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Coterie Spark
JULY 16, 2025
Security is not usually considered the glamorous part of conference planning… But it’s essential for both the attendee experience and your brand’s reputation.
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Coterie Spark
JULY 16, 2025
Security is not usually considered the glamorous part of conference planning… But it’s essential for both the attendee experience and your brand’s reputation.
Coterie Spark
MARCH 24, 2025
Are you ready to unlock the power of AI at your next conference? AI is reshaping the conference planning landscape, offering groundbreaking tools that engage attendees, streamline management, and maximize impact. Of course, its not always clear how to use artificial intelligence in conference planning.
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Prestige Events Magazine
APRIL 10, 2025
Whether youre organising a conference, planning a corporate retreat, or simply seeking a relaxing getaway with colleagues, Hellidon Lakes is the ideal destination for both business and leisure. In addition, direct bookings come with added value options, including golf discounts and more, ensuring guests get the most from their stay.
Coterie Spark
JUNE 9, 2025
In today’s conference planning environment, strategy is everything. To produce an amazing conference, hosts need more than just a planner. Rising costs, evolving attendee expectations, post-pandemic realities, and rapid technology shifts have transformed the process into a high-level strategic endeavor. An advisor.
Eventory
AUGUST 7, 2018
Last but not least, conference planning may become much more intuitive due to the fact that attendees are able to add their event sessions to the calendar which is accessible on their mobile device. I know, that event meeting planning is a complex issue.
Endless Events
AUGUST 15, 2018
That’s where the right environment comes into play – particularly, by creating ambiance with conference staging. Conference staging ideas are often overlooked when it comes to conference planning. One way to do this is to plan for branding opportunities. Remember, it’s not a case of ‘go big or go home.’
Velvet Chainsaw
JANUARY 30, 2017
Everything we take for granted about conferences, and planning them, faces disruption. Participants from all generations and cultures increasingly expect conferences to mirror their work and personal lives. They expect conferences that are authentic, connected, contextual, mobile, participatory, work-related and transparent.
GEVME
JUNE 13, 2018
If you understand your target audience, it’s not a challenge to build such a conference vision. However, without a good conference planning checklist, the chances are you won’t be able to transform this vision into reality. What is a corporate conference planning checklist? Corporate conference planning checklist.
Velvet Chainsaw
MAY 18, 2018
How are they at focusing on the purpose, goals and target market of the conference when making decisions? These three principles are vital to maintaining a healthy, strong conference. Often conference planning members lack experience with the tenets of organized abandonment, focus on strategic alignment and organizing for opportunity.
Velvet Chainsaw
JULY 20, 2016
Just like potholes, conference planning thinkholes can be an expensive problem for your event. They can create some major cavities and damage to your participants’ conference experience. Defining Conference Planning Thinkholes. Four More Hazardous Conference Planning Thinkholes.
Velvet Chainsaw
JULY 21, 2016
When Conference Plans Land On Chutes. So many conference leaders, organizers and planning teams are obsessed with details, logistics and planning. Their plans actually obscure their conference’s vision. Their attention to detail and efficiency eclipses the conference purpose.
Velvet Chainsaw
JULY 14, 2016
It is a depression in our ability to provide adequate thinking about our conference planning. Here are three common conference planning hazards that appear in one form or another across event landscapes. Conference Planning Treadmills Thinkhole. Where do you as a conference organizer get stuck?
InitLive
MARCH 4, 2021
There is a lot of planning that goes into an in-person conference event. That's why it is so important to start your conference planning process well in advance. It is helpful to review your successes and shortcomings from your last conference and use that information to help inform your planning this time around.
Coterie Spark
JULY 12, 2021
Even though expectations have changed among conference attendees, the key to successful event planning, especially for hybrid programming, fortunately remains the same. Whichever tier of hybrid conference you choose, remember to learn everything you can about your guests and set those conference planning goals early.
