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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. For too long, we’ve equated a meeting’s “success” with its size. It may help to remember that in reality, most meetings are small meetings.

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Q&A with Adrian Segar on Crowdsourcing

Conferences that Work

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 in Events from IBTM World returns for second series

Prestige Events Magazine

From the show floor at IBTM World 2024, we hear from Bo Krger, speaker and meetings designer at Moving Minds. In the first episode of this new season, Shonali talks with Mike Ford, Owner of Grateful Lemon, who shares powerful insights on burnout and how events professionals should approach stress, recovery and sleep.

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Why Your Conference Should be Target-Audience Obsessed

Velvet Chainsaw

Reprinted with permission of Convene , the magazine of the Professional Convention Management Association. How does your educational content align with targeting that most important segment? Adapted from Dave’s Forward Thinking column in PCMA’s Convene.

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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. And we’re also really curious around that question of moving away from ‘digital dementia’ and device overload.”.

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Event design is not just visuals and logistics

Conferences that Work

Whenever I’ve had the pleasure of meeting David (not often enough!) However, one recurring theme in David’s magazine irritates me, because it perpetuates a common misconception in the events industry. Instead, let’s broaden our conceptions of what meeting design is.

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65 Queen’s Gate refurbishes Kingfisher Room to meet demand for informal workspaces

Prestige Events Magazine

To coincide with the refreshed Kingfisher Room, 65 Queen’s Gate has launched a new ‘Team Rebuilding’ package, which is ideal for home-based teams who require a one-off or regular location to meet.

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