2015 Conference Meeting Design 
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?
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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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. The young first-time volunteer staff had forgotten to brew it. Three days later, people were still grumbling about CoffeeGate.
Conferences that Work
JANUARY 9, 2017
According to my weblogs, this site is now one of the most popular websites on meeting design and related issues, with 31 million page views to date, 25 million of which were made in the last three years. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. As expected, hardly anyone visited initially.
Hubilo Blog
MARCH 7, 2020
She’s a past president of Meeting Professionals International, Chicago and has been named as one of the 40 under 40 in the meetings industry by Connect magazine in 2015. She is the founder of Strategic Meeting and Events which produces mid to large scale corporate events.
Gallus Events
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Back in 2015 (probably after attending workshops that weren’t workshops) I wrote a post: Definition of a Workshop. It made me think about this format again and it also had some good best practice examples. So here’s what I hope will be a great little summary of how you make the most of this format. What is a workshop.
Social Tables
OCTOBER 14, 2016
In January 2015, 3,700 #meetingprofs & #eventprofs will attend Convening Leaders in #Chicago ! see the highlights and what’s to come in 2015! South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive masks networking events in the form of parties, gaming expos, and mixers scheduled throughout the life of the conference. Register now: #pcmaCL.
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