Socio Events

AUGUST 4, 2022

And if that’s what you’re looking for from your next event, you might want to consider planning a virtual conference. Your venue is booked, your speakers are prepped, and your schedule is ready to go, but then something goes wrong and you’re forced to cancel. What are the benefits of hosting a virtual conference?

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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 aggregate speaker proposals.

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Velvet Chainsaw

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

A Track Leader: Acts as a bridge between the audience, the content and the speaker(s). Identifies big provocative questions and ideas that participants should listen for during presentations. Introduces concepts and presenters. Keeps sessions moving and improvises as needed or directed.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 5, 2018

Think of your conference speaker and content RFP process. Many speaker and topic RFP’s have long lists of unnecessary and obsolete requirements. Every time your conference planning process utilizes one of these customary outdated practices, it creates more interest on that debt.

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Eventmobi

MAY 23, 2024

A conference is a formal gathering that brings together like-minded people to discuss specific topics. Conferences usually take place over multiple days and require a fee to attend. Oftentimes, conferences include keynote speakers and workshop sessions, each designed to educate attendees. There’s no lead speaker.

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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. Yet few remember the primary conference speaker or tweeted about that message.

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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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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

MAY 29, 2018

Too often we see our conferences as one-way transactions. In exchange for their money, we give them access to hand-chosen speakers that dispense their knowledge. In short, the organization employs staff and recruits volunteers to design a transactional conference experience to promote its purpose.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 24, 2023

Last week I attended the National Speakers Association’s (NSA) Annual Meeting, Influence 2023. NSA’s board of directors divided up a “hit list” of their CPAE’s (hall of fame speakers) and made personal calls to invite them to attend (and in some cases rejoin). They did not disappoint. This strategy worked.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 25, 2018

Sometimes they say, “Well, I’m not in charge of programming, content or speakers. I get that from the education section or the conference technical teams.”. What does “owning the conference customer experience” mean to your daily conference planning tasks?

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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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Guidebook

JUNE 19, 2018

You’ve been working on your event for 6+ months — you’ve put in countless hours getting the venue locked down, the schedule finalized, speakers scheduled, the production design perfect. The day comes around and you wait in anticipation for your keynote speaker to step on stage. A great keynote speaker doesn’t just speak, though.

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Eventmobi

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In this comprehensive guide, we’ll walk you through how to plan a conference from A to Z. We’ll cover everything from budgeting and marketing to finding sponsors and speakers to reporting and analytics. What Does It Take to Plan a Conference? But how long does it take to plan a conference?

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 17, 2019

As conference organizers this leads us to bad decisions when selecting speakers and programming where we promote sharing success stories over asking questions, verifying validity and understanding context. So how often have you promoted conference round table discussions for attendees to share stories and take advice from peers?

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 12, 2023

Due to flight cancellations, the opening general session speakers were not able to arrive in time. The association acted fast and was able to pull off a very effective virtual fireside chat with the two speakers, conducted live with an on-site interviewer. It served as a very successful plan B. Here are some suggestions.

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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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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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InitLive

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Not surprisingly conferences have played a big part in my responsibilities over the years. I would estimate that I has been an attendee, exhibitor, speaker, organizer or content strategies at over 50 conferences over the course of my career, which gives me a relatively unique perspective. The Event Organizer, It's No Easy Task.

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GEVME

JANUARY 18, 2021

Add to that the ease of judging the audience’s reach and response, only further speaks in favour of Virtual Conferences. THE NEEDS OF VIRTUAL CONFERENCE PLANNING. All that we need now is a plan to put to action. Virtual conference tools. An essential design with a well thought out schedule is a necessity.

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GEVME

JANUARY 18, 2021

Add to that the ease of judging the audience’s reach and response, only further speaks in favour of Virtual Conferences. THE NEEDS OF VIRTUAL CONFERENCE PLANNING. All that we need now is a plan to put to action. Virtual conference tools. An essential design with a well thought out schedule is a necessity.

