Conferences that Work

APRIL 18, 2022

Both are unique, as far as I know, in that the in-person and online participants are the same people ! The first novel hybrid meeting format was invented by Joel Backon back in 2010. The second is a design I’ll be using in a conference I’ve designed and will be facilitating in June 2022. The online portion.

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Endless Events

JULY 19, 2019

EventMobi is actually a platform that allows event planners to establish good communication with their attendees. Everything from “apps to live voting and attendee management in a single platform, that can also be integrated with other tools”, Thorben explains. A tad scary, right?

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Conferences that Work

JULY 19, 2021

Yesterday [see below], I realized that hub and spoke is a great format for purely online meetings too. What’s a hub and spoke meeting? A hub and spoke meeting is one where there’s a central hub meeting or event that additional groups (aka “pods”) of people join remotely. Online pods.

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Stova

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

A hybrid event is one that combines a face-to-face (F2F) event at a physical location with a “virtual” online component for remote attendees. Some attendees may simply accept remote event attendance as an acceptable substitute with no travel time, no travel costs and reduced environmental impact.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

Now, after one year of hosting and attending virtual events, the events industry is facing the challenge of how to engage attendees and combat ‘zoom fatigue.’ However, collaboration remotely or online is highly fragmented. We used meeting design to do that, which already had some gamification elements to it.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 11, 2022

First, you need to understand before the meeting what your practitioners and suppliers want, need, and expect. As a meeting designer, if a meeting is going to include both practitioners and suppliers I always ask my clients about the relationship between these groups and their wants and needs.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I make conferences better by dramatically increasing attendee satisfaction. Increasing attendee satisfaction increases the effectiveness of the event for all stakeholders: attendees, sponsors, and event owners. From small, high-level, high-stakes get-togethers to association regional and national meetings of every size.

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Social Tables

DECEMBER 27, 2018

To succeed, you have to be dynamic, you have to be flexible, and, above all, you have to be in tune with attendee desires. Industry Performance Trends Attendee Experience Trends Meeting Destination Trends Event Technology Trends Meeting Design Trends. Attendee Experience Trends. Industry Performance Trends.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Companies bombard me with offers to check out online meeting platforms. Butter is an online meeting platform that is designed to support the facilitation of great interactive meetings. Like just about every recently introduced online platform, its developers are continually updating it. (In

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 14, 2022

Personal meetings like these, whether brief or extended, between good friends or strangers, are fundamental. Conferences, whether in-person or online, are also potential arenas for conversations. Read any of my books to learn specific techniques and designs that create meaningful and valuable conversations during meeting sessions.).

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 13, 2016

The Chinese government runs a massive online censorship program. Why mention this on an event design blog? Well, the most effective aspect of China’s online censorship regime illustrates what happens when you don’t incorporate covenants into your meetings. to say and do. Photo attribution: Flickr user zedzap.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 18, 2018

I’ll bet that even today, if you asked attendees what they remembered about the event, most would immediately recall the There Was No Coffee moment. Experienced meeting planners know that every meeting has its share of unexpected surprises. Surprising Meetings But not all meeting surprises are bad.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 1, 2024

PSFG has a deep appreciation for the importance of meeting design. ” —Extract from an interview with Cath Thompson of Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG) by Alec Saelens on January 25, 2024 Rachel contracted me in 2022 for design consultation on PSFG’s first online peer conference. I get feedback!

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Luckily, this is typically part of good meeting design — it’s not something that you need to awkwardly or artificially introduce. Good large group work includes short breakouts, where impromptu small groups meet, think, discuss, and share. Engage/reengage.

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Manufacturing Meeting Design Conference Online 77

Brightspot Incentive Events

MARCH 18, 2021

To execute a successful virtual event, our team was tasked with developing a strategy that enhanced meeting design, optimized the attendee’s experience, and increased attendee engagement. A virtual conference is not just another Zoom call or GoToWebinar, it is an elevated online experience with riveting content.

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Virtual Events Meeting Speakers Platform 52

Travel Daily Media

AUGUST 16, 2020

Marina Bay Sands has launched a state-of-the-art hybrid event broadcast studio at Sands Expo and Convention Centre in a first for the industry, as the award-winning venue paves the way to redefine the future of meetings.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Eventbrite is a global platform provi ding online event registration solutions to event organizers, but their blog is jam-packed with fast-reads on the general subjects of event planning, promotion and tech. The Meeting Pool. The Meeting Pool is the place to be for event professionals who love to discuss technology. Eventbrite.

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