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Smart Moves: Access Appoints Three Female Co-CEOs

Smart Meetings

In this role, she developed a passion for event design, art direction and marketing. In 2009, she opened Workshop, a Colorado DMC. Danielle Phippen Danielle Phippen Phippen began her career at an advertising agency in 1999, after earning a degree in business with a specialty in marketing.

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The creative event design tool that all #eventprofs should use

Conferences that Work

Here’s a powerful tool you can use to generate creative event designs. You can use this tool for every aspect of event design. Stylists working on the look and feel of an event often use it to stimulate fresh thinking about the venue, the décor, the lighting, the food and beverage, entertainment, and so on.

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Event design is not just visuals and logistics

Conferences that Work

BizBash consistently uses the term “event design” to mean “ visual design” As an example, consider the 2016 Design Issue. The cover proclaims “What’s Next in Event Design?” Here are three examples: 1 — The world of weddings. 2 — Elementary Meetings.

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A calendar of peer conferences

Conferences that Work

Since 2009 I’ve maintained an informal calendar of peer conferences (aka unconferences) on this site. It’s informal because I only list events I hear about, a minuscule fraction of the unconferences people hold every day. Even so, the calendar lists hundreds of events. Currently, I add a few peer conferences a month.

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Case Study: Adrian Segar – “Conferences that work”

Conferences that Work

When a business event is built around attendee interaction, empowering participants to shape the content through active involvement and engagement, the outcomes are more likely to be successful, and at the same time, stronger and more meaningful relationships will result.

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Humanity’s problem is a meeting problem

Conferences that Work

In 2009, the biologist E.O. 9 September 2009. 9 September 2009. Wilson described what he saw as humanity’s real problem. I think it’s also a meeting problem: “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.” ” — E.

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Participant experience design — moving from the old to new event world

The MICE Blog

One of the presentations that highly inspired me to think differently about event design took place in 2019 at the MICE Forum at ITB Berlin (Organised by VDVO ). The Falling Walls conference first took place in 2009 and now occurs yearly on the day of the fall of the Berlin Wall — 9 November.

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