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We are biased against truly creative event design

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.” —Sarah Kendzior, The View From Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America The meeting industry is no exception. A “creative” event design is one with a novel venue and/or decor and lighting and/or food and beverage. The meeting industry has redefined novelty as creativity.

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How the Future of Storytelling Can Change the Way We Meet

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To set the stage for collaboration and the exchange of high-level ideas, Melcher found that he had to think about reinventing not just storytelling but conference design. “We We really had to blow up the conference model,” Melcher said in an interview with Convene. This is not your ordinary conference. THE SPEAKERS . ‘A

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2019 40 Under 40: Heather Wakefield, Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society

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I have a combined deep industry knowledge with experience design and project management, while maintaining excellent stakeholder relationships to elevate customer engagement in my company’s annual conference. When I moved to the Washington D.C.

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How Artificial Intelligence Will Elevate Human Interaction

PCMA Convene

Conferences are the business of humans and are very abstract things,” Martinez said, “because one goes to a conference to acquire knowledge, but mostly to meet other people who can ignite ideas. ” What examples of conference design have you seen that better tap into a right-brain experience?

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Event Jobs | January 2018

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Check out Event Leadership Institute’s on-demand library with over 100 courses & interview videos for as little as $25 per month, as well as our online Professional Development courses in event management. Meeting & Event Job Openings | January 2018. Event Marketer | Kitchen Magic, Inc. Learn More.

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How Deep Science Ventures’ Inma Martinez Puts a Human Spin on All Things Tech

PCMA Convene

Tacit knowledge is, for example, sales-people that have been selling for 10 or 20 years, who go into a meeting and within seconds they know if the client is going to buy that thing or not. Where do face-to-face events fit into this new society? Professional sports players behave and move as if they had eyes behind their backs.

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What’s the best learning model for conference sessions?

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. “In surface learning, the session reflects the knowledge and skills of the speaker. The attendee consumes as much as the speaker says as possible and tries to store it in the mind. The speaker covers as much as they can as fast as they can. But from whom do we discover this learning?