Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Traditional conferences focus on a hodgepodge of pre-determined sessions punctuated with socials, surrounded by short welcomes and closings. Such conference designs treat openings and closings as perfunctory traditions, perhaps pumped up with a keynote or two, rather than key components of the conference design.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! If so, download.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 12, 2018

Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: A birthday present for you on the 21st anniversary of Conferences That Work What a long strange trip it’s been The first Conferences That Work event was held June 3–5, 1992, at Marlboro College, Vermont. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

, June 2, Indianapolis and you'll leave with the key to successful 21st century conferences: knowing how to truly satisfy attendees by adding effective participation, learning, connection, and engagement to. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! given at EventCamp Twin Cities on September 9, 2010? If so, download.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I’m indebted to Martin Sirk for sharing remarkable information about an 1828 conference designed by the German geographer, naturalist, and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Read what follows to discover that Humboldt was also a meeting designer way ahead of his time! Martin Sirk Modern meeting design!

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2024

His enthusiasm for my conference design work was a huge boost. (I didn’t, but the right one would have helped.) In particular, share your plans for the book with people and writers you respect. I had lunch alone with Jerry during his workshop. Find your own mentors and use them sparingly and with appreciation.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

So this is what we did: Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! Want to see my 6 minute 40 second Pecha Kucha presentation Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! given at EventCamp Twin Cities on September 9, 2010? If so, download.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 20, 2019

Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Events operate by stories appeared first on Conferences That Work. Related posts: Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! Want to see my 6 minute 40 second Pecha Kucha presentation Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 28, 2019

In this post, we’ll explore how to design, promote and execute it for your next conference. Since our work culture is mostly team-based, it’s about time we reflected it in our conference design. Design for Team Learning. Teams that learn together actually implement together!

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The solution to this is to design your unconference before choosing the venue. When this doesn’t happen (sadly, most of the time in my experience) the conference design, no matter how good it is, suffers. The result is that novice-organized unconferences rarely have the venue space they need to work well.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 6, 2018

Image attribution: Marisha Aziz Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! Want to see my 6 minute 40 second Pecha Kucha presentation Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! given at EventCamp Twin Cities on September 9, 2010?

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eventplanner

MAY 24, 2020

Conference design goes beyond venue decorations, networking dynamics, and knowledge sessions. While those are all important, you’ll also want to surpass your attendees’ expectations and make sure they enjoy every activity you’ve planned, including the con

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Conferences that Work

JULY 2, 2018

The needs assessment trap Conference design clients who “know what they want” have already decided on their “ why? Because most clients engage me after they are committed to programs and logistics that are not optimum for what they’re trying to accomplish! ” and “ who? ” and “ where?

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 25, 2017

The Best And Biggest Question To Ask During Your Conference Planning Process. Above all, start your conference design with this major question: Do our conference venue spaces serve as learning spaces? Help them embrace and adopt meta-cognition.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Can we overcome bias against truly creative event design? Though millions of meetings take place every year, thousands of meeting organizers know how to create truly create conference designs. The steady rise in popularity of participant-driven and participation-rich designs like Conferences That Work continues.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

I’ve run the core Conferences That Work design in a day numerous times, and it’s always a rush. A peer conference design such as Open Space doesn’t need so much time—a few hours can be useful—though it omits some of the features that make Conferences That Work so effective.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 28, 2023

How emerging AI and other technology will boost event humanity by putting attendee needs at the center of conference design Attendees expect more from events today and emerging technology is helping to deliver on those demands.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 29, 2016

Related posts: What I learned about event professionals at EventCamp East Coast One of the reasons I love to facilitate Conferences That Work is that I get to learn interesting things about the culture of the participants. Whoever they are—young developing leaders, Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 28, 2018

Our conferences end up with hackitectures, petrified designs. Eventually, the conference design is driven by the needs of these hackitectures and organizational debt instead of the target market and future of the profession. The energy and labor involved to understand the internals about these processes are exhausting.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 17, 2017

The speaker, Sourabh Kothari, also a DES, presenting on how content should drive conference design , welcomed the virtual audience, but didn’t dwell on us. Before the session got underway, she welcomed us to the chat room, asked people to introduce themselves (many from outside the U.S.)

