Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 4, 2018

Here are six ways to focus on designing your team’s experience during your next conference planning process. Read more about embracing your conference as a giving field here. Then create a conference outcome based on designing a great planning process for you and your team. Turn Inward.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 25, 2017

The Best And Biggest Question To Ask During Your Conference Planning Process. Above all, start your conference design with this major question: Do our conference venue spaces serve as learning spaces? Help them embrace and adopt meta-cognition.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 6, 2017

You’re expected to deliver highly participatory, forward-thinking, experience-driven, sensory-laden, learner-centered, performance-focused conferences that move the needle for your customers. Too often our current conference planning processes focus on the greatest common denominator. It runs smoothly as planned.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 20, 2021

As we work with conference organizers to plan the return of their major conferences, five conference design trends have emerged, which may be useful to keep in mind as you design your own events. Purposeful abandonment This is a nicer way of saying that you need to barbecue some sacred cows.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 28, 2018

Organizational debt is all the processes, policies, procedures and workarounds that have been institutionalized during the conference planning and implementation phases over the years. Sometimes conference organizers make concessions to appease legacy presidents, committee members or owners of past planning initiatives.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Conferences That Work. Conferences That Work is the creation of conference design and facilitation legend Adrian Segar. His blog is a deep-dive into conference engagement and the fundamentals of successful networking like comfort, interaction and the exchange of ideas. Plan Your Meetings.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 2, 2017

Imagine designing your next conference or annual meeting from scratch around content instead of picking up the template you’ve been using for years and tweaking it. Please stop designing content for events and start thinking about designing events for the content.”

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