Travel advice
Andres Almiray: When you're doing a very long trip, especially going west, it makes sense to fly at least one day before the event. Flying west is easier. When you're flying east, I recommend flying two days before, if not three. In my experience, flying east is way harder on the body.
Many people who I see at conferences as speakers go to an event and then they either go back immediately after the event finishes or even during the event itself. They just do one talk and then leave. Those people go very quickly about their business. They don't have time to relax a little bit, interact with people, or even visit the city.
It's nice to have one extra day perhaps to just discover what's around in that particular area. Given that if you do this you will be taking some extra time off from your company, if you have some kind of opportunity for remote working, then taking those extra days will be very helpful. If you have much stricter limits on the time...