Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

These two quotes are from my posts on the parallels between the evolution of journalism and events (2015) and on the parallel missions of journalism and participant-driven and participation-rich events (2018).] This brings us to a key question that is rarely openly discussed: Whom are conferences for?

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Conferences that Work

MAY 20, 2024

Improving Conferences That Work I designed and facilitated my first peer conference in 1992. Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love took four years to write. I’m still proud of how well Conferences That Work lays out the fundamental reasons for the importance and value of peer conferences.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

a multimedia design and tech company, to map out best practices for putting the technology to work in the conference center, and he shared experiences developed alongside event organizers who understood the possibilities. VR event design features can entertain reception guests while reinforcing topics covered during the event.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 18, 2020

I developed The Three Questions in 1995 as a fundamental opening process for peer conferences. You can find the most detailed implementation in Chapter 18 of my 2019 book, Event Crowdsourcing. The Power of Participation [2015] (Chapter 31). Conferences That Work [2009] (Chapter 25, pages 260-265).

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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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Conferences that Work

JULY 5, 2016

More of my experiences and takeaways for event professionals from the wonderful five-day improv and mindfulness workshop Mindful Play, Playful Mind , held June 8-13 2016, at Mere Point on the beautiful Maine coast — followed by their relevance to event design ( red ). ” Read the full article at Conferences That Work.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 8, 2017

Katie Orenstein at a conference. AM-T: Coming up, why having more female and minority conference speakers matters. Convene magazine is published by PCMA, the Professional Convention Management Association, and it offers fresh perspectives on meetings and events. She had studied the lack of women at conferences in her industry.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2018

“Hip” and “scientific conference” are terms that may seem incongruous. But Laura Metcalf Jelinek, CAE, associate vice president of meetings and travel for the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), helped make both concepts work together at the association’s annual Osteopathic Medical Education Conference (OMED). Letter Perfect.

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Endless Events

JUNE 13, 2022

The venue can host up to 150 guests seated and 250 guests standing and lends itself to various types of events: product launches, conferences, company parties, networking events, and team-building events. On Jackson is a downtown Phoenix event venue that used to be a warehouse. Source: Desert Foothills Events.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The lab communicates on behalf of the partners with journalists, event professionals and event organisers at trade shows, conferences and professional association events. The Event Tech Lab is the perfect place to raise awareness for any new product or service. Brand Events. Conferences. Event Tech.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 17, 2016

In Conferences That Work I tell the story of how an entire class of graduate students (including me) stopped understanding our math professor halfway through the semester, and none of us ever informed him we were lost. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Of course you have! Do we always do that?

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2016

How can hosting events that showcase the latest technologies not rub off on convention centers? How can business event organizers in high-tech sectors not incorporate bleeding-edge tools in their own event design and session rooms — which then seep into other kinds of events not directly associated with technology?

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Always be sure your grand entrance matches the theme and tone of your event. There are so many grand entrance ideas, but it’s key that you match your event style. If you are having a tech conference an all floral entryway may not make as much sense as an LED tunnel. Always think of your overall theming and stay true to that. .

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The Scottish Event Campus (SEC) has announced the appointment of Jennifer Roddie as Senior Sales Manager and Lead Bid Strategist, and Louise Watson as Association Sales Manager, as the business continues to invest in its talent. Jennifer will work with the venue’s associations team to build on its existing success.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Every conference comes with its own unique set of risks. During the 2015 United Nations Paris Climate Change Conference (COP21), those threats were especially complex. Even so, Ruff-Lyon is often surprised by scant security at some conferences where thousands of people are gathered under one roof. ” .

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EventMB

MAY 26, 2022

-based event tech veteran Matthew Donegan-Ryan joins as CEO with founder Trevor Gardiner, who was CEO, taking on the role of executive director of product innovation. Virtual conference platform Allseated announced $15 million in new funding to be used to develop corporate metaverses. Allseated Raises $15M in Private Equity Funding.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 4, 2017

But how can event organizers go beyond shining the spotlight on promising young professionals to creating programs that not only are life-changing for them, but have deeper benefits for the sectors they serve? Two top conferences — TED and C2 Montréal — offer inspiration.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 30, 2016

Here are highlights of how ACTFL remade its 2015 Annual Convention & World Languages Expo in San Diego last Nov. Even with 50 other sessions going on at the same time — ACTFL offered more than 700 education sessions throughout the 2015 convention — the Collab Zone was so popular that it was often filled to capacity. COLLAB ZONE.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 30, 2016

The main thing, according to Neal, is to move “from an event to an experience.” Conferences and trade shows “shouldn’t simply be boring education, a famous keynote speaker, a cocktail party, and a golf outing,” Neal said. NACD started with losing the “conference” stigma. To others it was a conference.

