Conferences that Work

AUGUST 24, 2020

Here are five meeting design books I especially recommend. Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design ( ebook or paperback ). Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design ( ebook or paperback ). In an outrageous display of chutzpah , I wrote three of these books. [If

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Meetings don’t look how they used to. Today, planners are racing to adapt to trends that make conferences and events more engaging and dynamic than ever before. But when it comes to trends, where should meeting industry professionals put their focus? Here are five meeting industry trends that are changing the game.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Change is imminent — and in the meetings industry, it’s upon us. Here’s how the meetings industry is changing the game. With that, they’re also now the largest pool of potential meeting attendees. Control over the meeting agenda is moving to attendees. Millennials are the decision makers now.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 20, 2023

Since 2009, European Best Destinations has been promoting culture and tourism for destinations around Europe with 2023 surpassing the number of votes collected the previous year by 158,175—a clear indication that European tourism is on a fierce rebound and showing significant growth in tourism across the continent. Cittadella, Italy No.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Here’s an independent review of my conference design work, published as a case study in Chapter 25—Designing and Developing Content for Collaborative Business Events—of the book The Routledge Handbook of Business Events. Tip: The hardback version is expensive, the ebook is a quarter of the hardback cost.)

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

On Tuesday, March 26, 2024 , I sat down with Martin Duffy and Paul Nunesdea on LinkedIn Live for an hour’s deep dive conversation about peer conferences: the participant-driven, participation-rich events I’ve designed and facilitated for over thirty years. Peer Conferences Unveiled—The Transcript! Here it is—enjoy!

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 30, 2018

Rarely, however, is this tool used to design events that creatively incorporate, illuminate, and support core desires and outcomes for the meeting. With this tool, you can generate something truly original — like in 2009, when Jill and Kevin Heinz invented a brand new trope: the wedding entrance dance. What’s the tool?

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The MICE Blog

JULY 27, 2022

The conference programme was designed to highlight the importance of the individual who is the centre of every live event. One of the talks that impressed me the most was ‘Participant experience design – how do we create meetings which move people more deeply?’ In 2019 the ITB MICE Forum theme was ‘The Human Factor’.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 18, 2020

I developed The Three Questions in 1995 as a fundamental opening process for peer conferences. Frequent and well-designed small group work is the key to creating active learning and connection at any meeting. Zoom allows facilitators to speedily split a meeting into up to 50 separate sessions. Learn about The Three Questions.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2024

Since 2005, I’ve written three successful books on meeting design and facilitation and over 800 weekly blog posts on a wide range of topics. My books continue to sell, and this blog is the world’s most popular website on meeting design and facilitation. I don’t want to go to another traditional conference again.”

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 7, 2019

At this week's PCMA Convening Leaders conference at David L. Designed to continue the progress and momentum of the first 10 years of the group's advocacy work—the coalition came about at the start of the Great Recession in early 2009—this year's plans focuses on four areas. For more information, visit MeetingsMeanBusiness.com.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 20, 2024

Improving Conferences That Work I designed and facilitated my first peer conference in 1992. Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love took four years to write. I’m still proud of how well Conferences That Work lays out the fundamental reasons for the importance and value of peer conferences.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Having a new lineup every year of speakers at conferences, or different decor and F&B at special events is not enough. The JKWeddingDance , invented in 2009, became a fun and novel format for Western weddings, but such innovations are rare. But conferences, where people come to learn and connect, are a different matter.

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Travel Daily Media

JANUARY 22, 2024

The post Keynote speakers announced for The Advantage Travel Partnership’s 2024 Conference appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Brand TD. The Advantage Travel Partnership has announced two keynote speakers for its flagship conference taking place in Costa Mujeres, Mexico from the 15 th – 18 th May 2024.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 30, 2022

Since its first official event in 1998, this celebration has continued to grow, moving from small hotels to its current host venue, the Raleigh Convention Center, in 2009. Read past installments of There’s a Meeting For That. It is now sponsored by the charity Educational Growth Across Oceans. Culture Class. Visit the Archive.

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 17, 2023

Samantha Veneruso, director of learning programs at the American Geophysical Union (from left); Goradesky; and Lauren Parr, SVP, meetings and learning at AGU, were introduced by Joni Opperman, Hilton Worldwide Sales. Most recently, she served as conference programmes manager for WindEurope.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Returning to F2F, do alcohol and meetings still mix? It happened in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2009,” Juliane Farinazzo, co-founder and events director of Bijou Events, remembers as if it were yesterday. Faceplanted on the table during a global investigator meeting, causing four glass bottles to topple to the floor.”. Yes, they did.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 8, 2019

1992: I organize a conference where there are no expert speakers available (it’s a new field, there are no experts). Invent a way to make the conference successful based on the collective needs, wants, and experience of the attendees. The conference has run continually for the last 27 years.) This is something new.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 3, 2023

As you may know, I have been selling my ebooks at a fixed price of $11.00 since 2009. Furthermore, I have consistently produced high-quality books on meeting design that have received critical acclaim and have helped thousands of meeting professionals to significantly improve their conferences. on April 15, 2023.

