Blue Spark Event Design

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Are you tired of repeating the same annual conference-style each year? Use these steps to help evolve your annual conference into an experiential design. Think about ways to create interactive activities, scavenger hunts, and other engaging activities that will draw attendees in and keep them engaged throughout the conference.

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Blue Spark Event Design

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

These top five mistakes in conference planning can be a downfall to any conference or event. It is essential to be aware of these common mistakes in order to ensure that the event runs smoothly and successfully. and providing entertainment or activities for guests during the conference.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 18, 2021

Why people continue to speak for free at meeting industry conferences : Another issue of an occasional series— Dear Adrian — in which I answer questions about event design, elementary particle physics , solar hot water systems, and anything else I might conceivably know something about. As usual, you get what you pay for.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 5, 2023

For the International Conference for Software Craft and Testing held annually in Germany—known as SoCraTes—event coordinator Tobias Goeschel has a notably less-complicated job than most other business-event planners have. Easing Attendees into the Atmosphere. With Open Space, you should never be bored.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Event planners and organizers are always considering how to push the envelope of event design. C2 Montreal is an event known for pushing the boundaries of events and inspiring industry-wide progress. Anick is an accomplished event professional. We have great design, stages, and a speaker lineup.

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Travel Daily Media

MARCH 26, 2023

The post Arinex heads to Cairns for 50th anniversary conference appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. In a significant milestone in the 50 th anniversary year of Australasian event management company Arinex, around 55 team members will gather in for their first face-to-face conference.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Simpler internal team meetings, VIP events, and client advisory boards will be among the most common types of meetings as we go forward. That doesn’t mean they don’t need all the things that larger meetings need, including speakers.” Here’s how you should proceed: Starting a new conference?

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

On Tuesday, March 26, 2024 , I sat down with Martin Duffy and Paul Nunesdea on LinkedIn Live for an hour’s deep dive conversation about peer conferences: the participant-driven, participation-rich events I’ve designed and facilitated for over thirty years. Peer Conferences Unveiled—The Transcript!

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Skift Meetings

JUNE 30, 2022

These are the sorts of value-adds that attendees have come to expect after the pandemic-inspired metamorphosis of event tech. Intentional Event Design. The post Hot Tech Conference Collision Defies Odds, Draws 35,000 to Toronto appeared first on Skift Meetings.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Here’s my article “ Five Reasons to Change Conferences “ , published in the December 2018, NSA Speaker magazine. But our conference programs still focus on lectures, where a few experts broadcast their knowledge to passive listeners. Related posts: Conferences That Work goes to Japan!

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The MICE Blog

JULY 27, 2022

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.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 28, 2022

They assume that meetings will consist of sessions with speakers on a stage. A “creative” event design is one with a novel venue and/or decor and lighting and/or food and beverage. Consequently, planners restrict the entire focus of creative event design to novel visual and sensory elements. No related posts.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 23, 2022

The 1,700 attendees checking in live at Meeting Professionals International’s World Education Conference ( WEC ) at Moscone Center in San Francisco this week were treated to a performance in three acts designed to provide “perspective,” “approach” and “action,” according to Paul Van Deventer, MPI president and CEO.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Where She Is Now Dolecki now serves as director of conferences and events for The Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME). It is a non-profit that organizes practitioner-based events and workshops and brings together companies to explore enterprise improvement methods, exchange best practices and network.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 5, 2023

For the International Conference for Software Craft and Testing held annually in Germany—known as SoCraTes—event coordinator Tobias Goeschel has a notably less-complicated job than most other business-event planners have. With Open Space, you should never be bored.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 13, 2020

How can we entwine content and connection during an online conference? During a MeetingsCommunity (MeCo) discussion thread “ Networking at conferences ” last week, Sharon Fisher posted this. As it happened, I’d just completed facilitating an online conference that I think did entwine content and connection.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Efforts to make the CodeMash tech conference more accessible to Midwesterners led to a more family-friendly event that includes attendees’ children. Why not, he thought, bring a conference to them instead? They were often too expensive and required extensive travel and time away from their families.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 9, 2021

There’s often a budget for a dramatic big-name speaker or two. If you ask about a budget for event design, stakeholders think you’re talking about decor and drama. But “there’s no budget” for core event design, which is actually about designing great meeting process.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2021

Dasher, in addition to Nathan Chin, senior product manager for Cvent ; and Phil Saims, vice president of sales for Federal Conference , led the latest Smart Meetings webinar, “Designing Your Event Program for Diversity & Inclusion,” where they tackled the not-always-straightforward topic of DEI. Of meeting planners, 68.3

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Blue Spark Event Design

JUNE 13, 2024

Transform your event with stunning stage decor using these tips for elevating your plenary and general sessions. Plenary and general sessions are the heart of conferences, summits, and large gatherings. These sessions bring everyone together, creating a central focus for the event. Fill out a Request for Proposal Today!

