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Hybrid Meetings Doomed to Failure? Not So Fast

Velvet Chainsaw

I’ll admit that in 2011, when the Virtual Edge Institute (now called the Digital Experience Institute) first co-located its conference with the Professional Convention Management Association’s Convening Leaders, the experience fell flat for me. In my opinion, the perfect hybrid meeting. The post Hybrid Meetings Doomed to Failure?

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5 Ways to Build Community Loyalty

Smart Meetings

For example, if they value the rising focus on sustainability, make sure your event incorporates sustainable practices and promotes/communicates the efforts you’re taking to drive change. Design communal spaces and activities like inviting networking lounges that offer more than the usual basic seating and charging stations.

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IBM Think Kicks Off a New Chapter with an Agile, Personalized Flagship Experience

Event Marketer

The flagship experience, launched in 2018 as part of a portfolio consolidation, marked a new chapter this month as it reconvened May 9-11 in Orlando as a smaller, targeted in-person conference designed to serve up content and networking experiences “that matter most to you.” Emphasis on the you.

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6 Events for Business Owners in 2019 & 2020

Tito Blog | An Event Blog for Organisers

South Summit provides an international series of encounters where business leaders meet and inspire each other by communicating what works (and what doesn’t) to help others achieve their goals. Date : August 22nd, 2019. Location : Washington, USA. Tickets : Free ! 5) Stream Startup Festival 2019.

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Best in Show 2016

PCMA Convene

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the meetings and conventions industry is built on relationships — one on one, face to face, rooted in competence and trust. Meetings bring people together, you see, and that applies to the back of the house just as much as it does among attendees. Our readers did not disappoint.

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

Conferences that Work

How to help solve participants’ obvious, complicated, and complex problems at conferences. For each domain, I’ll include examples of meeting processes you can use to satisfy participants’ problem solving wants and needs. Here’s a little more detail on the obvious, complicated, and complex problem domains.

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Small steps are not big enough or bold enough for the UK event industry

Event Industry News

Every single day counts, and we now need bigger and bolder action to save our industry, get back to making meetings matter, creating terrific tradeshows, engaging audiences with experiences and delivering brilliant live content at conferences designed to help the UK bounce back safely and securely.”.