Conferences that Work

MAY 11, 2020

I’ve been designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich in person meetings — aka peer conferences — for almost thirty years. Unfortunately, most online events are still using a traditional webinar/broadcast-style approach: presenters speaking for long periods, interspersed with chat-mediated Q&A.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

I’ve been designing and facilitating workshop-style, participatory sessions since 1992, and participants love them ! Smart conference producers incorporate participatory sessions into their events. Sources for additional information. Sources for additional information. If you had told me then that the.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 26, 2018

One of the most satisfying outcomes of the peer conferences I design and facilitate is how they bring people together who would never otherwise have met — and in doing so change the world. This is obviously important, but why do world-changing connections seldom occur at conventional conferences ?

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 22, 2018

We transform a conference from an impersonal forum for information exchange to a place where people feel they matter: their views, their experience, their ability to contribute become seen. Immediately, the conference is subtly different, full of new possibilities, some of which might have been considered risky or even taboo.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 21, 2019

I think about status at events as the relative levels of proclaimed or perceived social value assigned to or assumed by attendees. There are two key kinds of event status — let’s call them old-school and real-time. The notes at the.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 9, 2018

But they are poor vehicles for creating the useful participant learning, connection, and outcomes that well-designed small conferences can deliver. So if you are (un)fortunate enough to be the owner or designer of a large meeting, what can you do to maximize participant value? Sources for additional information.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Unfortunately, most conferences squander this opportunity. Peer conferences support change. The peer conferences I’ve been designing and facilitating for 27 years are different. Peer conferences create an optimal environment for supporting attendees in the difficult work of making changes in their lives.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 10, 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

JUNE 27, 2016

In this two-part article I’ll share a little of my experience and takeaways, followed by their relevance to event design ( red ). Although that opportunity had to be passed up—PCMA made me an offer I couldn’t refuse: facilitating the 2015 PCMA Education Conference —I made it to the 2016 workshop. How I got there.

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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? Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Here are three things we can do. Sources for additional information.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 2, 2017

Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Related posts: 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. Photo attribution: Flickr user Craig Sunter.

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JUNE 5, 2017

Traditional conferences unconsciously promote and sustain power imbalances between the “speakers” at the front of the room and the audience. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. All meetings incorporate power relationships that fundamentally affect their dynamics and potential. It is one.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

How do we build conference programs that attendees actually want and need? Here’s what happened when I incorporated dot voting into a recent two-day association peer conference. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 2, 2018

Recently, a client asked for help designing a new conference. Thirty minutes of discussion with three stakeholders revealed they hadn’t yet settled on the event’s specific purpose, scope, and format. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That. Conferences That Work goes to Japan!

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

In less than three minutes, you can improve almost any conference session with pair share. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. More details can be found in Chapter 38 of The Power of Participation.). How do you use pair share? Share with everyone in the comments below! Sources for additional information.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 18, 2018

CoffeeGate One sunny morning in 2105, two hundred of us arrived for the opening breakfast at a Canadian conference to discover There Was No Coffee. I’ll bet that even today, if you asked attendees what they remembered about the event, most would immediately recall the There Was No Coffee moment.

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JUNE 13, 2016

Why mention this on an event design blog? When attendees feel safe to share and empowered to ask questions and express what they think and how they feel, what happens at a conference can be amazing. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. The Chinese government runs a massive online censorship program.

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JUNE 20, 2016

Sponsors typically define the context, format, scope, and desired outcomes of an event, so they are clearly key candidates to be considered as owners. Increasingly we are moving to event models that make participants generators of event value. Read the full article at Conferences That Work.

