Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Why not make your entire conference a braindate? 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.” Instead make your entire conference a braindate!

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 10, 2022

Most of the event industry and our clients continue to assume that if you can make the meeting bigger it’s a good thing. The massive disruption of in-person events since March 2020 has shaken our industry to the core. We have also seen the emergence of new forms of online events, supported by solid business models.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 25, 2021

Dee W Hock (@deewhock) August 9, 2020. To “elicit freedom and release creativity”, we need to recognize that participants are stakeholders in the event, rather than “just” an audience. For a discussion of control versus freedom in the context of event leadership , you may find this post useful….

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The MICE

MARCH 11, 2021

Christel Sieling, Director of Operations at Odyssey, shared how they’ve pivoted their live hackathon, called Momentum, into a virtual format in 2020. We used meeting design to do that, which already had some gamification elements to it. Gamifying a conference – ShipCon case study.

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