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event-date-selectionsamberPick the date a technical event runs on - the decision every other plan hangs off. Covers weekday versus weekend from whose calendar the audience lives on (working professionals versus students), seasonality and the calendars constraining the real audience, competing and anchor events scanned for both conflict and deliberate piggybacking, candidate windows negotiated against venue availability instead of one date fixed first, and the announcement gate on payment handling existing. Use whenever aevent-debriefsamberRun the organizing team's own internal retrospective on one finished edition of a technical event - the blameless frame, the reconstructed timeline, what went well split from what went poorly, what fired reconciled against the risk register, budget plan and run of show, team-health findings, and dated lessons-learned entries each carrying an owner and a due date. Use whenever asked to run a post-event debrief, a post-mortem or a retrospective after a conference, meetup or hackathon, review an edevent-feedbacksamberDesign and run participant-feedback collection for one edition of a technical event - what gets asked, who answers it, through which channel, when it goes out, and what goes back to respondents. Covers format-adapted question sets (meetup pulse, conference satisfaction and return intent, hackathon team dynamics, mentors, judging fairness, project continuation), attendee, speaker and sponsor segmentation, in-room versus emailed collection against real response-rate data, survey length, anonymity event-first-editionsamberLaunch the first edition of a tech event (conference, hackathon, large meetup) from zero - a minimum viable edition 1, scope discipline against the full vision, the first cross-organization team, the decision-to-doors-open reverse timeline, and a pre-mortem of first-edition-specific risks with written go/no-go dates. Use whenever asked to start a new conference or hackathon, plan a first edition, scope a minimum viable event, form a founding organizer team, or set a launch timeline for an event event-format-selectionsamberChoose a technical event's structure before anything is scheduled - the event shape (recurring meetup, hackathon, unconference day, single-day or multi-day conference), one program or several (single versus multi-track), workshop-day ratios, the session-format mix (curated talks, workshops, open space, ignite, fireside chats, panels), delivery mode (in-person, virtual, hybrid), and hackathon demo/judging structure. Use whenever asked to pick an event format or concept, decide single-track versusevent-growth-strategysamberGrow an established technical event edition over edition, or decide not to - the demand-headroom read, one discrete lever per edition (venue squeeze, track or day addition, venue step-up, price-led growth), the contract-risk gate on venue moves (deposits, attrition penalties, F&B minimums, long lead times), the pricing posture before scaling, and deliberate non-growth (caps, lotteries, shrinking back down) as a real strategy. Use whenever asked whether a conference or hackathon should grow, how event-hospitalitysamberDecide the food, drink and social provision every population at a technical event shares - the catering service style and the dietary counts it has to carry, what a scheduled break contains, the event's alcohol posture, and whether an evening or social programme exists and in what form. Use whenever asked what format to feed a conference in, how catering should cover dietary restrictions across a whole event, what to put in a coffee break, whether to serve alcohol or run the event dry, or what tevent-landing-pagesamberBuild a technical event's public front door and the small site around it - the page shape for the funding model (a ticketed event's single-CTA hero, or a free event's stats hero with no registration to sell), the section set, a date-gated CTA state machine so Propose renders only during the CFP window and Register only inside the registration window, the accessibility target, and the event structured data. Use whenever asked to build or review a conference, meetup or hackathon website, write theevent-learning-expedition-designsamberDecide whether to take a technical audience into an organization the organizer does not control, and on what terms - when a host's own premises, operation and staff are the programme rather than a room rented and filled by the organizer. Sets the host-dependency posture (host speaker hosted in-house, one host site host-led or to a negotiated agenda, a multi-host circuit) and the access posture, meaning what the host lets attendees see and repeat afterwards. Use whenever asked to design a learninevent-market-fitsamberRead whether a technical event's concept, audience and price combination actually meets demand - before launch (community baseline, CFP oversubscription, saturation mapping), mid-sale (checkpoint ladder and pace index against expected sales), and after an edition (attendee return, sponsor renewal, sellout-speed trend) - composed into a go, hold, pivot or stop call. Use whenever asked to validate demand for a conference, hackathon or a meetup-to-conference jump, judge whether