Conferences that Work

JULY 8, 2019

They persist in seating attendees in long straight lines whenever possible, ignoring the benefits of curved and circular seating at their events. Meeting planners typically default to squaring the circle when specifying room sets. See Paul Radde’s Seating Matters: State of the Art Seating Arrangements for more information.)

Conference 116

Conference Education Booking Benefits 116

Conferences that Work

MARCH 19, 2018

Do your conference programs include pre-scheduled sessions you belatedly discover were of little interest or value to most attendees? If so, you’re wasting significant stakeholder and attendee time and money — your conference is simply not as good as it could be. The key to successful 21st century conferences Attend Participate!,

Attendee 59

Attendee Conference Sponsors Education 59

Conferences that Work

JANUARY 14, 2019

Are you tired of attendees making statements during question time? Related posts: Participation techniques you can use in conference sessions Here’s the summary handout for my workshop on participation techniques you can use in conference sessions that I’ll be leading at MPI’s World Education Congress 2011.

Meeting 98

Meeting Conference Education Audience 98

Conferences that Work

JANUARY 21, 2019

Apart from my first book , I haven’t written much about status at events. I think about status at events as the relative levels of proclaimed or perceived social value assigned to or assumed by attendees. There are two key kinds of event status — let’s call them old-school and real-time. The notes at the.

Meeting 90

Meeting Conference Education Booking 90

Conferences that Work

JANUARY 16, 2017

At traditional conferences, attendees choose from predetermined sets of sessions chosen by conference organizers. Think about your experience of such events. We saw ourselves giving him some control. He may have seen us as taking it away.” ” —Naomi Karten, The Importance of Giving Others a Sense of Control.

Conference 92

Conference Consulting Events Booking 92

Conferences that Work

MAY 14, 2018

Mythodology: We know what our attendees want to learn about. At least half the sessions programmed at traditional conferences are not what attendees want. Mythodology: Event socials are a good way to meet people. Reality : People tend to stay with people they already know at event socials. Reality : No, you don’t.

Conference 86

Conference Contracts Contracts Venue 86

Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Related posts: Participation techniques you can use in conference sessions Here’s the summary handout for my workshop on participation techniques you can use in conference sessions that I’ll be leading at MPI’s World Education Congress 2011. Sources for additional information. I’m excited!

Conference 0

Conference Communications Communications Education 0

Conferences that Work

JUNE 13, 2016

Why mention this on an event design blog? As I’ve explained elsewhere , good covenants publicly clarify the freedoms that attendees have at an event, like the freedoms to speak one’s mind , ask questions , and share feelings. The Chinese government runs a massive online censorship program. to say and do.

Meeting 63

Meeting Online Government Conference 63

Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This seems to be the norm, because when you talk to attendees you find they set a low bar for satisfaction, e.g. “I t’s OK if I learn one new thing a day, oh, and if I make a useful connection or two that would be great! I’ve been attending conferences for over forty years. Most of them are dull and largely irrelevant.

Conference 79

Conference Education Audience Attendee 79

MeetingsNet

MARCH 18, 2024

The New York-based meeting-management platform now makes it simpler for attendees to book rooms and for organizers to track pickup. This mobile-friendly system means attendees only need to enter their information once on in the registration site; after that, it flows through to the housing system.

Management 52

Management Registration Contracts Contracts 52

Conferences that Work

AUGUST 6, 2018

Attendees then spend the rest of the 45 minutes browsing content that interests them, with the poster creator available for explanations, elaborations, and discussions as needed. Each poster session begins with half the presenters giving a one-minute summary of their work/poster to everyone present. Sources for additional information.

Conference 101

Conference Conference Design Publishing Education 101

Conferences that Work

JULY 29, 2019

.” Skilled leaders know to uncover the wants and needs of participants at the start of the session, and use the information to build a workshop that’s optimized for the attendees. In my experience, attendees prefer well-designed workshops to almost any other session format. One final suggestion. The notes at the.

B2C 75

B2C B2B Seminar Speakers 75

Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 18, 2018

While many might talk about event experience design, few have focused so intently on this crucial success driver. Since its development in 2011, the design team at Maritz Global Events has continued to refine their design methodology and practice.

Global Events 56

Global Events Events Attendee Event Design 56

Conferences that Work

JUNE 20, 2016

If we think of an event as the thing that happened between the moments when the first attendee arrived and the last person left, we are ignoring the changes in the knowledge, viewpoints, and connections, and the subsequent outcomes that the event created. Sources for additional information.

Sponsors 74

Sponsors Events Education Conference 74

Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2019

Ultimately, the attendees are the losers when this happens. A client asked me to facilitate a 90-minute workshop for 600 attendees. But when it was time to start, no attendees appeared. But I was disappointed and puzzled that so many attendees had missed out on an excellent experience. Obviously, I wanted to find out why.

Rehearsal 79

Rehearsal Logistics Contracts Contracts 79

Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Another issue of an occasional series— Dear Adrian —in which I answer questions about event design, elementary particle physics , solar hot water systems, facilitation, and anything else I might conceivably know something about. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! Sources for additional information.

Conference Design 80

Conference Design Conference Publishing Education 80

Conferences that Work

MAY 21, 2018

Invented at MPI’s 2011 European Meetings and Events Conference, the session fosters active meaningful connections between attendees, and provides peer support and solutions to the real professional challenges currently faced by participants. The Solution Room is rapidly becoming a popular meeting plenary.

Consulting 66

Consulting Events Conference Education 66

Conferences that Work

MAY 23, 2016

No-tech techniques require only the attendees themselves, while low-tech approaches use readily available and inexpensive materials such as paper and pens. Some techniques include participant interaction, which also improves learning. That’s why I prefer no-tech and low-tech techniques for participatory voting whenever possible.

Conference 69

Conference Events Education Audience 69

Conferences that Work

JULY 30, 2018

Ironically, in my experience it’s almost always easier to create memorable learning and valuable connection for attendees by employing participatory workshop formats. Many organizations focus on getting the “best” experts to speak at their meetings. Sources for additional information. Please help me (and hopefully yourself)!

Consulting 54

Consulting Education Venue Conference 54

Conferences that Work

JULY 18, 2016

You may be wondering how to effectively structure a panel where the panelists don’t necessarily dominate the proceedings, letting attendees contribute and steer content and discussion in the ways they want and need. Use them and your attendees will thank you! Welcome and a fishbowl sandwich. ” Yours can be too!

Panel 63

Panel Audience Consulting Conference 63

Conferences that Work

MAY 31, 2016

with a matched receiver and software that processes and displays responses — are so commonly used to provide anonymous voting at meetings today that many event planners and attendees are unaware that public voting is a simple and, in many cases, more useful alternative. Sources for additional information.

Conference 59

Conference Education Audience Booking 59

Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Here’s how Jeff Hurt describes this approach, which he calls surface learning , contrasting it with deep learning where attendees discover through exploratory activity: Content Covered Or Discovered. The attendee consumes as much as the speaker says as possible and tries to store it in the mind.

Conference 115

Conference Speakers Advertising Booking 115