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The MICE Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

On other days, the three meeting rooms are available throughout the day. The three flexible meeting rooms have the capacity for up to 90 people. Since its reopening in September 2009, the venue has expanded its facilities. Today, it has 14 conference rooms and 6 theme-based restaurants. Natural lighting during the day.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 29, 2016

Whenever I’ve had the pleasure of meeting David (not often enough!) As I’ve written elsewhere , we are so steeped in traditional process rituals that society has used for hundreds of years—lectures, weddings, business meetings, galas, shows, etc.—that 2 — Elementary Meetings. 3 — Conferences That Work.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 31, 2021

I frequently meet people who are, and I certainly understand the temptation. Figuring out ways to make the fundamental human act of meeting better, motivated by nothing more than the pleasure it gave me, led me to write a book about what I had learned. Here’s the story of how I liberated my life by ignoring sunk costs.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The newest study from Oxford Economics on the economic significance of the meetings industry is out, illustrating the size and impact of meetings, conferences, incentive travel programs, and trade shows. million meetings • 251 million meeting participants. The meetings industry in 2016 supported: • 5.9

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has published a 24-page analysis of the meetings, incentives, conference and exhibition (MICE) industry in Asia. of all events recorded by the International Association of Professional Congress Organisers in 2009.

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 6, 2024

He also will develop new marketplace opportunities for IAEE’s annual meeting and strengthen industry relationships in partnership with IAEE’s sales, marketing, and membership teams, as well as develop attendee acquisition strategies. Jennifer Ramsey has joined Talley as a meeting planner.

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Blue Spark Event Design

JANUARY 19, 2024

Meeting organizers are constantly on the lookout for the best hotels in every city (if you need help with site selection and negotiation , let us know!) Rosen Shingle Creek Renovated in 2019, the hotel features 1,501 stylish guest rooms and suites with 524,000 square feet of meeting space.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 9, 2017

According to my weblogs, this site is now one of the most popular websites on meeting design and related issues, with 31 million page views to date, 25 million of which were made in the last three years. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. This has been a PSA from Adrian Segar.

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Bizzaboo

JULY 25, 2023

They market themselves as the meeting place for the culturally curious. It is a former church that was converted into a performance space in 2009. Rent one or all three of their spacious ballrooms for your next wedding, conference, or gala. They offer meeting services for both daytime events and special occasions.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 13, 2019

Top 5 reasons to book medical meetings in the heart of healthcare innovation, biomedical advancement. In Phoenix, meetings are our specialty. And, with a diverse portfolio of conference-friendly resorts and access to medical innovation campuses, Phoenix emerging as a cutting-edge destination for medical meetings.

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Travel Daily Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

This year’s Meet China forum saw more buyers than ever before attending the annual business-to-business event in Abu Dhabi. Since government restrictions on travel to the UAE were relaxed in 2009, the market has surged and this was further bolstered by the ease of visa regulations in 2016.

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Travel Daily Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

“It is encouraging to see major events to be held in our city for the very first time, such as the International Airline Transport Association (IATA) World Cargo Symposium, Asia Sports Technology Conference and the Congress of the Asian Society of Transplantation (CAST) 2023. Asia Sports Technology Conference 2021. Lilian Leong.

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Convene by PCMA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

She saw it as a community newspaper in every sense of the word; a community defined not by geography but by common interest in the meetings industry; associations, hotels and destination marketing companies. She was the first and — to this day — only person to win these three highest meetings industry honors.

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Travel Daily Media

MARCH 25, 2013

The Gulf Incentive, Business Travel and Meetings (GIBTM) show commenced in Abu Dhabi with 70 new exhibitors, 265 expected key hosted buyers and 7,500 pre-scheduled onsite appointments as regional business travel surges. The post GIBTM kicks off in Abu Dhabi appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. An overview of GIBTM 2013.

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I am confident, therefore, that our delegates can look forward to a dynamic and directional FIP event here in Thailand in 2014 where they will be able to learn, share and exchange views at lectures, plenary sessions, Council Meetings and the Leadership Conference. 2) Diversified locations.

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The island state hosted the most rotating association meetings amongst all Asia-Pacific destinations in 2010. Singapore held 136 rotating events in 2010, representing more than 14% growth since 2009. For this reason it has been top of the rankings for almost a decade.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 20, 2020

However, over thirty years passed before the first composite commercial jet entered mass production: The Boeing 787 Dreamliner launched in 2009 comprised 80 percent of its volume and 50 percent of weight in carbon fiber. Many global companies banned business trips replacing face-to-face meetings with video-conferencing.

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Tembusu Events and Communications

APRIL 14, 2021

With everyone settling down into the new-normal, hosting physical events for corporate conferences or D&Ds still seem like a long way to go. Their applications usually surround more formal events such as conferences, panelist talks and corporate agendas (townhalls/ AGMs). Meet virtual events organiser for instagram streaming.

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