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Make the meeting bigger!

Conferences that Work

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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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.” Because good event design is about how a conference works. Time to end that.”

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Control versus freedom at meetings

Conferences that Work

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. As Dee W Hock , founder and former CEO of VISA, put it: Any idiot can impose and exercise control.

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#RotterdamExperiment 2 – The best gamification is gamification that is unnoticed

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Christel Sieling, Director of Operations at Odyssey, shared how they’ve pivoted their live hackathon, called Momentum, into a virtual format in 2020. In the beginning, we looked at what was on the market and saw that many online event platforms attempt to mimic real life. And we really wanted to bring that online.