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Conference Networking: How to Help Attendees Make Meaningful Connections

Endless Events

You know that conference networking is important, but you’re not sure how to help your attendees make meaningful connections. In order to help your attendees really form concrete connections with relevant industry professionals, there needs to be an element of strategy and structure when it comes to conference networking.

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Renegotiating Live Event Agreements When All Parties Are Innocent Victims

Velvet Chainsaw

However, from past experience, any time that there has been a shift from a seller’s to a buyer’s market, those contracts signed during a seller’s market just flat out had to be updated. None of us can say that we’ve seen this movie before because it’s never been this global and severe and both parties are innocent victims.

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Getting Serious About Forecasting Future Conference Topics

Velvet Chainsaw

Savvy 21st Century conference organizers can effectively demonstrate strategic learning alignment of their conference networking and education programming. Smart conference professionals are skilled at articulating the value of their event’s networking and learning opportunities.

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Endless Events

You know that conference networking is important, but you’re not sure how to help your attendees make meaningful connections. In order to help your attendees really form concrete connections with relevant industry professionals, there needs to be an element of strategy and structure when it comes to conference networking.

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Your Trade Show Attendees: What Do They Really, Really Want?

Velvet Chainsaw

Solving an existing problem is a priority, but attendees are likely more inclined to move that needle in a conference/networking peer experience. Expositions in many industries should consider shifting from the traditional trade show to more of a solutions destination. And to actually close a sale on site?

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When Contemplating Conference Growth, Think Next Audiences Which Includes Next Gen

Velvet Chainsaw

Too often when we think about conference growth or sustainability, we assume it means attracting next gen customers. Then we discuss how to plan, program and market to that specific age group. Instead of limiting our conference growth plans to a specific generation, let’s consider next audiences. Shifting markets.

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networking at conferences structuring connections

Gallus Events

The reasons that we don’t tend to “structure” people’s networking is that, we can think that our job is to being people together, and then hand over the networking baton to them. The least we can do is expect our attendees to network right? However networking is key for most attendees. No pressure.