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

Conferences that Work

I’m indebted to Martin Sirk for sharing remarkable information about an 1828 conference designed by the German geographer, naturalist, and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Read what follows to discover that Humboldt was also a meeting designer way ahead of his time! Martin Sirk Modern meeting design!

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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 ). One of the talks that impressed me the most was ‘Participant experience design – how do we create meetings which move people more deeply?’

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Transforming a Biennial Congress Into an Annual Global Event

PCMA Convene

Convene has written a lot about groups that are consolidating their meeting portfolios—the American Society for Microbiology combining two annual conferences into one, the Consumer Bankers Association going from eight down to one—but the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) is going in the other direction.

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Does This Look Like a Tech Booth?

PCMA Convene

The company got its start when Jost and Hoffmann-Keining were working as business consultants and noticed that meeting spaces all seemed to be the “same, boring, repetitive” spaces that inspired no one, said Erin Westover, the company’s director of international strategic partnerships. What you expect to see when you look for a tech booth.

Tech 40
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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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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

For some time, more and more event managers have been concerning themselves with the topic of meeting design. There is still however no clear description of what meeting design actually means. It tries to research the influences of technology on event design. Hybrid Event. "A