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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 discovered that people love the format, and that led to writing the book 10 years ago.

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Business events format have not changed much over the past decades

GEVME

And this is from 2019: Singapore FinTech Festival 2019. Today, we see professionals from the UX & Design field apply design thinking to meetings to explore how to reinvent them. Kevin Hoffman has written a pretty good book about it: Meeting Design. Sure, what people wear has changed.

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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. Planners have been adept and really specialists in travel and hospitality, and they could book audiovisual.

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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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Make Like an Architect and Drive Your ROI

Connect Your Meetings

We need to change up the set design, location, education piece, networking opportunities and more. This leads me to the key learning I took away from Connect 2019 in Louisville, Kentucky, an event that arms us with the latest tools, insights and inspirations to do our jobs better: meeting architecture.

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

But over and above this, he is known for authoring books like “ Hooked: How to Buil -For d Habitming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life ”. You can book an appointment with Nir , here Robert Beno Cialdini Who is he? You can book an appointment with Douglas, here. Where to Find him?

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