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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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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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

JUNE 13, 2016

Why mention this on an event design blog? Well, the most effective aspect of China’s online censorship regime illustrates what happens when you don’t incorporate covenants into your meetings. Tech In Asia explains: “Imagine being near a steep cliff. Photo attribution: Flickr user zedzap.

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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. What does your choice of venue say about your brand?

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Tech assistance on prerecorded content (if any) in Zoom. A Zoom meeting recorder. Zoom meeting monitoring. They can also suggest ideas for activities at the event, plus offer to help with any of the logistics: Assisting with registration. A “photographer” for the Zoom event. Zoom waiting room monitoring.

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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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Expo Pass

MARCH 31, 2021

In terms of event production, Montegrano added that her company, Encore, designed their safety plan to be specifically inline with various venues — and to match their meeting design, traffic flow, tech, and cleaning guidelines. First off, much of the tech needed is in venues already.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

He is a meeting designer, facilitator and has also been acknowledged as one of the most innovative Events Professional by BizBash Magazine. Consulting : phone/video conferences with clients about their meeting design needs. Which tech is your current favorite? as Postmaster at Merton College, Oxford.

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Event Leadership Institute

APRIL 30, 2021

Other sessions will address positioning your company for post-COVID growth and how the work-from-home culture and decrease in business travel will affect in-person meetings. Another common challenge is creating sponsorship models that work in a virtual or hybrid environment.

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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. Meetings have always been more intimate affairs compared to events. Meetings are definitely getting a big tech upgrade this year. Click To Tweet.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 19, 2018

You can find bigger and better ways to deploy events, the latest in event tech, and follow where other event profs’ careers are taking them. All about event tech. Looking for more event industry blogs with a focus on tech? The Meeting Pool is the place to be for event professionals who love to discuss technology.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 4, 2019

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. More Meeting Trends. 5 Trends That are Changing Meeting Design. Download “The Future of Meetings and Events” report. Test Time.

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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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Event Industry News

JUNE 6, 2019

Many of the large tech conferences like Google I/O and Facebook’s F8 arguably have a greater response online than in the meeting itself. What do you hope attendees of your session at The Meetings Show will take away from it? The future is hybrid, are you ready?

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Event Marketer

MAY 17, 2023

While speakers shared proven tips and tricks, best practices and trends in sustainability, design, DE&I, tech and more, one theme in particular wove throughout several sessions: the importance of building one-of-a-kind experiences.

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Meeting Tomorrow

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

There are a number of meeting design elements that need to be accounted for, but the cost savings and expanded participation seem well worth it. Imagine that each event has a “window” into all the other locations, and that the focus can be shifted from place to place–like a group video chat but with an event in each window.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

In most cases, these aren’t bland, cookie-cutter facilities, but designed as spaces that reflect their destinations. As they do, we’re noticing a trend. In Washington, D.C.,

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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. And how will we get it to that point?”. Even on Zoom, a tool “that we all rely on, we don’t truly have eye contact,” she said.

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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. What does your choice of venue say about your brand?

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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. There’s no denying that the way we plan, design, execute and attend events is constantly changing.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2017

Where past generations of meeting-goers might have been content as spectators, attendees today are looking for more active participation and experiential learning — starting with the fact that much of what they used to travel for is now available digitally. Innovation exists at both the high- and low-tech ends of the spectrum.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 27, 2020

Pre-pandemic, I traveled fairly frequently for my work as a consultant on meeting design and facilitator of meetings, and would try to run a couple of miles every day, wherever I was. I’m a recent convert to high-tech fabrics for underwear, shirts, and tights. France, New Mexico, and Texas. Underwear.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 30, 2018

All they need for success is good process, competent facilitation, and a few low-tech items. Every process element is a strategic ingredient of the workshop design. Running these workshops helps me continually refine the design, stripping away components that distract focus from the desired outcomes. They are also simple.

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Hubilo Blog

MARCH 7, 2020

They may be event tech enthusiasts, event planners , event speakers , but all of them are influencers for event enthusiasts and followers. She’s a business and tech leader who also was the founder of Event Tech Tribe and also of the Showgizmo event app.

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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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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 Technology Technology 2019 Consulting 111

Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

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. Adrian Segar: Okay.

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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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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 25, 2019

Participants try out virtual reality and tech demos during Thrival’s Interactive Experience at the Carnegie Museum of Art. More Meeting Trends. What the ‘Sense of Place’ Travel Trend Means for Event Design. 5 Trends That are Changing Meeting Design. “What it does is connect all the different trends.”.

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Unique Venues

JANUARY 7, 2020

The open atmosphere inspires innovation and changes the way people meet. Designed by the internationally recognized Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama, BMO is an inspiring space that will assure your successful meeting or conference for up to 450 in its 44 meeting rooms. Virginia Tech Executive Briefing Center.

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Slido

JANUARY 30, 2019

In December 2018, we set out to explore the future of town hall meetings. The goal of our one-day event in partnership with Convene was to show how a successful all-hands could look in 2019 and beyond by using interactive technology and meeting design thinking. It was a new experience for everyone, and the audience loved it.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2019

Where past generations of meeting-goers might have been content as spectators, attendees today are looking for more active participation and experiential learning — starting with the fact that much of what they used to travel for is now available digitally.

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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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PCMA Convene

MAY 19, 2021

Marr, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, studies the transmission of infectious disease via aerosols, including how diseases like COVID-19 spread in the built environment. Marr, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, on April 8, 2021. Maridav/Adobe Stock). Adrian Segar.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2018

There are also more event-centric platforms like Hubilo, Eventzilla, 123Signup, Ovelt, and many more that not only cater to your specific event needs but also integrate with other tools like analytics and tech interfaces. It also means knowing which social media platform to focus on and which assets to invest in, like influencers and tech.

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