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We are biased against truly creative event design

Conferences that Work

A “creative” event design is one with a novel venue and/or decor and lighting and/or food and beverage. Consequently, planners restrict the entire focus of creative event design to novel visual and sensory elements. Truly creative event design We are biased against truly creative event design.

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WEC 2024 in Louisville Lifted Spirits with a Tactical Chaser

Smart Meetings

Read More : Neuroinclusion: Events for Everyone Photo: MPI Devon Pasha, director for North America of Event Design Collective , shared the power of co-creation, rapid prototyping and flexible focus, tools meeting professionals could put to use right away.

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5 Hybrid Event Examples To Inspire Your Process

Endless Events

Webinar World, the event designed from webinerds to webinerds, has been in the hybrid game for years. The good folks at ON24 , the company behind the event, have long realized the importance webinars have in today’s marketing landscape. So get your pen and paper and start taking notes! Webinar World. That’s right!

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How the Responsibilities of Conferences Mirror Those of Media Platforms

Conferences that Work

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.

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Any questions? Rethinking traditional Q&A

Conferences that Work

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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Crafting Corporate Events That Resonate with Gen Z

Endless Events

Gen Z includes people born between 1997 and 2012. If you aren’t part of Gen Z, you might feel confounded by the preferences of these young whipper-snappers, so it’s extra important to do your homework on this audience. The oldest Zoomers (as they’re affectionately called) are 26, and the youngest are 11.

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Connect the dots not collect the dots

Conferences that Work

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. 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.