Currently searching for conferences related to workplace training and learning and saw that on some websites they ask potential participants to submit papers to attend. Do people submit these papers to get published at the conferences? Can I attend such conferences just to listen?
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As others have mentioned, the papers are submitted by people who want to speak at the conference. If you are looking at a conference asking for papers, they are probably months away from actually running the conference, and won’t be selling tickets yet.
Also, calling them “papers” is a bit of a stretch. I’ve submitted “papers” to multiple conferences, and have never really been asked for more than a few paragraphs describing what I wanted to talk about.
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