Native-speakerism is an ideology in English Language teaching (ELT), which idealizes and promotes Western models, users, and teachers of English, and which is recognized as a serious issue in the field of English language teaching. Despite years of research and activism, progress in tackling native-speakerism in ELT is still slow. In order to effect change, it is thus important to understand how this ideology is socially reproduced in the field. This chapter investigates this topic by examining the speakers chosen to give plenary speeches at conferences in East and South-East Asia, expanding on previous research into conferences in Europe (Kiczkowiak and Lowe in J Multiling Multicult Dev 2021:1–16, 2021). Through analyzing the balance of conference speakers, it is possible to see whose voices are most valued in the field, and who are being upheld as bearers of expertise. Plenary speakers at six of the largest conferences in the region over a period of 10 years were analyzed both in terms of speakerhood and ethnicity and interviews were conducted with conference organizers to understand the reasoning behind speaker selection.