Members of the organising teams of all four major Elm conferences – elm-conf, Elm In The Spring, Elm Europe, and Oslo Elm Day – come together to discuss what goes into a successful Elm conference, the lessons they've learned along the way, and what we can expect at their next conference! Thank you to our sponsors, [Ellie](https://ellie-app.com), [Culture Amp](https://cultureamp.com/jobs) and [Joel Clermont](https://twitter.com/jclermont). Special thanks to Xavier Ho ([@Xavier_Ho](https://twitter.com/Xavier_Ho)) for editing and production of this episode! **Recording date:** 14 April 2019 ## Guests - Blake Thomas ([@dijjnn](https://twitter.com/dijjnn)) - Danielle Pham ([@quelledanielle](https://twitter.com/quelledanielle)) - Erik Wendel ([@ewndl](https://twitter.com/ewndl)) - Thibault Assus ([@tibastral](https://twitter.com/tibastral)) ## Show Notes 00:00:00 **Introduction** - [elm-conf](https://elm-conf.us) - [Elm In The Spring](https://www.elminthespring.org) - [NoRedInk](https://www.noredink.com) - [Elm Europe](https://elmeurope.org) - [Not Only Meetings](https://www.notonlymeetings.com) - [Oslo Elm Day](https://osloelmday.no) - [Bekk](https://www.bekk.no) 00:04:50 **Sponsors** - [Ellie](https://ellie-app.com) - [Culture Amp](https://cultureamp.com/jobs) - [Joel Clermont](https://twitter.com/jclermont) 00:06:53 **Blake: How Elm In The Spring got started** 00:08:43 **Danielle: How they joined NoRedInk and elm-conf** 00:10:08 **Thibault: How teaching led to Elm Europe** 00:11:53 **Erik: Oslo Elm Day was “the ambitious approach”** 00:14:30 **Blind CFPs and curating for diversity** - [Speak at elm-conf](https://2019.elm-conf.com/speak-at-elm-conf/) - [ElmBridge](https://twitter.com/elmlangbridge) - [Global Diversity CFP Day](https://www.globaldiversitycfpday.com) 00:27:13 **Doing it all again next year** 00:29:35 **The organising teams** 00:31:04 **Elm In The Spring coming up soon** - **SPRINGTIME10** – 10% off Elm in the Spring 00:32:39 **Blind CFPs and curating for diversity (part 2)** 00:35:44 **The organising teams (part 2)** 00:39:06 **Lessons: Respect the schedule** 00:41:55 **Lessons: Audience Q&A is usually a bad idea** 00:45:37 **Evan and Richard’s involvement** 00:48:29 **Elm Europe coming up in June** - **ELMTOWN10** – 10% off elm-europe until the end of April 2019 00:49:01 **Be there for the hallway track** 00:52:35 **Speaking at a conferece** 00:54:38 **Outro**