ticket sales are on event-marketing-plansamberBuild the attendee-acquisition plan for a technical event - audience segments mapped to channels, the campaign-calendar spine (a ticketed event's percent-of-ticket-sales ladder or a free event's percent-of-attendance-goal curve), campaign moments pinned to pricing and program dates fixed elsewhere, budget allocated across the channel mix, funnel targets per phase, and each channel routed to the sibling that executes it. Use whenever asked to plan how to fill an event, run a ticket-sales or regisevent-media-partnershipssamberSet up barter media and community partnerships for a technical event - visibility-for-visibility deals with newsletters, podcasts, online communities and developer-ambassador programs, where no cash changes hands. Covers deal classes, partner types, the exchange format (calendar listing, logo-and-social swap, newsletter mention swap, podcast exchange, full media-partner tier), the deal terms, and both sides' delivery tracking. Use whenever asked to find media partners, set up a community-sponsorevent-no-show-managementsamberReduce and absorb no-shows at a technical event - an overbooking ratio against the room's real capacity and a stated ceiling, the waitlist and what triggers a promotion off it, the day-of walk-in lane, and the expected-show-up number handed to catering instead of the registration count. Use whenever asked how many registrations to accept for a free event, whether to overbook, how to run an event waitlist, why half the RSVPs did not turn up, or how many people to order food for. Do NOT use for reevent-official-social-programsamberDecide how many official social occasions a technical event runs and how they sit against each other one occasion, two on separate slots, or a themed multi-activity track - plus the inclusion floor a whole slate must clear rather than each activity separately. Use whenever asked whether to run more than one social activity, whether two social activities can run in the same hours, how to publish a social track, or which activity a caregiver or a non-drinker can be in. Do NOT use for a single occaevent-planning-timelinesamberBuild the months-long work-back plan for a tech event, any edition - the doors-open anchor date, parallel tracks (venue, program/CFP, sponsors, marketing, ticketing) each worked back from that date, cross-track dependency gates, a buffer policy through latest-safe commitment dates, and replanning checkpoints that cut scope instead of moving the date. Use whenever asked to build an event planning timeline, conference retroplanning, a work-back or reverse schedule, event milestone sequencing, or tevent-portfolio-strategysamberShape one organizing team's set of event properties - flagship conference, meetup series, hackathon, podcast or always-on online space - into a portfolio where each one feeds the others. Covers what each property is for, the funnel path between them, cadence collisions against one team and audience, how much brand, audience list, team and sponsors are shared, the allocation posture, and add/kill criteria written before they are needed. Use whenever asked whether to add a second event or format, event-positioningsamberDefine a technical event's positioning - what it stands for, against which alternatives, for which audience identity. Covers the governance axis (community-run, foundation, media-run, vendor-owned), competitive-alternative mapping, best-fit attendee and sponsor segments, market-category strategy (head-to-head, subcategory, new category and its education tax), the positioning statement, contrast-not-attack anti-positioning, and the rebrand gate. Use whenever asked to position a conference, meetupevent-press-relationssamberRun earned press coverage for a technical event - a one-way ask, not a barter deal. Covers whether to pursue press at all (most community events correctly do not), a two-lane accreditation policy for editorial journalists and independent bloggers or creators, the ungated media page, announcements pegged to the CFP, lineup, programme, on-sale and wrap-up beats, the embargo posture, the on-site press operation and interview logistics, and the single spokesperson designated before an incident needsevent-productionsamberEngineer the technical AV production of a technical event once the format and session grid are fixed - capture tiers from a single smartphone to multi-camera vision mixing, signal-path architecture separating room display from recorded output and crew monitor, redundancy against named recorded-audio failure modes, AV crew roles, the written technical spec handed to venue sourcing, the Media budget line, rehearsal, and the publication pipeline. Use whenever the user mentions conference AV, recordevent-risk-managementsamberBuild and maintain the standing risk register for a technical event - risks named by category, scored on a likelihood x impact matrix adapted to a dated one-shot deliverable, split into prevention, contingency or insurance, the insurance stack including the communicable-disease buy-back, internal go/no-go decision dates set against the venue's escalating cancellation-fee curve, and the on-site emergency plan. Use whenever the user mentions event insurance, cancelling or postponing