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Leveraging Team Learning at Conferences

Velvet Chainsaw

Traditionally teams from organizations attend a conference with a divide-and-conquer game plan, as they split up and attend as many different sessions as they can. What if you flipped that model and designed conferences that offered learning aimed at improving team collaboration and changes back in the workplace? Learning Together.

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A calendar of peer conferences

Conferences that Work

Since 2009 I’ve maintained an informal calendar of peer conferences (aka unconferences) on this site. Currently, I add a few peer conferences a month. As you can see, peer conferences take place all over the world! Who holds peer conferences? Do you want to let me know about an upcoming peer conference?

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Conferences Can Serve As Friendly Frontiers For The Insatiably Curious To Play

Velvet Chainsaw

Your conference could be a place for your customers to experience unrestricted curiosity and play. Curiosity and play are necessities you can’t afford to avoid at your conference. Creating Conference Spitball Shooting Participants. Fostering More Conference Curiosity And Play Hygiene. But most of the time it’s not.

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9 Ways to Support Event Venues and Organizers through COVID-19

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We’ve seen theaters sit empty, sports teams pause mid-season, and events like the Olympics, music festivals, and TED conferences get postponed. With gatherings across the country canceled due to COVID-19, event venues and organizers have been some of the businesses hit hardest by this pandemic.

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Peer Conferences Deep Dive—Meeting Doctors transcript and video

Conferences that Work

On Tuesday, March 26, 2024 , I sat down with Martin Duffy and Paul Nunesdea on LinkedIn Live for an hour’s deep dive conversation about peer conferences: the participant-driven, participation-rich events I’ve designed and facilitated for over thirty years. Peer Conferences Unveiled—The Transcript! Here it is—enjoy!

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How sports and entertainment are making in-person events happen in 2021.

Expo Pass

Sports and entertainment events are happening, in-person, every day — and it almost feels like things are getting back to normal. But we still have to wonder how sports arenas, concert halls, and film festivals have been able to fill all their seats seemingly at the drop of a hat. That’s the goal.

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Fake women event speakers? We need to think bigger!

Conferences that Work

Fake articles by fake writers in Sports Illustrated? OK, so some intrepid journalists took the time to discover that a few women speakers featured on a conference website don’t exist. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Fake women event speakers? appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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