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Subject:Re: The Business of Conferences From:"George F. Hayhoe" <george -at- ghayhoe -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 14 Dec 2000 18:02:06 -0500
A few days ago, I mentioned that I thought that relatively few
conferences sponsored by professional organizations provided any kind
of compensation to speakers. I posed the question to a friend who is
president of the IEEE Engineering Management Society and a member of
several other IEEE societies, and here's what he said:
<<I think it is rare to see speakers compensated for their paper
presentations. I've seen a few [conferences] with registration
discounts, but this has all but disappeared. The only compensation
that I've seen in recent memory has been at commercial, for-profit
conferences where speakers get some kind of honorarium. The
for-profit crowd is in the business to make money so they view
speakers as part of the package and promote them as justification for
higher-than-average registration fees. This would be hard to do with
an IEEE conference.>>
If STC is out of line with general practice in the professional
society-sponsored conference arena, it would seem that it is because
STC offers a discount to speakers, not that it fails to waive
speakers' registration fees.
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