Conferences that Work
DECEMBER 25, 2023
Here’s an independent review of my conference design work, published as a case study in Chapter 25—Designing and Developing Content for Collaborative Business Events—of the book The Routledge Handbook of Business Events. Many thanks for Ruth Dowson’s permission to reproduce this case study.
Velvet Chainsaw
MAY 28, 2019
In this post, we’ll explore how to design, promote and execute it for your next conference. Since our work culture is mostly team-based, it’s about time we reflected it in our conference design. Design for Team Learning. Teams that learn together actually implement together!
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Conferences that Work
MARCH 25, 2024
I went to a British school designed to cram students’ brains with what they needed to know to get into Oxford or Cambridge University. Choosing to be a physicist dictated that my English classes ended when I was 16 so I could exclusively study math and science. His enthusiasm for my conference design work was a huge boost.
Conferences that Work
DECEMBER 10, 2018
” She cites academic studies indicating that people are biased against creative minds. 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.
PCMA Convene
APRIL 6, 2020
After all of their time spent at conferences and congresses, Ngumbi and Lovett have come to a conclusion: Many of these events need to change. Some events struggle to design networking functions that rise above those of the past: think open bar in a loud ballroom that makes conversations a challenge. Case Studies.
Bizzabo
DECEMBER 26, 2018
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Conferences that Work
OCTOBER 3, 2016
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. Studying how to facilitate this process and then adopting it is perhaps the most effective way you can improve the learning at your events.
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