Conferences that Work

JULY 18, 2016

I’m in San Antonio, Texas, having just run two 90-minute “panels” at a national association leadership conference. At the conference sessions I design and facilitate, everyone is “up there” instead of “down here.” Bruce Eric Kaplan cartoon displayed under license from The Cartoon Bank.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 9, 2019

I have a combined deep industry knowledge with experience design and project management, while maintaining excellent stakeholder relationships to elevate customer engagement in my company’s annual conference. Travel hack: Order foreign currency from your bank before you leave home to make sure you have cash on hand when you arrive.

2019 40

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 18, 2017

In that future, she predicts, “very abstract things” like conferences will fulfill a growing need in society. . ” Here’s more from the interview: Where do face-to-face events fit into this new society? But if you want wisdom, you go to a conference. It’s a business for the future. “And screens.

Banking 66

Banking Conference Tech Conference Design 66

PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2017

When she speaks at the PCMA European Influencers Summit in Monte Carlo, Monaco, next month, Martinez will be pointing the audience of European business-events leaders toward the future — a world in which artificial intelligence and robots are commonplace, and a focus on right-brain skills will be increasingly important.

Tech 56

Tech Conference Banking Consulting 56

Event Leadership Institute

JANUARY 31, 2018

Events & Programming Coordinator | Firestone | Firestone, CO. Wedding & Events Manager | Sundale Trail Ranch | Red Feather Lakes, CO. Special Events Manager | Family Centers | Greenwich, CT. Conference & Event Specialist | Yale University | New Haven, CT. Senior Designer | FIRST | New York, NY.

2018 40

2018 Hospitality Trade Shows Hotels 40

PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

The underlying philosophy of the storytelling-technology conference “is to celebrate the changing nature of the audience,” Melcher said. “In To set the stage for collaboration and the exchange of high-level ideas, Melcher found that he had to think about reinventing not just storytelling but conference design. “We

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