You may want to consider a speaker ready room. When determining this you need to think of the advantages and disadvantages.
Here is a list of some of the Advantages and Disavantages:
Advantages:
- Speakers like a location to talk to other speakers.
- This room allows them a location to perpare for their session
- This room also allows speaks a place to find
- More secured location for session giveaway storage
- Location to distrubute speaker gifts and shirts.
- A place to
Disadvantages:
- Takes additional room
- This might require additional costs
- Takes additional cleanup time
When determine what kind of room you need you need to think of the following things:
- How much space you might need.
- storage space for swag
Things to provide:
- Refreshments and snacks for speakers
- USB Hub
- Wifi
- Powerstrips (rarely enough outlets) and possibly extension cords
- Spare power supplies for Dell/HP/IBM laptops in case someone forgets