Conferences that Work

JUNE 12, 2017

Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! Want to see my 6 minute 40 second Pecha Kucha presentation Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! given at EventCamp Twin Cities on September 9, 2010? If so, download.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 29, 2024

This calendar provides strong evidence that any group with something in common who wants to connect and learn can benefit from peer conference designs. Seeing how peer conference designs benefit these folks when they come together warms my heart.

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Conference Conference Design Healthcare Government 83

Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Much as I would like to tell you that participant-driven and participation-rich event formats are common these days, it just ain’t so. I’ve run the core Conferences That Work design in a day numerous times, and it’s always a rush. A day and a half is the minimum needed for a group to really benefit.

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Meeting Design Conference Meeting Conference Design 88

Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

” —Jeff Jarvis At conferences, the “users” are primarily participants. For decades, I’ve championed responsible conference designs that prioritize participants. Jeff Jarvis Similarly, peer conference designs are transparent. Screw your users, screw yourself.”

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 6, 2018

Image attribution: Marisha Aziz Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! Want to see my 6 minute 40 second Pecha Kucha presentation Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! given at EventCamp Twin Cities on September 9, 2010?

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Conference Conference Design Publishing Education 93

Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Traditional conferences focus on a hodgepodge of pre-determined sessions punctuated with socials, surrounded by short welcomes and closings. Such conference designs treat openings and closings as perfunctory traditions, perhaps pumped up with a keynote or two, rather than key components of the conference design.

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Conference Conference Design Meeting Design Education 64

Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Another issue of an occasional series— Dear Adrian —in which I answer questions about event design, elementary particle physics , solar hot water systems, facilitation, and anything else I might conceivably know something about. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! Sources for additional information.

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Conference Design Conference Publishing Education 70

Conferences that Work

JULY 2, 2018

The needs assessment trap Conference design clients who “know what they want” have already decided on their “ why? Because most clients engage me after they are committed to programs and logistics that are not optimum for what they’re trying to accomplish! ” and “ who? ” and “ where?

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Meeting Design Logistics Conference Design Consulting 76

Conferences that Work

MAY 20, 2019

Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Events operate by stories appeared first on Conferences That Work. Related posts: Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! Want to see my 6 minute 40 second Pecha Kucha presentation Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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Conference Design Events Conference Booking 60

Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The solution to this is to design your unconference before choosing the venue. When this doesn’t happen (sadly, most of the time in my experience) the conference design, no matter how good it is, suffers. The result is that novice-organized unconferences rarely have the venue space they need to work well.

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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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Meeting Design Meeting Conference Conference Design 83

Conferences that Work

JULY 18, 2016

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. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! If so, download.

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Panel Audience Consulting Conference 63

Conferences that Work

JANUARY 11, 2021

What makes attending conferences worthwhile? As I described in Conferences That Work , the two most common reasons for attending conferences are to learn useful things and make useful connections. But there are numerous other ways that conferences provide value to stakeholders.

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Conference Human Resources Meeting Production 136

Bizzaboo

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

BizBash: The Place for Event Innovation BizBash by David Adler is one of our favorite outlets for inspiration. With its focus on creativity and innovation, Bizbash covers a spectrum of topics, including event design, technology, venues, catering, and trade shows. Read Now 18.

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Management Trade Show Event Planning Trends 52

Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Can you see why software testers like Lisi think that peer conferences rock?! Here’s another example from a software testing peer conference, TestBash Brighton 2018. The conference designers invented a way to create “highly engaging, interactive and fun” poster sessions. The Unexpo Experiment.

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Conference Proposal Meeting Design Publishing 62

Bizzaboo

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

More than 60 internationally renowned speakers, hundreds of tech leaders, innovative business owners and leading companies for the two-day event designed to take you on a step-by-step journey through every topic of software development. Codemotion Berlin 2018. Berlin, Germany. Data Protection World Forum. London, UK. Berlin, Germany.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Such process is the focus of the peer conference designs and associated participation techniques that I’ve been developing and writing about here and in my books. Studying how to facilitate this process and then adopting it is perhaps the most effective way you can improve the learning at your events.

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