Smart Meetings

APRIL 14, 2023

Before this, he spent time overseeing the event venues outside London for the 2012 London Olympic & Paralympic Games. In his 25 years in the events industry, he also worked with organizations such as Ascot Rececourse, conference center operator Wembley London Ltd (formerly Wembley Stadium Ltd), and the Baku European Games.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Care to join us for some stimulating conversation about multi-hub meetings? Everyone who works in the event industry knows the power of meetings. And who says we have to stop at single-hub meetings? An entrepreneur since he was only 18 years old, Maarten has over 35 years of experience in meeting design.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The Spain native began her career in 2012, when she worked in London at a Japanese restaurant. Benavidez is executive pastry chef at AT&T Hotel and Conference Center in Austin, Texas. The post Smart Moves: Food and Beverage appeared first on Smart Meetings. Daniel Benavidez. Read More : Reconnect with the Spirit of Hawaii.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

What’s an Ideal Meeting? April 2018, Meetings and Conventions Magazine Do you incorporate participatory sessions into your events? 80% of meeting professionals prefer f acilitated workshop-style, participatory sessions [ survey by M&C Research, April 2018 Meeting and Conventions magazine ]!

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Smart Meetings

MAY 2, 2022

Some 30 miles away, meeting professionals at the ubiquitous customer relationship software company Salesforce have taken a net-zero pledge and are brainstorming ways to keep business moving forward while prioritizing sustainability as a core value in everything from partnerships to customer data tracking and at its annual Dreamforce citywide event.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 6, 2024

Through attending decades of Vermont Town Meetings, I learned that effective facilitation requires respect. For over two hundred years, my little hometown of Marlboro, Vermont, met at least once a year for “town meeting” : a form of local government where every eligible resident can directly participate in town governance.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 11, 2024

We used to extoll the virtue of conferences and conventions as being places where serendipitous connections happen. The Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) is a registered trademark of the Events Industry Council. (Illustration by Line Hachem) The stories we link to below make up Convene’s Sept.-Oct. cover and CMP Series.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 12, 2023

Her hospitality career began with Turtle Bay Resort, where she worked for more than 15 years, in roles such as conference concierge, conference service manager and director of catering and convention services. Garner joined LRCVB in 2012 as administrative coordinator at the River Market, and went on to become event coordinator in 2016.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 11, 2020

Each and every one of these conferences will help inspire your planning process and better understand what you can do to cook up a successful hybrid experience. Let’s kickstart today’s inspiration session with a conference that’s been at it for years. Growth Marketing Conference. Webinar World.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 29, 2019

Here’s an example of why I love conference facilitation and design. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Why I love conference facilitation and design appeared first on Conferences That Work. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That. The notes at the.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

What might leadership for meetings look like? “ —Harold Jarche, work in 2018 Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Leadership for meetings appeared first on Conferences That Work. . Conferences That Work goes to Japan!

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

South America offers modern convention centers with cultural experiences International travel is trending for incentives, executive retreats and corporate meetings. “American readers would be surprised that we prioritize sustainability in our meetings practices. With 19 event rooms and 3132 sq.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 13, 2022

Some 30 miles away, meeting professionals at the ubiquitous customer relationship software company Salesforce have taken a net-zero pledge and are brainstorming ways to keep business moving forward while prioritizing sustainability as a core value in everything from partnerships to customer data tracking and at its annual Dreamforce citywide event.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 26, 2018

One of the most satisfying outcomes of the peer conferences I design and facilitate is how they bring people together who would never otherwise have met — and in doing so change the world. This is obviously important, but why do world-changing connections seldom occur at conventional conferences ?

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 21, 2019

You can improve meetings by de-emphasizing status. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Improve meetings by de-emphasizing old-school status appeared first on Conferences That Work. Apart from my first book , I haven’t written much about status at events. It’s time to revisit this important topic.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

It’s no Comedians in Cars getting Coffee , but here’s my draft script for Seating while Eating at Meetings. Designing Participation Into Your Meetings No, that’s not me up on the stage, and that’s not the kind of session I’ll be leading next Tuesday, May 22, at the MPI New England 2012 Northeast Education.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Is it time you discovered a new approach for that annual conference or general session? IBM Impact Conference. With some 18,000 people attending the IBM Impact Conference, every aspect of the event must engage huge amounts of people. Organizers assigned each conference topic a color. Sony E3 2012 Press Conference.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Marin Bright , founder and CEO, Smart Meetings Gratitude Note: I am grateful for the creative team that continues to wow every month and grateful to be in an industry that allows deeper connections and allows us to bring our authentic selves. Just last week I received a referral thanks to a booking in 2012. We asked What One Thing?

