Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2024

Since 2005, I’ve written three successful books on meeting design and facilitation and over 800 weekly blog posts on a wide range of topics. My books continue to sell, and this blog is the world’s most popular website on meeting design and facilitation. Write a book? So here’s my story.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Events and media consultant Julius Solaris shared at the Unforgettable Experience Design Summit that he was initially very enthusiastic about unconference format events. He thought conferences would eventually adopt unconference models. The solution to this is to design your unconference before choosing the venue.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

I first designed and convened what I called a “ peer conference ” in 1992 for a group of IT managers at small schools that eventually became known as edACCESS. Can you see why software testers like Lisi think that peer conferences rock?! A free guide to creating peer conferences. The Unexpo Experiment.

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