{"id":17,"date":"2026-09-02T11:27:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/your-first-conference\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:27:05","slug":"your-first-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/your-first-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Your first conference? Start here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About a third of every audience is at their first design conference, and almost everyone else remembers what that felt like. Nobody knows everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conversations in the coffee queue are part of the programme.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pick two or three sessions you will not miss and treat the rest as optional; the conversations in the coffee queue are part of the programme. Ask speakers your question after their talk, when they are glad of it. And bring a light jacket: the Main Hall is air-conditioned and the river terrace is not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday morning at 8:45 we run a short welcome in the foyer for first-timers, with coffee and a tour of the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody knows everyone. A few habits that make three days of talks, coffee queues and conversations with strangers a lot easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":18,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11,12],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-practical","tag-first-time","tag-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}