EADCOUNT
You Count.
OCT 14–15, 2026 · The Convention Center Near the Airport · Hall B
The Premise

The conference about who showed up.

HEADCOUNT is the premier gathering for professionals who gather professionals. For two days, the industry's most counted people convene to be counted — and to learn what their count is worth.

4,216
registered to date
31
average scans per attendee
4h 12m
average badge dwell, expo floor
89%
believe they have purchasing authority
41 min
median scan-to-outreach time
Program

Programming concentrates attendees at known locations at scheduled times.

Photograph
Pending
Reconciliation

Bennett Osgood

OPENING KEYNOTE — "The Attendance Advantage"

The author of the international bestsellers WAIT and ATTEND reveals why the highest performers are not the smartest people in the room — they are simply in the room, and measurably so.

Book signing to follow. Attendees will be scanned upon receipt. Osgood's TED talk "The Room Is the Message" has been viewed over 140 million times, largely at 1.5× speed.

DAY 1 · 10:15

Why You Are Here

A plenary walkthrough of the attendee data model, presented by the VP of Sponsorship. Recommended for attendees. Required viewing for sponsors, who appear in it.

DAY 1 · 14:00

Scan Rate Optimization

Why they don't scan, and how to make them. Includes the case study of the code that achieved a 94% scan-through rate by being the only way to exit the room.

DAY 2 · 09:30

Dead Codes: A Memorial

A quiet session honoring QR codes whose destinations no longer resolve. Every printed code is a promise someone stopped keeping. Attendees will scan a code in remembrance.

Registration Classes

Your classification is disclosed on the badge for everyone's convenience.

INVENTORY
$0
your employer has already paid
  • Full conference access
  • Available for scanning at all times
  • Protein option included
  • 72% of attendees
BUYER
$1,850
per empowered individual
  • Full conference access
  • Empowered to enter into agreements
  • Identifiable at distance by lanyard color
  • 19% of attendees
COST CENTER
$1,850
scanning declined at registration
  • Full conference access
  • Included in headcount totals only
  • Ineligible for the protein option
  • 9% of attendees
Partnership

Other conferences promise you an audience. We deliver a census.

4,216 attendees. 130,696 moments of confirmed presence, each one timestamped, located, and available at the tier levels below.

ADJACENCY

$18,000
You will be near the attendees.
  • Logo placement on the sponsor wall (position determined by tier and, within tier, alphabetically)
  • Aggregate scan counts, delivered post-event
  • Two (2) INVENTORY-class passes for booth staff
  • Your booth is on the floor. The attendees must cross the floor. The rest is up to you.

ACCESS

$55,000
The attendees will be brought to you.
  • Everything in Adjacency
  • Badge-level scan data for all attendees entering your booth radius, delivered nightly
  • Session sponsorship, including verbal acknowledgment from the stage that you exist
  • Lanyard co-branding: your name, around their necks, for the duration
  • Attendee flow routing: the coffee is placed behind you

EXTRACTION

$140,000
The attendees will not be aware of the extent of it.
  • Everything in Access
  • Full-conference badge-level intent enrichment, delivered nightly, retained indefinitely
  • Keynote adjacency: your welcome video precedes Bennett Osgood. The room will be at capacity. The doors will be closed.
  • First-outreach window: scan events 41 minutes before any other tier
  • One (1) seat on the HEADCOUNT '27 Program Committee, with input into what the industry will believe it learned this year
Closing Entertainment — Reconciliation Status
1 original member — UNLOCKED2nd original member — 61%

The closing performance is a function of total committed sponsorship revenue and will be finalized upon reconciliation. Current commitment level unlocks one (1) recording artist, platinum-certified (any decade), one (1) original member. The attendees will attend regardless. That is the premise of the conference.

Provisionally Confirmed

CHROME VERDICT

Featuring one (1) original member. Performing the song. Also others.

Closing reception admission by badge. Two (2) drink tickets per attendee. The tickets are also scanned.

In the event of non-reconciliation, the closing performance will be delivered by Kevin Brand, Corporate Mentalist. Mr. Brand already knows your badge number.

Should Mr. Brand also be unavailable: one (1) prop comedian. The props will be scanned.

Registration

Be counted.

Your answer determines your classification. All answers are correct.
Registration Complete

Thank you for registering.
You have been counted.

You are ATTENDEE No. 04217 INVENTORY