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?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Designing accessible events topped almost all meetings industry event agendas in 2024, but few planners understand what is required to make everyone feel welcome even as equal access moves from the desired to the required column in their job descriptions. Her father had cerebral palsy, which brought its own needs.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Smart Meetings’ October webinar, From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices , breaks it down. As planners learn more about practical best practices and work to implement them in their meetings, before they know it, the scope and scale of sustainability don’t seem nearly so daunting.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 29, 2016

How your audience responds will have a direct impact on your conference’s brand image and credibility. From a conference design perspective, we believe the current best practice is to bookend your conference by opening with a strong-thought provoking speaker and closing with inspiration. Don’t just view the highlight real.

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Event Marketer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Nine ways the internal event got a festival-inspired upgrade It was out with the old and in with the new at Quest Software’s 2024 internal sales conference in Anaheim, CA, as the brand overhauled the annual event with a festival-inspired theme designed to support its forward-looking company vision.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 27, 2025

Smart Meetings Wellness Experience brought not-a-buzzword, capital-W Wellness to life in word and action. Read More: The Science of Event Happiness Featured at Smart Meetings Elevate Experience Wellness, now. Its meeting people where theyre at, and there are so many ways we can do it. Wellness is already in events DNA.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 11, 2022

Over the years I’ve designed and facilitated hundreds of meetings. One of the most common issues I address that is rarely acknowledged openly is the tension between the wants and needs of suppliers and practitioners at meetings. But what happens when both suppliers and practitioners at meetings attend sessions ?

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 29, 2018

Conference organizers and their planning teams should understand, identify and quash organizational debt. Refactor is a technology concept that meeting professionals can use as a metaphor. Refactoring As A Metaphor For Conference Improvement. Thus we refactor to improve the conference experience for our customers.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 16, 2020

The bread and butter of conferences is concurrent education sessions. Why do we often leave this most critical and valuable aspect of the conference experience in the hands of speakers who are not prepared to deliver an engaging learning experience? Embrace 21 st Century Learning Principles. Proof is in the Pudding.

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GEVME

JUNE 13, 2018

The unique story of any conference should begin with the goal and then a detailed plan on how to reach this goal. In his article for Smashing magazine , the founder of HybridConf, Zach Inglis, states that the aim of every conference organiser should be to create experiences that reenergize people and fill them with new zeal for their work.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Megan Henshall, global event solutions, strategic lead at Google and co-lead of the Google Experience Institute (Google Xi) spoke to Smart Meetings about her pioneering work in neuroinclusive event design. Lucky for you, Smart Meetings was there furiously taking notes to bring his expertise back to you. Alone in the Crowd?

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 22, 2022

There are more subtle benefits to be had, which can be used by the future-ready meeting professional wanting to explore a new way of conducting business. We have seen an influx in group business that specialize in digital currency and have been able to hold several meetings for said groups. appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Countless experts — such as accountants, plumbers, doctors, lawyers, and meeting planners — will take your money in exchange for advice or services. Ask for and check references. Everyone knows that you should ask for references for a professional who’s going to do work for you. Do you ask a potential builder?

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EventMB

MAY 27, 2022

According to the Corporate Finance Institute , Intellectual Capital refers to the value of a company’s collective knowledge and resources that can provide it with some form of economic benefit. We see intellectual capital engagement as a key to success for a meetings destination.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 27, 2025

Smart Meetings Wellness Experience brought not-a-buzzword, capital-W Wellness to life in word and action. Read More: The Science of Event Happiness Featured at Smart Meetings Elevate Experience Wellness, now. Its meeting people where theyre at, and there are so many ways we can do it. Wellness is already in events DNA.

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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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Social Tables

JANUARY 27, 2021

Many event planning conferences were canceled or postponed, and most of those that weren’t took place virtually. While 2021 may still look a little different than normal, expect to see many conferences back and ready to help industry professionals navigate the massive changes in the way they do business.

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Quickmobile

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Name badges are an essential part of conferences, larger meetings—and sometimes even smaller meetings. Corporate events and conferences benefits especially from name badges because they’re a good way to break the ice between attendees. The Nameless Conference Name Badge.

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EventTechBrief

APRIL 18, 2019

Event management software (EMS), which automates the tasks associated with planning a conference, has been available for at least a quarter century. Sava Events, for example, connects whole pages of conference content to the chatbot with a click. That’s changed. A better way to compete. They are popular. Shapeshifter software.

