How does FORKOFF get a founder speaking at conferences?
FORKOFF tracks CFP (call-for-papers) deadlines across a 50-event catalog spanning 5 lanes: Crypto, AI, Founder, SaaS, and vertical-industry events. Week 0 filters that catalog to a ranked shortlist matching the founder's lane and open CFP windows. Each submission proposes one specific, narrow talk matched to that event's track and past speaker lineup, not a company pitch. Accepted talks get a briefing doc before the event and a 90-day distribution pack after any recording ships.
What does it cost?
Event speaking placements ship bundled inside Founder Funnel's Tier 1 Heavy retainer: $5,000-6,000/mo for 3 podcasts plus 1 event speaker slot a month. Speaking placements are not sold as a standalone SKU; CFP research, submission voice, and briefing all draw on the same founder-thesis work the rest of a Founder Funnel engagement builds. A founder who only wants podcasts, without the event lane, should look at Tier 2 Standard or Tier 3 Light on the podcast guest placements page.
How far ahead do CFP submissions need to go in?
Most conference and summit CFP windows close 3-6 months before the event. That is the core problem this offering solves: a founder checking a conference's site the month before the show finds every slot filled. FORKOFF tracks deadlines ahead of the close so submissions go in while a slot is genuinely still open.
Do you guarantee I get accepted?
No. CFP committees make the final call on every conference, and no honest speaking-placement service can promise otherwise. What FORKOFF guarantees is the process: a tracked calendar so deadlines are never missed, a specific talk proposal instead of a generic pitch, and a submission matched to what that event's track has actually run before.
What kinds of events are in the catalog?
50 events across 5 lanes. Crypto-Event covers 20 shows including TOKEN2049 Singapore and Dubai, five ETHGlobal hackathons, Korea Blockchain Week, Permissionless, Solana Breakpoint, Devcon Mumbai, and EthCC. AI-Event covers 16 shows including AI Engineer World's Fair, NVIDIA GTC, AWS re:Invent, TEDAI Vienna, and ODSC East and West. Founder-Event covers 6 including TechCrunch Disrupt, Web Summit, Collision, and SXSW. SaaS-Event covers 6 including SaaStr, UNBOUND, and Dreamforce. Industry-Vertical-Event covers 2 finance-focused shows including Money 20/20.
What happens after a talk gets recorded?
Every recorded talk feeds a 90-day distribution pack: clips, quote graphics, a written recap, and a social sequence, run through the same clipping pipeline as the rest of Founder Funnel. An 18-minute stage slot should not evaporate into one photo posted once.
How is this different from a speaker bureau?
A speaker bureau typically books paid celebrity keynotes for a flat per-event fee, and rarely covers early-stage AI or Web3 conferences at all. This offering runs the inbound CFP process instead: tracking deadlines, writing a specific talk proposal, flagging any sponsorship requirement before a submission goes in, and distributing the result afterward.
Can event speaking run without podcast placements?
It ships bundled with podcast placements on the Tier 1 Heavy retainer because the two circuits overlap: a founder who lands a podcast guest slot in a given lane often gets introduced to that same lane's conference organizers, and vice versa. There is no standalone speaking-only SKU.