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Conference Networking with Conference Compass

Event Industry News

At conferences and other knowledge-driven events, sessions and presentations are always great conversation starters. Poster presentations and round-table sessions are great meeting formats to stimulate meaningful conversations. With those on-site using the mobile app, or with those on-line using the browser of their computer.

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Do You Really Have Them at Hello? Rethinking Your First-Timer Strategy

Velvet Chainsaw

The entire hour of their kick-off was focused on helping attendees identify what problems/challenges they were facing at work and how the conference community, education and resource experts present could support them over the three-day conference and beyond.

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7 Tips for Driving Attendee Engagement at Virtual Events

Smart Meetings

A few possibilities for virtual event planners to provide networking opportunities for attendees include: Live chat tools alongside a session (part of the platform), where attendees can ask questions to the presenter and engage with each other. which can include channels for each conference track.

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Key Takeaways from PCMA’s Convening Leaders 2020

Velvet Chainsaw

Key takeaway: Headphones work in one-way presentations of shorter duration or in session overflow rooms but not when interaction is integral to content delivery. All had either Q&A throughout or interactive elements that would not have worked if the audience had been using headphones.

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How Vox Media Revamped its Ultramodern Code Conference in SoCal

Event Marketer

Even a bleeding-edge business and technology event like Vox Media’s annual Code Conference needs to be revitalized from time to time, and the forum’s 20 th anniversary this year presented the ideal time to stir things up. The invitation-only conference, hosted Sept.

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Conversations, Collaboration and Chemistry

Velvet Chainsaw

Coach presenters on how to chunk session content into 10-minute segments, interspersed with thought-provoking audience-discussion prompts in pairs or groups of three. To best accomplish this: 1. Adopt and model conversations with regular attendees at the highest level of your organization.

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22 Types of Networking Events You Can Organize in 2023

Eventmobi

Outside of the main conference sessions or presentations, organizers might set up special luncheons or after-hours social events to help attendees network.

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