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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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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Only 34 percent of respondents (down from 43 percent in the 2016 survey and 50 percent in the 2015 survey) indicated that they will be holding meetings outside the United States in the future. percent in the 2015 survey). 2007 Event-supply rentals. 2008 Event-supply rentals. 2009 Event-supply rentals.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2017

And their searches are taking them to many digital destinations outside the “Hotel & Travel” section of the typical conference website. A 2015 Tourism Economics study of 170-plus events revealed that more than 34 percent of rooms are being booked outside the contracted room block. EMBRACING ALTERNATIVES.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

The initiative is meant to give planners, delegates, and service providers a leg up on best practices for meetings, conferences, and events incorporating design, technology, format, and knowledge-sharing approaches. Did you get more (or less) engaged or are you more (or less) active at a meeting or conference on average?

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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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Social Tables

OCTOBER 14, 2016

If you tie the event hashtag into more common hashtags that would be used by your attendees, in this case, #meetingprofs and #eventprofs, it increases engagement rates two times higher than tweets without hashtags. In January 2015, 3,700 #meetingprofs & #eventprofs will attend Convening Leaders in #Chicago ! Register now: #pcmaCL.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2017

She is both a Certified Government Meeting Professional and a Government Virtual Events Producer. Still, in 2013, when SAO asked her to organize a hackathon as part of the upcoming.Astronomy 5 conference, Humber felt like she was suddenly on unfamiliar ground. “I I was scared out of my mind when this first dropped in my lap,” she said.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In 2015, a groundbreaking study revealed that emotions directly affect memory and learning processes. For your event design, this means the emotional aspect should come first in order for any element to be memorable. Memory, therefore, is a crucial consideration in the event design process. “If

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TicketBud

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It includes: Event Planners Printing/Signage Av/Tech Support Photography/Videography Catering/Bartending Staffing/Security Rentals/Decor Entertainment Venues Event Planners Fauxcades (Dallas) fauxcades.com Offering a full service event design, custom fabrication, production and rentals, Fauxcades focuses on the experiential aspect of every event.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 28, 2016

In one of Convene ‘s surveys last year , more than half of the event organizer participants told us that they do not intentionally choose a lineup of presenters from a diversity perspective, nor is it important to their organization and/or their audience that male and female speakers are equally represented on their conference stage.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 31, 2017

The educational workshops at the 2016 Phocuswright Conference didn’t begin until Tuesday, Nov. The companies were all working on projects that affect different elements of hotels, airlines, and online booking, but they came to the Phocuswright Conference with one common goal: to appeal to venture capitalists who can fund their futures.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

A few months before this announcement, I had a large conference where I pushed attendees further than they wanted to go by incorporating QR codes, iPads, and social media throughout the entire program. Opening morning (and the follow-ing days, too) of a conference in Las Vegas for 10,000 super-excited hair-dressers. Derek Anderson.

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Capterra Event Management

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Hosted by Toby Goodman and James Eager, these two consistently bring on interesting guests from all across the event planning spectrum, including wedding planners, conference experts, event speakers, and caterers. Recommended Episodes: Episode 20: How to Stand Out in Front of the CEO of a Top Event Tech Company.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 30, 2016

That’s what happened at the 2015 World Hepatitis Summit last September at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow, where 550 attendees from 56 countries gathered to discuss global tactics in combating the disease responsible for 1.4 million deaths a year.

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All Seated

DECEMBER 14, 2018

What was the event business and industry like when you started out? When I started off working in the catering & events department at a conference center, we worked with a big leather-bound “bible” that weighed an absolute ton. They want to feel as though their event isn’t cookie cutter.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Did the methodology for this year’s report differ from the 2015 Green Venue Report? Seventy-seven percent of centers help event organizers donate leftover conference materials, and almost 60 percent of centers regularly donate food from events to local charities in need.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 31, 2017

The city also began to attract food-centric events. The American Cheese Society was here,” Adamo said, for its 32nd Annual ACS Conference & Competition in 2015. “We We also had StarChefs’ Rising Star Awards [in 2014]. And we’ll have a group not too far in the distance that studies sensory science and the history of taste.”.

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Planner WIre

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

There are a lot of platforms in the event and conference management space. At i3 Events, we have been using PlanningPod since 2015 for many of our clients.

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