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Adrian Segar Speaker Tips Interview

Conferences that Work

workshop for Dutch professional moderators, I was interviewed by Otto Wijnen about speaker and presentation tips for making presentations more effective by incorporating active learning. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! After a one-day Participate! given at EventCamp Twin Cities on September 9, 2010?

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Hybrid Meetings Doomed to Failure? Not So Fast

Velvet Chainsaw

At the time, a mere six years ago, the fledgling for-profit entity that wagered its future on the potential of virtual meetings staged sessions that were too heavily weighted toward the online audience in the verbal communication and moderation by the speakers. What obstacles are preventing you from live streaming your conference education?

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We are biased against truly creative event design

Conferences that Work

Truly creative event design questions, for example, whether we need to have a keynote speaker , relegate significant participant discussions to breaks and socials, or supply entertainment during meals. Can we overcome bias against truly creative event design? We can do better than novelty at our meetings. The notes at the.

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Evolve into a Caretaker of Content

Velvet Chainsaw

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. Not just your education programming, but your breaks, meals, even your exhibit hall (which we advocate for evolving into a solutions center, including changing the name).

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2019 40 Under 40: Heather Wakefield, Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society

Connect Your Meetings

Heather Wakefield, 39, works remotely in Nashville, Tennessee, as a s enior manager of education and events at Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society. What I do: I am a results-oriented, event and education professional with more than 10 years of experience in healthcare nonprofit associations. When I moved to the Washington D.C.

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6 Events for Business Owners in 2019 & 2020

Tito Blog | An Event Blog for Organisers

Bringing together 40 startups, 70+ speakers, and representatives from over 20 countries, this ecosystem will be a welcome place for business owners to sink their teeth into real-life wisdom from those who have been in their shoes, and run with them. Dates : September 18th & 19th, 2019. Location : Helsinki, Finland.

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Event Jobs | January 2018

Event Leadership Institute

Conference & Event Specialist | Yale University | New Haven, CT. Event Manager, External Speaker and Production | SpectraForce | Stamford, CT. Coordinator, Special Events – Community Education | Hawaii Pacific Health | Lihue, HI. Conference Design and Attendee Experience Manager | Tableau | Seattle, WA.

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