How to have sustainable conferences
- Complain about disposable cutlery and water bottles
- Fly Business class in domestic flights
- Spend the whole day at the conference venue but sleep only at 5-star hotels
- Do not have virtual participation, and then give out grants to 1% of attendees
- Give talks so public-safe they could’ve been a PR press release instead
- Gift chunks of metal & glass to speakers as thanks for trading carbon for vanity
- Use the words “sustainable” and “environment” for virtue signaling and driving soft power
- Read and promote LinkedIn Chinese whispers about the conference
- Do it all every quarter