Endless Events

JUNE 21, 2019

But on the matter of inclusion at events, our host Tahira Endean sat down with Maarten Vannest e of the Meeting Design Institute. “Of course it needs a very sort of tight organization to control and monitor and support all these interpreters”, warns Kim. Well, probably not frequently enough – none of us do!

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 16, 2019

I doubt this is what most employers in large organizations are looking for. My curiosity about what else was going on in my professional field at the time, would eventually lead me to the meeting design and facilitation work I do today. Meeting design and facilitation. They cross boundaries, and some break them.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

I’ve consulted for more than a thousand organizations. Over the last four decades, I’ve found the size of a client’s organization affects many aspects of my work. Here are some of the pros and cons of consulting for large organizations. Pros of consulting for large organizations. Credibility.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

An entrepreneur since he was only 18 years old, Maarten has over 35 years of experience in meeting design. And since 2012, he has organized the FRESH Conference in Europe. Ready to hear all about the ground-breaking magic of multi-hub meetings? That was a really hands-on start as a young man” The Jump To Meetings.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 11, 2021

All meeting design needs to recognize this reality. And the organizations we’ve constructed incarnate our culture. And simple workshops that support connection (which may be emotional) between participants around relevant content provide better learning experiences. Institutions. The things we do reflect our culture.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Because good event design is about how a conference works. Participant-driven and participation-rich meeting designs incorporate a braindate’s purpose — one-to-one or small group connection around relevant content — organically into every session.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 19, 2018

We love that they place a spotlight on recent events and what organizers did well, helping event profs everywhere find inspiration for improving their own events. also share ways to improve audience interaction on their helpful blog, “where meeting design meets technology” – a front-of-mind concern for most event planners today.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 2, 2024

Others brought up approaches to conferences — which have stood the test of time but are as flat as stale beer — that are within event organizers’ power to rework or at least to advocate for their re-imagination. Sound familiar?

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Stova

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

As F2F events reemerge, meeting designers will face a dilemma: How do you organize an event with two radically different audiences? There may not be enough space to hold large events at venues due to reduced occupancy from onsite physical distancing guidelines.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

When the attendees are the owners, meeting designs that build and support community are the obvious way to go. Making money for themselves or their organizations, increasing their status by running large events, promoting the ideas of a few people, or influencing the direction of a cultural or industry issue are their primary goals.

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 4, 2022

USTA also has compiled a database of case studies describing meetings of all sizes that were safely and successfully conducted in a variety of formats — in-person, all-digital, and hybrid — since May 2020. Instructions for how organizations can add their events to the database are available on the Meet Safe website.).

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 4, 2022

Re-Think MS, a multi-hub, one-day medical conference organized by AIM Group International, was broadcast from a main studio to 13 sites across Italy. Courtesy of AIM Group International). Another multi-hub AIM event connected as many as 40 venues, she told Convene. Barbara Sambugaro.

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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!

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

LinkedIn’s growth spurt is evident in the business events industry as well: When we asked meeting organizers what new social media channels they were using to promote events in Convene ’s 2023 Meetings Market Survey , the leading response — chosen by three out of five respondents — was LinkedIn.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Rereading a 2012 post by Jeff Jarvis , I was struck by the parallels between his take on news organizations’ responsibilities to their platforms and the responsibilities of conferences. For decades, I’ve championed responsible conference designs that prioritize participants.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Compared to traditional conferences with the same number of participants, unconferences need larger general session rooms, because participants need to move about and meet in small groups, rather than sitting in fixed dense sets of tables and chairs. They also need more separate breakout spaces for participants to meet.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 19, 2024

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. Found the courage to share my weekly musings on a wide variety of topics publicly via my blog.

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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

JUNE 4, 2018

Almost all organization leaders today wield positional power — the power of a boss to make decisions that affect others — and this is unlikely to change soon. When consulting, one of my biggest meeting design challenges is to get boss buy-in. ” — Harold Jarche , chaos and order This isn’t easy work.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

So, if you’re one of the thousands of people who have purchased my books or the hundreds of clients who have benefited from my meeting design and facilitation services, please don’t keep me a secret! For example: “Attendees want to connect with peers over shared challenges and specific topics.”

