Conferences that Work

JULY 2, 2018

I understand their perspective, because I also feel the temptation to pin down specifics — number of participants, duration, venue, budget, etc. “, and typically bring me in to consult at the “ how? ” stage. hoping that in the process the event’s purpose and desired outcomes will become clearer.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 21, 2017

If event planners want meetings to deliver value to their attendees, they have to stop using meeting rooms like this. If venues really want to run great meetings they have to give more thought to the spaces they create. Hilton Davos, your meeting rooms could have looked out onto the Swiss Alps! Venue Fail.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 16, 2021

And it made me think about meeting design. And, me being me, I thought about what Marcy had just said in the context of meeting design. And meetings are no exception. The art and craft of the meeting designer. It’s a meeting designer’s job to create these contextual layers.

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Food and Beverage Meeting Design 2021 Meetings 348

EventMB

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Skift Take: Meetings and events now play a pivotal role in reconnecting teams within a supportive, nurturing environment. Every element of meeting design needs to be carefully considered with delegate welfare in mind. Hilton Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 12, 2024

Religious meetings are a small, fascinating subset of the meeting industry. I learned about them when I presented at The Religious Conference Management Association annual conference in 2014, and I’ve written about what meeting designers can learn from religious services.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

3—Overlooking the space needs of unconferences Novices who try to hold unconferences invariably underestimate venue space needs. They also need more separate breakout spaces for participants to meet. Venue room capacity charts don’t include these designs.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 6, 2022

A meeting designer used a carbon-dioxide meter in all the spaces he moved through while attending a recent conference. In late May, Adrian Segar attended a meeting-industry leadership summit in San Juan, Puerto Rico. With the meeting-room doors open, my meter typically showed readings between 500 and 600,” he noted.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 25, 2021

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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Meetings Government Meeting Design Venues 243

PCMA Convene

MAY 19, 2021

Armies of cleaners have been deployed to disinfect surfaces at venues, yet the risk of surface transmission of COVID-19 is low. At the start of the pandemic, fears around the spread of COVID-19 spawned a cleaning frenzy among consumers and venues. Venue Ventilation. Seventyfour/Adobe Stock). Maridav/Adobe Stock). Adrian Segar.

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Event Marketer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Whether it’s a meeting designed to galvanize the salesforce or a beach retreat that rewards staffers for their achievements, companies are leaning on team-building events to support—and retain—employees. Projected flower designs on the domed ceiling mapped back to the event’s “Bloom” theme.

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EventMB

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Find out which are the best seating layouts for different events and some ways to mix it up with more unusual layouts to increase engagement in meeting design. When planning an event or meeting, one of the hardest parts […]. The room layout can have a huge impact on the engagement and learning at your event.

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Gallus Events

MARCH 22, 2016

3 Use meeting design to create the framework for great content. With these first two steps covered: bringing together the content expert and the programme expert, the next step was to add some meeting design. We had round table sessions which took place in the informal areas of the venue. and in small groups.

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Unique Venues

JANUARY 7, 2020

Productivity is highest when business meetings are held at venues that can accommodate technology needs and provide the right resources and environment to get down to business. We’ve compiled our list for Top Pick venues that will foster productivity and help you get the job done. FHI360 Conference Center. Washington, DC.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Rally provides a venue with multiple rooms , and each room can have a variable number of tables. Venue owners can make other attendees co-hosts. Venue owners can make other attendees co-hosts. Rally can provide hosts with a custom URL for their venue. The company says they are exploring increasing room size to 50.

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Prestige Events Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2022

The team takes a consultative approach to meeting design, keeping atop of trends and holding board positions on a number of industry bodies. Christine will be working with customers to bring a creative vision to their events and meetings, ensuring organisers achieve a memorable experience. Warwick Arts Centre.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

” — Jessica Connolly , Head of Global Events, Meltwater The above program was interspersed with interesting visits to venues and fun activities (e.g. For this trip, the first time I’d been back to Europe since an Estonian meeting design conference in 2020, I decided to spend a week in Rome. Typical Participate!

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Gallus Events

APRIL 24, 2017

Remove distractions by holding your event at a slightly remote venue. So perhaps, a venue just round the corner from Oxford Street isn’t the best idea! The key is to fully embraced an experiential approach, and use meeting design to run a less traditional style conference. Don’t hold your event on a Friday.

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Conference Meeting Design Speakers Venues 153

Social Tables

APRIL 17, 2019

Each week, we email a short survey to a mix of over 23,000 planners, venues, and hotels. Meanwhile, venue respondents reported that important pieces get lost in endless email chains and cross-functional work can get confusing due to a lack of alignment on priorities across departments.

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Hotels Food and Beverage Negotiating Venues 149

Smart Meetings

JUNE 11, 2021

From Abu Dhabi to San Francisco, abandoned warehouses and empty venues are being filled with projectors that bathe visitors in images from the Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh, sometimes with competing “immersive experiences” in the same city. What can meeting professionals learn from this popular pop-up social media craze?

