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PCMA EduCon Los Angeles 2019

Gallus Events

PCMA EduCon took place in Los Angeles in June 2019 and I was lucky enough to be asked to mentor the attendees of PCMA’s Homeless Hackathon and to present a session on online events. . PCMA continue to dedicate their efforts towards leading the event industry response to homelessness. Placing Online Events in context.

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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. This means designing with the end user in mind.

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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. One meeting professional, William Thomson, founder of Gallus Events in Barcelona, organized Homeless Hackathon Glasgow last year, after reading statistics about homelessness in Glasgow, Scotland, his hometown.

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Make your entire conference a braindate

Conferences that Work

One of Skift’s “ 10 event trends for 2020 ” is networking. The report predicts: “Activities such as braindates that deliver more meaningful connections will become mainstream at events.” ” — November 20, 2019 tweet. Because good event design is about how a conference works.

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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. Same goes for meetings format. Most of the meetings today are still about people sitting down and listening to one or more speakers. Is the time now ripe for business events to change the formats to make them more effective? Sure, what people wear has changed.

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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.” If you had told me then that the.

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Event Tech Trends to Watch in 2019

Meeting Tomorrow

Tracking event industry trends is a favorite activity here at Meeting Tomorrow. Rising: AR/VR at events. 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.

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