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Alexander von Humboldt: A meeting designer way ahead of his time

Conferences that Work

In September 1828 he invited hundreds of scientists from across Germany and Europe to attend a conference in Berlin.* Unlike previous such events at which scientists had endlessly presented papers about their own work, Humboldt put together a very different programme.

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Participant experience design — moving from the old to new event world

The MICE

One of the presentations that highly inspired me to think differently about event design took place in 2019 at the MICE Forum at ITB Berlin (Organised by VDVO ). The Falling Walls conference first took place in 2009 and now occurs yearly on the day of the fall of the Berlin Wall — 9 November.

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Making Vinyl Event Expands Offerings, Audience

PCMA Convene

edition, will bring the event to Europe, where vinyl is also enjoying a renaissance. It’s a move inspired by music, of course, which Jaffee said reminded him of a Leonard Cohen lyric: “First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.”.

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Does This Look Like a Tech Booth?

PCMA Convene

From its founding in Berlin in 2014, the company has expanded into 10 countries, including the United States, and offers listings for more than 2,000 meeting spaces. What you expect to see when you look for a tech booth. Our sweet spot,” Westover said, “are meetings of from 12 to 30 people.”)

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Transforming a Biennial Congress Into an Annual Global Event

PCMA Convene

The 2015 Congress, held in Toronto, attracted about 7,500 attendees; the 2017 Congress is slated for Berlin. The next Congress, to be held in Berlin in July 2017, will be the last gathering using the old format, while SSC will have its final standalone program in Dublin in 2018. But ISTH didn’t want to rush in.

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Turbocharging Knowledge Transfer With the World Café Model

PCMA Convene

13–14 at andel’s by Vienna House hotel in Berlin, the Congress for Exchange of Strategies, Innovations, and Solutions (CESIS) drew nearly 300 people, according to Katharina Neumann, product manager of international business development at VDI. Many CESIS attendees are engineers, but some aren’t; some are VDI members, but others aren’t.

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New Event Formats and What They Mean for Business Networking

Converve

It tries to research the influences of technology on event design. Based on diverse social and technological trends that will influence meetings, the research team has developed 6 scenarios of what events will look like in the future. "The analogue event deliberately takes place somewhere remote. Totally Analogue. "The