Conferences that Work

AUGUST 19, 2024

Thanks to my mentors, I: Set my professional fees at the right level when I began consulting in 1982. Forged ahead and wrote what eventually became a series of three books on conference design. Consequently became a valued resource on meeting design and facilitation for thousands of people and organizations.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2024

Since 2005, I’ve written three successful books on meeting design and facilitation and over 800 weekly blog posts on a wide range of topics. My books continue to sell, and this blog is the world’s most popular website on meeting design and facilitation. Write a book? Outwardly, I’ve succeeded.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Here’s an independent review of my conference design work, published as a case study in Chapter 25—Designing and Developing Content for Collaborative Business Events—of the book The Routledge Handbook of Business Events. Tip: The hardback version is expensive, the ebook is a quarter of the hardback cost.)

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

To facilitate business change, there’s an entire industry of well-paid organizational change management consultants who use different change models. You can find more information and insights on these models in Jerry Weinberg ‘s excellent book: Becoming a Change Artist. But which model ? The Diffusion model of change.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Events and media consultant Julius Solaris shared at the Unforgettable Experience Design Summit that he was initially very enthusiastic about unconference format events. He thought conferences would eventually adopt unconference models. The solution to this is to design your unconference before choosing the venue.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

I first designed and convened what I called a “ peer conference ” in 1992 for a group of IT managers at small schools that eventually became known as edACCESS. Can you see why software testers like Lisi think that peer conferences rock?! A free guide to creating peer conferences. The Unexpo Experiment.

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Bizzaboo

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

At one of the leading workplace tech conferences, attendees learn about the latest in collaboration solutions, content management, and machine learning. Lean Startup Summit brings the big ideas from Eric Ries’s books off the page to show how organizations are making them real around the world. Lean Startup Summit Europe. Hustle Con.

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