I will not be able to join the meeting today because of some private matter that came up.

I will start contacting the sponsors with my name associated with it in the document using Stephanie’s flyer.

I agree that it would be good to work with some standard invitation text, but could then split the task of contacting speakers depending on who knows whom well (especially to get the funding question across easily).

I also attach the current contract for the venue and the event. Please have a look and let me know if you see any problems with me signing it. Are there obvious mistakes? Anything important omitted? The number of participants (and the final price accordingly) will be adjusted just before the meeting, once we have numbers.

Best wishes,

Jochen