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3 Tips for Shifting to an Architectural Model for Meeting Design

Smart Meetings

Real meetings are all about content,” he says. You can skip just about any other part of a meeting—a venue, a meal, even a speaker and still be productive, but if there isn’t relevant content, then it isn’t a meeting.”. “You The power of meetings depends on the human dynamics they are capable of unleashing.

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Winning at Maximizing Virtual Audience Engagement: 10 Fun Ideas from Dahlia El Gazzar

Smart Meetings

Instead, this interactive map provides a visual experience to see where all attendees are joining from. Designed by an event planner, this company curates fun virtual experiences in addition to their signature gift boxes. Keep your attendees hydrated while contributing to charitable causes and tracking environmental metrics.

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Competent logistics are the new meeting minimum

Conferences that Work

Because they make assumptions that what has to happen is what happened at just about every meeting their authors ever attended. They assume that meetings will consist of sessions with speakers on a stage. They assume that the core purpose of a meeting session is to transmit content to an audience.

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Try New Event Ideas For 2018: Create a Roadshow, Book Underrated Venues, Create a Unique Event Experience

Endless Events

Still heating up is the ongoing battle of women against sexual harassment in the entertainment industry and the lack of female keynote speakers for one of the biggest consumer and tech trade shows. Controversies won’t die even for the latest Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea because of its proximity to North Korea.

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Lessons from Anguilla: What meeting designers can learn from religious services

Conferences that Work

And yes, I admit it, during the second day of my vacation while enjoying the harmonies I hear, I’m jolted to think about religious meeting design…. Religious services are thought to be around 300,000 years old — by far the oldest form of organized meeting that humans have created. Include lots of communal activities.

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Participant experience design — moving from the old to new event world

The MICE Blog

One of the presentations that highly inspired me to think differently about event design took place in 2019 at the MICE Forum at ITB Berlin (Organised by VDVO ). The conference programme was designed to highlight the importance of the individual who is the centre of every live event. ethics of artificial intelligence (AI)).

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Event attendee engagement hindered by risk aversion, lack of ideas

MPI

Although engaging attendees is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to enhance the quality of a meeting, there is still a lot of resistance, according to Bo Krüger, meeting designer, facilitator, trainer and speaker and owner of Moving Minds.