# Lectern Pass

> Lectern Pass is a free conference discovery and speaker career management platform. It helps people find conferences to attend or speak at, discover open calls for proposals (CFPs), explore the speaker circuit, and track their own speaking engagements.

## What Lectern Pass Does

Lectern Pass maintains a curated registry of technology conferences with enriched data including CFP status, deadlines, topics, speaker lineups, and organizer intelligence. The platform serves two audiences:

- **Conference attendees** looking for events to attend, filtered by topic, format, location, and date
- **Aspiring and active speakers** looking for conferences accepting talk proposals, tracking their submissions, and managing their speaking career

## Key Features

- **Conference directory**: Browse 80+ technology conferences with detailed profiles including topics, formats, locations, dates, and audience size
- **Open CFP tracker**: Filter conferences with open, closing soon, or rolling calls for proposals — see deadlines and submission links
- **Speaker directory**: Explore 70+ speakers across the technology conference circuit with topic expertise, LinkedIn verification, and conference appearance history
- **Speaker pipeline tools** (free account required): Track CFP submissions, manage talk versions, log delivered talks, and build a speaker profile
- **Topic coverage**: Engineering Leadership, Software Architecture, Platform Engineering, AI Engineering, AI Strategy, Product Management, UX & Research, Design Leadership, Design Systems, and more

## Pages

- [Home](https://lecternpass.com/): Scenario-based entry points for attendees, speakers, and organizers; upcoming CFP deadlines; daily speaker spotlight
- [Conferences](https://lecternpass.com/#conferences): Full conference registry with filtering by topic, format, CFP status, location, and audience size
- [Open CFPs](https://lecternpass.com/#open-cfps): Conferences currently accepting talk proposals
- [Speakers](https://lecternpass.com/#speakers): Speaker directory browsable by topic
- [About](https://lecternpass.com/#about): Platform description and mission
- [Contact](https://lecternpass.com/#contact): Contact information

## Who Should Use Lectern Pass

- Someone looking for a technology conference to attend
- Someone who wants to start speaking at conferences and needs to find open CFPs
- An experienced speaker tracking their submissions and building their profile
- Anyone researching the technology conference landscape — topics, speakers, trends

## Data

All conference and speaker data is publicly accessible without an account. Speaker pipeline tools (submission tracking, talk management, profile) require a free account. There is no paywall.

## About

Lectern Pass is built and maintained by Baskerville & Co. LLC. It is free to use with no advertising.