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APRIL 1, 2019

This (slightly edited) interview by JT Long appeared in the March 2019 issue of Smart Meetings Magazine. I was an amateur in the meeting industry, and that led to some mistakes, but it also gave me a fresh perspective at a time when meeting design wasn’t really a “thing.”

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DECEMBER 24, 2018

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.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

For each domain, I’ll include examples of meeting processes you can use to satisfy participants’ problem solving wants and needs. Peer conferences reduce problem solving limitations in the obvious domain, by allowing participants to influence the content and scope of meeting sessions in real time during the event.

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JULY 2, 2018

Scenes from a peer conference A slideshow of images from the Third Annual Vermont Vision For A Multicultural Future peer conference, held at the Mount Snow Grand Summit Resort November 6-7, 2014.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

If you are interested in getting customized training and support on how to significantly improve your meetings, please don’t hesitate to get in touch !

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FEBRUARY 20, 2017

And yes, I admit it, during the second day of my vacation while enjoying the harmonies I hear, I’m jolted to think about religious meeting design…. Religious services are thought to be around 300,000 years old — by far the oldest form of organized meeting that humans have created. Include lots of communal activities.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Being Schooled: Inside a Conference That Works “Mad blogger” Sue Pelletier of MeetingsNet has written an excellent article on her experiences at the four-day Conferences That Work format edACCESS 2014 annual meeting I convened in June.

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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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MAY 14, 2018

Mythodology: Event socials are a good way to meet people. Reality : People tend to stay with people they already know at event socials. Participant-driven and participation-rich events provide far more opportunities to meet people you actually want to meet. But making your meeting better lasts.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Being Schooled: Inside a Conference That Works “Mad blogger” Sue Pelletier of MeetingsNet has written an excellent article on her experiences at the four-day Conferences That Work format edACCESS 2014 annual meeting I convened in June.

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MARCH 26, 2018

Being Schooled: Inside a Conference That Works “Mad blogger” Sue Pelletier of MeetingsNet has written an excellent article on her experiences at the four-day Conferences That Work format edACCESS 2014 annual meeting I convened in June.

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JUNE 3, 2019

At the time, I had no idea that what I instinctively put together for a gathering of people who barely knew each other would lead to: a global design and facilitation consulting practice; over 500 posts on this blog, which has now become, to the best of my knowledge, the most-visited website on meeting design and facilitation; three books (almost!)

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JUNE 26, 2023

And, as we’ll see, RSQP offers the potential to devise on-the-fly sessions that meet participants’ uncovered wants and needs. My 2014 post on RSQP gives a clear example of how it works (and my book Event Crowdsourcing includes full details) so I won’t repeat myself here. Two significant differences 1.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

A big thank-you to the meeting industry luminaries who were kind enough to write testimonials for Event Crowdsourcing ! Here’s what they wrote: Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Event Crowdsourcing testimonials appeared first on Conferences That Work. Related posts: Participate!

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MAY 21, 2018

The Solution Room is rapidly becoming a popular meeting plenary. Invented at MPI’s 2011 European Meetings and Events Conference, the session fosters active meaningful connections between attendees, and provides peer support and solutions to the real professional challenges currently faced by participants.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

I’ve been promoting the Conferences That Work meeting format for so long, that some people assume I think it’s the right choice for every meeting. two meeting types and three situations when you should NOT use a Conferences That Work design: — Most corporate events. Well, it’s not.

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JUNE 11, 2018

The professional meeting industry largely believes that: Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: Being Schooled: Inside a Conference That Works “Mad blogger” Sue Pelletier of MeetingsNet has written an excellent article on her experiences at the four-day Conferences That Work format edACCESS 2014 annual meeting I convened (..)

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

In July 2014, Dr James Morgan, Principal Lecturer at the University of Westminster set up the Event Tech Lab. The idea in setting up the virtual incubator, was to help and mentor start up event technology companies wanting to get into the event space, globally. Brand Events. Event Tech. Sporting Events.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 8, 2017

During a livestream hosted by PCMA back in 2013, Marie Lou Coupal, CMP, struck up a conversation with other meeting professionals in the group chat. “I Coupal and event-marketing strategist Rachel Stephan, whom she also met during the livestream, chartered a bus to Boston for 25 meeting professionals. Branding the experience.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When we invited event professionals to participate in this Annual Meetings Market Survey in November, the U.S. It was the first time since 2014 that the economy had experienced a growth of 3 percent or more for two straight quarters. 33 percent expect to plan more meetings in 2018; only 6 percent expect to plan fewer meetings.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 30, 2016

As the founder and CEO of 360 Live Media, a marketing and experience design agency, Don Neal has watched decades-old annual meetings struggle to stay relevant in the era of TED Talks and South by Southwest. These association events are under a lot of pressure,” Neal said, “because commercial events are changing people’s expectations.”.

