Endless Events

AUGUST 29, 2018

This means their experience both during and in-between conference events are in your hands. Not to worry, that’s why we’ve put together all our conference planning guides here, to make sure you plan the best event experience for them. Where to Host Your Next Conference: 8 Best Locations. Click To Tweet.

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Coterie Spark

JULY 12, 2021

Even though expectations have changed among conference attendees, the key to successful event planning, especially for hybrid programming, fortunately remains the same. Whichever tier of hybrid conference you choose, remember to learn everything you can about your guests and set those conference planning goals early.

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Socio Events

AUGUST 4, 2022

In turn, event organizers can salvage their conference, safeguard investments, and put on an engaging show just as they promised. How do you plan a virtual conference? Planning an in-person conference is one thing, but pivoting to a virtual format is another entirely. Ready to go virtual?

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Eventinterface

JUNE 11, 2016

Planning conferences and events takes great organizational skill and a close attention to detail. It does not matter where you hold your event. Whether it is a San Diego event venue such as the Westfield Horton or the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, there are some very simple mistakes you can quite easily avoid making.

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Hubilo Blog

APRIL 3, 2018

Conference planning is a no easy job. Event planning overall, for that matter, is a stressful job. There is a wide range of conference planning tools in the market that make life much easier for conference planners juggling 10 tasks at a time. This is where the conference planning software comes in.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 4, 2018

Here are six ways to focus on designing your team’s experience during your next conference planning process. Read more about embracing your conference as a giving field here. How have you thought about your own experience during the conference planning process? Explore and experiment with each of them. Turn Inward.

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Coterie Spark

MARCH 24, 2025

Are you ready to unlock the power of AI at your next conference? AI is reshaping the conference planning landscape, offering groundbreaking tools that engage attendees, streamline management, and maximize impact. Of course, its not always clear how to use artificial intelligence in conference planning.

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Evergreen conference practices that have promising results are often obscured by our obsession with fads and trends. To avoid being fad-like in our conference planning process, here are seven emerging evergreen practices to consider and invest in instead. Seven Emerging Evergreen Practices To Consider. From Metrics To Insights.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 9, 2018

And just as important, how and what do we think about our conferences and events? How do we understand our conference planning processes, its underlying assumptions, and our customers, partners, exhibitors, and stakeholders? Our conference planning becomes projecting status quo with new dates, new location and a new venue.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 25, 2017

The Best And Biggest Question To Ask During Your Conference Planning Process. Above all, start your conference design with this major question: Do our conference venue spaces serve as learning spaces? Help them embrace and adopt meta-cognition.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Host Hotels & Resorts’ Sourav Ghosh (clockwise from top left), STR’s Amanda Hite, and Hotel News Now’s Stephanie Ricca participate in the online Hotel Data Conference. The Hotel Data Conference has been held annually for around 700 attendees in Nashville for the past 12 years. Screenshot by Rachel Daub).

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 29, 2018

That sounds very familiar to an established annual conference planning process. Think of the planning routines, files, procedures and instructions that have been institutionalized over the years. Consider it as your conference source code.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 29, 2018

We have a choice in our service of conference planning and implementation. We can see the planning process as a transaction of pushing our skills and expertise at conference participants. When we embrace our conference planning and implementation as a giving field, we see it as a.

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InitLive

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

With an excellent event team and a good strategy, you can plan and organize a successful conference for your organization. However, approaching conference planning with outdated methods can lead to a slow and exhausting planning process. Event Planning Automation. Event Planning Automation.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 31, 2017

What guides you to uncover your organization’s foundation that makes your competitors unable to replicate or reproduce your conference experience? Successful conference organizers lead with this question, “Why?”. They help their conference participants adapt and steer their futures. Nothing precedes purpose.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 18, 2018

It is creating a habit of regularly questioning every conference planning practice and programming component that we currently use. This includes asking the more obvious yet often elusive questions of “Why are we holding a conference? Purposeful abandonment is about abandoning the past in favor of the future.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 5, 2018

Every time your conference planning process utilizes one of these customary outdated practices, it creates more interest on that debt. Your conference planning and implementation process suffers from the accumulation of unconsolidated practices, high interest and ongoing organizational debt.

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Tagvenue

OCTOBER 16, 2019

How to organise a conference step-by-step Putting together a conference can be a harrowing ordeal, … The Conference Planning Checklist Read More ».

