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7 Tips to Keep Your Event Speakers Coming Back

Eventmobi

Event speakers are essential to a successful event marketing strategy. And, for attendees to learn, they need someone to learn from, aka — your speaker! When sharing her event management tips, Cathy stresses the importance of relevant and engaging speakers, saying, “Speakers are critical to the event.

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How to Improve Your Call for Presentations Process

Velvet Chainsaw

When Velvet Chainsaw Consulting conducted speaker research with 120 associations with research and consulting company Tagoras Inc. in 2013, we found that nearly 77 percent use a call for speakers/sessions process. Mask the speakers name and company. Associations value member input. Tighten the timeline. Curate content.

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Hybrid Meetings Doomed to Failure? Not So Fast

Velvet Chainsaw

At the time, a mere six years ago, the fledgling for-profit entity that wagered its future on the potential of virtual meetings staged sessions that were too heavily weighted toward the online audience in the verbal communication and moderation by the speakers. Fast-forward to January 2017. The Switch On. Hybrid at its Best.

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Buckaroo Breakaway Cadillac Conference Programming Trends Looming Your Way In 2017 – Part 1

Velvet Chainsaw

Conference Professionals Become Choice Architects Not Just Curators Of Content Or Schedulers of Speakers. Instead of starting the conference planning process with the call for speakers, these maverick conference pros and their planning teams start by identifying the source of friction in their participants’ professional lives.

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Case Study: CSAE Achieves 90% Attendee Engagement Through Their Mobile Event App

Eventmobi

The conference is a mix of speaker sessions, networking, exhibitor booths, and evening social events. In addition, attendees now expect a seamless event experience, where they can access information whenever they want, network with other attendees and vendors, and provide feedback to session speakers and event organizers.

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8 Technologies That Will Make Events Stand Out in 2019

Attendease

As the Event App Bible notes, GDPR compliance and Apple App Store updates relating to templated apps released in 2017 are both concerns for mobile app producers. One other area where I’ve noticed increased interactivity recently is through the use of real-time speaker feedback gathering. Mobile event apps have their challenges.

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Bizzabo Finds ‘Pretty Big Discrepancy’ in Speaker Diversity

PCMA Convene

Speaker diversity continues to be a hot topic in the meetings and events industry. On average, across different types of events, more than two-thirds — 69 percent — of speakers were male, while less than one-third were female. The speakers and specific events they spoke at remain anonymous. “We Gina Glantz.