Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

April 2018, Meetings and Conventions Magazine Do you incorporate participatory sessions into your events? I’ve been designing and facilitating workshop-style, participatory sessions since 1992, and participants love them ! Smart conference producers incorporate participatory sessions into their events.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 11, 2020

I’ve been designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich in person meetings — aka peer conferences — for almost thirty years. Unfortunately, most online events are still using a traditional webinar/broadcast-style approach: presenters speaking for long periods, interspersed with chat-mediated Q&A.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 21, 2019

Apart from my first book , I haven’t written much about status at events. I think about status at events as the relative levels of proclaimed or perceived social value assigned to or assumed by attendees. There are two key kinds of event status — let’s call them old-school and real-time. The notes at the.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 10, 2016

In less than three minutes, you can improve almost any conference session with pair share. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. More details can be found in Chapter 38 of The Power of Participation.). How do you use pair share? Share with everyone in the comments below! Sources for additional information.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Unfortunately, most conferences squander this opportunity. Peer conferences support change. The peer conferences I’ve been designing and facilitating for 27 years are different. Peer conferences create an optimal environment for supporting attendees in the difficult work of making changes in their lives.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 9, 2018

But they are poor vehicles for creating the useful participant learning, connection, and outcomes that well-designed small conferences can deliver. So if you are (un)fortunate enough to be the owner or designer of a large meeting, what can you do to maximize participant value? Sources for additional information.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Designing Participation Into Your Meetings No, that’s not me up on the stage, and that’s not the kind of session I’ll be leading next Tuesday, May 22, at the MPI New England 2012 Northeast Education.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 2, 2018

Recently, a client asked for help designing a new conference. Thirty minutes of discussion with three stakeholders revealed they hadn’t yet settled on the event’s specific purpose, scope, and format. hoping that in the process the event’s purpose and desired outcomes will become clearer.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 27, 2016

In this two-part article I’ll share a little of my experience and takeaways, followed by their relevance to event design ( red ). Although that opportunity had to be passed up—PCMA made me an offer I couldn’t refuse: facilitating the 2015 PCMA Education Conference —I made it to the 2016 workshop. How I got there.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 20, 2016

Who owns an event? The usual answer to this question is “the event’s sponsors”, i.e. the people and organizations that decide to hold the event and contribute the resources needed for the event to occur. Increasingly we are moving to event models that make participants generators of event value.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 5, 2017

Traditional conferences unconsciously promote and sustain power imbalances between the “speakers” at the front of the room and the audience. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. All meetings incorporate power relationships that fundamentally affect their dynamics and potential. It is one.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 11, 2020

Lately, we’ve been diving deeper into the exciting world of hybrid events. In the form of hybrid event examples you can learn from! The result are these five incredible hybrid event examples that have taken place or will do so in the near future. Growth Marketing Conference. Webinar World. That’s right!

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 13, 2017

They are also far more likely to make valuable connections with their peers during the event. Every time I find myself wishing for an external event, I realize that I’m way better off focusing on something I can control instead. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Here are three things we can do.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The IMEX Group has tracked and published the environmental performance of its American show, IMEX America, since 2012 but today’s report represents a significant achievement for its German counterpart. The report […]

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 18, 2018

CoffeeGate One sunny morning in 2105, two hundred of us arrived for the opening breakfast at a Canadian conference to discover There Was No Coffee. I’ll bet that even today, if you asked attendees what they remembered about the event, most would immediately recall the There Was No Coffee moment.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 20, 2018

One of the most exciting venues, we feature one of London’s top largest and most versatile event suite, fitted with state of the art equipment, stunning design and one of the best secret to keep budgets in line. ILEC Conference Centre , part of the actual Hotel Ibis London Earls Court, firstly opened in 1972.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 13, 2016

Why mention this on an event design blog? As I’ve explained elsewhere , good covenants publicly clarify the freedoms that attendees have at an event, like the freedoms to speak one’s mind , ask questions , and share feelings. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. to say and do.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lucy Powell MP has joined the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Events, as of 31 January 2023. Powell is the Labour Member of Parliament for Manchester Central and has been an MP since 2012. The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Events […]