an event, a goevent-run-of-showsamberWrite and run the day-of run of show for a technical event once the schedule is published - the minute-by-minute playbook staff execute from, day-of role assignment (MC, speaker introducers, room leads, the organizer on duty), cue sheets at every transition, an organizer-only comm channel kept separate from attendee-facing ones, the escalation path and live incident response, shift rotation with verified handoffs, and closeout. Use whenever the user mentions a day-of rundown, a cue sheet, MC or event-schedule-designsamberLay a technical event's already-selected talks into a published session grid - session-length standardization, room and capacity matching, the four clash types with multi-speaker intersection, break and lunch placement, buffer sizing, keynote and plenary placement as re-sync points, synchronized versus staggered track starts, energy-curve pacing, and speaker travel windows against slot assignment. Use whenever the user mentions building a conference schedule or agenda, a multi-track layout, sessevent-side-event-coordinationsamberApprove and coordinate third-party-run satellite events around a technical event - the vetting gate, calendar deconfliction against the published grid, name and logo usage rules, and the disclaimer stating what the main event does not vouch for. Use whenever a user group, sponsor or attendee wants to run a party, meetup, dinner, workshop or afterparty during the event's dates, when someone is already using the event's name on their own page, or when fringe events collide with the main programme event-social-mediasamberRun a technical event's own social presence inside the weight, phase and dates the marketing plan already fixed - platform selection, the campaign versus community hashtag, posts mapped onto campaign phases (announcement, CFP, speaker reveal, final push, live), speaker and sponsor amplification asks, and day-of coverage. Use whenever the user mentions event social media, a conference or hackathon content calendar, speaker-announcement posts, which platforms an event should post on, an event hashevent-speaker-cold-outreachsamberWrite and sequence the cold invitation to a speaker a shortlist already picked - the message, not the search. Covers what a first invitation must disclose up front (event basics, honest budget and travel terms, the answer deadline, how you found them), personalization built from the shortlist's own "why", ranked first-touch channels, follow-up cadences that add a new angle instead of bumping, and the fee conversation where speakers have no rate card. Use whenever the user mentions writing a speaevent-speaker-experiencesamberRun the speaker-side experience from the moment a speaker confirms through to the thank-you after their talk - collecting bio, headshot, A/V needs and travel details against a deadline ladder, a single named point of contact, the pre-event briefing and slide deadline, tech check and green room, documented recording consent and its per-format opt-out asymmetry, and post-event follow-up. Use whenever the user mentions what to send an accepted speaker, a green room, speaker travel or hotel, a tech event-speaker-sourcingsamberFind and qualify speakers for a technical event outside the open call for papers - the proactive channel running alongside or instead of a CFP. Covers program gaps worth filling by invitation, sourcing channels (referral asks, expert and speaker directories, prior-talk review, community scouting), international sourcing by region and language, evidence-based Hot/Warm/Cold/Skip qualification, and a ranked shortlist carrying the "why" behind each name. Use whenever the user mentions finding speakeevent-sponsor-agreementsamberTurn a sold event sponsorship into a term sheet a lawyer can review - never a signable contract or legal advice. Covers the clause checklist an organizer hands to counsel - a deliverables schedule mirroring the sold tier, payment and late-fee terms, sponsor-withdrawal refunds plus the narrower organizer-cancels remedy, a force-majeure remedy, category exclusivity bounded by published caps, liability and insurance, a code-of-conduct clause with an ejection right, mutual logo licensing, term and revent-sponsor-fulfillmentsamberDeliver everything a signed event sponsor was promised, from countersignature to renewal handoff - the tier-by-perk fulfillment matrix built from the signed agreement, payment-gated perk release, sponsor asset collection against deadlines, the day-of sponsor experience (setup and teardown windows, shipping, booth staffing, power, WiFi, A/V), consented lead capture such as an opt-in raffle, and the post-event sponsor report that anchors the renewal ask. Use whenever the user mentions onboarding aevent-sponsor-outreachsamberRun the sponsor sales motion for a technical event, from target list to signed yes - target list building and scoring, outreach timed against sponsor fiscal-year budget lock-in, first-touch channel choice (warm intro, referral ask, cold email under sponsor-specific etiquette), the exploratory call, capped follow-up cadences, objection handling, pipeline tracking, and renewal versus net-new as distinct motions. Use whenever the user mentions finding sponsors, a sponsor outreach