Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Read More : Simple Wellness Activities Can Go a Long Way at Your Next Meeting Consider offering curated “brain dates” where attendees can select topics to discuss with others in between structured keynote presentations. Spatial Design for the Subconscious Mind Cookie-cutter conference designs can be mundane and predictable to an attendee.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

They use “unconference” as a marketing buzzword to make their event sound cooler. An event that: Asks potential presenters to submit pre-event proposals for sessions isn’t an unconference. Includes breakout sessions as well as presentations isn’t an unconference. [No, Let’s be clear.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I’m indebted to Martin Sirk for sharing remarkable information about an 1828 conference designed by the German geographer, naturalist, and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Read what follows to discover that Humboldt was also a meeting designer way ahead of his time! Martin Sirk Modern meeting design!

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Conferences that Work

MAY 20, 2019

Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Events operate by stories appeared first on Conferences That Work. Related posts: Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! Want to see my 6 minute 40 second Pecha Kucha presentation Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 11, 2021

Their expertise can, therefore, be shared with participants via traditional presentations. Interactive conference sessions allow more opportunities for participants to share specific complicated problems and get targeted advice. Sadly, traditional lecture-style sessions are only good for solving participants’ obvious problems.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Much as I would like to tell you that participant-driven and participation-rich event formats are common these days, it just ain’t so. As a result, many conference attendees have not encountered these designs before and have not experienced how effective they can be in creating valuable connections and learning with their peers.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Another issue of an occasional series— Dear Adrian —in which I answer questions about event design, elementary particle physics , solar hot water systems, facilitation, and anything else I might conceivably know something about. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! Sources for additional information.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 18, 2016

I’m in San Antonio, Texas, having just run two 90-minute “panels” at a national association leadership conference. I say “panels” because at both sessions, the three “panelists” presented for less than five minutes. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The queues to briefly present the proposed topics were really long, and the emerging schedule looked amazing. Can you see why software testers like Lisi think that peer conferences rock?! Here’s another example from a software testing peer conference, TestBash Brighton 2018. And that’s what happened.

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Bizzabo

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Dozens of sessions, presentations, workshops, and expert-led discussion panels will provide Los Angeles with the first ever event of this kind. The premier event for digital marketing professionals, Summit has the latest insights from the world’s leading digital marketing experts. App Growth Summit LA 2019. Los Angeles, CA.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 18, 2017

Although the event is invitation-only — intended to be a discussion by Europeans for Europeans — Convene will be covering the summit and passing along key insights and takeaways. In the meantime, we interviewed summit presenter and European technology expert Inma Martinez to get a sense of what’s in store for the audience in Monaco.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 9, 2019

I have since worked for two additional medical specialty associations and have grown in my responsibility and understanding of all aspects of annual conference design and execution. My background in architecture has helped with the event design aspects, project management, and balancing budget, scope and quality.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

To set the stage for collaboration and the exchange of high-level ideas, Melcher found that he had to think about reinventing not just storytelling but conference design. “We We really had to blow up the conference model,” Melcher said in an interview with Convene. This is not your ordinary conference.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Even when we incorporate active learning into a conference session, invariably the assumption remains that we are learning about content provided exclusively by a speaker or presenter. Extending our resources for active learning to the entire room uncovers relevant and useful knowledge from everyone present.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 12, 2018

Graphic design? Meeting and conference professionals? Go back and read that last phrase: meeting and conference professionals! Do you see yourself as a conference, meeting or event designer? As someone who creates, plans and constructs human interactions at your meetings and events?

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