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GEVME

JANUARY 18, 2021

Add to that the ease of judging the audience’s reach and response, only further speaks in favour of Virtual Conferences. THE NEEDS OF VIRTUAL CONFERENCE PLANNING. All that we need now is a plan to put to action. Virtual conference tools. An essential design with a well thought out schedule is a necessity.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 19, 2018

The Tourist Conference Experience. When conferences view their customers as tourists, they plan and offer slick-professionally-produced OMG wow moments, marquee speakers and headline performers. These conferences aim to top previous year’s events.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 18, 2017

Conference Professionals Become Choice Architects Not Just Curators Of Content Or Schedulers of Speakers. In the conference arena, conference choice architects frame their programming based on solving the needs of their target audience. Hat tips Whitney Kilgore author “ Ux To Lx: The Rise Of Learner Experience Design. ”.

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InitLive

OCTOBER 24, 2019

These are the crucial months in your conference planning process and if you can get the majority of the planning done during this period, then you will feel less stressed in the coming time. Research and finalize your speakers. Choose the theme and decide the decor of the conference. Check-in with the speakers.

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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Articulating, Fostering And Advancing A Conference Purpose. Investing in conference speakers to deliver information, without first investing in the organization’s beliefs and the event’s purpose, puts the cart before the horse. Designing collaborative experiences, not just filling schedules with speakers.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 27, 2018

Registration discounts, tourist attraction locations, newly remodeled venues, the latest, greatest whiz-bang technology innovations and a jammed-packed schedule of speakers can quickly fade from one year to another. Planning and offering a mundane, mediocre event just won’t cut it. Why would anyone purchase registration to attend it?

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Speakers to facilitators-of-learning. Speakers should no longer be the sage on the stage, but rather the guide on the side. If you must print programs, pare them back by printing schedules-at-a-glance for the conference and exhibitor listings — organized alphabetically and by product category — for the show. It’s a one-way trip.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 22, 2017

Helping conference stakeholders engage in metacognition is the gift that keeps on givin g! Dump Legacy Speakers And Traditions. When was the last time you had a major change in your conference experience? Not just the changing of the speakers and topics like the changing of the guard. Something more than that.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 24, 2018

They understand that how they design, plan and implement that conference experience is as important as the content ( the what ) of that experience. Scheduling expert speakers or successful member presenters is no longer enough. They have to consider the holistic conference experience through the lens of their target market.

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Eventmobi

JANUARY 10, 2024

From venue maps to speaker session schedules, your attendees can access everything they need instantaneously, without the clutter of physical event materials. The best conference apps allow event planners to easily communicate with different stakeholders, including attendees, speakers, and sponsors. Smoother communication.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 14, 2017

Ask the speaker or moderator to share those with the participants. Consider developing a meta-tag methodology that applies three to five keywords or phrases to each session, and low-tech solutions like creating and publishing five to 10 recommended itineraries based on the attendee’s role or work challenges.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 18, 2018

Established, successful conferences have leadership that are usually adept at incrementally improving their event each year. They focus on securing better content and speakers. Ultimately, a successful conference leadership team must focus on creating a customer-centric conference strategy.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 11, 2022

Spreadsheets to plan the program or agenda, spreadsheets of potential speakers, performers, exhibitors and sponsors. GBP per month , you can have up to 5 active events of any size with as many collaborators, speakers, performers and exhibitors as you want. At Joi we believe most event technology is massively overpriced.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 28, 2017

They are the ones that complain on evaluations “…that speaker didn’t tell me exactly how to do this.” They just want to meet the expectations of governing boards as approved speaker. Surface Learning is shallow with little understanding of the topic or issue. These participants seek to replicate what they encounter.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 10, 2017

At times, we also remove speakers and volunteer leaders as they may justify their participation based more on those roles than their education and networking experience. Among those to exclude are expo only, staff, exhibitors, sponsors, press, guests, workshop-only, and students. (If

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 9, 2016

It is not related to the amount of time they sit in an education session or listen to a speaker. We should remind them that their level of learning and retention is directly related to their level of active mental engagement and participation. Shift From Verb To Noun.

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