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Mediocrity Is Your Biggest Conference Competitor

Velvet Chainsaw

We aggregate speaker proposals. So consider these questions: Is your conference designed to give your customers the experience they expect? If you plan to meet their expectation of just one or two takeaways, you’ve already lowered your conference standards to average at best. It runs smoothly as planned.

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We are biased against truly creative event design

Conferences that Work

A “creative” event design is one with a novel venue and/or decor and lighting and/or food and beverage. Consequently, planners restrict the entire focus of creative event design to novel visual and sensory elements. Can we overcome bias against truly creative event design?

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How to Find & Select The Best Mobile Apps for Conferences

Eventmobi

Event apps help you: Boost communication Conferences are a hub of activity! There’s constant communication between attendees, speakers, and you—the organizers. The right conference app will help streamline all these communication channels, fostering engagement and collaboration. Info booth Attendees have some FAQs?

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Prescribing a Hub-and-Spoke Approach

PCMA Convene

The March conference, which brought the neurologist community together to discuss progress on diagnosis and early treatment of multiple sclerosis, was not the first of its kind that AIM has organized, said Barbara Sambugaro, business manager, AIM Education. Another multi-hub AIM event connected as many as 40 venues, she told Convene.

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Rethinking Events: The Human-Centric Approach (Webinar Recap).

Expo Pass

How can HCD influence the “architecture” and logistical planning of your event venue? One example comes from the Go West Conference, where they held 20-minute speaker sessions and then, in the afternoon, breakout sessions. .” – Liz Lathan With this definition in mind, let’s start with something easy—the event space.

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Best in Show 2016

PCMA Convene

Whereas we originally created Best in Show to honor some of the most innovative and acclaimed things in the meetings and conventions industry — venues, technology platforms, CSR programs, destination videos, etc. Nominated by Cori Dossett, CEM, CMP, Conferences Designed “I have worked with Brittany several times in the past year.

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How the Future of Storytelling Can Change the Way We Meet

PCMA Convene

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. THE SPEAKERS . ‘A