Confession of an Event Director
We organized the biggest conference in the industry.
10,000 attendees. Three days. Eight months of work.
I walked out with 150 business cards and a feeling we nailed it.
We moved them to Excel. Three people. Three days.
In the migration we lost duplicates, misspelled emails, companies with no name.
By the time we finished, half of them had gone cold.
One of the ones we lost was the CPO of a company we had been chasing for two years.
We found out three months later. On LinkedIn. New profile picture.
He had already signed with someone else.
— Events leave data behind. The hard part is not losing it.
