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 ). Here’s Part 1.). The YOU game. I’ll.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

At her tour company, Big Foody PDX, which she founded in 2016, Morgan organizes truffle-foraging expeditions at a forested Willamette Valley vineyard and walking tours through neighborhoods in east Portland that include conversations with the artisanal food producers who have helped put the city on the culinary map.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2016

So, as we — Convene ‘s five on-staff writers and editors — looked back over 2016, we asked ourselves this question: What’s one meeting trend we’ll be keeping an eye on next year? . How can hosting events that showcase the latest technologies not rub off on convention centers? Robots and Other Next-Gen Tools.

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MARCH 17, 2017

At Convening Leaders 2017 in Austin, Texas, Amanda Marijanovic interviewed Stephanie Brown, vice president of education and conferences for the American Wind Energy Association , where Brown talked about how she reinvented the organization’s 2016 trade show.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 31, 2017

They’re enough a part of modern life that they have their own event: Emojicon 2016, co-founded by journalist Jennifer 8 Lee and tech-communities expert Jeanne Brooks, and held at Bespoke, a combination co-working, tech-demonstration, and event space at a downtown San Francisco shopping mall.

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MARCH 17, 2017

That’s one takeaway from a conversation between Convening Leaders Live host Amanda Marijanovic and Stephanie Brown, vice president of education and conferences for the American Wind Energy Association , at Convening Leaders 2017 in Austin, Texas.

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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. Here are some highlights of the results: Size of 2017 convention/meeting budget vs. 2016 convention/meeting budget — -1 percent compared to +1.7

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JUNE 1, 2017

Gaining new knowledge from face-to-face conference relies on one fairly basic principle: You have to actually get to the destination first. Wingenter is giving some of those precious hours back to travelers with Lufthansa’s FlyingLab, a conference that takes place — you guessed it — in the sky. CLIMBING HIGHER.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In 2016, a suite of galleries and meeting rooms opened as part of the growing MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology). It closed for good in 1975 — but the complex’s brick-and-iron buildings were repurposed into an Electricity Museum in 1990. en/campus.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In 2016, a suite of galleries and meeting rooms opened as part of the growing MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology). It closed for good in 1975 — but the complex’s brick-and-iron buildings were repurposed into an Electricity Museum in 1990. en/campus.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

The man responsible for reducing Utah’s homelessness is Lloyd Pendleton, and the article summarizes his TEDMED 2016 talk, which took place in Palm Springs, California, on Nov. A conference in 2003, where he heard about some of Housing First’s positive outcomes and decided to develop a similar initiative in Utah.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

ASAE sunsetted its 40-year-long Springtime Expo in 2016 to make way for the new XDP, which launched in 2017. Before the event, Graham had described XDP as “a game-changer for the association meeting industry.” They can register for free and can pay afterwards, depending on how much value they got out of the event.”

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

I remember a maze-like conference center that had a totally inadequate printed floor plan. Even though I spent the day before the event familiarizing myself with the layout, I still had a hard time figuring out how to get from one room to the next. And don’t forget that messaging isn’t restricted to verbal communication.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Johnson (GPJ) partners on marketing campaigns and flagship events for IBM, including its Think conference. After taking Think to the Australia and New Zealand market in 2016 and 2017, GPJ wanted to kick things up a notch for 2018. In 2016 and 2017 we had done a reasonable job of capturing the basic data profile of attendees.

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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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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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PCMA Convene

MAY 13, 2016

It took just a few steps onto the show floor at the Collision technology-startup conference to see where its name comes from. Morial Convention Center — which hosted Collision 2016 on April 25–28, right in the middle of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — was nothing but collisions. Hall H of the New Orleans Ernest N.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 25, 2016

This week, I blew in and out of Houston for 16 hours to participate in a panel session during the PRSA (Public Relations Society of America) 2016 Travel and Tourism Conference at the Four Seasons Hotel. We spent a few minutes talking over some possibilities, and then the luncheon got underway. We were then invited to open the boxes.

