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“Slowly but surely, the meeting industry is learning that the old lecture-saturated conference model is increasingly inferior to meetingdesigns that incorporate the active learning, connections, engagement, and outcomes that attendees actually want and need.”
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Webinar live date: April 23, 2019 at 2pm ET / 11am PT. Webinar live date: April 23, 2019 at 2pm ET / 11am PT. Deepen engagement and increase retention at your meetings by embracing three fundamental shifts in the attendee experience. Attend this webinar to: Learn how to rethink meetingdesign for improved engagement.
in the early planning stages of an internal meeting, designed to bring together two teams – Digital and Information Technology for the first time – prior to their merger into one ‘Digital Technology’ team. Networking and collaboration were the primary objectives of this all-hands meeting, held in Germany in January 2019.
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county finalist in 2019. Stefania Conti-Vecci : She works as a meeting organizer, consultant, speaker and coach closely with professionals around the world providing strategies on how to organize, innovate and promote more effectively their business and their events. Since then she’s been the face of IMEX as we know it to date.
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But on the matter of inclusion at events, our host Tahira Endean sat down with Maarten Vannest e of the MeetingDesign Institute. More specifically, how often do you think about the acronyms that are part of the event industry? Well, probably not frequently enough – none of us do!
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