Guide
4 min
A practical guide for first-timers: which room fills first, where to sit, when to eat and how to meet people without networking.
WORDS BY
Oddfield team
The Main Hall fills first, especially for the first talk of each morning. If you want the front rows, arrive by 09:15.
Hall B is smaller and closer. Speakers there tend to take more questions, and the room runs cooler in the afternoon.
Lunch is the best time to meet people. The long tables are deliberately too long to sit alone at.
If you only stay for one evening, make it the first: the press in The Loft runs until nine.
[05] KEEP READING
Notes
5 min
Every Oddfield programme is printed on a press in Zwolle before it goes online. A short note on why we still bother, and what it costs.
Venue
6 min
Built in 1923 to repair harbour cranes, Kraanhal now hosts exhibitions and, for two days in May, Oddfield. A short history of the building.
Programme
7 min
We received 640 talk proposals this year and accepted 24. What the good rejections had in common, and how to pitch us for 2028.
[06] TICKETS
[13] ONE EMAIL, WHEN THE PROGRAMME PRINTS
Four emails a year: the first names, the full programme, the workshops and the week before the doors open. Nothing else.