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I’m noticing that event promoters are increasingly using the word “ unconference ” to describe traditional conferences. <Sigh> Here’s how Wikipedia defines an unconference: “An unconference is a participant-driven meeting.” I prefer the term peer conferences , but no one else cares.)

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 30, 2024

In her book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking , and a 2012 TED Talk, which has since been viewed more than 34 million times, Cain argued that even though one-third to half of the population are introverts, the world is biased toward extroverts. Barbara Palmer is deputy editor of Convene. ambivert-TED.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

I’ve been attending conferences for over forty years. ” For twenty years I assumed this was how conferences were supposed to be. ” For twenty years I assumed this was how conferences were supposed to be. “…gets an award for most/best/most thoughtfully organized conference I think I’ve ever been to.”

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Conferences that Work

JULY 9, 2018

Although you’d never guess it from reading meeting industry trade journals, most meetings are small meetings , and this is a good thing if you want effective and relevant connection and learning to take place. Sources for additional information. Whoever they are—young developing leaders,

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 5, 2017

All meetings incorporate power relationships that fundamentally affect their dynamics and potential. Traditional conferences unconsciously promote and sustain power imbalances between the “speakers” at the front of the room and the audience. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. It is one.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 10, 2016

In less than three minutes, you can improve almost any conference session with pair share. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. More details can be found in Chapter 38 of The Power of Participation.). How do you use pair share? Share with everyone in the comments below! Sources for additional information.

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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. Because participants love these meetings ! Now the covid-19 pandemic has forced meetings online. Zoom has rapidly become the dominant platform for online meetings.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 27, 2018

This happens all the time As a facilitator of conferences and meetings, I meet and talk with hundreds of people every year. I don’t want to forget the people I meet — but my aging brain is less cooperative. So here are three ways to minimize embarrassment when meeting people whom you might have met before.

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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. Experienced meeting planners know that every meeting has its share of unexpected surprises. Minimizing surprises like CoffeeGate is default behavior for meeting planners.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 22, 2019

” at the end of a conference session? Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Any questions? Rethinking traditional Q&A appeared first on Conferences That Work. Hands rise, and the presenter picks an audience member who asks a question. The presenter answers the question and picks another questioner.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 6, 2022

A meeting designer used a carbon-dioxide meter in all the spaces he moved through while attending a recent conference. In late May, Adrian Segar attended a meeting-industry leadership summit in San Juan, Puerto Rico. With the meeting-room doors open, my meter typically showed readings between 500 and 600,” he noted.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 21, 2023

How can we maximize the real value of a meeting? By maximizing how participants “connect the dots”—what they actually learn from their experiences at the meeting—rather than documenting what we or they think they should have learned. We know that these kinds of meeting evaluations are unreliable ( 1 , 2 , 3 ).

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Moyer has been with the Gila River team since 2012, having joined as a sales associate. Before this, he worked with Arizona Grand Resort, where he worked in various managerial roles, including director of front operations, conference services manager and front desk manager. Cahal Mowery, Eric Kincaid and Robert Leff. McClinton Heil.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 6, 2017

Many believe that meetings are an unpleasant evil that sucks time and energy away from getting things done. That’s unfortunate, because meetings — when done right — are one of the most powerful business tools for creating the action outcomes that stakeholders and participants want and need. I’m so glad you asked!

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 2, 2017

As 2017 begins, take a moment to think about meetings in a wider context. While our primary relationships are usually with family and friends, professional relationships are also important, and meetings are typically the most effective way to form and develop then. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. “Who am I?”

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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. I’ll illustrate with the area where I have most experience: providing education at these meetings.

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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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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Conference variation allows for concurrent tracks, reception area, and exhibitor booths. Attendees can personalize their agenda, meet in the app with video meetings, and even save the video files for review. This is ideal for boosting connections and widening the meeting pool for your participants. Albert’s Aha!

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Conferences that Work

JULY 2, 2018

Recently, a client asked for help designing a new conference. The needs assessment trap Conference design clients who “know what they want” have already decided on their “ why? It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That. Conferences That Work goes to Japan! ” and “ who?

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