The tool is super useful. However, your search could be bether with respect to geography. Let me explain ..
I am in the Bay area, and I'm interested in all local tech conferences. Seems like if I search for SF, I only see conferences in that city. What would be useful is to gather commutable geos together. When I was on the east coast, NY, NJ, CT and MA conferences were all reachable in a day trip, which is why that was my region of interest.
I think someone did this for hackathons too but not sure if that died off. Another idea is to link to previous iterations of conferences.
Final thought .. you could mine ACM/IEEE conferences .. those are tech-relevant.
I agree on the ACM/IEEE part! A lot of the bigger conferences do quite a bit to appeal to practitioners (as opposed to just academics).
For example, ACM CHI has a huge expo for demos and tech companies. IEEE/ACM ICSE has an industry track (now known as Software Engineering in Practice).
I'm interested in your automation strategy. Many organizers like Fresh New Conference Sites every year, which means scraping for the dates and locations is likely to break each year.
I was joking but after thinking about it the Meta Conference might attract a small but fascinating audience. I doubt it would be boring. Organizing it is probably the easiest conference ever organized. You just ask for help along with the invitations.
It's such a dumb idea it <s>might</s> will actually work.
I am in the Bay area, and I'm interested in all local tech conferences. Seems like if I search for SF, I only see conferences in that city. What would be useful is to gather commutable geos together. When I was on the east coast, NY, NJ, CT and MA conferences were all reachable in a day trip, which is why that was my region of interest.
I think someone did this for hackathons too but not sure if that died off. Another idea is to link to previous iterations of conferences.
Final thought .. you could mine ACM/IEEE conferences .. those are tech-relevant.