diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
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--- a/_config.yml
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 title: Code BEAM America
 description: > # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
-  Welcome to Code BEAM America, a conference organised by Code Sync. This is the premiere Erlang and Elixir conference in America, bringing the best speakers in the community together, for two days of first-rate BEAM-related talks and two days of tutorials.
+  Welcome to Code BEAM America, a conference organised by Code Sync. This is the premier Erlang and Elixir conference in America, bringing the best speakers in the community together, for two days of first-rate BEAM-related talks and two days of tutorials.
 baseurl: "" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog
 url: "https://codebeamamerica.com" # the base hostname & protocol for your site