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DECEMBER 25, 2023
Here’s an independent review of my conference design work, published as a case study in Chapter 25—Designing and Developing Content for Collaborative Business Events—of the book The Routledge Handbook of Business Events. The chapter was written by Ruth Dowson , Chantal Dickson , and Simon Bell.
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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
Software testers do peer conferences right! They even call them a peer conference , rather than unconference , a term I don’t like.) As evidence of software tester conference awesomeness, I offer three examples below. a short history of the peer conference. The 2022 SoCraTes peer conference. But first…. …a
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Conferences that Work
AUGUST 29, 2016
The first time I met him—at the premier EventCamp in 2010 —he immediately purchased my just-published book, sight unseen. The following year, David was kind enough to honor me in his flagship publication BizBash as one of the most innovative event professionals. The cover proclaims “What’s Next in Event Design?”
Conferences that Work
AUGUST 6, 2018
Ah, the ubiquitous conference one-hour lecture. Actually I don’t need to do that since Donald Bligh listed them all in his classic book What’s The Use Of Lectures? As an example I’ll use a three-day conference I’m currently designing. How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways.
Conferences that Work
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
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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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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MAY 20, 2019
Events operate by stories Like science fiction, events also create futures, and events operate by stories. Just as good stories have a story arc , coherent events have a conference arc. The promise of events springs from the reality that we are the stories we tell about ourselves.
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