PLAN B Conference

The PLAN B edition dated 11.9.2026 belongs to Ostrava. In their frequently asked questions, the organisers identify VŠB, the local technical university, as the venue. The distinction matters because another event has a similar name: planbforum.org points to Plan B Forum in Lugano 2026 and El Salvador 2027. These are different events; similar names do not mean a shared ticket. Calling this Czech edition a Prague conference would also misidentify its location. [1] [2] [5]

Jan Kohout and Jan Marvan are behind the Czech project. They describe podcasts and two years of smaller meetings around Czech cities as its background. Evening conversations no longer gave the broad subjects enough room, leading to a full-day programme. The website now looks back on its first edition in 2026. The July Hacking Lives invitation connected it with ChainCamp on 12.9.2026: wider questions about life first, followed by a day devoted to Bitcoin. [1] [6]

Imagine a family considering life in another country. Choosing a destination is only the start: residence, banking, work and information security also matter. Those connections shape the conference programme. OPSEC concerns what our behaviour reveals and how we protect sensitive information. OSINT means gathering and connecting publicly available information. Bitcoin enters these discussions alongside citizenship, inheritance and taxes. A talk can help you understand the landscape, but a particular legal or tax solution depends on the individual’s circumstances. [1]

The schedule placed sessions in three rooms at once: Whalebooks had a stated capacity of 140 people, Invity 85 and Anycoin 88. For attendees, this meant choice, but also deciding which conversation to miss. Access to every room does not let you be everywhere at once. These figures describe room size, not tickets sold or actual attendance; neither can be calculated from the timetable. [3]

Recording arrangements also mattered when choosing sessions. Whalebooks was marked for recording, while Invity and Anycoin had no video recording. Organisers explained this through the sensitivity of some subjects and the wish to allow more open conversation. Workshop recordings depended on the speaker’s consent. A ticket therefore did not promise a video of everything. An agreement that the organiser will not record is also not a technical barrier to somebody else making a recording. [2] [3]

According to the organiser’s FAQ, an email address was sufficient to buy a ticket. It would receive a QR code, a machine-readable image used as proof of the ticket at the entrance. The code was not tied to a name and could be given away or sold. That makes transfer easier, but does not provide complete anonymity: information may remain in email, payment or network records. These are the organiser’s rules, not a tested ability to use the same code repeatedly. [2]

The 2026 terms included ordinary admission to all rooms; VIP added food, drinks, a dedicated area and priority seating. The programme also listed private conversations with Juraj Karpiš and Aleš Vávra. At this review date, however, the sales link offers ChainCamp on 11.9.2027. Its prices and benefits are not the price list for PLAN B 2026. When following an old invitation, check the event and date you would actually be buying; a programme on the following day is not automatically included. [2] [3] [4]

The timetable listed registration at 13:00 and opening at 14:00. The FAQ described evening socialising from 20:00, but the detailed programme placed the closing raffle at 20:15 and informal conversations from 20:45 to 24:00. These details differ, so they should not be assembled into an apparently exact account of the evening. After 11.9.2026, they form an archive of that edition. Available recordings and speakers’ writing are better ways to understand the content than assuming that every item happened exactly as scheduled. [2] [3]