email, pitching a event-sponsor-pricingsamberBuild the sponsorship rate card for a technical event - the revenue target taken from the budget, an inventory of sellable surfaces, cost-recovery, market-comp and value-based price setting, a 2-4 tier ladder with anchoring and a sane top-to-floor ratio, add-on and exclusivity premiums, in-kind valuation, and the discount and negotiation policy written before the first sponsor call. Use whenever the user mentions sponsorship tier prices, a sponsor rate card, sponsor package pricing, or choosing event-sponsor-prospectussamberAssemble a technical event's sponsorship prospectus - the published document packaging an existing sponsor value proposition and rate card into a credibility-before-price section anatomy, a checkmark tier table with real disclosed caps, named per-tier perks and add-on packages, an audience-demographics evidence section, and a distribution format (web page or PDF kit) refreshed every edition. Use whenever the user mentions a sponsor deck, a sponsorship kit, a sponsor packages document, a prospectevent-sponsor-value-propositionsamberArticulate what sponsors of a technical event genuinely get and why each sponsor segment buys - brand exposure, product feedback, recruiting, community goodwill, and (vendor-run events only) pipeline - one segment at a time through a six-part jobs-to-be-done template, bounded by what the event type can honestly promise and backed by proof points a diligent sponsor will check. Use whenever the user mentions why a company should sponsor an event, sponsor benefits or motivations, or building the vaevent-talk-selectionsamberRun the review and selection process on CFP submissions a technical event already collected - committee composition, how blind review executes (platform hiding versus a dedicated anonymizer role) and what it cannot fix, scoring rubrics, multi-round score-to-shortlist-to-program-fit cascades, conflict-of-interest recusal, diversity and first-time-speaker balancing, acceptance-rate management, and accept/decline/waitlist communication. Use whenever the user mentions a program committee, a talk ratevent-team-structuresamberDesign the standing organizing team of a recurring technical event - the structure that persists between editions. Covers legal-entity posture (none, fiscal sponsorship, own non-profit), decision-rights shape (board-plus-organizers split, domain-lead federation, consensus committee), the role taxonomy, succession and bus-factor planning, burnout guardrails, and the volunteer-to-paid-staff hiring gate. Use whenever the user mentions structuring or governing an organizing team, forming an associatevent-ticket-pricingsamberSet attendee ticket prices for a technical event - free, nominal or priced against the funding model, comps subtracted from capacity, a ladder split by who pays (employer-funded, self-funded, student), gating on a date or a ticket count, the need-gated scholarship rung, group and invoicing mechanics, and the refund and transfer policy written before tickets go on sale. Use whenever the user mentions ticket prices, early-bird tiers, free versus paid entry, student, diversity or group rates, invoievent-vendor-sourcingsamberSource, vet and contract the suppliers a venue does not include - caterers, AV and production suppliers, security firms, insurance brokers, swag and print. Covers the venue-exclusivity check that precedes any evaluation, one identical brief per category, sourcing posture and quote-comparison depth, contract red flags and the certificate-of-insurance ask, ordering lead times, delivery buffers, and day-of coordination. Use whenever the user mentions finding a caterer, comparing supplier quotes, brevent-venue-sourcingsamberFind and negotiate the venue for a technical event. Covers the written space program built from an attendance estimate and chosen format (main room, breakouts, hallway track, sponsor tables, power and WiFi density, load-in), a sourcing ladder treating free campus, civic and company-hosted space as a real first rung, site visits at the depth the risk warrants, several venues carried against several dates, and the contract traps - attrition, food-and-beverage minimum, cancellation curve, insuranceevent-vip-managementsamberReceive named guests who are neither speaking nor sponsoring but whose presence creates escort, protocol, security or discretion obligations the general attendee flow cannot absorb - public officials, dignitaries, major funders, executives with no booth duty. Covers the qualification test (obligation, never status), the identification roster, escort depth, and a visibility posture that meets the obligation without building a status tier attendees can read. Use whenever the user mentions receivinevent-vip-social-programsamberRun the private gathering alongside a public technical event, once a named-guest programme already exists - how the seat list is assembled when sponsors, speakers and the organizer all put names forward, how invitations and the door work without publishing a tier, and where the gathering sits against the public programme. Use whenever the user mentions a private dinner or reception at a conference, refusing a sponsor's seat request, an invite-only room without a VIP badge, or when