What to do with a laptop and bags at a conference?
Convention centers rarely provide secure lockers, and official bag checks fill up fast with excessively long lines. Lugging gear around all day leaves attendees exhausted and carrying equipment they barely use.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Leaving the laptop locked in the hotel room
- 2Relying entirely on a phone instead of a laptop
- 3Traveling back and forth to the hotel
- 4Using fast-filling convention bag checks
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“How critical is it to bring my laptop with me? Is there a locker of safe box to leave it for couple of hours? What should I do with my bag during Dreamfest?”source ↗
Charming_Anteater638 · r/salesforce · 11 upvotes
Where this came up
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