Endless Events

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Because after months of repetitive webinars and dull sessions, attendees will increasingly expect more. “When we started in 2012, it really focused on the future of video communications. One of the many trends we identified for the upcoming months was the implementation of mixed reality in digital experiences.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Team-building exercises are often memorable because they allow attendees see each other in a different context. Emerson Resort & Spa in Mount Tremper, New York, has a plethora of options for fun-loving attendees, no matter the season. What’s the trick to creating a memorable team-building experience? Have an Adventure!

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Additionally, Ramsay’s Kitchen can accommodate up 244 guests, making it an ideal location for meeting planners to wow attendees with an amazing fine dining experience. In 2012, Wilson triumphed over all other contestants on the televised cooking competition, Hell’s Kitchen, in what Wilson refers to as a “very unique interview process.”

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PRA

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Since 2012, PRA has provided destination support for the industry’s largest tradeshow. Since 2012, PRA has partnered with IMEX to provide outstanding destination management services for participants, including transportation shuttles and show floor activations. CHICAGO, IL.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Business is Human Since it launched in 2012, the C2 Montréal conference —conceived by creative agency Sid Lee in partnership with Cirque du Soleil — has set a high bar for daringly different session formats, environments, and approaches to connecting diverse participants. How has that evolved? READ MORE

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 13, 2017

We know that participants — people who are active learners — learn more, retain more, and retain more accurately than passive attendees. This is all very well, but it begs the question: what can meeting designers do to make it easier for attendees to participate more at meetings? How do we get people to participate at meetings?

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Motivation Excellence

MARCH 9, 2024

Number of attendees has grown 226% over 12 years. Attendees make up 71%+ of customer base. This program started in 2012 and continues today. We built a performance tracking website, created a robust engagement campaign and produced best practices webinars led by company leadership.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 4, 2021

” “Typically at an unconference, the agenda is created by the attendees at the beginning of the meeting. Conference programs that are predetermined with attendee input are not unconferences. In 2o10, I explained why asking attendees in advance for program suggestions doesn’t work.

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Endless Events

JULY 11, 2019

Anyone who’s been in business knows that at the end of the day, success will be determined by your attendees’ experience. “We started way back in 2012 live tweeting, and all the fast things. This week, we’ll give you the gist of cultivating engagement at events.

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The MICE Blog

JULY 8, 2024

The former public swimming pool was put up for public tender by the City of Lucerne real estate in 2012. For business trips, which are often short, this setup allows attendees to see and experience a lot in a short amount of time. Presentation by Nathalie Brunner from Verein Netzwerk Neubad The building’s story is fascinating.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 11, 2020

I started using Zoom in 2012, but since the pandemic began I’ve facilitated more Zoom meetings than the last seven years. Conference organizers will have a comprehensive list of topics, issues, and challenges that are top-of-mind for attendees, plus identified participants who can facilitate/lead/present on them.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 11, 2019

This is attendee churn. In the next few weeks, we’ll cover proactive ways to stop attendee churn in its tracks. How Attendee Churn is Calculated. The 550 attendees at this year’s conference don’t specify the number of new attendees. The even bigger question is: Why don’t your attendees come back?

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

How do we build conference programs that attendees actually want and need? Scenes from a peer conference—part 2 Since 2012, I’ve had the privilege of designing and facilitating the annual Vermont Vision for a Multicultural Future Peer Conference. Read the full article at Conferences That Work.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 23, 2024

Real-world Up-skilling Two floors down in the education sessions, attendees were earning certificates in Event Data Analytics and Healthcare Meetings Compliance. Pamela Schuller , a comedian living with Tourette Syndrome, helped attendees embrace their “messy” parts and leverage their individuality and unique talents to conquer their goals.

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Education Healthcare Certification Regulations 130

Endless Events

JUNE 20, 2023

Gen Z includes people born between 1997 and 2012. As the average age of B2B event attendees continues to decrease , event planners need to tweak their approaches to design Gen Z-friendly events that turn more heads. From an event planning perspective, this is a great way to boost ticket sales and reduce your cost per attendee.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Merely knowing what attendee churn is and why it happens isn’t enough. As we know, attendee churn is your event’s failure to retain guests year over year. Since attendee churn can take a drastic toll on your brand, event, and even budget, let’s focus on seven preventative methods to keep it at bay.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

While the value of live events are uncontested, when it comes to spreading the word about live events to attract attendees, your brand has several digital options. With a limited marketing budget, how do you know the best way to digitally promote your event to attract the most attendees? I’m glad you asked.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 4, 2023

Two weeks prior: Give homework to attendees. Start by thanking attendees for taking the time to attend the retreat. As a former meeting planner who has received Ohio MPI’s Planner of the Year award twice (2006 and 2012), she brings a unique perspective to the events industry. One week after: Send a follow-up email.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

2, 2022 Location: Dallas and Denton, Texas 2022 Attendees: ~450 Average Attendees: 300+ Website: instantfilmsociety.com Illustration by Carmen Segovia Nearly everyone takes photos exclusively on their phone today, except perhaps the members of the Instant Film Society (IFS), which is dedicated to preserving the art of the Polaroid.

