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A decade of change: IACC’s 2025 report explores the future of event planning

Prestige Events Magazine

The flexibility of meeting space remains important, but declined from second to third place this year, while food and beverage offerings made a jump from 2023 to second place. Networking spaces, rooms with flexible layouts and ethical and sustainable operations remain as important as they were during 2023. during 2023.

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

Conferences that Work

For example, we designed and held some of the earliest hybrid meetings, and introduced the meeting industry to peer conferences, gamification, improv, sustainability issues, and many other, now common, meeting components. These events made a profound impression on pretty much everyone who participated.

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5 Ways To Design Intentional Meetings That Put People & The Planet First

EventMB

Skift Take: Intentional meeting design has emerged as a growing trend since the pandemic changed everything about our industry. Here are five areas where meeting planners can apply intentionality to build better, more meaningful events. Visit Seattle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Important announcement: Price increase for my ebooks on April 15th – Buy now before it’s too late!

Conferences that Work

Furthermore, I have consistently produced high-quality books on meeting design that have received critical acclaim and have helped thousands of meeting professionals to significantly improve their conferences. In conclusion, I believe that the price increase for my ebooks is necessary to keep my business sustainable.

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AEV announces Samme Allen as host for 2021 Conference at BDC

Event Industry News

The Association of Event Venues (AEV) has announced that Samme Allen, speaker, event designer and founder of conferenceemcees.com, will be hosting its annual conference on Friday 26 November 2021 at the Business Design Centre (BDC), London, with the theme ‘Disruption: the new norm.’.

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Essential Accidental Planner Resources

SmartMeetings

We asked some of the people creating meeting magic today alongside the massive influx of new meeting designers that have come to the industry since Covid for tips on what to ask your partners and when to get started. Consider this your global positioning system for navigating the exciting world of producing events.

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Peer Conferences Deep Dive—Meeting Doctors transcript and video

Conferences that Work

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?