Conferences that Work
JULY 2, 2018
The needs assessment trap Conference design clients who “know what they want” have already decided on their “ why? Because most clients engage me after they are committed to programs and logistics that are not optimum for what they’re trying to accomplish! ” and “ who? ” and “ where?
Conferences that Work
MARCH 25, 2024
Since 2005, I’ve written three successful books on meeting design and facilitation and over 800 weekly blog posts on a wide range of topics. My books continue to sell, and this blog is the world’s most popular website on meeting design and facilitation. His enthusiasm for my conference design work was a huge boost.
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Conferences that Work
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
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.
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.
Conferences that Work
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
After I talked about my meeting design work with pioneer tester James Bach at the 2004 Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference, the testing community somehow adopted the term peer conference for their get-togethers. Here’s another example from a software testing peer conference, TestBash Brighton 2018.
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. Meeting design and interaction tips 11. We publish fresh ideas on interactive session formats and presentations, as well as insights into the meetings world.
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. Many of the people I met remain friends today.
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