Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2024

Because… • I suffered through a long period when writing a book seemed to be something I would never be able to do; and • So many well-known writers imply that all you need to do is figure out how to organize your writing routine, whereupon turning out hundreds of words a day becomes no big deal. This is not true for 99.99% of mortals.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The solution to this is to design your unconference before choosing the venue. When this doesn’t happen (sadly, most of the time in my experience) the conference design, no matter how good it is, suffers. One way to introduce conference newbies to a recurring unconference is to use a buddy system.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

How to incorporate a sense of belonging into the attendee event experience The phrase “sense of belonging” is defined as the psychological feeling of connectedness to a social, spatial, cultural, professional or other type of group or community (Hurtado & Carter, 1997).

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Food and Beverage Sustainability Entertainment Hotels 98

Conferences that Work

AUGUST 6, 2018

The four-minute time limitation nudges each presenter to focus on the core aspects of what they want to share and how to communicate them as effectively as possible in the time available. Image attribution: Marisha Aziz Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 28, 2018

Organizational debt—the interest your conference pays when its structures, policies, procedures, practices, committees and leadership roles stay fixed and accumulate even as the world around it changes.* Our conferences end up with hackitectures, petrified designs. At this point the conference planning practice is in control.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Can we overcome bias against truly creative event design? Though millions of meetings take place every year, thousands of meeting organizers know how to create truly create conference designs. The steady rise in popularity of participant-driven and participation-rich designs like Conferences That Work continues.

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Tito Blog | An Event Blog for Organisers

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Part of the reason why I wanted to do the conference was because I wanted to grow a community and grow a movement around this in the United States. “I had been talking to a few people about starting a conference in the US many times, but always chickened out. I’m not trained in conference organisation or conference design.

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Conference 2004 Events Social Media 60

Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 17, 2017

The speaker, Sourabh Kothari, also a DES, presenting on how content should drive conference design , welcomed the virtual audience, but didn’t dwell on us. He took questions effortlessly from both live and online participants.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Here’s another example from a software testing peer conference, TestBash Brighton 2018. The conference designers invented a way to create “highly engaging, interactive and fun” poster sessions. A free guide to creating peer conferences. (Hey, Learn more about it, and download it here. Final thoughts.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

This is a common model in organizations, where high-level executives meticulously plan a change “that will go into effect on January 1” Here’s Jerry’s drawing of how this supposedly works. Traditional conference designs also adopt this model. Obviously we can make plans to initiate change. Chaos examples.

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Consulting Conference Design Conference Management 224

InitLive

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Social Media Marketing World , held by Social Media Examiner (SME), is a conference designed for social media experts. Their speakers have complete confidence in their field and even boast that they can teach attendees how to get a 10X return on investment.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 18, 2016

You may be wondering how to effectively structure a panel where the panelists don’t necessarily dominate the proceedings, letting attendees contribute and steer content and discussion in the ways they want and need. At the conference sessions I design and facilitate, everyone is “up there” instead of “down here.”

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Slido

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Endless Events Blog Written by event production professionals, this blog brings top tips and tricks on how to make AV work for you – not against you. Dive in for tips on how to design internal meetings that build trust and increase employee engagement. But the scope of its articles is much broader. And so is its blog.

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Social Media Consulting Conference Education 75

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

When 50 first-time attendees showed up, the conference design team, chaired by Joe Scully, senior director of meeting and event management at John Hancock Financial Services, made sure they were given ribbons to alert others of their status. Provide Positive Initiation.

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Financial Insurance Hospitality Conference 96

Conferences that Work

APRIL 24, 2017

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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2010 Airlines Conference Design Conference 160

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

When 50 first-time attendees showed up, the conference design team, chaired by Joe Scully, senior director of meeting and event management at John Hancock Financial Services, made sure they were given ribbons to alert others of their status. Provide Positive Initiation.

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Financial Insurance Hospitality Conference 46

Eventory

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

During the conferences, you’re provided with professional statistics and comments of how to use the knowledge in your everyday Social Media activities. Therefore, it’s more likely that you’ll discover faults in your activities and ideas on how to fix them if you regularly attend industry events. Social Media Strategy.

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Social Media 2019 Conference 2018 79

PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2017

Where society starts to get a problem is when no one knows how to explain how we end up in the next level of AI — which is artificial general intelligence. What examples of conference design have you seen that better tap into a right-brain experience? No one has a problem with ANI.

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Tech Conference Banking Consulting 56

PCMA Convene

JANUARY 31, 2017

Attendees come to Airbnb Open for a variety of reasons: to find tips on how to make more money hosting, to share their perspective on improving the platform, and to hear from some of the most respected names in hospitality in more than 50 educational sessions. A NEW SENSE OF BELONGING.

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Travel Education Conference Hospitality 40

Conferences that Work

JANUARY 11, 2021

Peer conferences improve this support by allowing participants to share their top-of-mind problems in real time and leverage peer resources to get solutions. Designing experiments into our conferences allow participants to explore solutions to complex problems. Complex problems.

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Bizzabo

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Brilliant speakers bring phenomenal content on Marketing Strategies, UX & Design, Email, Search, Mobile, Video, SEO and so much more. Learn how to engage audiences from the world’s most cult-like brands, including Airbnb, Marvel, and IBM. RampUp is the premier conference for Leaders in MarTech. June Conferences 2019.

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2019 Marketing Conference Social Media 81

Endless Events

OCTOBER 19, 2018

For instance, the most recent volume is “All About Audiences” including how to attract new ones. You can check out their blog, videos, how-to’s, as well as food and beverage highlights. You can check out their blog, videos, how-to’s, as well as food and beverage highlights. Conferences That Work. MeetingPlay.

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Trade Shows Food and Beverage Tech Education 133

The Modern Event

MARCH 30, 2016

Adrian Segar’s blog is for the corporate meeting professional; creating “relevant, memorable conferences.” The site acts as a resource for conference design and facilitation with tips, Q&As, and great examples. MindyWeiss.com. For a special events planner, particularly wedding planners this is the site for you!

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Technology Meetings Tech Trade Shows 40

Stova

MARCH 20, 2023

November Wedding MBA November 6 - 8, 2023 – Las Vegas, NV The Wedding MBA is an annual conference devoted to teaching wedding vendors how to grow their wedding businesses and ultimately book more couples. March MarTech Conference March 28 - 29, 2023 – (Online) MarTech is full of ideas and solutions from industry experts.

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2023 Conference Healthcare B2B 52

Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 3, 2016

If a presenter or facilitator knows how to effectively uncover learning, they will be using the best learning model available. Such process is the focus of the peer conference designs and associated participation techniques that I’ve been developing and writing about here and in my books.

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Bizzabo

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The goal of the Devnexus Conference is to connect developers from all over the world, provide affordable education, and promote Open Source values. eTail is a three-day conference designed to help you increase the profits from your business. Content Marketing Conference. Esri Developer Summit. Microsoft Ignite.

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2021 Conference Insurance Education 79

Bizzabo

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Explore the latest platform tools and cloud technologies and learn how to put your skills to work in new areas. A full-day, two-track conference on all things React, gathering Front-end and Full-stack developers across the globe in the tech heart of Europe. Artificial Intelligence Conference: New York. Microsoft Ignite.

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