Conferences that Work

JULY 2, 2018

The needs assessment trap Conference design clients who “know what they want” have already decided on their “ why? Scenes from a peer conference A slideshow of images from the Third Annual Vermont Vision For A Multicultural Future peer conference, held at the Mount Snow Grand Summit Resort November 6-7, 2014.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Much as I would like to tell you that participant-driven and participation-rich event formats are common these days, it just ain’t so. I’ve run the core Conferences That Work design in a day numerous times, and it’s always a rush. A day and a half is the minimum needed for a group to really benefit.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 11, 2021

Finally, there are conferences that are entirely experiments! In the meetings world, the most well known are the series of EventCamps that were held around the world between 2010 and 2014. These were volunteer-run, meeting experiments that explored a wide range of meeting and session formats and technologies.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Such process is the focus of the peer conference designs and associated participation techniques that I’ve been developing and writing about here and in my books. Studying how to facilitate this process and then adopting it is perhaps the most effective way you can improve the learning at your events.

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