Conferences that Work

JUNE 3, 2019

The first peer conference I convened and designed was held June 3 – 5, 1992 at Marlboro College, Vermont. So, as of today, the community of practice that eventually became edACCESS has enjoyed 27 years of peer conferences. Twenty-three people came to the inaugural conference. 27 years of peer conferences.

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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

JULY 8, 2019

Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Squaring the circle: creating room sets for connection appeared first on Conferences That Work. The notes at the.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 14, 2019

Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Handling a meeting question that isn’t appeared first on Conferences That Work. Sue, Conferences That Work goes to Japan! The first Conferences That Work peer conference held in Japan begins today!

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Bizzaboo

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Searching for the top tech events to attend in 2024? This carefully curated conference directory features more than 100 tech conferences happening worldwide in 2024. To better navigate this list, let’s briefly review the different events you’ll see. We’ve done all the work for you!

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2019

What led to writing the book, Conferences that Work ? I invented the format by accident 26 years ago when there were no expert speakers to invite for a conference on administrative computing issues in small schools. I asked people, “If this conference could be amazing for you, what would it be about?”

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Training associations how to create powerful and effective participant-driven and participation-rich conferences is one of the most rewarding aspects of my work: I love facilitating the learning that occurs, and the organization is then equipped with the process tools needed to transform their events.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 12, 2024

I learned about them when I presented at The Religious Conference Management Association annual conference in 2014, and I’ve written about what meeting designers can learn from religious services. Religious meetings are a small, fascinating subset of the meeting industry.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 25, 2016

I guarantee you will learn many new great ideas about conference panels from this Blab of my Thursday chat with the wonderful Kristin Arnold. With many thanks to Kristin and our viewers (especially Kiki L’Italien who contributed mightily) I now offer you the AMA About Conference Panels annotated time-line. 1:30] Using sli.do

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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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Conferences that Work

JUNE 11, 2018

Sue, Participation techniques you can use in conference sessions Here’s the summary handout for my workshop on participation techniques you can use in conference sessions that I’ll be leading at MPI’s World Education Congress 2011. Sources for additional information.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 2, 2018

Recently, a client asked for help designing a new conference. Thirty minutes of discussion with three stakeholders revealed they hadn’t yet settled on the event’s specific purpose, scope, and format. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That. Conferences That Work goes to Japan!

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 26, 2023

A June 2023 conference gave me a perfect opportunity to use one of my facilitation tools: Reminders, Sparks, Questions, Puzzles (RSQP). My 2014 post on RSQP gives a clear example of how it works (and my book Event Crowdsourcing includes full details) so I won’t repeat myself here. Two significant differences 1.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Read the full article at Conferences That Work. The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 14, 2016

. — Choose Chicago (@ChooseChicago) December 28, 2014. Event organizers and attendees alike can use the event hashtag to find out who else will be in attendance and engage with one another beforehand. casesmc pic.twitter.com/o3A6ZcPJ7E — Christine Tempesta (@ctempesta) November 7, 2014. I am going to #CASEDI in January.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 14, 2019

A big thank-you to the meeting industry luminaries who were kind enough to write testimonials for Event Crowdsourcing ! Here’s what they wrote: Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Event Crowdsourcing testimonials appeared first on Conferences That Work. Lab at The EVENT, April 4-6, Montréal!

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Conferences that Work

MAY 21, 2018

Invented at MPI’s 2011 European Meetings and Events Conference, the session fosters active meaningful connections between attendees, and provides peer support and solutions to the real professional challenges currently faced by participants. The Solution Room is rapidly becoming a popular meeting plenary.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

And in 2014, the Vatican recommended that sermons be limited to eight minutes or less ! While people joke about the length of boring sermons, contrast this relative brevity to modern conferences, where speakers typically speak for an hour. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Keep ’em moving!

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Blue Spark Event Design

DECEMBER 20, 2023

They also ranked in the top 10 Meeting Hotels in the US in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. Conference and event attendees at our hotel in Nashville downtown will uncover a remarkable hospitality experience among 79,000 square feet of inspiring indoor and outdoor meeting facilities. That’s some record! Let us help!

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ITA Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

In this video, Dananjaya Hettiarachchi, the 2014 Toastmasters International World Champion of Public Speaking, talks about the crucial body language you must have to close the sale. Conference will provide executives in sales and sales operations with key insight and strategies to drive improved sales performance and revenue growth.

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Bizzaboo

JULY 18, 2022

Jared Easley is a cofounder and co-organizer of Podcast Movement , the world’s largest international conference and trade show for the podcast industry. Grace Oggudah is an events coordinator with more than 20 years of experience planning private parties, conferences, and social and charitable events in the UK, USA, and Kenya.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 3, 2025

Their status is publicly proclaimed on the pre-conference program, giving attendees no say in the decision. Status at traditional events follows a power-over model, rather than designs that support power-within and maximize power-with for participants. For more on how this works, check out this 2014 post.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 3, 2016

We don’t usually think about the learning models we employ during conference sessions, and I believe our events would be better if we did. Conventional conferences assume a ready supply of experts to whom we listen while they cover the learning that has been advertised at their sessions.

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