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MARCH 6, 2017

Far less has been shared about how to create the right action outcomes at large meetings, aka conferences, that professionals attend. Perhaps that’s because the focus at conferences is typically on learning and connection, which hopefully lead to relevant personal outcomes rather than group outcomes.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Why switching to active learning is hard — and worth it appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

Seth Godin makes the same point when talking about the future of education and what we can do about it in his 2012 TEDxYouth@BFS talk. ” — On the dot , Seth Godin Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Connect the dots not collect the dots appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 20, 2018

One of the most exciting venues, we feature one of London’s top largest and most versatile event suite, fitted with state of the art equipment, stunning design and one of the best secret to keep budgets in line. ILEC Conference Centre , part of the actual Hotel Ibis London Earls Court, firstly opened in 1972.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 11, 2020

The result are these five incredible hybrid event examples that have taken place or will do so in the near future. Each and every one of these conferences will help inspire your planning process and better understand what you can do to cook up a successful hybrid experience. Growth Marketing Conference. Apple Special Events.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The IMEX Group has tracked and published the environmental performance of its American show, IMEX America, since 2012 but today’s report represents a significant achievement for its German counterpart. The report […]

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Anyone who has been to a good face-to-face conference knows that these things can happen, and that, either in the moment or in retrospect, they may even be seen as pivotal times in one’s life. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Sources for additional information.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Sara Bertie, Marketing Manager at temporary structure designers ES Global is presenting the second lecture in the Event Design Open Lecture Series at 5pm on Monday 1st October at the University of Westminster’s Marylebone Campus. Register for free on Eventbrite for any of the sessions: search Event Design Open Lecture series.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 4, 2019

One of the most effective ways to ensure the long-term health of your event is to convert first-time guests into loyal, life-long fans. But you can’t do that until you see the event experience through their perspective. After they register, but before the conference, please keep them in the dark. .

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

Convene has written a lot about groups that are consolidating their meeting portfolios—the American Society for Microbiology combining two annual conferences into one, the Consumer Bankers Association going from eight down to one—but the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) is going in the other direction.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lucy Powell MP has joined the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Events, as of 31 January 2023. Powell is the Labour Member of Parliament for Manchester Central and has been an MP since 2012. The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Events […]

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Since attendee churn can take a drastic toll on your brand, event, and even budget, let’s focus on seven preventative methods to keep it at bay. When most of us think of the competition, we only consider other conferences. Having a good grasp on this information will help you structure a more robust conference.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Lawrence Convention Center to host the returning conference, National Society of Black Engineers, in 2018. The last time NSBE held its convention in Pittsburgh in 2012, the event left behind more than $15 million dollars in direct spending. “I Pittsburgh and the David L. Photo credit: JP Diroll Photography.

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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. Don’t miss a beat, it’s Event Tech Podcast time! In The Beginning… As of today, Marteen has decades of experience with event design.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Imagine that with one tap on their mobile phone, an attendee of an environmental conference could sign a petition to protect U.S. With another tap, an attendee of an education conference could call on politicians to increase education funding in impoverished neighborhoods. Photo credit: Getty Images. public lands.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

IBTM World 2023 , which returns to Fira, Barcelona from November 28 to 30 has announced Julius Solaris and Christine Renaud as its final keynote speakers, bringing innovation to the fore of its dynamic conference programme. Titled ‘It’s not 2019 anymore.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 24, 2017

That doesn’t mean it’s never a good idea to give learners control, he adds, but that it shouldn’t be an overriding design principle. Online courses are an increasingly popular way for organizations to extend and augment their audience’s conference learning experience. So what does work?

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

The underlying philosophy of the storytelling-technology conference “is to celebrate the changing nature of the audience,” Melcher said. “In To set the stage for collaboration and the exchange of high-level ideas, Melcher found that he had to think about reinventing not just storytelling but conference design. “We

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Endless Events

JUNE 20, 2023

Gen Z includes people born between 1997 and 2012. Get a Custom Gen Z Event Planning Strategy Gen Z is about to take the workplace by storm. Whether you’re planning an internal event for employees or you want to attract young professionals to a conference, it’s essential to understand what makes Gen Z attendees tick.

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