Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Under pandemic conditions, former alumni, faculty, staff, and other friends of the institution cannot even meet in person to grieve. So I decided to design and run an online memorial service. Tech assistance on prerecorded content (if any) in Zoom. A Zoom meeting recorder. Zoom meeting monitoring.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 17, 2023

I am resigned to the fact that OpenAI ‘s Large Language Model ChatGPT has scraped every blog post I’ve written here (over 750 posts in the last 13 years—around half a million words) so it can parrot my thoughts about meeting design, facilitation, and other topics. Recommend What should OpenAI do?

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Meetings don’t look how they used to. But when it comes to trends, where should meeting industry professionals put their focus? While the shifts are plentiful, there are five that stand out from the fold when it comes to modern event design. Here are five meeting industry trends that are changing the game.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2017

Attendees who want more from their meetings don’t want to sit and listen passively to a formal presentation. Welcome to the era of disrupted meetings, in good company with other industries and institutions whose established norms are being taken down to the studs. They have expectations of involvement.

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Endless Events

JULY 19, 2019

Let’s all take and seat and explore the world of event tech. We just did an awesome podcast on event tech and whether or not the industry is falling behind. This time around, we’re talking about event tech alongside some very special icons our team had the pleasure to meet during IMEX Frankfurt 2019.

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Social Tables

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Meetings are growing and evolving rapidly, and each is an experiment in applying new methods to find a perfect formula. Industry Performance Trends Attendee Experience Trends Meeting Destination Trends Event Technology Trends Meeting Design Trends. Demand continues to outpace supply of meetings-eligible hotels.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 6, 2016

At Tech Fest we knew we had some attendees who were afraid of “Tech” so we used an interactive space to help them to think about any of the “Tech” they loved. It was subtle but they started thinking about tech in a very different light. How is your brand reflected outside of the meeting?

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SpotMe Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Strategic meetings management is a concept that’s over 20 years old but has recently taken on a new form. The meetings and events industry has evolved, and planners now have a seat at the omnichannel table, where data-driven insights and attendee experiences are top of mind. The time for strategic meetings management is now.

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EventMB

JULY 16, 2020

High production value — including quality event design — is incredibly important when it comes to matching live engagement online, which almost half of eventprofs struggle with when sourcing virtual tech. Here are 4 design ideas from recent online events to enhance the virtual experience.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 20, 2024

It took me about five years of having CEOs confiding to me their non-technical woes despite being hired to solve “tech” problems to learn the truth of Weinberg’s Second Law of Consulting : “No matter how it looks at first, it’s always a people problem.” ” I became fascinated by the culture of organizations.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2019

Attendees who want more from their meetings don’t want to sit and listen passively to a formal presentation. Welcome to the era of disrupted meetings, in good company with other industries and institutions whose established norms are being taken down to the studs. They have expectations of involvement. FLIPPED LEARNING.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Care to join us for some stimulating conversation about multi-hub meetings? Because this week’s episode of Event Tech Podcast is all about this up and coming, exciting topic. Everyone who works in the event industry knows the power of meetings. And who says we have to stop at single-hub meetings?

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Evenium

AUGUST 14, 2018

Join us on booth F1968 in the Event Tech area. Our onsite Event Tech specialists will be helping planners design interactive meetings with the right tools and tricks. If you’d like to meet with one of our Event Tech specialists, you can schedule a meeting now.

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Expo Pass

MARCH 31, 2021

Virtual is too accessible and convenient to give up, but at the same time, people can’t wait to meet in person again. Helenic added to this that, “Hybrid events are what will allow everyone to meet in personal constraints. And give guests a piece of mind so they can safely meet at home or in person.” It’s just another meeting.”

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 1, 2022

urges Dahlia El Gazzar, DES, altMBA, EWD, and Tech Evangelist & CEO at DAHLIA+Agency. ” Read More : Virtual and Hybrid Meeting Tech Updates You Need Now. Break up a Zoom meeting by adding a Spark with 15 minutes of comedy or mindfulness – this will help your audience feel empowered. “Know thy audience!”

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Amazed by the modern concept of organizing conferences and ideas that change the concept of corporate meetings planning; we approached Adrian Segar to discuss his work! He is a meeting designer, facilitator and has also been acknowledged as one of the most innovative Events Professional by BizBash Magazine. That’s a long story.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 12, 2018

You really need to use tech to extract unique insights from the information you collect, plus add some of your vast event experience to really breakthrough with new event ideas. Get Ready for the Top Meeting Trends in 2018. Meetings have always been more intimate affairs compared to events. Click To Tweet. Click To Tweet.

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EventMB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Skift Meetings Studio Team Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Skift Take: Once again, we are looking ahead at how business events are evolving and what event professionals must do to stay ahead of the curve.