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Convene by PCMA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

One of the most successful elements at Avalara’s FUSE conference was The Fireside Theater, where guests and FUSE presenters engaged in intimate conversations. And although Avalara had expected that most business deals would come after the event, customers signed contracts worth millions of dollars while still on site, Ferrer said.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

a multimedia design and tech company, to map out best practices for putting the technology to work in the conference center, and he shared experiences developed alongside event organizers who understood the possibilities. VR was a key in the hand of Ford’s event planners. Planners Step into Another Space.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 18, 2019

“Experiential” is the new hot adjective used to describe events. “No more listening to speakers; you’re going to have experiences !” ” Sadly, many of these so-called experiential events are phony. Conferences That Work goes to Japan! The promoters slap a novel environment (e.g., Here are three.

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Endless Events

JUNE 13, 2022

The venue can host up to 150 guests seated and 250 guests standing and lends itself to various types of events: product launches, conferences, company parties, networking events, and team-building events. If you’re looking for a venue that has mastered the art of event design , this is the spot for you.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 3, 2018

And I’ve come to learn that I think a desire to learn makes doing something new just a little less scary.” ——Jony Ive, Apple designer Jony Ive explains how ‘teetering towards the absurd’ helped him make the iPhone At conferences we also learn better when we learn in community. Conferences That Work goes to Japan!

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 16, 2023

I think the corollary to that for the events industry is it used to be assumed that everybody was going to travel to a conference to be face to face. How can events be designed from a more empathetic perspective? You’ve got an event, it’s in a fun city people want to go to. It was frustrating for the speaker.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

Secrets to Engaging and Retaining Members, a recent event by Hubilo, shared best practices with its industry associations attendees to help them increase member engagement and retention. Attendees heard from speakers from two major associations, the PCMA and National Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Association.

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Travel Daily Media

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Representative Image The Advantage Travel Partnership has announced plans to enhance the experience for its global community by combining two of its flagship conferences for 2024. In practice, this will mean more dedicated time on Global Business Travel than even before, both in the conference plenary and workshop activities. “We

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Conferences that Work

JULY 8, 2024

Right after PSFG’s second peer conference in May 2024, I was delighted to receive detailed feedback from Rachel (in red ), which I shared in full in Part 1. Peer session development process Rachel made two great additions to the peer session development process we’d designed for her first peer conference.

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Social Tables

MARCH 17, 2021

The church seating layout is used for houses of worship, but it’s also found in lecture halls, performing arts centers, and conference spaces. You may already recognize it from an event you’ve planned or attended at a university, seminar, or yes, church. You can also assign seating to VIPs, guest speakers, and attendees. .

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 2, 2023

Howard is the Founder and CEO for the Event Leadership Institute, a leading provider of best-in-class training and education for the events industry through online, on-demand video professional development classes, interviews with industry leaders, white papers, webinars, and live events.

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 6, 2022

Megan Finnell, CMP, director, meetings & conferences, MGMA, and Tim Simpson, brand & engagement chief strategist for Maritz Global Events’ Design Studio, speak to EduCon attendees Monday during their session. Jacob Slaton Photography).

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Blue Spark Event Design

AUGUST 10, 2022

The tasks of manipulating the guest manifest to make the best use of passenger wait times and keeping costs within the conference budget can often work against each other. Many times, planners will start a conference with a destination-focused welcome reception. Offsite Events. Dine-Arounds. Entertainment.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 1, 2024

All the conferences I design and facilitate have a time and place for participants to share their experiences. But most clients don’t give me post-event feedback about my work or the event. I asked her to visualize and draw what PSFG wanted and needed the conference to achieve. And that’s okay.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The speakers didn’t model what they were preaching during their talk! Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post A class is a meeting appeared first on Conferences That Work. Talking about incorporating active learning, interaction, and participation into college classes is great. No related posts.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

For over thirty years I’ve been making clients’ conferences significantly better, for about the cost of a conference coffee break. I make conferences better by dramatically increasing attendee satisfaction. I’d argue that hiring me is the most effective and cost-effective way to improve any event.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 12, 2021

. — Hack the peak-end rule to maximize conference impact , April 2013. So, clearly, we should ensure that events end with a “powerful finish”, so they’ll be especially memorable. What can we learn from professional speakers? Think about good professional speakers for a moment. Well, maybe not.

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