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Intermediate
Conference Travel Plan
Pre-conference brief: who'll be there worth meeting, sessions to attend, social events to RSVP to.
When to use this
Turns a conference attendance from passive presence into a deliberate set of relationship and learning outcomes. Built around three target meetings and three target sessions.
The template
# Conference Travel Plan — [Conference Name] **Dates:** [Dates] **Location:** [City] **Attendee:** [Executive] **Goal:** [One sentence] ## Three target meetings | # | Name | Org / role | Why | Status | |---|------|------------|-----|--------| | 1 | | | | Reached out / confirmed / not yet | | 2 | | | | | | 3 | | | | | ## Three target sessions | # | Session | Speaker | Day / time | Why | |---|---------|---------|-------------|-----| | 1 | | | | | | 2 | | | | | | 3 | | | | | ## Side events to consider - [Reception name] — [date, time] — RSVPed: yes / no - [Dinner / breakfast] — [date, time] — RSVPed: yes / no ## Logistics - Hotel: [Name, confirmation] - Conference pass collection: [Where, when] - Wifi / app login: [Captured ahead] ## During the conference - Daily 15-minute end-of-day reflection: who I met, what to follow up on - Photos of business cards into [CRM] each evening ## Post-conference - Within 48h: follow-up emails to every target meeting - Within 7d: written one-pager for [Executive] / leadership: top 5 takeaways