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Make the meeting bigger!

Conferences that Work

The event industry unduly focuses on large meetings. Our trade magazines mainly report on big events, the ones with big-name speakers and eye candy razzle-dazzle. How can we get our old, big events back? For too long, we’ve equated a meeting’s “success” with its size. What to do?

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Event design is not just visuals and logistics

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However, one recurring theme in David’s magazine irritates me, because it perpetuates a common misconception in the events industry. BizBash consistently uses the term “event design” to mean “ visual design” As an example, consider the 2016 Design Issue.

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Q&A with Adrian Segar on Crowdsourcing

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This (slightly edited) interview by JT Long appeared in the March 2019 issue of Smart Meetings Magazine. I was an amateur in the meeting industry, and that led to some mistakes, but it also gave me a fresh perspective at a time when meeting design wasn’t really a “thing.”

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New Research Considers Human-Centered Meeting Design

PCMA Convene

EVENT DESIGN. “My My first white paper, Mindful Event Design, was really driven around a physical sense of meeting design. Their brains don’t have to have this withdrawal of dopamine, like they’re on the downside of a sugar rush.

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PCMA EduCon 2019: Can the Meetings Industry Hack Homelessness?

PCMA Convene

“The average person in 2009,” reports the science magazine Nautilus , “was less empathetic than 75 percent of the people in 1979.”. That should encourage event designers to borrow other ideas, including from consumer spaces, he said, to “look outside the event space.”. The duo will be back at this year’s Educon.

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An Ode to 40 Women Influencers In the Events Industry

Hubilo Blog

Judi Holler : Judi is a prolific public speaker and event emcee. She’s a past president of Meeting Professionals International, Chicago and has been named as one of the 40 under 40 in the meetings industry by Connect magazine in 2015. She offers value knowledge of productivity, public speaking, and personal branding tips.

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Peer Conferences Deep Dive—Meeting Doctors transcript and video

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And it’s mostly about meeting design and facilitation, but I write about all kinds of things. Adrian Segar: The subtlety of designing meetings is that you need people who I would call facilitators. I define myself as a meeting designer and facilitator. How does that mechanically work in your events?