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 8, 2019

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. Here’s an overview: Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Creating Conferences That Work with Adrian Segar appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 6, 2017

Far less has been shared about how to create the right action outcomes at large meetings, aka conferences, that professionals attend. Perhaps that’s because the focus at conferences is typically on learning and connection, which hopefully lead to relevant personal outcomes rather than group outcomes.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 2, 2017

Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Related posts: Designing Participation Into Your Meetings No, that’s not me up on the stage, and that’s not the kind of session I’ll be leading next Tuesday, May 22, at the MPI New England 2012 Northeast Education. Photo attribution: Flickr user Craig Sunter.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

IBTM World 2023 , which returns to Fira, Barcelona from November 28 to 30 has announced Julius Solaris and Christine Renaud as its final keynote speakers, bringing innovation to the fore of its dynamic conference programme. and ‘What are the top five characteristics of the events of the future?’ Titled ‘It’s not 2019 anymore.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Why switching to active learning is hard — and worth it appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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Endless Events

JUNE 20, 2023

They grew up in the age of 24/7 social media and COVID-19, which gives this generation a unique perspective on marketing—including live events. For event marketers, it can be tricky to understand this up-and-coming generation entering the workforce. What events do they enjoy? Gen Z includes people born between 1997 and 2012.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

How do we build conference programs that attendees actually want and need? Here’s what happened when I incorporated dot voting into a recent two-day association peer conference. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That.

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Decibel Management

MAY 24, 2021

10 Major Events That Cost Less Than WWDC. Apple spent a whopping $50 million on its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. $50 Yes, we know Apple is a billion-dollar company, and yes, we know they use their week-long conference to announce their shiny new gadgets (of which we’re big fans), but it’s still just. 50 MILLION. .

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Sara Bertie, Marketing Manager at temporary structure designers ES Global is presenting the second lecture in the Event Design Open Lecture Series at 5pm on Monday 1st October at the University of Westminster’s Marylebone Campus. Register for free on Eventbrite for any of the sessions: search Event Design Open Lecture series.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 4, 2019

One of the most effective ways to ensure the long-term health of your event is to convert first-time guests into loyal, life-long fans. But you can’t do that until you see the event experience through their perspective. After they register, but before the conference, please keep them in the dark. . Make parking a mystery.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You need to be able to stop it from killing your event’s future. As we know, attendee churn is your event’s failure to retain guests year over year. Not only is it important to understand what churn is, but you also need to evaluate your event to see why it’s happening. Check up on your competitors.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 19, 2016

If you think of a meeting primarily as a way of transferring content , then online meetings seem attractive, inexpensive alternatives to face-to-face events. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Such meetings require little commitment, so it is harder to successfully engage participants when the cost of leaving is so low.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Imagine that with one tap on their mobile phone, an attendee of an environmental conference could sign a petition to protect U.S. With another tap, an attendee of an education conference could call on politicians to increase education funding in impoverished neighborhoods. public lands. There’s an app for that.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 22, 2018

We transform a conference from an impersonal forum for information exchange to a place where people feel they matter: their views, their experience, their ability to contribute become seen. Immediately, the conference is subtly different, full of new possibilities, some of which might have been considered risky or even taboo.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

Convene has written a lot about groups that are consolidating their meeting portfolios—the American Society for Microbiology combining two annual conferences into one, the Consumer Bankers Association going from eight down to one—but the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) is going in the other direction.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Why have a keynote speaker at your event? The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Why have a keynote speaker at your event? The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference.

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Maritz Global Events

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Do you need to find new sources of income for your events? 31% bought an ad that went on the event or organization’s website. Give attendees a deal on your next event. On the last day of the conference, let them know if they sign up and pay for the next meeting on that day, they will receive a significant discount.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Lawrence Convention Center to host the returning conference, National Society of Black Engineers, in 2018. The last time NSBE held its convention in Pittsburgh in 2012, the event left behind more than $15 million dollars in direct spending. “I Pittsburgh and the David L. Photo credit: JP Diroll Photography.

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