Conferences that Work

MAY 11, 2020

In person meetings have vanished overnight. It’s time to implement what we’ve learned about great face-to-face meeting design and process into online meetings. Meetings will never be the same. So I won’t repeat myself here; read them for full details! It is one.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 13, 2017

This is all very well, but it begs the question: what can meeting designers do to make it easier for attendees to participate more at meetings? Every time I find myself wishing for an external event, I realize that I’m way better off focusing on something I can control instead. Seth Godin, What Would Happen.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 8, 2016

Now I’m bringing my expertise to Chicago for a 1½ day October 6 – 7 workshop, a unique opportunity for you to: Learn how to make your conferences and conference sessions far more engaging and effective ; Gain powerful meeting design insights ; Significantly increase participation and satisfaction at your sessions and events; and.

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 4, 2022

(Instructions for how organizations can add their events to the database are available on the Meet Safe website.). This year’s lineup of GMID events reflects not only the surge in 2022 in the number of events that have returned to an in-person format, but a range of meeting-design decisions.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Lecturing has been the core modality in our education systems for centuries. Let’s look at these three conclusions in the context of meeting design. Most meeting presenters still lecture. And most meeting session presenters resort to lecturing as their dominant session modality.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 22, 2023

Hey everyone, especially educators who teach courses on meetings and hospitality. My ebooks are now available on VitalSource , the largest global supplier of digital course materials to higher education! Thank you for your ongoing support of my work and your commitment to advancing the field of meeting design!

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 4, 2022

The March conference, which brought the neurologist community together to discuss progress on diagnosis and early treatment of multiple sclerosis, was not the first of its kind that AIM has organized, said Barbara Sambugaro, business manager, AIM Education. Another multi-hub AIM event connected as many as 40 venues, she told Convene.

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The MICE Blog

JULY 27, 2022

According to Felix, the term ‘participant experience design’ is a work in progress. It was established based on the theory of meeting design, a well-known ‘tool kit’ used by planners worldwide. These elements — curiosity, openness, flow and willingness to learn – can be planned with the methods of ‘meeting design.’

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 11, 2022

The supplier’s perspective on attending meeting sessions. Typically, suppliers are looking for opportunities to sell and perhaps get some education. First, you need to understand before the meeting what your practitioners and suppliers want, need, and expect.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Participant-driven and participation-rich peer conference designs improve on traditional events because they don’t treat openings and closings as necessary evils but as critical components of the meeting design. Let’s examine each phase of the peer conference arc in more detail.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 20, 2024

Today, because consulting on meeting design and facilitation is a niche practice, marketing via sharing my website posts with subscribers and on social media has also become a significant source of new clients. industry education ). industry education ). Feedback like this is a gift that helps me improve my craft.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Tahira Endean tweets about the intersection of experiential, immersive meeting design and technology. Dahlia is an event technology evangelist, speaker and educator. @tojulius Julian Solaris, Editor of The Event Manager Blog, always has the low-down on attendance-worthy events and the newest event technology. TahiraCreates.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 13, 2016

The next time you run a meeting, introduce covenants at the start (Chapter 18 of The Power of Participation: Creating Conferences That Deliver Learning, Connection, Engagement, and Action has full details) and discover the power of covenants for yourself and your attendees! Photo attribution: Flickr user zedzap.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 12, 2016

ASegar was the best facilitator/presenter…by far!” — De-de Mulligan, CMP, CMM, former Director of Education, Ohio MPI Chapter. That never happens!” — Association education director, ten minutes after Adrian finished facilitating a national forum. Just came back from @AffordableMTGS in Chicago.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 4, 2019

After a highly successful debut in 2018, three Meeting Professionals International (MPI) Chapters — MPI Toronto , MPI Montréal/Québec , and MPI Ottawa — have again joined forces to provide cutting edge, innovative, experiential education at The EVENT.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 24, 2017

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. Sources for additional information.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

At the Forbes Under 30 Summit, more than 7,000 entrepreneurs and young leaders came together to experience the cutting edge of both education and entertainment. Forbes uses diagramming software to create industry-leading events. The Boston event, now in its fifth year, has countless moving parts.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

At the Forbes Under 30 Summit, more than 7,000 entrepreneurs and young leaders of tomorrow came together to experience the cutting edge of both education and entertainment. C2 aren’t the only ones making professional events feel like bucket-list festivals.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 26, 2017

The meetings industry is far more aware of the importance of treating and supporting attendees as active participants rather than passive consumers of education. It is one.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 18, 2018

Designing Participation Into Your Meetings No, that’s not me up on the stage, and that’s not the kind of session I’ll be leading next Tuesday, May 22, at the MPI New England 2012 Northeast Education.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2019

Related posts: 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. The notes at the.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

We used meeting design to do that, which already had some gamification elements to it. In the beginning, we looked at what was on the market and saw that many online event platforms attempt to mimic real life. Offline, we created a highly artistic experience that got everyone into a collaborative mindset.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 30, 2018

Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: Participation techniques you can use in conference sessions Here’s the summary handout for my workshop on participation techniques you can use in conference sessions that I’ll be leading at MPI’s World Education Congress 2011. Sources for additional information.

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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. Another Successful Virtual Meeting. Feel free to drop us a line and we can get started building your one-of-a-kind virtual meeting!

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

And it’s mostly about meeting design and facilitation, but I write about all kinds of things. Adrian Segar: And then in 1992, I wanted to do a conference in a new area: The rise of personal computers, using them in educational administration. I define myself as a meeting designer and facilitator.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 2, 2021

We weren’t able to really title anybody or put anybody on a background or use any of the NAR branding that we normally use on any education or governance piece of program in any of the meetings. Faulder: I think though, building up your point, Alicia, is that poking holes is such an important part in design.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 21, 2024

But attendees place networking second , while organizers rank it fifth —behind keynotes/general sessions, education sessions, and special events. The barrier to becoming an Innovator I don’t want to be too hard on the majority (56%) of event organizers who want to evolve their meeting designs but continue to hold static events.

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