Running an event in a country with a foreign language and culture is hard. Getting a bit off-topic, but this is no longer really true in a lot of Europe. I hav

Running an event in a country with a foreign language and culture is hard. Getting a bit off-topic, but this is no longer really true in a lot of Europe. I haven't tried organizing an event in France without speaking French, but it is perfectly easy to organize an event in Denmark without speaking Danish. So many events are organized by multinational organizers that doing all the organization in English is not only possible, but becoming the default.