Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Not so much by the information presented but more by the way it was done. The speakers didn’t model what they were preaching during their talk! .” Sadly, I was disappointed. Talking about incorporating active learning, interaction, and participation into college classes is great.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 22, 2019

Hands rise, and the presenter picks an audience member who asks a question. The presenter answers the question and picks another questioner. How often have you heard “Any questions?” ” at the end of a conference session? The process continues for a few minutes. Simple enough. But can we improve it?

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

So, unlike a speaker or presenter, I am comfortable being the center of inattention most of the time. Otherwise turn off individual computer speakers and all mikes except for the one in-person participant currently talking.). Even when I’m present in the room, the same scenario often happens!

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In contrast, that’s way ahead of their second choice: Professional speakers delivering presentations (58%). I’ve been designing and facilitating workshop-style, participatory sessions since 1992, and participants love them ! Smart conference producers incorporate participatory sessions into their events.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Some say I have high status in the event industry, but when I’m facilitating a roomful of subject matter experts, I’m the most ignorant and lowest status person present. At a traditional meeting, however, perceived status roles rarely change significantly during the event. High status individuals may not like this.

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Meetings Conference Negotiating Speakers 358

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APRIL 23, 2021

Don’t let your event become a series of boring slideshow presentations. Here’s how to motivate audience participation at events (without risking any awkward moments).

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The second lecture in the University of Westminster’s autumn Event Design Lecture Series takes place on Monday 14th October. This includes designing the internationally acclaimed Zeitgeist event in the UK for the last 14 years. It’s good for the present and the future of our industry.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Event professionals know what it is like to take high-stakes risks in public while struggling with our own negative voices. Michelle Poler, author of “Hello Fears” and keynote speaker, suggested moving toward the things that scare us because in that direction lies growth. The enemy of success is not failure, but comfort,” she said.

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2023 Negotiating Insurance Financial 263

Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Let’s look at these three conclusions in the context of meeting design. Most meeting presenters still lecture. And most meeting session presenters resort to lecturing as their dominant session modality. Attendees learn more when presenters use active learning modalities.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 29, 2019

The speaker said, this will be interactive because no one wants to listen to me talk for four hours. 90 percent of the room was B2B…his presentation was almost all B2C.” Speakers (and the folks that concoct conference programs) decide to jazz up the description of a broadcast-style session by calling it a workshop.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Speaker recruiting? Mostly because my panelists are tech people and not always the best speakers????. Love asking panel members (or speakers) to change their backgrounds when you want to shift the energy or when you go to live Q&A, etc. Fireside chats…work with speaker to cut into small pieces????. Kelley Kassa.

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Social Media Speakers Conference Meetings 409

Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The VR programming gave participants the ability to virtually explore the interior and exterior of Ford’s vehicles and watch the on-demand virtual Ford stage for speakers and presentations. VR was a key in the hand of Ford’s event planners. A VR-supported presentation can transform your event, itself.

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Tech Food and Beverage Social Media Entertainment 279

Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2019

I invented the format by accident 26 years ago when there were no expert speakers to invite for a conference on administrative computing issues in small schools. Often it is more like a discussion than a presentation, but that is why it is effective. What led to writing the book, Conferences that Work ?

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Attendease

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Determine your event’s value. Before exploring price strategies to drive event revenue, you’ll need to revisit your event design. In a recent talk with Anthony Vade, Director, North America at Event Design Collective , we learned just how crucial this step is. Uncover your event’s value. Promo Codes.

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2022 Social Media Advertising Financial 366

Planning Pod

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Or you couldn’t hear the speaker or band because the PA loudspeakers were too far away or not positioned properly? All of these things are the result of flawed (or no) event floor layout design, and poor event layout design can be just as damaging to the success of your event as bad food or a no-show speaker or entertainer.

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Event Design Food and Beverage Venues Events 100

Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The author of “Intentional Event Design” joined the IMEX team in June after leaving SITE Global where she was head of events for more than three years, to pursue a. Her role varied, however, including exhibitor, tech provider, speaker and tour guide. Ask yourself: ‘What is the content we aren’t seeing at other events?

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PCMA Convene

MAY 3, 2016

Storytelling has become well established as the basis for powerful communication, yet many speakers continue to deliver presentations in a formal, one-way format — like books without dialogue. With the ubiquity of content, two-way online communication, and shorter attention spans, speakers need to ramp up their delivery methods.

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Event Marketer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Once attendees pass under the cube, they will find themselves in an outdoor performance space where artists and speakers will provide education and inspiration. There are no thresholds or stairs throughout the exhibit, and a very gentle slope is designed to guide the visitors’ journey. “I

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2025 Sustainability Education Speakers 278

Eventmobi

MAY 7, 2018

When it comes to building community and increasing attendee engagement at your event, event design is your best friend. Here are a few best practices that you can incorporate into your event strategy. Building Community Through Event Design. Enable Speakers to Deliver Engaging, Interactive Presentations.

