Conference Meeting Design Reference 
Velvet Chainsaw
JULY 10, 2017
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?
Gallus Events
MARCH 22, 2016
At the end of February we supported Practically Perfect PA to run their second “Assist Conference” They reached their target of 100 PAs just a few days before the date of the conference, and everyone was delighted to have sold out the event. The five keys to great conference content. And the reason?
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Conferences that Work
AUGUST 12, 2024
Religious meetings are a small, fascinating subset of the meeting industry. I learned about them when I presented at The Religious Conference Management Association annual conference in 2014, and I’ve written about what meeting designers can learn from religious services. and Olsen, Daniel H.
Conferences that Work
JULY 17, 2023
I am resigned to the fact that OpenAI ‘s Large Language Model ChatGPT has scraped every blog post I’ve written here (over 750 posts in the last 13 years—around half a million words) so it can parrot my thoughts about meeting design, facilitation, and other topics. ” It is more than likely that it did copy your work.
Conferences that Work
APRIL 11, 2022
By “practitioners” I mean the folks who do what the meeting is about; e.g., doctors at a medical event or scientists at a conservation conference. Often, vendors meet with practitioners at a tradeshow, and sponsors (who are usually vendors too) get opportunities to address practitioners.
Gallus Events
MARCH 22, 2016
At the end of February we supported Practically Perfect PA to run their second “Assist Conference” They reached their target of 100 PAs just a few days before the date of the conference, and everyone was delighted to have sold out the event. The five keys to great conference content. And the reason?
Conferences that Work
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
When choosing a consultant it’s smart to see whom they’ve worked for (and check references ). Consulting for large, well-known organizations obviously confers a certain amount of status. These meetings involve hundreds of countries and thousands of NGOs and people. Credibility. If you care about that kind of thing.
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