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Motivation Excellence

JUNE 7, 2024

Results Attendee Growth : The number of attendees grew by 226% over 12 years, with attendees comprising over 71% of the customer base. The Buying Show became a must-attend event, significantly enhancing business relationships and revenue, with the program continuing successfully since its inception in 2012.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Such a transformation is the essential work needed to build human community around the event, which becomes something special, standing out like a beacon from the humdrum conferences routinely inflicted on attendees. The meeting feels different, is different, because it allows participants to be truly heard and seen.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 2, 2022

At a time when many are reacting to changes in climate and attendee expectations, the golden state’s hospitality sector is leading the way to a future that will continue to welcome change-makers for decades to come. You may even inspire attendees to do better while you are at it. Sustainable Meeting.

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Sustainability Meeting Platform Panel 182

Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Attendees have something in common: a profession, a passion, a shared experience together. Learning is restricted to broadcast-style lectures , Q&A is often more about status than learning, and attendees have little if any input into the topics and issues discussed. But you can create an environment where they choose to.”

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Conference Attendee Networking Production 95

Conferences that Work

JANUARY 21, 2019

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

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Meeting Conference Education Booking 90

Convene by PCMA

JULY 21, 2023

Ken Holsinger, Freeman’s senior vice president for strategy, presents the EduCon 2023 session, “Attracting & Engaging Next-Generation Event Attendees.” However, they contribute to the new wave of Next Gen attendees identified in a Freeman report Convene wrote about a few months ago.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Rereading a 2012 post by Jeff Jarvis , I was struck by the parallels between his take on news organizations’ responsibilities to their platforms and the responsibilities of conferences. For decades, I’ve championed responsible conference designs that prioritize participants.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 18, 2018

I’ll bet that even today, if you asked attendees what they remembered about the event, most would immediately recall the There Was No Coffee moment. We do not want events to be poorly planned and/or executed, because the inevitable result will be unhappy attendees and chaos of one kind or another.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Selecting multiple recipients increases the chances of aligning with your attendees’ passions. The Phoenix Convention Center has an inventory of 31,000 KI Daylight chairs made from recycled car battery casings and seatbelts — something most conference attendees would appreciate knowing.

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Consulting Banking Vendor Sponsors 98

Motivation Excellence

JUNE 15, 2024

Results Attendee Growth : The number of attendees grew by 226% over 12 years, with attendees comprising over 71% of the customer base. The Buying Show became a must-attend event, significantly enhancing business relationships and revenue, with the program continuing successfully since its inception in 2012.

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Incentives Prospect Sustainability Production 100

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.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Attendees learn more when presenters use active learning modalities. And we now know that the popularity of fluent lectures, as measured by session evaluations, is based on an incorrect belief by attendees that they are learning more than they actually do. Most meeting presenters still lecture.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I think in 2012 was the first episode that he did it in and that’s light years. ” Okay, but how do we actually implement that and how do we actually make it something that I can bring to my event in a way that’s going to make my attendees go, “Wow, that was awesome”? He obviously focused on one to one.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 13, 2022

At a time when many are reacting to changes in climate and attendee expectations, the golden state’s hospitality sector is leading the way to a future that will continue to welcome change-makers for decades to come. You may even inspire attendees to do better while you are at it. Sustainable Meeting.

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Sustainability Meeting Platform Panel 130

Conferences that Work

AUGUST 8, 2016

For over 25 years, I’ve been designing and facilitating Conferences That Work : successful, innovative, highly interactive, participant-driven events that leverage attendees’ expertise and experience to create just the conference that participants want and need. Participant at Adrian’s 2012 EIBTM Participation Techniques Workshop.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 11, 2021

How do you think the experience of the pandemic will change how your conferences will be designed in the future and how attendees will want to participate? Sitting on Zoom for the duration of an entire conference is tiring and lacks the same opportunities to experience a host city and to connect with fellow attendees.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 9, 2018

In a nutshell, I think that our industry associations have become too focused on justifying their continued existence financially, and are neglecting their core mission of supporting and representing their members and association meeting attendees. The key to successful 21st century conferences Attend Participate!,

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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.

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