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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. 4, Article 13.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Convene spoke with the organizers of two annual global events Greenbuild International Conference & Expo and the World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF), whose audiences are dedicated to moving the circular economy forward to learn how they reflect their stakeholders lifes work while also serving to inspire them. Is it walkable to hotels?

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Are you making some changes to your annual conference? 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. Better yet, you need a team of conference intrapreneurs!

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Eventmobi

MARCH 18, 2021

But how can planners leverage this expertise when designing an agenda that includes a variety of virtual conference session types? In this post, we explain how to apply best practices from both online events and virtual meetings. Virtual meetings with multiple attendees can make for highly engaging, interactive sessions.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Certainly the vast majority of my education consisted of the learn-from-lectures education model that still largely dominates schools and conferences. What we do know about effective meeting and classroom learning. See my book The Power of Participation for more details and research references.). Was that true for you too?

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Kristin Arnold [I think you’re referring to Zoom Rooms, not Zoom Meetings. The best and most engaging moderated event I’ve seen was a workshop on “visual thinking strategies” at Innovation Leader’s Impact conference, where the moderator of the discussion spent about 45 min having a group discussion about a Picasso painting.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 18, 2020

I’ve included links to the relevant Zoom tutorials and reference articles, when appropriate, in the following instructions. I developed The Three Questions in 1995 as a fundamental opening process for peer conferences. Zoom allows facilitators to speedily split a meeting into up to 50 separate sessions.

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Event Farm

APRIL 11, 2017

Conference sponsorships may seem expensive, but with the right preparation, they can drive business results and impact your company’s bottom line. Attending and sponsoring industry conferences allow you to engage with current customers and prospective clients in-person—without having to put any time or effort into planning the event yourself.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The personal touch attendees expect from meetings is now largely being delivered with the help of machines. Smart Meetings covered all the must-have tech advances this year to help you stay at the top of your game. The post 11 Event Tech Trends That Shaped 2018 appeared first on Smart Meetings. Park MGM Ideation Studio.

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Eventmobi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Examples of past virtual event experience and references? Beth Lawrence, Beth Lawrence Meetings & Events, Philadelphia, PA. Beth Lawrence, Beth Lawrence Meetings & Events , Philadelphia, PA. I am working on a conference right now where my contact is the rep at the speaker’s bureaus who represent the speakers.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

hotels located in historic buildings and locations unveil new meeting rooms and renovations. Located in downtown Nashville’s art district, the hotel includes its own onsite art museum, which groups can book for meetings and social events. Their meeting spaces expand across 10,500 sq. The new meeting space totals 2,300 sq.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 4, 2019

I wonder about the future of peer review for conference abstracts. While it is a critical filter for high-quality journals, it is a very inefficient process for accelerating innovation and discovery at conferences. We refer to these conferences as meetings of speakers speaking to speakers. Flip the Approach.

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SpotMe Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to computer systems that simulate human intelligence. App is short for ‘application’, which refers to a software program developed for a specific purpose. Attendance tracking refers to the process of monitoring the journey attendees take before, during, and after events.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Highlights included experiential activations designed to inspire what comes next in designing better meetings. Download “Pathways to Clarity” a joint IMEX, Smart Meetings White Paper outlining the state of the meetings industry. The Smart Meetings team was on the expo floor getting updates and sharing snapshots of the action.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 18, 2017

It’s the adventures of your next conference experience across the eighth dimension. Well, similar to Buckaroo’s adventures, you have the opportunity to take your band of conference participants into the 21st Century conference dimension. These conference programming trends are headed your way.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Refer to it throughout the test so you can easily reference everything you want to remember when a relevant question comes along. At her first event for which she was lead planner, a 200-plus person conference in Louisville, she says, “I was a nervous wreck, and I probably held my breath through the entire three-day event.”

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Smart Meetings

MAY 18, 2023

Oakland event prioritized DEIB education MPI Northern California Chapter’s Annual Conference Experience moved to Oakland Marriott City Center from its traditional home in San Francisco this week with a new format. Share it widely and refer to it often. Sharing your voice can be effective,” he said. Make a commitment!

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Smart Meetings

MAY 22, 2024

The activities Minzey’s referring to include experiences designed to engage and foster camaraderie, like scavenger hunts, a tour around Newport Beach in Moke cars, group fitness classes and a guacamole-making competition. Smaller Meetings Win Out Coming out of the pandemic, there was much talk of smaller meetings taking center stage.

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