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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. Businesses that are setting up smart systems and underlying infrastructure to collect information, make sense of it, and translate it into tangible action are increasingly coming out on top.

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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. Today, we see professionals from the UX & Design field apply design thinking to meetings to explore how to reinvent them.

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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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The Top Event Technology Trends for 2019 — According to 27 Event Experts

Event Industry News

“Technology is changing the length of general sessions, how content is formatted and presented, how people process information and what they expect/need to remain engaged. ” — Christy Lamagna , CEO of Strategic Meetings & Events. ” — Christy Lamagna , CEO of Strategic Meetings & Events.

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Guest Blog: The top event technology trends for 2019 — According to 27 event experts

Event Industry News

“Technology is changing the length of general sessions, how content is formatted and presented, how people process information and what they expect/need to remain engaged. ” — Christy Lamagna , CEO of Strategic Meetings & Events. ” — Christy Lamagna , CEO of Strategic Meetings & Events.

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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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Driving team building and networking through interactive event technology

Event Industry News

in the early planning stages of an internal meeting, designed to bring together two teams – Digital and Information Technology for the first time – prior to their merger into one ‘Digital Technology’ team. Networking and collaboration were the primary objectives of this all-hands meeting, held in Germany in January 2019.