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If You Design Conference Experiences, Read This!

Velvet Chainsaw

Here are six ways to focus on designing your team’s experience during your next conference planning process. Embrace Your Event As A Giving Field. Read more about embracing your conference as a giving field here. Then create a conference outcome based on designing a great planning process for you and your team.

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The Conference Debt You Cannot Afford

Velvet Chainsaw

.* Anyone striving to build a 21st century sustainable conference needs to understand organizational debt, how it impacts their event and how to prevent it. Think about the process some organizations use to pick conference speakers, award lecturers and content for a scientific program. Defining Organizational Debt.

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5 Post-Pandemic Conference Program Design Changes

Velvet Chainsaw

As it becomes more apparent that face-to-face events will return in some form this year, conference organizers have an opportunity to make changes that would have been more difficult to sell up the ladder in the past. Long-term traditions can deter next-generation conference participants.

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Designing 21st Century Conference Learning Experiences And Spaces

Velvet Chainsaw

Regardless, we must get our attendees up and moving and not sitting for sixty-, seventy-five-, ninety-minutes or event eight hours a day. The Best And Biggest Question To Ask During Your Conference Planning Process. (You don’t have to change everything. Start with changing twenty percent of your sessions.)

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Mediocrity Is Your Biggest Conference Competitor

Velvet Chainsaw

Your real conference competition is not that event held six months after yours. Today’s technology driven, hyper-connected, instant gratification, real-time world puts you as a conference organizer in a difficult position. Too often our current conference planning processes focus on the greatest common denominator.

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Evolve into a Caretaker of Content

Velvet Chainsaw

Please stop designing content for events and start thinking about designing events for the content.” The need for understanding your target audiences’ challenges and delivering content that is relevant has never been more important for your conferences.

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40 Outstanding Event Industry Blogs to Follow

Endless Events

After all, event industry blogs are accessible, provide information about events from around the globe and cover every aspect of event planning. You can find bigger and better ways to deploy events, the latest in event tech, and follow where other event profs’ careers are taking them. Endless Events.