Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I’m indebted to Martin Sirk for sharing remarkable information about an 1828 conference designed by the German geographer, naturalist, and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Read what follows to discover that Humboldt was also a meeting designer way ahead of his time! Martin Sirk Modern meeting design!

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 29, 2016

The first time I met him—at the premier EventCamp in 2010 —he immediately purchased my just-published book, sight unseen. Eric de Groot and Mike van der Vijver’s book “ Into the Heart of Meetings ” contains numerous examples of using Elementary Meeting metaphors to discover new congruent meeting forms.

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Bizzaboo

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Conferences - Conferences are the backbone of the tech events industry and can be both B2C or B2B events. They are held to educate, inform, or train attendees. Whereas most conferences are open to the public, trade shows usually require a screening process for buyers, company reps, and press. RSA Conference.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

” Notice how this optional first day used more conventional session formats to make it easier for first-time attendees to integrate into the existing community. “Over dinner, I realized I was not the only one joining this conference for the first time. A free guide to creating peer conferences. The Unexpo Experiment.

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Stova

MARCH 20, 2023

But some areas and individuals aren’t quite prepared to return to a large-scale, fully in-person conference. Therefore, you’ll find that many of the conferences have been modified in order to reflect the needs of event organizers, attendees, and the cities in which the conferences are being held.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 3, 2025

Aside from my first book , I havent written much about the effects of attendee status attendees’ “relative rank in a hierarchy of prestige” at events. It’s time to revisit this important topic because you can improve your meetings by making attendee status a real-time construct.

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 31, 2025

Not only do they immerse attendees in your brand, but they also serve as an effective event marketing tool. A high-impact product activation puts your product directly in attendees hands, making them feel, test, and experience it for themselves. Digital and hybrid events let you engage attendees no matter where they are.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Here’s how Jeff Hurt describes this approach, which he calls surface learning , contrasting it with deep learning where attendees discover through exploratory activity: Content Covered Or Discovered. The attendee consumes as much as the speaker says as possible and tries to store it in the mind.

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