I agree with the other commenters this is common for executive recruiting. The use case is the recruiter is ghostwriting for the exec, so they reach out to candidates as the exec and get a better response rate. This maybe is deceptive but probably also is a signal of effort, that sets it apart from regular recruiter spam.
Do you have the speakers already planned for the lightning talks or is it just anyone who comes can give one? If the latter, I recently gave a lightning talk at Mason Hartman’s chapel about ascending a rope, and was wondering if that would work at this venue https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1172759973903757312
I agree with the other commenters this is common for executive recruiting. The use case is the recruiter is ghostwriting for the exec, so they reach out to candidates as the exec and get a better response rate. This maybe is deceptive but probably also is a signal of effort, that sets it apart from regular recruiter spam.