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Make your entire conference a braindate

Conferences that Work

” — November 20, 2019 tweet. Because good event design is about how a conference works. Participant-driven and participation-rich meeting designs incorporate a braindate’s purpose — one-to-one or small group connection around relevant content — organically into every session. Time to end that.”

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Best in Show 2019: Inspiring Examples of Meeting Design

PCMA Convene

For the 2019 World Tunnel Congress, organizer AIM Group International mined unusual off-site locations in Naples to create a personalized experience and strong sense of place. Tunnel Vision. Making Local Stops. Hacker Chicks. Battling PowerPoint.

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PCMA EduCon Los Angeles 2019

Gallus Events

PCMA EduCon took place in Los Angeles in June 2019 and I was lucky enough to be asked to mentor the attendees of PCMA’s Homeless Hackathon and to present a session on online events. . Slides from my session at PCMA EduCon 2019. And the best way to get a grip of texturising content is to look at the principles of meeting design.

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Q&A with Adrian Segar on Crowdsourcing

Conferences that Work

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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Acquisition to Enhance Breakout Rooms Could be First Step Toward Zoomiverse

Smart Meetings

The founders of DoubleDutch event management software that was sold to Cvent in 2019 raised $4.3 million in seed funding to start twine , which they describe as “a remote-first company that facilitates serendipitous virtual meetings by facilitating strings of short meetings in virtual windows.”

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PCMA EduCon 2019: Can the Meetings Industry Hack Homelessness?

PCMA Convene

William Thomson (center) will take part in PCMA’s hackathon on homelessness in June during EduCon 2019. Bombas, which will do $100 million in business in 2019, has given away more than 18 million pairs of socks and t-shirts to those in need of them. The duo will be back at this year’s Educon. Jacob Slaton).

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5 Trends That Are Changing Meeting Design

PCMA Convene

Kate Fairweather (right) and Amy Blackman present results from “The Future of Meetings and Events” report at Convening Leaders 2019 in Pittsburgh. It demonstrates the idea of celebrating local surroundings in meeting design. Jacob Slaton). Kelsey Ann Rose).