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Buckaroo Breakaway Cadillac Conference Programming Trends Looming Your Way In 2017 – Part 1

Velvet Chainsaw

Conference Professionals Become Choice Architects Not Just Curators Of Content Or Schedulers of Speakers. In the conference arena, conference choice architects frame their programming based on solving the needs of their target audience. Hat tips Whitney Kilgore author “ Ux To Lx: The Rise Of Learner Experience Design. ”.

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

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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Top 98 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

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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20 Ways to Remake Your Annual Meeting – Part 2

Velvet Chainsaw

Speakers to facilitators-of-learning. Speakers should no longer be the sage on the stage, but rather the guide on the side. Point attendees to your website or, better yet, to your mobile app for full session descriptions, speaker bios and booth profiles. What other ways could you breathe new life into your conference?

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Configurable and Personalized Conference Experiences

Velvet Chainsaw

Ask the speaker or moderator to share those with the participants. The post Configurable and Personalized Conference Experiences appeared first on Velvet Chainsaw. Analyze each session’s description and learning objectives and identify up to five other sessions that will likely be of interest to those participants.

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2018 40 Under 40: Alison Jo McKeithen

Connect Your Meetings

as conferences manager at NMAC. Through conference planning, I work to keep adult education interesting and relevant so my attendees continue to fight HIV in and for their communities. Through dynamic plenary and attendee engagement, conference registration more than doubled in 2017.

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Why Your Conference Should be Target-Audience Obsessed

Velvet Chainsaw

At times, we also remove speakers and volunteer leaders as they may justify their participation based more on those roles than their education and networking experience. The post Why Your Conference Should be Target-Audience Obsessed appeared first on Velvet Chainsaw. If student attendance is material, we like to analyze separately.)