Ask HN: How does your company handle conference attendances?
At our company (based in NL), we just have a per-team budget that essentially comes down to EUR 1.000 per person. With around 25 in this particular team (most other team are <10) that comes out at a nice overall budget we get to spend as a team.
However, it's still next to nothing as most decent conferences are EUR 500+ entry, in which case we're limited to just 1 or 2 visits a year. Not even taking conferences abroad into account.
So the question now rises, how do other companies handle their employees wanting to hit up multiple conferences a year?
There are many ways to implements a lot of different aspects and factors here. I'm primarily just looking for different angles of approach, input, inspiration (like, for our HR team) :)
However, it's still next to nothing as most decent conferences are EUR 500+ entry, in which case we're limited to just 1 or 2 visits a year. Not even taking conferences abroad into account.
So the question now rises, how do other companies handle their employees wanting to hit up multiple conferences a year? There are many ways to implements a lot of different aspects and factors here. I'm primarily just looking for different angles of approach, input, inspiration (like, for our HR team) :)