Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I’m noticing that event promoters are increasingly using the word “ unconference ” to describe traditional conferences. <Sigh> ” “Typically at an unconference, the agenda is created by the attendees at the beginning of the meeting. I prefer the term peer conferences , but no one else cares.)

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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. ” —Jeff Jarvis At conferences, the “users” are primarily participants. Screw your users, screw yourself.”

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Conferences that Work

MAY 11, 2020

I’ve been designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich in person meetings — aka peer conferences — for almost thirty years. While Zoom is currently missing some functionality that would smooth the process flow, it’s already a viable platform for online peer conferences. The big picture.

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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? Read the full article at Conferences That Work.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

I’ve been attending conferences for over forty years. 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’m an introvert.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

How do we build conference programs that attendees actually want and need? Here’s what happened when I incorporated dot voting into a recent two-day association peer conference. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A certain percentage of your conference participants don’t return. 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.

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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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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Attendees have something in common: a profession, a passion, a shared experience together. Unfortunately, most conferences squander this opportunity. 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.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 22, 2018

We transform a conference from an impersonal forum for information exchange to a place where people feel they matter: their views, their experience, their ability to contribute become seen. Immediately, the conference is subtly different, full of new possibilities, some of which might have been considered risky or even taboo.

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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. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Improve meetings by de-emphasizing old-school status appeared first on Conferences That Work. The notes at the.

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Social Tables

MARCH 22, 2024

Attending top hospitality conferences, expos, or summits is a fantastic way to stay up-to-date on current trends. In this post, we’re reviewing the top hospitality conferences happening this year and exploring what they have to offer. Which top hospitality conferences should you attend? What’s impacting your industry most?

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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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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 13, 2021

A number of Velvet Chainsaw’s consulting clients have made social responsibility a cornerstone of their conference strategy — with the desire “to leave the host city better because we were there.” When you adopt a strategic objective like that for your conference, it leaves room for creativity in achieving that desired outcome.

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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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Conferences that Work

JUNE 18, 2018

CoffeeGate One sunny morning in 2105, two hundred of us arrived for the opening breakfast at a Canadian conference to discover There Was No Coffee. 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.

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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. I remember vividly when I first started doing conference sessions and things like that on secrets of AV and presentation, there were people in my production company that were like, “Dude. He obviously focused on one to one. What are you doing?”

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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. The attendees are still here talking to each other!

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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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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

Over the last five years I’ve heard increasing concern from the meeting professionals community about the deterioration of the quality of our national industry conferences. Our industry conferences are the obvious places to provide this education. My contributions to meeting education are Participate!

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 4, 2022

When Bobbie Racette attended the Collision technology conference in Toronto in 2019, there were just a couple of Indigenous-led tech companies like hers among the approximately 1,000 startups at the event. That’s huge,” said Racette, who spoke at the conference on June 21 as part of a panel of Indigenous female leaders in tech.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 20, 2016

Conferences that leverage all the expertise in the room, rather than the contributions of a few experts. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Sponsors typically define the context, format, scope, and desired outcomes of an event, so they are clearly key candidates to be considered as owners.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

She recently spoke with Convene about uplifting marginalized communities as it relates to sustainability and making conferences both greener and more people-focused. Today, Lewis serves as co-chair on the Health Equity Advisory for the International WELL Building Institute, and board chair of clean energy nonprofit Groundswell Inc.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 12, 2016

significantly increase owner and attendee satisfaction and participation at your sessions and events. I’ve been convening, designing, and facilitating conferences for over 35 years, concentrating on participant-driven and participation-rich event facilitation and design since 1992. I am so ashamed! I’m excited!

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The MICE Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The city promotes public transport by offering free tickets to attendees who book their hotel stays through Stuttgart Marketing. Choosing a venue like the Mercedes-Benz Museum is a blend of history and future, and it’s sure to leave a lasting impression on your attendees. Today, it has 14 conference rooms and 6 theme-based restaurants.

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Convene by PCMA

MAY 27, 2022

A family member had a coffee cart at the Microsoft Conference Center and … he said, “Well, you should talk to this meeting planning agency because they do events for Microsoft.” freaking out because if attendees didn’t have the most up-to-date agenda they wouldn’t know what to do. I was so lucky.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 13, 2016

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. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. So instead of pushing the envelope, many people choose to censor themselves.”

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Imagine this scenario: you walk into the opening reception of a large conference, and quickly realize you don’t know a soul. Quickly downing your drink, you head back to your hotel room with the hopes tomorrow will lead to a more connected conference experience. . This is not how your first-time guests should feel.

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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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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 21, 2023

Seth Godin makes the same point when talking about the future of education and what we can do about it in his 2012 TEDxYouth@BFS talk. Give attendees experiences, not things. Watch this 30-second clip. Video clip transcript: “Are we asking our kids to collect dots or connect dots? Give people permission to connect.

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 29, 2024

At a 2012 Ted Talk, Charlie Todd and Improv Everywhere planted a fake speaker whose PowerPoint presentation seemingly failed, with the multicolored “spinning ball of death” on screen instead of slides. A popular conference prank facilitated by Improv Everywhere is the surprise musical. That was a unifying moment.

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Maritz Global Events

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Inherently, if a hacker takes your attendees’ credit card information, it may lead to unwanted charges, identity theft, or sale of their data on the dark web. As a former meeting planner who has received Ohio MPI’s Planner of the Year award twice (2006 & 2012), she brings a unique perspective to these blog posts.

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Rogens started the nonprofit HFC in 2012 as a way to help family caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients. The Rogens launched the organization in 2012, inspired to take action after Lauren’s mother, Adele, was diagnosed with the disease at 55. Alexandra Villano. She passed away in 2020. Eseosa Ighodaro, and deejay Steve Aoki.

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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. Jerry Harper Jerry Harper has been named director of the Phoenix Convention Center & Venues.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 20, 2023

At the recent Convening Leaders 2023 conference, the association for convention and trade-show management delivered advice from experts on pushing beyond one’s comfort zone to try new approaches. For Convening Leaders attendees, the lesson from Brag and Kandil ( in photo ) was that seeking discomfort fuels creativity.

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