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Nine Ways to Make First-time Conference Attendees Feel at Home

Event Marketer

And that makes it critical for conference organizers to ensure that their first-time attendees are set up for successparticularly as a tidal wave of newcomers continues to flood the b-to-b event landscape. Providing first-time attendees with both a comfortable and valuable experience, however, requires a measured approach.

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Facial analysis technology to be used at the 2024 IAEE Expo! Expo!

Conferences that Work

Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Facial analysis technology to be used at the 2024 IAEE Expo! appeared first on Conferences That Work. Still, at the very least, attendees should have the right to request exclusion from facial analysis surveillance. Should they have the right to opt out?

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

Conferences that Work

What makes attending conferences worthwhile? As I described in Conferences That Work , the two most common reasons for attending conferences are to learn useful things and make useful connections. But there are numerous other ways that conferences provide value to stakeholders. Complicated problems.

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Best of 2024: Sustainability

Smart Meetings

Plus, with some shoutouts to major sustainability achievements across the board that took place in 2024, theres plenty of cause for celebration that you definitely want to know about.

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Why Your Conference Should be Target-Audience Obsessed

Velvet Chainsaw

In order to design relevant education and networking experiences at our conferences, we need to be focused to the point of obsession with our target audience. Over the past 18 months, we’ve carefully scrubbed and analyzed the attendance of 20 major conferences. Who has the professional development budget to attend every year?

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Field Report: Things We’ve Never Seen at Trade Shows Until Shoptalk 2025

Event Marketer

Breaking away from the usual conferences with a meetings and expo components, Shoptalk is part of the growing group of business events, think Money 20/20 and HLTH , that are rewriting the book on engagement, business facilitation, and the show floor experience. Definitely a first. Weve gotten flu shots at shows before, but an IV?

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10 Ideas for Improving Your Pay-to-Play Conference Presentations

Velvet Chainsaw

There’s a place for sponsored content in conference programs, if you’re thoughtful in your approach. As more sponsors embrace content marketing or thought leadership as arguably the most powerful strategy for improving attitudes and perceptions of their brand, conference-speaking slots are increasing in value. Transparency.