High ROI
Many case studies show that, on average, improving your knowledge base can at least double your output – and save countless more dollars in avoiding compliance failures. With senior managers and directors being implicated in so many scandals these days (eg. option backdating), spending a thousand dollars to learn how to avoid serious trouble is cheap indeed.
After 3-4 days of workshops and panels, spending a few days of the work year on training and networking is nothing compared to the time your team can waste arguing issues around the meeting room table. Better to make the decisions faster, based on real data and sound methodology.
Long-Lasting Job Skills
These Conferences focus on practical skills
with proven effectiveness across many projects. The enhanced work productivity
you’ll achieve from learning these skills will be valuable for years, because
human interface lessons typically endure.
Why? Because human behavior doesn't change nearly as fast as
technology, which is one reason the ROI is so much greater from training about
core competencies than from lectures about the latest fad. The facts about the
latest scandal won’t matter next year, but the insights you learn at these
Conferences will. So, you'll continue to reap returns from your investment across
many future projects.
Motivating Experience
In many companies, being one of the few responsible for
equity compensation can feel very lonely. When you attend these
conferences, you’ll be energized by the experience of networking with
hundreds and hundreds of kindred souls who care just as much about your
job as you do.
You’ll leave with new ideas, practical to-do lists, and other useful tools to
help examine your ideas in new ways, knowledge to create better processes, and
examples to inspire the rest of your team.
Experienced (and Reality-Based) Speakers
Our speakers have presented many times to audiences all
over the world. They give good talks, or they wouldn't be
invited back. But they aren’t worn-out, "professional speakers" who speak at
every event in the field. Our presenters spend most of their time doing
actual work, meaning that they have plenty of war stories to illustrate
their topic.
In many cases, our speakers are actually the pioneers who
invented the methods and conducted the research that everybody
else simply reacts to. We won’t waste your time on hearsay from secondary
speakers; you can come here and get it straight from the original source—and ask
your questions to the people who actually implemented the latest processes and
practices, etc.
High-Octane Knowledge Transfer
Our speakers know enough about their topic to fill up at
least five times as many hours as they’re given. They’ve thus made the tough
calls to prune their material to the essence.
Our panels are based on real studies of real
people, showing which ideas work in the real world - and which don't.
We tell it like it is, and don't shy away from saying that a
famous company has a failed idea, if that's what the data shows.
Experienced – and Amazing - Audience to Network With
Our Conference participants are amazing—over two thousand professionals gathering in one place for several days to meet and share experiences. The halls buzz with discussions among people from all types of organizations, from small businesses to the world's biggest and most famous companies to enormous government agencies. Regardless of their organization’s size, all attendees work on the same issues that you do - and care passionately about ideas that work - rather than simply sound good. Discovering the lessons learned from countless other teams who have dealt with the problem you’re currently facing is one of these Conferences’ greatest benefits.
