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How to help meeting design clients figure out what they really want and need

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The five day event is being held by Federation EIL, the worldwide network of The Experiment in International. Scenes from a peer conference A slideshow of images from the Third Annual Vermont Vision For A Multicultural Future peer conference, held at the Mount Snow Grand Summit Resort November 6-7, 2014.

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27 years of peer conferences

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The first peer conference I convened and designed was held June 3 – 5, 1992 at Marlboro College, Vermont. on participant-driven, participation-rich meeting design; and plentiful ongoing opportunities to fulfill my mission to facilitate connection between people. That’s 3 x 3 x 3.

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Five reasons NOT to use a Conferences That Work meeting design

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So when should you use the Conferences That Work design? 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. I thought you’d never ask.

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Q&A with Adrian Segar on Crowdsourcing

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I was an amateur in the meeting industry, and that led to some mistakes, but it also gave me a fresh perspective at a time when meeting design wasn’t really a “thing.” I discovered that people love the format, and that led to writing the book 10 years ago. If you had told me then that the.

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Introduction to my new book Event Crowdsourcing

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I immigrated to the United States after falling in love with Vermont, a rural state with no opportunity to continue the big-lab science path I’d been traveling. Their passions frequently distracted and detracted from the science we were exploring. Understanding people. Understanding people better became important to me.

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

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Respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in Vermont? These events made a profound impression on pretty much everyone who participated. Since 2016, I’ve been participating in the annual, invitation-only Meeting Design Practicum conferences that have been held all over Europe. Here are some examples.

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Peer Conferences Deep Dive—Meeting Doctors transcript and video

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Adrian Segar: Yes, I spent the first 25 years in England and began my first career there, fell in love with Vermont to my complete surprise on only the second time I ever came to the United States, and then tried to figure out how to make a living in this beautiful place, which is, many of your viewers will know, a beautiful rural U.S.