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Endless Events

MAY 19, 2020

In our 2020 event trends survey, 47% of event planners believed tailored break out session paths would be the biggest personalization trend for events in 2020. It’s not really a surprise, breakout sessions are a staple at conferences across the world. We will also see a rise in using recycled materials for event design.

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APRIL 15, 2019

We’ve rounded up 20 of those innovative event theme ideas here, so you can spice up corporate events and social get-togethers alike — all summer long. Choosing a theme for corporate events? Corporate meetings such as conferences, trade shows, and other professional networking events are far from stuffy these days.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

In our 2020 event trends survey, 47% of event planners believed tailored break out session paths would be the biggest personalization trend for events in 2020. It’s not really a surprise, breakout sessions are a staple at conferences across the world. We will also see a rise in using recycled materials for event design.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 16, 2016

More than 2,000 meeting professionals met in Atlantic City, New Jersey, earlier this week for MPI’s 2016 World Education Congress , three days of education and networking at the Harrah’s Waterfront Conference Center. How many times have you ever had anything major happen in a convention center?” Herrera asked. “A

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Bizzabo

AUGUST 22, 2018

If you're responsible for event organizing or marketing, you are probably over-stressed, constantly busy and lacking the resources you need to learn and grow as a professional. We have a solution for you — this guide to awesome and free event planning resources. Learn which KPIs are most helpful when capturing attendee satisfaction.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In the face of all the chatter about AR, VR, and the rest of the tech acronyms that have the potential to reinvent the event on-site experience, event organizers will get back to basics to reevaluate something that doesn’t require a headset or data collection: the names on the program.

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MAY 23, 2016

When I attended the Collision conference in New Orleans last month, Sinead Murphy, director of live events for the conference’s producer, Dublin-based Web Summit, led a tour of Collision’s dynamic show floor at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.

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Bizzabo

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Below we have compiled a list of our 20+ best corporate event entertainment ideas from small events to huge conferences. Why not leverage this trend and incorporate one into your events entertainment? We have seen this done at events such as San Diego Comic Con with a huge success. Escape Room. Source: Catchbox.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

The educational workshops at the 2016 Phocuswright Conference didn’t begin until Tuesday, Nov. With three tiers—Battleground, Summit, and Launch—the 2016 pro-gram included 67 startups along with more-established companies that are developing technologies to disrupt the travel industry. In 2016, 24 companies qualified.

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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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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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OCTOBER 23, 2017

Lawrence Convention Center to host the returning conference, National Society of Black Engineers, in 2018. “And we’re expecting that some of the finest engineering-based companies in the world from Pittsburgh will be represented at the conference, including Alcoa, Bayer, PPG, and U.S. Pittsburgh and the David L.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

I attended the inaugural Lane Press Publishers’ Conclave in 2016 and again this year, Oct. While the evaluations were overwhelmingly positive, one comment kept cropping up: People wished there had been more structured opportunities to learn from each other.

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JUNE 27, 2016

For Michael Massari, senior vice president of meetings and events at Caesars Entertainment, creating a backup plan became increasingly tricky in the days leading up to MPI’s World Education Congress in Atlantic City on June 11–14.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

And yet the most recent show—IBIE 2016, held at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Oct. We all work in the industry,” said IBIE 2016 Commit-tee Chair Michael Cornelis, vice president of American Pan, “and are heavily invested in the success of our show.”. 8–11—was the biggest yet. They want to be engaged.”. GLOBAL FLAVORS .

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 9, 2019

I have a combined deep industry knowledge with experience design and project management, while maintaining excellent stakeholder relationships to elevate customer engagement in my company’s annual conference. When I moved to the Washington D.C.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2017

.” If you want to present at the festival, you submit your idea via Panel Picker; it’s then posted online where attendees vote for the content they’d like to see at the conference. . Listen to Shea describe the system below, along with a similar system used for the music festival.

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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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