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 12, 2024

Religious meetings are a small, fascinating subset of the meeting industry. I learned about them when I presented at The Religious Conference Management Association annual conference in 2014, and I’ve written about what meeting designers can learn from religious services.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 20, 2024

” I became fascinated by the culture of organizations. But last week I received a long email from a client whom I’d consulted a couple of times on the design of her organization’s online conferences. As an outsider, I marveled at the variety of dysfunctions I observed. industry education ).

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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. Outwardly, I’ve succeeded. So here’s my story.

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Social Tables

APRIL 17, 2019

However, many proponents of modern meeting design recommend letting participants choose their seating to spur engagement and networking. Solutions such as Social Tables Event Services Solution are empowering planners, properties, and virtually any event stakeholder with easier, better, more organized ways to communicate.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 11, 2021

Since 2016, I’ve been participating in the annual, invitation-only Meeting Design Practicum conferences that have been held all over Europe. A rotating crew of two or three volunteers organize these wonderful events. Many of the people I met remain friends today.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 11, 2022

First, you need to understand before the meeting what your practitioners and suppliers want, need, and expect. As a meeting designer, if a meeting is going to include both practitioners and suppliers I always ask my clients about the relationship between these groups and their wants and needs.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 29, 2019

With a format called conversations & input (C&I), though, event organizers can radically improve audience activation and interaction, and deepen learning by orders of magnitude. However, event organizers should explain C&I to presenters and ensure that they are comfortable adapting their presentation to use it.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 24, 2021

This occurred during the first Meeting Design Practicum in Utrecht, The Netherlands: more details here ). It remains to be seen whether our findings will generalize to teams that are ongoing or in which there is greater familiarity among members, as in the case of distributed teams in organizations.” ” Conclusion.

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Motivation Excellence

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

For decades, high-performing organizations have used incentive travel as an effective management strategy, but the program is largely misunderstood because there is so much diversity in how it is implemented. The group also helps organizations develop effective strategies for improving employee productivity. Industry on the rebound.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Event organizers and attendees alike can use the event hashtag to find out who else will be in attendance and engage with one another beforehand. After an event, organizers can share valuable recap content, like videos and blogs, with their attendees and give them previews for the following year’s event, if held annually. Radde, Ph.D.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 8, 2019

1992: I organize a conference where there are no expert speakers available (it’s a new field, there are no experts). Organizations hear about these conferences and ask me to design and facilitate them. I quickly discover the size and interest of the meetings industry. This is something new.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 1, 2024

PSFG has a deep appreciation for the importance of meeting design. We asked for share outs at various points in our agenda, but found that asking for share outs after the individual retrospectives was really helpful both for us as organizers and for the participants.

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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: So, even when I was doing particle physics, I started organizing conferences. Adrian Segar: The subtlety of designing meetings is that you need people who I would call facilitators. Adrian Segar: Okay.

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 27, 2023

By The Numbers 70 are Executives — 11 don’t have a designation; only 10 are in their 60s; 22 of those execs work for companies that are 101+ people; only 6 of those people have salaries under $100K; 29 work 51+ hours a week; only 5 don’t supervise staff; only 2 identify as independent meeting planners (they both have salaries that are more than $100K) (..)

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 14, 2024

The tour also made strategic stops where participants could talk with suppliers and vendors who spoke about their own practices and strategies — a move engineered, Goradesky said, “to encourage discussion between meeting organizers and suppliers.” We know [sustainability] investments will be taken seriously if there is demand.”

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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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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 19, 2024

Rhanee Palma Rising global temperatures impact not only the health and safety of participants, but meeting design and site-selection strategies, said Rhanee Palma, CDME, operations and events manager for the Davis, California–based UC Davis Air Quality Research Center (AQRC).

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