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Hybrid Meetings Doomed to Failure? Not So Fast

Velvet Chainsaw

The speaker, Sourabh Kothari, also a DES, presenting on how content should drive conference design , welcomed the virtual audience, but didn’t dwell on us. It was the epitome of online sharing around content and problem solving—and therefore learning—that we strive for at in-person conferences.

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5 Ways to Build Community Loyalty

Smart Meetings

For example, if they value the rising focus on sustainability, make sure your event incorporates sustainable practices and promotes/communicates the efforts you’re taking to drive change. Spatial Design for the Subconscious Mind Cookie-cutter conference designs can be mundane and predictable to an attendee.

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The Conference Debt You Cannot Afford

Velvet Chainsaw

Organizational debt—the interest your conference pays when its structures, policies, procedures, practices, committees and leadership roles stay fixed and accumulate even as the world around it changes.* Our conferences end up with hackitectures, petrified designs.

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IBM Think Kicks Off a New Chapter with an Agile, Personalized Flagship Experience

Event Marketer

The flagship experience, launched in 2018 as part of a portfolio consolidation, marked a new chapter this month as it reconvened May 9-11 in Orlando as a smaller, targeted in-person conference designed to serve up content and networking experiences “that matter most to you.” Emphasis on the you.

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

Conferences that Work

For example, we designed and held some of the earliest hybrid meetings, and introduced the meeting industry to peer conferences, gamification, improv, sustainability issues, and many other, now common, meeting components. These events made a profound impression on pretty much everyone who participated.

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Small steps are not big enough or bold enough for the UK event industry

Event Industry News

Every single day counts, and we now need bigger and bolder action to save our industry, get back to making meetings matter, creating terrific tradeshows, engaging audiences with experiences and delivering brilliant live content at conferences designed to help the UK bounce back safely and securely.”.

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Best in Show 2016

PCMA Convene

Nominated by Cori Dossett, CEM, CMP, Conferences Designed “I have worked with Brittany several times in the past year. Amanda Simons , Sustainable Events Program Manager, Greenview. Nominated by Cori Dossett, CEM, CMP, Conferences Designed “Larry is an outstanding professional. He is deserving of accolades.”.

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