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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. Online and hybrid meetings have seen less drastic reductions. It ain’t necessarily so.

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Control versus freedom at meetings

Conferences that Work

How can we design the optimum balance between control versus freedom at meetings? Unless your constituency is bound to your event via a requirement to earn CEUs, members can withhold their attendance or avoid sessions at will. — It’s when we try to tightly control every aspect of our meeting that our events suffer. . —

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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.

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2023 in review—and a book sale!

Conferences that Work

Before 2020, I was designing and facilitating around a dozen in-person meetings and conferences a year. After COVID decimated the meeting industry, I focused on the design and facilitation of online meetings. He has stayed on top of new meeting trends and technologies for decades.

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The Meetings Show to reunite the sector

Event Industry News

The meetings, events and incentives community will come together this week to make valuable business connections, learn and network as The Meetings Show returns. Here are some of the highlights of The Meetings Show 2021: Inspiring exhibitors. Quality hosted buyers. Education, education, education.

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Online Events Grow in Wake of Coronavirus

PCMA Convene

Instead of scrapping their events amid COVID-19 concerns, more organizations are moving their face-to-face programs online. The multi-hub format, with multiple connected venues like this meeting with 18 hubs in Spain, combines the benefits of both. The Multi-Hub Meeting. The Internet quality is there. The equipment is there.

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Why Digital Events Are in ‘an Awkward Phase’

PCMA Convene

A visiting professor at Pratt Institute in New York and the founder of a startup that uses AI as a tool to measure emotions online, Pavliscak speaks frequently about tech design and emotions. The same week she appeared at Collision@Home, she spoke at Primer 2020 , an annual conference produced by the Design Futures Initiative, both via Zoom.

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