I used PullAList to get the conference attendee list, here's how it went
Think I finally got the gist of how people find who to reach out to before a conference and it's not just connections.
After our last event I spent a stupid amount of time trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. Read a bunch of stuff online and read about Pullalist, tried it before our last conference I just generated the list a couple weeks out, picked maybe 30 names that fit what we sell and sent normal outreach. Nothing much just emails and LinkedIn. Got like 10 meetings on the calendar before I even left for the airport. For context the last conference I went to cold I came back with one decent conversation and a stack of business cards.
So yeah I basically spent years walking into these events blind, scanning random badges and hoping I'd run into the right people, when I could've just looked at who was going from the get go. Whether with a tool the event hashtag on LinkedIn, people posting that they're going the sponsor list or even just texting a few people in the industry. The info is THERE, I just never thought to go out and look for it.