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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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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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 29, 2018

Conference organizers and their planning teams should understand, identify and quash organizational debt. 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. Refactor it?” What does refactor mean?”.

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Eventmobi

MARCH 19, 2025

Revenue refers to the funds you expect to generate from your event. For example, after a chaotic start to the first day of your conference, you may need to bring in additional staff to support the check-in process for day two. Record this number and any lessons learned so you can refer to this information when planning your next event.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 18, 2021

Why people continue to speak for free at meeting industry conferences : Another issue of an occasional series— Dear Adrian — in which I answer questions about event design, elementary particle physics , solar hot water systems, and anything else I might conceivably know something about. My post Why don’t meeting conferences pay speakers?

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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. Speaker Continuous Improvement Plan.

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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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Attendease

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The marketing and management strategy for a webinar differs, in some ways significantly, from the strategies for launching a multi-day user conference, for example. By building a master file of attendee profiles, pain points, notable differences, and observations for all types of events, you’ll have a reference point to inform future events.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Go Beyond the Requirements Bettyanne Sherrer, vice president and managing partner CanPlan Events & Conference Services Inc. produces World Conference for the Deafblind International Association Bettyanne Sherrer also started with a very personal perspective. DeWitt suggests checking out the free National Network Hospitality page.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 18, 2025

From today, clients can now book corporate and private events from conferences and charity fundraisers to product launches and parties into next year, as well as exclusive hire. Exclusive daytime hire means the museum can accommodate larger briefs with more complex and creative installs, with extended planning time.

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Attendease

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Educational and breakout sessions during events like conferences, webinars, or panel discussions. This way, you’ll have a reference for what storytelling strategies worked and which areas could be improved when you plan future events.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Meet the Experts Ellie Hurley, events director at Financial and Insurance Conference Professionals (FICP), has spent the past three years leading FICP’s event-specific approach to sustainability and social impact and also holds the Sustainable Event Professional Certificate (SEPC) from Events Industry Council (EIC).

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

So, when it’s time to minimize your taxes, modernize the bathroom, diagnose that stabbing stomach pain, draft a complex contract, or organize multiple regional conferences — in short, get help with something you can’t do yourself — how do you choose great help? Ask for and check references. It isn’t easy.

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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. The post Conference Destinations Compete With Academic Firepower appeared first on Skift Meetings.

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Common Conference Conventional Wisdom. Conventional wisdom refers to something that is broadly accepted as true, accurate or right. When planning future events and conferences, we stake our claim in conventional wisdom. We declare that our organization, our conference and our audience is different from others.

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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. For times when lead generation is a factor, high tech conference name badges are the obvious choice.

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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. By Michelle Bruno. A better way to compete. They are popular. Shapeshifter software.

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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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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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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 6, 2017

So, why should speakers change how they present at your conference? Especially since it’s the most dominant form of conference education. One Conference Improvement Challenge: Lectures Beget Lectures. Here is one of the primary challenges with improving conference education. I get great scores and reviews.”. They lecture.

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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? Virtual Conference Sessions: Live Stream vs. Simulive. Using the EventMobi platform, two speakers present at a virtual conference using the simulive format.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Academic Venue Solutions (AVS), the UK’s only consortium dedicated to academic venues, hosted its annual conference on the 7 th -8 th December at The Jubilee Hotel & Conferences, Nottingham Venues. It is based on the belief that you can’t compete externally if you can’t collaborate internally first.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 12, 2024

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. It refers to the process of turning religious activities into events that create a public presence. and Olsen, Daniel H.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 29, 2020

The dictionary definition of “virtual” refers to something “simulated or extended by computer software,” while I associate the word with “that which is not real.” Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Please don’t call them virtual meetings appeared first on Conferences That Work. No related posts.

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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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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 19, 2024

Arthur Brooks Shares Insights at DIAC24 Arthur Brooks , a Harvard School of Business professor and known happiness expert, stepped in as the opening keynote speaker at Destinations International s Annual Conference (DIAC24) in Tampa Bay in July 2024. The post Best of 2024: Health and Wellness appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Eventmobi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Examples of past virtual event experience and references? I am working on a conference right now where my contact is the rep at the speaker’s bureaus who represent the speakers. The ones I have been working with this week to prepare for a large conference are all very tech-savvy and have embraced the virtual platforms.

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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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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. See my book The Power of Participation for more details and research references.). catl) 🏳️‍🌈 (@DavidOBowles) October 5, 2020. Was that true for you too?

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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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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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Eventmobi

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The reasonable expectation of privacy refers to the illegality of photographing or recording someone on video, without their consent, while on private property and live streaming is no exception. This is probably included in your venue contract but it’s good to double-check. What is Considered a Public Place?

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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. Conferences That Work [2009] (Chapter 25, pages 260-265). Staffing an online Zoom peer conference.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 8, 2024

Dominic Thurbon, a Sydney, Australia–based entrepreneur who has created behavioral change programs for some of the most successful companies in the world, is also a speaker who thinks a lot about how behavioral science principles are — and aren’t — applied at conferences. Conference organizers should be using them.

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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. Destination Marketing Organizations can help you do this in new cities.

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