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I Ran This Whole Conference and I Didn’t Even Get a T-shirt

J. Paul Reed

First and foremost, I think producing a conference was particularly eye-opening: both Mary and I do quite a bit of public speaking internationally (and Mary has plenty of experience wrangling conference logistics), so we both thought we had a pretty good idea of what “making the sausage” of a conference would look like. Boy were we wrong.