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Check for them. Regardless of whether it is the most expensive, fanciest hotel, or the cheapest fly-by-night operation of a hotel. Look around the mattress, headboard, and other furniture in the room.
Wait you're giving a speech and nervous about bringing back bed bugs?! hahah. My nerves 100% would be on giving the speech and not on the possibility of bed bugs. I wouldn't stress about it. As a frequent traveler, I don't think I've experienced bed bugs more than once and that was in a very inexpensive 2-star hotel.
My best advice is to NOT unpack. Don't put your clothes in the drawers in your hotel room. Bed bugs love to live in those fake wooden drawers.
I think the only way you can avoid bedbugs is to avoid hotels that have them. I would assume if you're going to a conference to give a speech that you'd be staying in a decent hotel, so it shouldn't be a problem. I remember when bedbugs were in the news a lot people would advise not to leave your clothes outside your luggage in hotel rooms, so bugs couldn't climb into them. I think people would also seal their clothes in plastic bags to be extra careful. But assuming a hotel doesn't have an infestation those measures may be overkill.
Lol it seems like a weird fear to have but at the same time, I literally did get bed bugs when i was traveling once. Granted I was in Paris in August in a less-than-clean Airbnb, so I think it was a bad combo of factors. But I wouldn't worry about this so much if you're staying at a reputable hotel