Coterie Spark

JULY 12, 2021

Setting expectations for your event, your planner and your attendees. Planning a hybrid conference, a combination of an in-person conference with a “virtual” online component, can be a lot of fun, but also demands clarity and expertise. So, let’s round ‘em up! Which tier is best for you?

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Socio Events

AUGUST 4, 2022

The more inclusive, agile, and captivating your event is, the greater chance you have of meeting your goals and reaching a wider audience. And if that’s what you’re looking for from your next event, you might want to consider planning a virtual conference. What is a virtual conference? The intention of the event.

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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? What triggers our thinking and reasoning about our events? How do we think?

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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. Each event has its specifics that are to be taken care of, from beginning to the end. Here’s where event technology comes into the picture. This is where the conference planning software comes in.

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

To avoid being fad-like in our conference planning process, here are seven emerging evergreen practices to consider and invest in instead. Conference leaders often use data like a weather report— summarizing the event conditions. In the future, conference professionals must use data to make better decisions.

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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. Embrace Your Event As A Giving Field. Read more about embracing your conference as a giving field here. How have you thought about your own experience during the conference planning process?

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Event Marketer

AUGUST 21, 2023

Jessica Blake, Senior Director-Global Events, Confluent Creating an event for the industry, as opposed to only your customers, is a power move that requires a nuanced approach. They need to come to this event and see it as the data streaming event, where they can learn from anyone who’s in this community,” Blake says.

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Eventmobi

MAY 23, 2024

While every organization’s goals are different, almost all of them host conferences for similar reasons: to connect with a target audience, generate leads, and drive revenue. How Do Conferences Differ from Events and Conventions? Like the annual Salesforce conference, Dreamforce, for example.)

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Attendease

MAY 21, 2024

Some people may not attend a healthcare event expressly to network, but almost everyone will agree that networking is beneficial. As an event planner in healthcare, it’s up to you to incorporate easy and effective networking opportunities into your event program. Not sure where to start? Don’t worry—we’ve got you covered.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 6, 2023

Images Our last post, Key Vendor Service-Level Expectations , explored how the events industry is managing through a significant loss of experienced talent. In the fast-paced world of event planning, strong project management from your key vendors is essential for success. How would you score your event partners in these areas?

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 25, 2017

Regardless, we must get our attendees up and moving and not sitting for sixty-, seventy-five-, ninety-minutes or event eight hours a day. The Best And Biggest Question To Ask During Your Conference Planning Process. (You don’t have to change everything. Start with changing twenty percent of your sessions.)

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 29, 2018

Refactoring As A Metaphor For Conference Improvement. What we need is a conference refactor to fix our organizational debt — to make it possible for our planning and event to evolve. We need the support and freedom to clean up some of our archaic planning processes and sunset outdated legacy procedures.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The Hotel Data Conference has been held annually for around 700 attendees in Nashville for the past 12 years. But when COVID-19 began spreading in the United States, organizers knew the virus could derail their plans to hold the event at the JW Marriott Nashville in mid-August. “It Pipeline Overview.”.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 29, 2018

See your conference as a giving field and reap its new harvests. The Traditional Transactional Conference Model. Too often we see our conferences as one-way transactions. Customers pay to attend our event located in a distinct city on exact dates at specific times. Embrace Your Event As A Giving Field.

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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? Register now.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 13, 2020

This is the third in a series of blogs posts, written collaboratively by our team, which uncover lessons learned in advising dozens of our clients on their events in the time of COVID-19. Although each situation has its own unique issues, we hope you find nuggets to help you with your disruption response and planning.

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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? What’s the purpose of our event? Who is our target market and our primary customer?

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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 Promotion and Marketing.

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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

MARCH 6, 2017

Your real conference competition is not that event held six months after yours. Today’s technology driven, hyper-connected, instant gratification, real-time world puts you as a conference organizer in a difficult position. Too often our current conference planning processes focus on the greatest common denominator.

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

While some have made the decision to cancel their f2f events, many others are forging ahead. Learn what worked and what didn’t from two event pros who held major in-person conferences in late August and early September, from Covid compliance to the on-site vibe. Send your questions in advance to lblock@velvetchainsaw.com.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 28, 2018

.* Anyone striving to build a 21st century sustainable conference needs to understand organizational debt, how it impacts their event and how to prevent it. Think about the process some organizations use to pick conference speakers, award lecturers and content for a scientific program. Defining Organizational Debt.

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

And we have experienced them first hand in the conferences we plan and attend. They impact how we act, think, plan, sell and design conferences and events. This enables us to leverage opportunities of having multiple generations at our events. We can think and plan for next audiences.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 20, 2022

IMEX initiatives and efforts in this domain may provide inspiration and a roadmap of ideas for those teams seeking to apply practices in their own conferences, meetings and events. Carbon accounting is inherently different than other components of an event’s environmental footprint. Getting Centralized. Carbon & Choices.

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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. They have a role and place at a conference.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 28, 2017

Now this trend is appearing in conferences across the globe. Conference organizers, planning teams, and event producers aim to top last year’s event with a bigger-name speaker, larger budgets, trendy technology and greater wows. We are not creating transformative events at all. Dramatic interludes and more.

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InitLive

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Whether you are new to conference management or just starting out, as you prepare for your next conference it's always a good idea to step outside your box and explore what's changed. With so many moving parts, people and programs, the chance of logistical issues is big and a detailed plan is paramount to success.

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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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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 21, 2018

What’s your conference North Star? Successful conference planning teams are driven by a common conviction, the event’s purpose. Unless your planning team, stakeholders and customers are guided by your conference North Star, you and your event are purposeless, directionless, in limbo, floating aimlessly.

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Eventinterface

JULY 12, 2017

On this episode of Event TALK, we are speaking with Julia Spangler a Sustainable Events Consultant with 6 years of corporate event experience. She has experience working on multi-day customer appreciation events, educational seminars and social events. “Green events” used to be an overused term.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Associations, organizations, meeting planners and their teams put a lot of time, energy and effort in to the planning and organizing of the various types of meetings, events, conferences and the like to ensure the best possible outcome and success. Conference Planning Resources – It’s All About Business!

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Event Age by Swapcard

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

As an event organizer, you’re probably looking for ways to simplify the conference planning process while still being able to reach your event objectives. One that helps save time and money, draws in a larger number of attendees year-over-year, and minimizes the stress of running a memorable event.

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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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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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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 31, 2019

What kinds of explicit attendee behaviors benefit your event most? The post 5 Improvements for Event Registration Data Collection appeared first on Velvet Chainsaw. Reprinted with permission of Convene , the magazine of the Professional Convention Management Association.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 26, 2018

Conference and meeting professionals like action when planning their events. Herein likes one of their challenges when starting a conference improvement process. The current conference state of affairs and financials dominate discussions about next year’s event. The Long-Term Trends Planning Mindset.

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