Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 4, 2018

Here are six ways to focus on designing your team’s experience during your next conference planning process. Read more about embracing your conference as a giving field here. What type of experience do we want as we aim to meet our conference objectives? Explore and experiment with each of them. Turn Inward.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 20, 2021

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. It’s a good time for planners to challenge their organizations to make the meeting experience more valuable than ever.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 6, 2017

You’re expected to deliver highly participatory, forward-thinking, experience-driven, sensory-laden, learner-centered, performance-focused conferences that move the needle for your customers. Too often our current conference planning processes focus on the greatest common denominator. It runs smoothly as planned.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 25, 2017

During your conference education sessions, are your participants stationary or free to move around the space to meet their needs? This means we must design and plan an entirely new learning experience. The Best And Biggest Question To Ask During Your Conference Planning Process.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 12, 2018

City planning? Interior design? Graphic design? Meeting and conference professionals? Go back and read that last phrase: meeting and conference professionals! Do you see yourself as a conference, meeting or event designer? Four Areas To Consider When Reimagining Your Conference.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Connect are dedicated to providing content that helps you reimagine today’s meetings and look into the future. There are plenty of insights into venues and how to improve meetings, but we want to give a shout-out to Connect for their continued insights into the ever-important topic of event safety. The Meeting Pool.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 2, 2017

Imagine designing your next conference or annual meeting from scratch around content instead of picking up the template you’ve been using for years and tweaking it. That kind of interaction can be serendipitous, but it can also be planned. A good way to create content is to understand why people go to live meetings.

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