Creating Conferences That Work with Adrian Segar

A photograph of Adrian Segar, illustrating a podcast "Creating Conferences That Work with Adrian Segar " by Leading Learning. Text: BY JACKIE HARMAN | LAST UPDATED: JANUARY 10, 2021 For almost three decades, Adrian Segar has been designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings. His book, Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love, is the how-to manual for stepping outside the realm of the traditional conference model to create peer conferences, which are highly interactive, attendee-driven events that uniquely leverage attendees’ expertise and experience. And his new book, Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Events People Actually Want and Need – available in November 2019 – addresses how to create conference programs that reliably become what your attendees want and need—each and every time.For an excellent summary of the work I do, check out this interview and podcast, Creating Conferences That Work by Celisa Steele of Leading Learning. The podcast recording is nicely summarized in the show notes, so you can just read about what interests you, and then listen to any or all of the interview sections from the links on the page.

Here’s an overview:

  • The six major reasons that conferences need to evolve from the traditional events we’re all used to.
  • What a peer conference is.
  • The Conference Arc: why conferences need to have a process-based beginning, middle, and end.
  • What event crowdsourcing is, and why it’s so important.
  • My new book: Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Events People Actually Want and Need.
  • Designing large peer conferences.
  • Four obstacles to holding peer conferences.
  • Integrating peer conference process into a traditional conference.

Creating Conferences That Work with Adrian Segar is a great introduction to why meeting planners and designers need to incorporate participant-driven and participation-rich design into their events. Recommended!

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(A HT to Jackie Harman, who did an excellent job summarizing the podcast. Thank you, Jackie!)

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