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 4, 2018

Then create a conference outcome based on designing a great planning process for you and your team. Ask the team: What are we as a conference design planning team passionate about? Where can we take some calculated risks in this design? Expand Your Questions. What are we curious about?

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 29, 2016

How your audience responds will have a direct impact on your conference’s brand image and credibility. From a conference design perspective, we believe the current best practice is to bookend your conference by opening with a strong-thought provoking speaker and closing with inspiration. What to Look For.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 6, 2017

So consider these questions: Is your conference designed to give your customers the experience they expect? If you plan to meet their expectation of just one or two takeaways, you’ve already lowered your conference standards to average at best. It runs smoothly as planned. Word of caution here.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 27, 2016

Next Tuesday, August 16, in Atlanta, I’ll be leading a three-hour workshop for the Georgia Meeting Professionals International Chapter (GaMPI) on participation techniques you can use to transform your conference sessions. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! I’ll. If so, download.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 10, 2021

5 Program Design Change Trends. As we work with conference organizers to plan the return of their major conferences, five conference design trends have emerged, which may be useful to keep in mind as you design your own events. Purposeful abandonment :?This

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Spatial Design for the Subconscious Mind Cookie-cutter conference designs can be mundane and predictable to an attendee.

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Coterie Spark

MAY 17, 2023

Explore your host city’s culture Conference design is so important. Giving your guests a mental break ties back to that focus on wellness we were just talking about, while also providing casual opportunities to bond without the pressure of formal networking events.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Traditional conference designs also adopt this model. This is a common model in organizations, where high-level executives meticulously plan a change “that will go into effect on January 1” Here’s Jerry’s drawing of how this supposedly works. Obviously we can make plans to initiate change.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Can you see why software testers like Lisi think that peer conferences rock?! Here’s another example from a software testing peer conference, TestBash Brighton 2018. The conference designers invented a way to create “highly engaging, interactive and fun” poster sessions. The Unexpo Experiment.

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InitLive

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Social Media Marketing World , held by Social Media Examiner (SME), is a conference designed for social media experts. Their speakers have complete confidence in their field and even boast that they can teach attendees how to get a 10X return on investment.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 25, 2018

The newly AIM Gold awarded Cloth Hall Court by Well Met will welcome around 300 delegates tomorrow, Friday 26 January, for the very first dedicated conference designed for cyber security experts.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 18, 2016

The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! If so, download.

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Event Marketer

MAY 24, 2023

The flagship experience, launched in 2018 as part of a portfolio consolidation, marked a new chapter this month as it reconvened May 9-11 in Orlando as a smaller, targeted in-person conference designed to serve up content and networking experiences “that matter most to you.” Emphasis on the you.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 12, 2017

It wouldn’t have been New York without the quintessential yellow taxi cab, which was featured prominently in the conference design. . ." #PCMAEC. — Alex Plaxen (@APlaxen) June 11, 2017. Excited to be #pcmaec in New York. pic.twitter.com/taulZRiAmf. — Geraldine Gatehouse (@IMEXGeraldine) June 11, 2017.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2016

How your audience responds to a keynote speaker has a direct connection to your conference’s brand image and credibility, so choose wisely. From a conference-design perspective, it’s a smart practice to bookend your event by opening with a strong thought-provoking speaker and closing with an inspirational one.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 6, 2020

After all of their time spent at conferences and congresses, Ngumbi and Lovett have come to a conclusion: Many of these events need to change. They asked: “Where’s the dialog? Where’s the questioning? Where’s the innovation? Why the deluge of printed posters when we are battling climate change?

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Connect Your Meetings

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Web Summit, an internet tech conference held in Portugal, has seen exponential growth since it launched as a meetup for 400 tech investors in 2010. Expected to attract more than 50,000 attendees this November, the growing conference designed to connect startups with investors is no match for the planner behind it all.

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