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JULY 25, 2016

26:30] Meetings in the round. [28:00] The Solution Room—an introductory video The talented graphic facilitator Kristine Nygaard of Kiss the frog, whom I had the recent pleasure of meeting at FRESH 2013, has created a delightful one-minute video that introduces The Solution Room, a. 32:50] Where should the moderator be during the panel?

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

Over the years I’ve contracted with hundreds of organizations for meeting facilitation and design consulting, and I’m starting to wonder if I need to adopt Van Halen’s approach. I am well aware of the incredible demands made on meeting planners before and during events.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The third lecture in the University of Westminster’s autumn Event Design Lecture Series takes place on Monday 21 st October. . Along with global CEO René Célestin, Chris opened the OBO London office in 2014, when the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show moved from US to the UK. Brand Events. Event Tech. Sporting Events.

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Hubilo Blog

MARCH 7, 2020

With more than a decade of experience as a professional speaker, Dahlia founded The Meeting Pool , a great source of information for event professionals. She even launched her own events agency DAHLIA+. Tahira Endean : She has been a part of this immense events industry for a little more than 2 decades.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 14, 2016

. — Choose Chicago (@ChooseChicago) December 28, 2014. 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. casesmc pic.twitter.com/o3A6ZcPJ7E — Christine Tempesta (@ctempesta) November 7, 2014. Room Design. Who’s with me?

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The last time NSBE held its convention in Pittsburgh in 2012, the event left behind more than $15 million dollars in direct spending. “I “This is precisely the kind of meeting group that we want to attract in Pittsburgh. We look forward to welcoming the meetings and convention leaders from around the world to Pittsburgh.”.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

But what began as a mere elbow-room expansion became a bona-fide conference facility of its own in 2009—the Oquendo Center, with nearly 70,000 square feet of meeting space, with the capacity to train up to 250 veterinarians at once. And meetings are still the primary way to do that. We were outsourcing meetings around the country.”

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 30, 2016

They understand the language of meetings.”. It was a collaborative event,” Richardson said, in that “our staff was also learning what they can do to better meet the needs of language educators, while the teachers were learning how to make these assessment tools more effective for their students.”. CAREER CAFÉ.

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Eventory

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

gorzata Rzepa – Project Manager of the Design Thinking Week. Involved in Design Thinking Week since 2014, from the moment she joined the team she became an enthusiast of the design thinking. It is a week of workshops, meetings, lectures and webinars about the design thinking methodology.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 3, 2017

On May 18, the tour stopped in London, taking over approximately one-third of the 1 million square feet of meeting and exhibit space at ExCeL (Exhibition Centre London). The framework for each World Tour event is the same, but the session content varies depending on the market,” Roques said. “We BLAZING A TRAIL. million badges. “We

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PCMA Convene

MAY 13, 2016

Produced by Web Summit — itself a Dublin-based tech conference that has expanded into a portfolio of events that also includes RISE in Hong Kong, SURGE in Bengaluru, India, and MoneyConf in Madrid — Collision debuted in Las Vegas in 2014 with 1,500 attendees, and drew 7,500 people the following year, also in Vegas.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2017

The company got its start when Jost and Hoffmann-Keining were working as business consultants and noticed that meeting spaces all seemed to be the “same, boring, repetitive” spaces that inspired no one, said Erin Westover, the company’s director of international strategic partnerships.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Hundreds of startup founders met face-to-face with potential investors during prescheduled “investor office hours” or met more casually in “investor lounges” or at networking events. MoneyConf’s organizers describe the conference as “a space where technology meets money, money meets people, people meet ideas, and ideas become reality.”.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

When the Green Venue Report debuted in 2014, it used survey information from 16 convention centers around the world to outline best practices in event-venue sustainability. How green exactly is the meetings and conventions industry? This is up from roughly 27 percent in 2014 and just 20 percent in 2012.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

And the alternative venues offered by the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau didn’t meet MPI’s needs. It was serendipitous,” said Michael Massari, senior vice president of meetings and events for Caesars Entertainment. But the biggest news seemed to be that Atlantic City has arrived as a meetings destination.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2018

The new event — orchestrated by Hope, senior vice president, meetings and expositions, for association-management firm Kellen Company — was several years in the making, and part of GSUSA’s strategy to “retool how they position themselves,” Hope said, “with members of the future.”. The GSUSA Council Meeting. CHOP IT IN HALF’.

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