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Q&A with Adrian Segar on Crowdsourcing

Conferences that Work

This (slightly edited) interview by JT Long appeared in the March 2019 issue of Smart Meetings Magazine. What led to writing the book, Conferences that Work ? I invented the format by accident 26 years ago when there were no expert speakers to invite for a conference on administrative computing issues in small schools.

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Business events format have not changed much over the past decades

GEVME

Take a look at the following picture of a trade fair back in 1979: National Tire Dealers and Retreaders Association Conference & Trade Show 1979. And this is from 2019: Singapore FinTech Festival 2019. Kevin Hoffman has written a pretty good book about it: Meeting Design.

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Why switching to active learning is hard — and worth it

Conferences that Work

A September 2019 research study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences clearly illustrates why switching to active learning is hard — and worth it! For a full explanation of why active learning modalities are superior, see Chapter 4 of my book The Power of Participation.).

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Online Events Grow in Wake of Coronavirus

PCMA Convene

The videoconference platform Zoom, for example, now can support meetings of up to 1,000 people at a time, and organizers can use it to create up to 50 different breakout rooms at once, Vanneste pointed out. And in the face of travel restrictions, he added, fully online-only meetings are an option, with speakers distributed over the hubs.

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

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. You can book an appointment with Douglas, here.

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Top 98 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

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. You can book an appointment with Douglas, here.

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HBAA commits to help to support ‘The Next Generation’

Event Industry News

Supporting ‘the Next Generation’ of event professionals will be the central theme of HBAA initiatives in 2019. In her address to a packed hall at the Park Plaza Victoria London, at the association’s first Members Meeting of the year, new HBAA Chair Angie Mason unveiled this theme as the focus for the year ahead. Conventions Malta.

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