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Anca Trifan interviews me about participation-rich meetings and event design

Conferences that Work

We talk about all kinds of things, with a focus on my work and thinking about participant-driven and participation-rich meetings and event design. 06:00 On traveling to events, and my passion for what I do. 11:00 What participant-driven and participation-rich meeting design means, and the core components.

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Two novel hybrid meeting formats

Conferences that Work

“Some participants had traveled thousands of miles to edACCESS 2010, and now here we were, sitting in a theater auditorium, silently working at our computers.” Unfortunately, the association practitioners simply couldn’t take off more than a day to travel to and attend the event. The online portion felt eerie….

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Hub and spoke meetings

Conferences that Work

If you want maximum learning, interaction, and connection at a meeting, small meetings are better than large meetings. Hub and spoke topology allows tremendous design flexibility for a meeting. This allows more people to attend the hub and spoke meeting, and makes it easier for them to do so. Flexibility.

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What the ‘Sense of Place’ Travel Trend Means for Event Design

PCMA Convene

Travel Portland). What she hadn’t expected, she told Convene , was that so many of the people looking for that kind of connection to the city and its surroundings would be business travelers. One way to genuinely experience this place is by connecting travelers with the human beings behind the products,” she said.

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27 years of peer conferences

Conferences that Work

At the time, I had no idea that what I instinctively put together for a gathering of people who barely knew each other would lead to: a global design and facilitation consulting practice; over 500 posts on this blog, which has now become, to the best of my knowledge, the most-visited website on meeting design and facilitation; three books (almost!)

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5 Trends That Are Changing Meeting Design

PCMA Convene

More Meeting Trends. What the ‘Sense of Place’ Travel Trend Means for Event Design. Thrival Festival Integrates Pittsburgh Locale into Event. PCMA and Marriott on the Future of Events. Download “The Future of Meetings and Events” report. Kelsey Ann Rose).

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Moving from Virtual to Hybrid Events: 37 Tips to Maximize Your Success

Stova

Hybrids will likely see widespread adoption as F2F meetings reemerge from the pandemic for a number of reasons: Some attendees may not wish to travel to the event for fear of contagion or other health and safety concerns. There will likely be reduced travel funds available for event attendance due to economic downturns.

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