How to Work an Event with the Speakers-First Strategy

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Preview โ€” The Goal

๐ŸŽฏ The Goal: Trading business cards with random attendees yields minimal leverage โ€” the open floor is a lottery where everyone's simultaneously hunting and hiding. The asymmetry nobody uses: SPEAKERS are the highest-value people in the building, they're publicly scheduled to be at exact places at exact times, and almost no one approaches them strategically. Skip the crowd. Work the schedule.