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Expo Pass

MARCH 31, 2021

Venues are reopening, the virtual world is blending with the in-person world, and hybrid events are definitely the future. Virtual is too accessible and convenient to give up, but at the same time, people can’t wait to meet in person again. From the venue, to virtual elements, everything can be tailored to an organizer’s exact needs.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 6, 2016

What does your choice of venue say about your brand? . We’ve done our best to stay away from traditional meeting rooms. Although it’s not possible all the time it’s a great idea to book a funky venue, if you want to reflect an innovative brand. Engagement is a key to successfully building a brand.

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Tech Social Media Events Venues 180

Gallus Events

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Choose a unique venue. One of the best ways to liven up your annual conference is to choose a very different venue. We choose Proud in Camden which is “normally” used as a nightclub and cabaret venue. Too often your annual conference will be confined to the venue you choose. Get your attendees out and about.

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Stova

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

There may not be enough space to hold large events at venues due to reduced occupancy from onsite physical distancing guidelines. As F2F events reemerge, meeting designers will face a dilemma: How do you organize an event with two radically different audiences?

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Gallus Events

MARCH 22, 2016

3 Use meeting design to create the framework for great content. With these first two steps covered: bringing together the content expert and the programme expert, the next step was to add some meeting design. We had round table sessions which took place in the informal areas of the venue. and in small groups.

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Conference Meeting Design Speakers Fashion 100

PCMA Convene

APRIL 4, 2019

They might see what were rundown buildings finding new life as pop-up dinner spaces or music venues or art galleries. “At The Gather Greene event venue and nature retreat in upstate New York is intended to blur the boundaries of indoor and outdoor spaces. More Meeting Trends. 5 Trends That are Changing Meeting Design.

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Meeting Design Meetings Food and Beverage Hotels 40

PCMA Convene

JULY 22, 2020

The panel members — a corporate planner, two association planners, a meeting-design expert, and a hotel executive — discussed the viability of hybrid events. The July 2 event at the World Forum in The Hague welcomed 65 attendees in the venue and more than 160 online viewers.

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Gallus Events

JUNE 17, 2016

The event was held at one of the particular fantastic – and pretty new- ETC Venues in London and it was a day that promised something different from the standard association conference: and trust me, association conferences can be VERY STANDARD. They used Meeting Design. They chose a great, relaxed and modern venue.

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2016 Meeting Design Sponsorships Events 113

Gallus Events

AUGUST 7, 2017

Venues come on line almost by the hour. And new areas such as meeting design, seem to spring up from nowhere. The possibilities of event technology seem to change almost every day. How attendees learn, engage and network is being rewritten by every new piece of scientific research. So how can we cope? Be an event creative.

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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.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The multi-hub format, with multiple connected venues like this meeting with 18 hubs in Spain, combines the benefits of both. I do believe that this is going to be part of the toolbox for meeting designers or meeting professionals.” This takes it to the next level, and it’s a little more complicated.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 25, 2018

The venue is absolutely crucial. You will find me going on about the importance of the venue in a lot of posts (specially the ones that cover meeting design ) as the venue helps the organiser create the right atmosphere and environment. We had the perfect venue.

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Social Media Venues Fashion Speakers 145

Gallus Events

JUNE 17, 2016

The event was held at one of the particular fantastic – and pretty new- ETC Venues in London and it was a day that promised something different from the standard association conference: and trust me, association conferences can be VERY STANDARD. They used Meeting Design. They chose a great, relaxed and modern venue.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Want to discuss partnering on a local workshop, or suggest a suitable venue? For over 25 years, I’ve been designing and facilitating Conferences That Work: successful, innovative, highly interactive, participant-driven events that leverage attendees’ expertise and experience to create just the conference. Have questions?

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 4, 2022

Another multi-hub AIM event connected as many as 40 venues, she told Convene. Sambugaro said that “hostesses” took questions from participants at each of the locations and communicated them to the broadcasting venue to be addressed by the experts. Barbara Sambugaro. It wasn’t only a one-way knowledge transmission, however.

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Conference Design Hotels Conference Hospitality 98

SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We asked some of the people creating meeting magic today alongside the massive influx of new meeting designers that have come to the industry since Covid for tips on what to ask your partners and when to get started. Often, the more sought-after venues hold dates for their partners first.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 30, 2018

Such workshops routinely meet the outcomes they’re designed to achieve: creating useful and memorable learning experiences and connections. These workshops are not successful because of the: excellence of a speaker; beauty/novelty of the venue/F&B/entertainment; or extraordinary facilitation.

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2011 Education Consulting Conference 136

SmartMeetings

JUNE 22, 2020

Virtual meetings require careful design to keep attendees engaged and deliver value for the hosts. But how do you translate the energy and insights from a face-to-face meeting through a computer screen? Without travel or venue occupancy constraints, online events can cater to many more people at once.

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