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We are biased against truly creative event design

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.” —Sarah Kendzior, The View From Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America The meeting industry is no exception. A “creative” event design is one with a novel venue and/or decor and lighting and/or food and beverage. The meeting industry has redefined novelty as creativity.

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A calendar of peer conferences

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It’s also amusing to see groups you might not even know about who hold peer conferences. This calendar provides strong evidence that any group with something in common who wants to connect and learn can benefit from peer conference designs. Don’t waste your time, or mine, submitting such meetings; they will not be listed!]

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The Conference Arc — the key components of every successful participation-rich conference

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Traditional conferences focus on a hodgepodge of pre-determined sessions punctuated with socials, surrounded by short welcomes and closings. Such conference designs treat openings and closings as perfunctory traditions, perhaps pumped up with a keynote or two, rather than key components of the conference design.

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An innovative conference competition format

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So this is what we did: Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! Want to see my 6 minute 40 second Pecha Kucha presentation Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! given at EventCamp Twin Cities on September 9, 2010? If so, download.

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Three better alternatives to the conference lecture

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As an example I’ll use a three-day conference I’m currently designing. The participants are four hundred scientists who work all over the world and only get to meet en masse every few years. Want to see my 6 minute 40 second Pecha Kucha presentation Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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Lessons for #eventprofs from an improv and mindfulness workshop — Part 1

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In this two-part article I’ll share a little of my experience and takeaways, followed by their relevance to event design ( red ). Although that opportunity had to be passed up—PCMA made me an offer I couldn’t refuse: facilitating the 2015 PCMA Education Conference —I made it to the 2016 workshop. I’ll.

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Panels as if the audience mattered

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Each session was designed to discover and meet wants and needs of the executive officers and volunteers of the association’s regional chapters’ members in an area of special interest. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!