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Eventmobi

APRIL 5, 2018

Prominent names in the industry such as Julius Solaris, editor of the Event Manager Blog, come to CSE Live to speak about future trends, share insights, and stimulate discussion on designing great events. Julius Solaris from Event Manager Blog speaking about event design.

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Food and Beverage Speakers Event Apps Event Design 153

Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Why have a keynote speaker at your event? The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Why have a keynote speaker at your event? The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 30, 2021

However, expanding presenter diversity wasn’t successful at one of the meetings. One of the report’s conclusions: “Closed-captioning content benefits many, especially non-native English speakers.” 50 -person workshop in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., Online platforms and tools used.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 29, 2021

If you don’t have the budget to hire a stage designer, you can use any of the ideas in our guide below to create a simple yet effective event stage design for your next gathering. . What is event stage design? Event stage design is the process of adding production elements to a presentation space.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

TEK tailored its services to the conference participants’ needs, including helping prepare student officers to make digital presentations. To make sure they all had the right equipment, TEK shipped laptops to each of the organization’s five presiding officers and then spent a day coaching them through their presentations.

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Event Design 2020 Food and Beverage 2021 98

Expo Pass

JUNE 26, 2024

Creating a fantastic speaker lineup is one of the most crucial parts of planning a successful event! The right speakers can draw crowds and inspire your audience, all while electrifying your event goals. In this guide, we’ll walk you through six essential steps in curating an engaging and impactful speaker lineup.

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Speakers Social Media Contracts Negotiating 78

Eventmobi

AUGUST 4, 2020

This makes it incredibly challenging for event planners to foster the same intimacy and engagement that comes when gathering attendees in the same physical space with other attendees and speakers. In-person, influencing the distinct memories people leave an event with comes from the depth and richness of the emotional experience.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 8, 2017

Convene podcast host Ashley Milne-Tyte talks to Katie Orenstein, the founder and CEO of The Op-Ed Project, about why it can be a struggle to get diverse speakers and why it’s worth the effort. . She understands everyone wants brilliant speakers at their events. .” — Katie Orenstein, founder and CEO of The Op-Ed Project. .

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Speakers Conference Negotiating 2015 89

Conferences that Work

MARCH 21, 2022

Just like every other meeting platform, Gatherly has developed a broadcast/stage mode (see the first image in this post), where one or more speakers can broadcast to everyone else. Body voting is perhaps the best way for a group to quickly learn important information about who’s present, and to have this capability online is valuable.

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Meetings Meeting Design Conference Speakers 385

Endless Events

APRIL 14, 2022

” “From my understanding, most presenters sometimes do a little bit of ad-lib, but it’s primarily scripted,” says Will. As an event designer, Thuy cannot understand how people can just walk on the stage. I don’t have an opinion on what the stage team should’ve done.

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2022 Speakers Social Media 2021 127

Social Tables

JUNE 8, 2022

Identify the types of content that visitors engage with and incorporate those same content types into event presentations. In addition, knowing which company attendees are representing, what the company does, and the attendees’ position can help event organizers and presenters alike connect with members of their audience.

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Speakers Social Media Event Apps Technology 149

Conferences that Work

JUNE 5, 2017

Traditional conferences unconsciously promote and sustain power imbalances between the “speakers” at the front of the room and the audience. All meetings incorporate power relationships that fundamentally affect their dynamics and potential. It is one.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 19, 2023

CLEANPOWER 2024 will continue to present a sustainability sponsorship and look at further ways to have sustainability at the core of their event design. In the near future, companies will likely require their employees to provide sustainability reports after attending any event.

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Trade Shows 2024 Sustainability 2023 246

Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The speaker icon next to the “All Tables” caption allows you to choose the “background chatter volume” Like an in-person social, you can set this so you can hear some of the conversation at other tables. Presentation & panel capability. Rally includes functional presenter screen sharing.

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EventMB

JUNE 30, 2022

Intentional Event Design. The attention to purposive experience design also showed how the physical space worked to bring the different types of players in tech together in both planned and spontaneous ways. Having a well-tested interface with strong UX functionality met those expectations handily. Not Everything Went to Plan.

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Tech Conference 2019 Event Tech 172

Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Instead, the company continued to broaden its brand by creating different kinds of theme parks, each presenting “a distinct vision with its own diverse set of attractions” Each Disney theme park has a different conceptual focus that differentiates it from the others. Extending your event brand.

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2009 Events Conference Speakers 227

Conferences that Work

JULY 31, 2017

Although I have good reasons to champion meeting designs where the participants get to choose what they want and need to discuss and learn rather than a program committee , there is invariably a place for some predetermined presentations at conferences. Read the full article at Conferences That Work.

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