"My wife should not be thrown out of the venue" is hardly an unexpected and entitled demand, though. It falls more into the "not going to mention it because it's implied" category.
Totally agree. If you pause to think about it, for a conference as large and expectedly bureaucratic as this one, asking for a last-minute ticket for your wife is no different than asking for one for a colleague. It's something that should have been taken care of more than 30 minutes before the talk.
He didn't ask for a ticket. He asked for her to be allowed into his own talk for the hour while he was giving it. That's a pretty tame and reasonable request.
They knew she was coming. It's not like he just showed up and was like, "surprise! I have another person you had no idea existed!" They should have at least asked about it.
