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What honorarium is befitting for a guest speaker apart from money?

1st August 2013

My answer to What honorarium is befitting for a guest speaker apart from money? on Quora

Here are a few ways you can treat your speakers really well.

Pay for their flights and a good hotel (with an extra night either side of the conference so they can relax a little).

Have a car (or an organiser in their own car) pick them up from the airport.

Lend them a smartphone with a pre-configured data SIM in it for the duration of their stay (even better: make sure wifi tethering works on it).

Throw a really good speakers dinner at an excellent local restaurant.

Posted 1st August 2013 at 9 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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