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 3, 2017

So how do you create a conference experience that is not like all the others? Start by considering one or more of these conference big ideas. They are the conference planning road less traveled that harvests success! Big Conference Ideas On The Road Less Traveled Part 1. They are predictable and often commoditized.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 28, 2018

Organizational debt is all the processes, policies, procedures and workarounds that have been institutionalized during the conference planning and implementation phases over the years. Sometimes conference organizers make concessions to appease legacy presidents, committee members or owners of past planning initiatives.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 4, 2017

This list of conference big ideas just doesn’t belong to the traditional, average conference planning process. Big Conference Ideas On The Road Less Traveled Part 2. All Planning Team Members Espouse The Same Mental Model For Learning. One of these things is not like the other.

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InitLive

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Make sure to check out - Mastering the Art of Conference Planning in 5 Easy Steps. To learn more about InitLive and how we have helped customers like the Social Media Examiner and other conferences just like them successfully grow and scale their conference, please visit: www.initlive.com or send us an email at sales@initlive.com.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 6, 2017

You’re expected to deliver highly participatory, forward-thinking, experience-driven, sensory-laden, learner-centered, performance-focused conferences that move the needle for your customers. Too often our current conference planning processes focus on the greatest common denominator. We’re outdated from the start.

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Then instead of trying to manage them during the conference experience, lead them. Often our conference planning teams represent different generations. Then lead your conference planning and advisory teams to flex where they can to accommodate different generation’s preferences. Motivating different generations.

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InitLive

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

There is a lot of planning that goes into an in-person conference event. That's why it is so important to start your conference planning process well in advance. It is helpful to review your successes and shortcomings from your last conference and use that information to help inform your planning this time around.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It is the responsibility of the meeting planner and team to make sure that everything, and I do mean everything, has been planned, organized and is ready for the onslaught of attendees. Conference Planning Resources – It’s All About Business!

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 31, 2018

As conference organizers, we frequently ignore the evidence all around us of what’s working and what’s not. Often our conference planning teams and volunteer advisors follow our lead as we give more precedent to what feels right. That evidence is everywhere. It’s just that we don’t know what to do with it once we have it.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 25, 2018

What does “owning the conference customer experience” mean to your daily conference planning tasks? Who all needs to be involved with owning that conference customer experience journey? The post The Conference Owner’s Guide: From Conference Touchpoints To Journey Experiences Part 1 appeared first on Velvet Chainsaw.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 28, 2017

Although our attendees may not struggle with serious addictions like drug abuse, we can easily get sucked into conference experiences that are novel. And our conference planning teams want to out-do last year’s novelty and wow. Thus our dopamine addicted audiences constantly ask what’s new or how will they top that.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 21, 2018

Before your conference can find its true target market, you as the conference organizer must find your conviction. What’s your conference conviction? What’s your conference North Star? Successful conference planning teams are driven by a common conviction, the event’s purpose.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 13, 2016

What is the breakthrough you most want to see happen in your conference in the next year? What do you imagine could be possible if you were truly collaborating with your conference planning team, leadership and volunteers? How will this webinar help your conference planning?

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Event Smart

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Every year, businesses across different industries plan for conferences for their businesses. Event organizers are spearheading the conference planning process – from booking venues and crafting event programs to writing event details. The Purpose of a Speaker Bio If your […]

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

If you are, you need a conference intrapreneur! More than just one intrapreneur, you need a conference planning culture of intrapreneurship. Ultimately, you’ll want to develop a conference team of intrapreneurs. Ask yourself this: Do our conference planning teams have the willingness, capability and confidence to __?

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Event Marketer

AUGUST 21, 2023

In this episode, we sit down with Jessica Blake, senior director-global strategic events at Confluent, to talk about “year-two” planning for the event, which takes place Sept. The idea is that it’s a place for anyone who works with or in the data streaming industry.

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Attendease

MAY 21, 2024

Here are 6 ways to facilitate networking at your next healthcare conference or seminar. Make sure your conference planning app has social integration When planning your healthcare event, consider using a conference planning app that integrates with social platforms. Not sure which solution to choose?

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 26, 2018

A future back planning approach uses a distinct method of defining a future state and working backwards. Then in reverse time-lapse fashion, conference planning teams set priorities and milestones for their next event. You start with the end in mind.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Today there always seems to be someone stating that they have they latest and greatest conference planning guide to help you do your meeting planning job. Of course, many of the larger conferences have planners that know their way around a convention center – or at least they had better know their way around.

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