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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OCTOBER 22, 2018

Such a transformation is the essential work needed to build human community around the event, which becomes something special, standing out like a beacon from the humdrum conferences routinely inflicted on attendees. The five day event is being held by Federation EIL, the worldwide network of The Experiment in International.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

Apart from my first book , I haven’t written much about status at events. 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.

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JULY 9, 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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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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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 ). After a three-day introductory workshop at BATS, I attended two four-day Applied Improvisation Network World Conferences (San Francisco 2012 and Montreal 2015). How I got there. We’ll see.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Sue, Scenes from a peer conference—part 2 Since 2012, I’ve had the privilege of designing and facilitating the annual Vermont Vision for a Multicultural Future Peer Conference. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

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.

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JUNE 20, 2016

Who owns an event? The usual answer to this question is “the event’s sponsors”, i.e. the people and organizations that decide to hold the event and contribute the resources needed for the event to occur. Increasingly we are moving to event models that make participants generators of event value.

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MARCH 13, 2017

They are also far more likely to make valuable connections with their peers during the event. 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. Ask a hard question every time we go to a meeting….

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JUNE 5, 2017

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. All meetings incorporate power relationships that fundamentally affect their dynamics and potential.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

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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. Design in flexibility. Jeff Jarvis Similarly, peer conference designs are transparent. Give them power. A good platform is transparent.

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JUNE 18, 2018

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. We do not want events to be poorly planned and/or executed, because the inevitable result will be unhappy attendees and chaos of one kind or another.

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APRIL 29, 2019

Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Why I love conference facilitation and design appeared first on Conferences That Work. Related posts: Scenes from a peer conference—part 2 Since 2012, I’ve had the privilege of designing and facilitating the annual Vermont Vision for a Multicultural Future Peer Conference.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Scenes from a peer conference—part 2 Since 2012, I’ve had the privilege of designing and facilitating the annual Vermont Vision for a Multicultural Future Peer Conference. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That.

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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. hoping that in the process the event’s purpose and desired outcomes will become clearer.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Scenes from a peer conference—part 2 Since 2012, I’ve had the privilege of designing and facilitating the annual Vermont Vision for a Multicultural Future Peer Conference. Sources for additional information. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 10, 2024

Noodle Live was established in 2012 with the goal of providing event organizers with cutting-edge technology and sustainable solutions. We are a global team of passionate events professionals who have been committed to innovation and true sustainability since the very beginning.

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MARCH 26, 2018

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Smart Meetings

MAY 23, 2024

Nearly 1,900 people (700 of them identifying as meeting planners) traveled to Kentucky International Convention Center for the three-day event with a robust hosted-buyer component. Real-world Up-skilling Two floors down in the education sessions, attendees were earning certificates in Event Data Analytics and Healthcare Meetings Compliance.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

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.

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MARCH 6, 2017

Uncovering and working on group outcomes, however, is one of the best ways to build community at a conference, which increases the likelihood that participants will see the conference as professionally valuable and makes it more likely that they will attend future events. I’m so glad you asked!

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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. Instead, design meetings to connect the dots Here are five suggestions: Build your event around conversation rather than content. Watch this 30-second clip. Ask the right questions.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 11, 2020

Lately, we’ve been diving deeper into the exciting world of hybrid events. In the form of hybrid event examples you can learn from! The result are these five incredible hybrid event examples that have taken place or will do so in the near future. Apple Special Events. Yes, we know you’ve been eager for this.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Since the launch of Make Events in 2012, CEO and Founder Holly Moore has been delivering private parties, weddings and events to an extensive, diverse and impressive client list. HM Events provide the following services: Bespoke décor. Event design. Entertainment. Private parties. wedomoore.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Julius and Christine’s keynote is complemented by an array of transformative sessions designed to showcase the role of event professionals in shaping the future of the industry with their imaginative ideas and solutions. and ‘What are the top five characteristics of the events of the future?’ Titled ‘It’s not 2019 anymore.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Edo Segal is the founder and CEO of Touchcast , an innovative solution that’s bringing a human connection back to virtual events. And the price for not delivering will be having a significant portion of your audience walk out on your event. But how do partners like Endless Events and Touchcast come in?

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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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Event Industry News

MAY 13, 2024

In events since 2012, and in technology for about the same amount of time, Zach Butler is director of Amsterdam-based TNW Events. Launched in 2006, full name The Next Web, TNW is a product of its founders’ interest in the future of tech. Buoyed by The FT buying a major stake, and ultimately acquiring the company, […]

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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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Event Industry News

APRIL 9, 2024

Updated guidance designed to help the events industry to embed sustainable practices and address emerging challenges across climate change, supply chain and social impact, has been published by BSI, more than a decade after the original framework was released for London 2012.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 10, 2016

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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Event Industry News

JANUARY 4, 2024

Events and exhibition design specialists Ignition, formed in 2007, are based in Bristol and also have a US office in Indianapolis. Ignition has been an industry leader from day one when it comes to sustainability, thanks its founding ‘anti build-and-burn’ ethos.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Michael Wyrley-Birch, who became Managing Director of the UK office in 2012 and CEO of the group in 2017, will be exploring new opportunities […]. Andrew Orr, the agency’s current Head of Clients, (pictured), will be elevated to UK Managing Director.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We are an international market-leading events company focusing on environmentally conscious products and services. We offer end-to-end event solutions, from initial consultation and design to project management, sourcing and logistics, and installation. Food and beverage events. Ideal for: Convex’s. Short build up times.

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DECEMBER 19, 2016

If you think of a meeting primarily as a way of transferring content , then online meetings seem attractive, inexpensive alternatives to face-to-face events. Such meetings require little commitment, so it is harder to successfully engage participants when the cost of leaving is so low.

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