and it's even a price the boss would go for. Sadly, it's the travel part that I can never get funded.
    - bawolff 1y ago
      That's the other aspect - a thousand dollar ticket isn't that large a part of the price if you also have to fly everyone in and get hotels for multiple days (and probably a nice hotel in an expensive location)
kazinator 1y ago
Rent out their place on Airbnb while they attend.

$1500 for a conference ticket :o in Canada? Woah. How do the locals afford this?

jpfr 1y ago

They don‘t personally. It’s typically a training event paid by the employer.

LoganDark 1y ago

C++ developers can afford this just fine

abcd_f 1y ago
... but they just won't be interested unless someone else's paying.
- LoganDark 1y ago
  Speak for yourself.

wk_end 1y ago

Well, $1300CAD. How much is a four day conference supposed to cost? Like...I dunno, it does seem like a lot. But JSWorld was apparently 250EUR for a one-day ticket, so it comes out a slightly worse value. VueJS Amsterdam is two days for 700 EUR - so that's a considerably worse value. React Miami is $550USD for two days, so that's also a little worse. PyCon, on the other hand, is substantially cheaper - nine whole days for only $450USD.

Teever 1y ago
I dunno man, I can go to a 4 day music festival that costs like $250-$300 for the weekend, I'm sure that the budget for the performers is a hell of a lot more than whatever the budget for the speakers at this event is.
- bawolff 1y ago
  The music festival comes out of your budget, not your employer's staff training budget. These conferences can be expensive because the costs are not directly paid for by attendes
- goodcanadian 1y ago
  A music festival has tens of thousands of attendees. A large conference might have a few hundred . . . and not all conferences are large.
  - Teever 1y ago
    I've only attended one tech conference in my life and I think the cost was approximately $200. There were approximately 500 attendees. Something doesn't make sense with these prices here.
    - zem 1y ago
      I'm guessing the event space is the largest fraction of the cost.

bawolff 1y ago

That's sounds pretty standard to me. Conferences come in two types - the ones that are cheap (to attract average people) and the ones that are super expensive (that corporations pay to send staff to). E.g. the blackhat security conference in las vegas cost $2900 usd.

ginko 1y ago
> E.g. the blackhat security conference in las vegas cost $2900 usd. Meanwhile CCC standard tickets are 175€..
- bawolff 1y ago
  Indeed. CCC is a "hacker" conference, blackhat (despite its name) is much more corporate [i have not attended either]
- tlavoie 1y ago
  That, I'd love to attend, and it's even a price the boss would go for. Sadly, it's the travel part that I can never get funded.
  - bawolff 1y ago
    That's the other aspect - a thousand dollar ticket isn't that large a part of the price if you also have to fly everyone in and get hotels for multiple days (and probably a nice hotel in an expensive location)

kazinator 1y ago

Rent out their place on Airbnb while they attend.