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I have worked on quite a number of conferences and workshops.  Most
recently Supercomputing'88, but also Natl. ACM, Usenix, etc.

The best badges I have seen are the ones done for Salishan High Speed
Computing meetings.  Readable from ten feet, the nice thing is that the
badge is not pinned on, it sits in a shirt pocket (requiring this, sure),
but the "root" of the badge contains the program at a glance, very nice.
You pull out, and fold to the current session.  Other conferences use
those plastic credit card like badges: NCC, ACM/SIGGRAPH, big conferences.
Oh, the SIGGRAPH badges are given a loop and them became a luggage tag.

The point of speakers and lectures was well taken.  Usenix used to take
the "speaker hook:" a red, yellow and green timing light and make it
visible to all: first green, then yellow (one minute), then red (over time),
then red blinking (5 minutes over).

Work in progress sessions are also useful.  The most fun I've seen has been at
ACM/SIGMETRICS.  Absolutely fixed time, everybody runs around, great fun.

Another gross generalization from

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