2019 Meeting Design Speakers 
Gallus Events
JULY 1, 2019
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.
Conferences that Work
APRIL 1, 2019
This (slightly edited) interview by JT Long appeared in the March 2019 issue of Smart Meetings Magazine. I invented the format by accident 26 years ago when there were no expert speakers to invite for a conference on administrative computing issues in small schools. What led to writing the book, Conferences that Work ?
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Social Tables
DECEMBER 27, 2018
What does it mean to be a part of the events industry in 2019? Meetings are growing and evolving rapidly, and each is an experiment in applying new methods to find a perfect formula. Here, we cover the top 19 trends which promise to shake up event planning and hospitality in 2019 and beyond. Meetings will become music festivals.
Conferences that Work
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
A September 2019 research study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences clearly illustrates why switching to active learning is hard — and worth it! Let’s look at these three conclusions in the context of meeting design. Most meeting presenters still lecture.
GEVME
DECEMBER 19, 2019
And this is from 2019: Singapore FinTech Festival 2019. Same goes for meetings format. Most of the meetings today are still about people sitting down and listening to one or more speakers. Today, we see professionals from the UX & Design field apply design thinking to meetings to explore how to reinvent them.
PCMA Convene
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
The “reimagined” meeting now will take place entirely online, with a daylong agenda that includes keynote speaker Billie Jean King, multiple panels, and breakout sessions. This week, Bernstein Research analysts reported that Zoom has added more videoconferencing users so far this year than in all of 2019, thanks to COVID-19.).
Event Industry News
JANUARY 22, 2019
“Slowly but surely, the meeting industry is learning that the old lecture-saturated conference model is increasingly inferior to meeting designs that incorporate the active learning, connections, engagement, and outcomes that attendees actually want and need.” ” — Corbin Ball , Founder at Corbin Ball & Co.
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