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Make your entire conference a braindate

Conferences that Work

” — November 20, 2019 tweet. Because good event design is about how a conference works. Participant-driven and participation-rich meeting designs incorporate a braindate’s purpose — one-to-one or small group connection around relevant content — organically into every session. Time to end that.”

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5 Trends That Are Changing Meeting Design

PCMA Convene

Kate Fairweather (right) and Amy Blackman present results from “The Future of Meetings and Events” report at Convening Leaders 2019 in Pittsburgh. You can’t just get the same people who live and breathe events doing this or you will get the same stuff,” Routh said. More Meeting Trends. Jacob Slaton).

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PCMA EduCon 2019: Can the Meetings Industry Hack Homelessness?

PCMA Convene

William Thomson (center) will take part in PCMA’s hackathon on homelessness in June during EduCon 2019. That should encourage event designers to borrow other ideas, including from consumer spaces, he said, to “look outside the event space.”. The duo will be back at this year’s Educon. Jacob Slaton).

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Event Tech Trends to Watch in 2019

Meeting Tomorrow

In 2019, you should expect to see more event pros trying to find a way to bring this out of the novelty phase and into their events through content delivery, virtual site tours and gamification. We know from past cycles of consolidation that the door is opened for innovative disruptors or differentiation in services.

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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. I was an amateur in the meeting industry, and that led to some mistakes, but it also gave me a fresh perspective at a time when meeting design wasn’t really a “thing.”

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Participant experience design — moving from the old to new event world

The MICE

One of the presentations that highly inspired me to think differently about event design took place in 2019 at the MICE Forum at ITB Berlin (Organised by VDVO ). In 2019 the ITB MICE Forum theme was ‘The Human Factor’. According to Felix, the term ‘participant experience design’ is a work in progress.

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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! Let’s look at these three conclusions in the context of meeting design. Most meeting presenters still lecture.

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