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Getting to the right room is a skill. Essays on choosing, justifying, and working the events on the regulatory calendar — from the team that verifies every date at source.

Latest Planning Three sessions, one real conversation, one report home: the whole job of a first conference. Connor Griggs · 8 min read

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Short, practical essays on the conference year — how to choose, how to get it approved, and how to come home with more than a lanyard.

6 essays

  1. Jul 232026
    Planning

    Your first regulatory conference — the logistics nobody puts on the agenda

    Pass types, hotel blocks, expense rules, what to pack, and what the first-timer ribbon on your badge actually means — the mechanics that decide a first conference, not the sessions.

    Connor Griggs · 8 min read
    Attendees collect lanyards and badges at a conference registration table
  2. Jul 232026
    Planning

    Webinar or the flight — deciding when virtual is actually the better trip

    “Webinar” is not the cheap seat you fall back to. A method for deciding what a trip is actually buying — and how to get real value out of the sessions that never need a boarding pass.

    Connor Griggs · 7 min read
    A headset microphone resting against the back of a laptop on a wooden desk
  3. Jul 232026
    On the Ground

    Asking a good question — at a conference mic, or in the public record

    The room can tell within a sentence whether your question was worth the line. What makes a floor question land, and what changes when the room is a formal public meeting entering the record.

    Connor Griggs · 8 min read
    A speaker addresses a seated panel from a podium microphone in a hearing room
  4. Jul 232026
    Planning

    How to choose a regulatory conference — when the budget covers one

    Registration, flights, hotel, and three days out of the building make a conference the most expensive training your team buys. A method for picking the one that earns it.

    Connor Griggs · 8 min read
    A hand marks dates on a large desk calendar with a blue pen
  5. Jul 232026
    Planning

    Getting the conference approved — a business case your manager can sign

    “I’d learn a lot” has never gotten a trip approved. What a signable case looks like, what a yes actually costs your manager, and why the early-bird deadline is your friend.

    Connor Griggs · 7 min read
    Two colleagues discuss a document across an office table
  6. Jul 232026
    On the Ground

    How to work a regulatory conference

    The agenda is public; the value is not. Planning the days like an editor, working the hallway track without being a card-spammer, and landing the follow-up inside 48 hours.

    Connor Griggs · 9 min read
    Delegates with lanyards talk over coffee during a conference break

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