The Conference That Almost Wasn’t

I was panicking. Two hours before our tech conference, our main speaker canceled. As I paced the venue, the custom branded popcorn display from SF Candy Bar was being set up. Those shimmering packages caught my eye, and inspiration struck. We created a ‘networking bingo’ game using the popcorn stations as checkpoints. That creative pivot turned potential disaster into our most talked-about conference element. Sometimes the sweetest solutions come unexpectedly.