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EventMB

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Refugio Garcia Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Skift Take: The Formula 1 Paddock offers unique space to host events 48 weeks out of the year. The new facility adds a new race-themed option to Vegas' vast list of event spaces.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 4, 2019

The appetite for experiential tours among those who come to Portland for meetings and conventions has grown noticeably in the last two years, Morgan said. It is now home to many of the entrepreneurs who helped earn the city a ranking in the top 10 cities for tech professionals in a 2017 Forbes survey.

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Gallus Events

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Those three are Event Tech Live in London , EUBEA World Festival , which this year took place in Coimbra in Portugal and IBTM World in Barcelona. IBTM session was all about Meeting Design and the venue is about 5 miles from my office, so attending that one was much easier! The main stage at Event Tech Live.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 2, 2021

For the first fully hybrid National Association of REALTORS® Board of Directors meeting on May 14, the leadership met together in Chicago, while around 800 directors were remote. And that means that a lot of voting takes place — complicated enough to handle at an in-person meeting and challenging for an online meeting.

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Event Leadership Institute

APRIL 30, 2021

The Event Leadership Institute’s Business, Design & Strategy Summit , held virtually on June 3, invites meeting and event professionals to chart their course for the future. So where does that leave you? Another common challenge is creating sponsorship models that work in a virtual or hybrid environment.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Software company twine’s announcement today that it is acquiring the relationship-building technology company Glimpse is a sign of the evolution of virtual meetings and possibly the first step toward a more tangible virtual event world. These two early-stage companies were showered with VC money based in part on their tech cred.

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EventMB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings The iconic business event plays a key role attracting investment to the city and creative sponsor activations are an important part of how it delivers value.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 6, 2019

Ahead of his discussion at The Meetings Show, ‘The future is hybrid, are you ready?’ he gives the lowdown on hybrid meetings and outlines the benefits involved in hosting them. What is a hybrid meeting? Any meeting that offers a way to participate online can be considered a hybrid meeting.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

When looking for sites for hybrid meetings, more than one-third of respondents to Convene’ s Recovery Dashboard surveys conducted in late summer and fall were looking for venues with broadcasting facilities — and convention centers around the world have worked quickly to meet the demand. As they do, we’re noticing a trend. Explore St.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 30, 2018

Afterwards, we saw many people swapping business cards and making arrangements to meet up again. Such workshops routinely meet the outcomes they’re designed to achieve: creating useful and memorable learning experiences and connections. Every process element is a strategic ingredient of the workshop design.

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SpotMe Blog

JULY 6, 2021

We’ve confirmed that virtual events can be engaging and productive, but only if the meeting design is truly participant driven and takes into consideration the needs of that audience. Now that we can meet again, attendees are craving strong networking opportunities and being able to have meaningful conversations with their colleagues.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 6, 2020

A visiting professor at Pratt Institute in New York and the founder of a startup that uses AI as a tool to measure emotions online, Pavliscak speaks frequently about tech design and emotions. Unless we intervene, we could be heading in the direction where we’re more self-conscious about how we present in meetings.”.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 11, 2019

Five of the most promising start-ups in the meetings technology sector have been shortlisted for the 2019 Future of Meetings Award. Exclusively open to businesses which have been in the market for three years or less, the Future of Meetings Award offers a springboard to launching new products and services to the meetings industry.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 30, 2016

The first Slack channel I joined was created by a fellow event-tech aficionado named Carson Plesier. The channel is called EventJive, and the group talks about the latest tech and meeting-design trends, and hosts a regular “Ask Me Anything.”.

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Meeting Tomorrow

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Tracking event industry trends is a favorite activity here at Meeting Tomorrow. As a bonus, this format also seems to encourage much higher usage of digital engagement tools as a unifying platform which means as a planner, there is more data to help you improve the next meeting. Rising: AR/VR at events.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 6, 2016

At Tech Fest we knew we had some attendees who were afraid of “Tech” so we used an interactive space to help them to think about any of the “Tech” they loved. It was subtle but they started thinking about tech in a very different light. How is your brand reflected outside of the meeting?

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 22, 2019

“Buzzword Tech” — AR, VR, AI, and Blockchain Are Hot… Fully half of these experts cited emerging technologies in some context. However, the voice interface does not work well in crowded environments such as a meeting room or a tradeshow…(so) text-based systems are starting to emerge as an excellent chatbot alternative.”

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Event Industry News

MAY 3, 2019

“Buzzword Tech” — AR, VR, AI, and Blockchain Are Hot… Fully half of these experts cited emerging technologies in some context. However, the voice interface does not work well in crowded environments such as a meeting room or a tradeshow…(so) text-based systems are starting to emerge as an excellent chatbot alternative.”

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

in the early planning stages of an internal meeting, designed to bring together two teams – Digital and Information Technology for the first time – prior to their merger into one ‘Digital Technology’ team. Networking and collaboration were the primary objectives of this all-hands meeting, held in Germany in January 2019.

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