to schedule onevent-volunteer-experiencesamberDesign what a volunteer gets when they are not standing at a post, and how one edition closes with them - off-duty time they can actually use, the volunteer-specific hospitality top-up on the event's general standard, recognition not tied to a shift, a public thank-you, and the past-volunteer list next edition's recruitment starts from. Use whenever the user mentions looking after volunteers beyond their shift, whether volunteers get to see a talk, a volunteer lounge or volunteer meal, thanking event-volunteerssamberRecruit and organize the volunteer workforce that staffs one edition of a technical event - roster sizing built bottom-up from the posts the schedule needs standing, role definitions with real fit criteria, shift plans with arrival buffers, sign-up and confirmation, the briefing including the code-of-conduct escalation script, a named replacement protocol holding coverage, and recognition for the people who showed up. Use whenever the user mentions how many volunteers an event needs, recruiting hackathon-brief-designsamberWrite the hackathon challenge document teams read before they build - problem statements sized to the time box, thematic challenge tracks, the published rules and eligibility text, the submission-artifact checklist, sponsor-challenge framing, and naming (never weighting) the evaluation categories. Use whenever the user mentions a hackathon brief, challenge or track prompts, hackathon rules or eligibility, submission guidelines, or turning a sponsor's API into a challenge - even if they never sayhackathon-cash-prizesamberStructure what a hackathon actually awards - cash versus non-cash medium including no monetary prize at all, total pool size inside the event budget's prizes line, how that pool splits across places and sponsor tracks, and who may legally receive a payout. Use whenever the user mentions hackathon prize amounts, cash versus hardware or credits, splitting a prize pool across tracks, prize eligibility for minors, sponsor employees or cross-border winners, or how winners actually get paid - even if hackathon-judgingsamberDesign the rubric and the scoring process for judging projects built during a hackathon - evaluation criteria and their weights, the scoring scale, judge coverage and the allocation arithmetic that fits the judging window, cross-judge score normalization, tie-breaking, sponsor and judge conflict-of-interest handling, judge recruitment and briefing, and results announcement including a contested result. Use whenever the user mentions a hackathon judging rubric, criteria weights, how many judges ahackathon-mentoringsamberDesign the mentor programme for one hackathon edition - coverage depth sized against the challenge tracks rather than a headcount, recruitment through community and sponsor channels, expertise tagging matched to the brief's tracks and any sponsor API, the request mechanic a stuck team uses to reach a mentor, the mentor briefing including the help-versus-build boundary, and rotation by expertise across shifts. Use whenever the user mentions how many mentors a hackathon needs, recruiting or briefihackathon-team-formationsamberDecide how participants at a hackathon end up on teams - the published team-size rule including whether solo entry is allowed, the matchmaking mechanic that runs on the day, what happens to someone still unteamed after it, when membership freezes relative to the opening, and any track-conditioned team-composition rule. Use whenever the user mentions hackathon team size, a pitch-and-join or team-matching session, whether solo hackers are permitted, a participant nobody picked, or teams changing mhybrid-event-designsamberDesign a technical event serving an in-room and a remote audience at once, after the format decision has already chosen hybrid - which sessions the remote audience gets, how far a remote attendee's voice reaches the stage, the cue track the stream needs beside the room's, and the crew split between them. Use whenever the user mentions streaming talks to a remote audience, remote Q&A, staffing the remote side, or running a day for two audiences at once - even if they never say "hybrid". Do NOT usstartup-pitch-contestsamberRun a startup pitch contest or demo day inside a technical event - the pre-event application and selection funnel, the pitch format and the time it costs, the rubric dimensions an investor judge actually scores, the conflict of interest specific to a judge who may want to invest in the company just ranked, and a prize built from introductions and committed meetings rather than cash. Use whenever the user mentions a pitch competition or demo day, opening applications for startups, picking a slatetech-podcast-youtube-channelsamberRun an organizer's own standing podcast or video channel as a cross-edition media property - whether to sustain a channel at all, the cadence commitment and its named owner in the quiet months, guest sourcing from the speaker pool outward, the two-way feed with the event cycle, and the wind-down or handover when organizers change. Use whenever the user mentions starting a conference podcast or YouTube channel, publishing between editions, where episode guests come from, who owns the show when an