Socio Events
AUGUST 4, 2022
In turn, event organizers can salvage their conference, safeguard investments, and put on an engaging show just as they promised. How do you plan a virtual conference? Planning an in-person conference is one thing, but pivoting to a virtual format is another entirely. Ready to go virtual?
Hubilo Blog
APRIL 3, 2018
Conference planning is a no easy job. Event planning overall, for that matter, is a stressful job. There is a wide range of conference planning tools in the market that make life much easier for conference planners juggling 10 tasks at a time. This is where the conference planning software comes in.
Velvet Chainsaw
JUNE 4, 2018
Here are six ways to focus on designing your team’s experience during your next conference planning process. Read more about embracing your conference as a giving field here. How have you thought about your own experience during the conference planning process? Explore and experiment with each of them. Turn Inward.
Velvet Chainsaw
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
Evergreen conference practices that have promising results are often obscured by our obsession with fads and trends. To avoid being fad-like in our conference planning process, here are seven emerging evergreen practices to consider and invest in instead. Seven Emerging Evergreen Practices To Consider. From Metrics To Insights.
Velvet Chainsaw
JULY 9, 2018
And just as important, how and what do we think about our conferences and events? How do we understand our conference planning processes, its underlying assumptions, and our customers, partners, exhibitors, and stakeholders? Our conference planning becomes projecting status quo with new dates, new location and a new venue.
Velvet Chainsaw
JULY 25, 2017
The Best And Biggest Question To Ask During Your Conference Planning Process. Above all, start your conference design with this major question: Do our conference venue spaces serve as learning spaces? Help them embrace and adopt meta-cognition.
PCMA Convene
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Host Hotels & Resorts’ Sourav Ghosh (clockwise from top left), STR’s Amanda Hite, and Hotel News Now’s Stephanie Ricca participate in the online Hotel Data Conference. The Hotel Data Conference has been held annually for around 700 attendees in Nashville for the past 12 years. Screenshot by Rachel Daub).
Velvet Chainsaw
JUNE 29, 2018
That sounds very familiar to an established annual conference planning process. Think of the planning routines, files, procedures and instructions that have been institutionalized over the years. Consider it as your conference source code.
Velvet Chainsaw
MAY 29, 2018
We have a choice in our service of conference planning and implementation. We can see the planning process as a transaction of pushing our skills and expertise at conference participants. When we embrace our conference planning and implementation as a giving field, we see it as a.
InitLive
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
With an excellent event team and a good strategy, you can plan and organize a successful conference for your organization. However, approaching conference planning with outdated methods can lead to a slow and exhausting planning process. Event Planning Automation. Event Planning Automation.
Velvet Chainsaw
JULY 31, 2017
What guides you to uncover your organization’s foundation that makes your competitors unable to replicate or reproduce your conference experience? Successful conference organizers lead with this question, “Why?”. They help their conference participants adapt and steer their futures. Nothing precedes purpose.
Velvet Chainsaw
JULY 18, 2018
It is creating a habit of regularly questioning every conference planning practice and programming component that we currently use. This includes asking the more obvious yet often elusive questions of “Why are we holding a conference? Purposeful abandonment is about abandoning the past in favor of the future.
Velvet Chainsaw
JULY 5, 2018
Every time your conference planning process utilizes one of these customary outdated practices, it creates more interest on that debt. Your conference planning and implementation process suffers from the accumulation of unconsolidated practices, high interest and ongoing organizational debt.
Tagvenue
OCTOBER 16, 2019
How to organise a conference step-by-step Putting together a conference can be a harrowing ordeal, … The Conference Planning Checklist Read More ».
Velvet Chainsaw
MAY 3, 2017
So how do you create a conference experience that is not like all the others? Start by considering one or more of these conference big ideas. They are the conference planning road less traveled that harvests success! Big Conference Ideas On The Road Less Traveled Part 1. They are predictable and often commoditized.
Velvet Chainsaw
JUNE 28, 2018
Organizational debt is all the processes, policies, procedures and workarounds that have been institutionalized during the conference planning and implementation phases over the years. Sometimes conference organizers make concessions to appease legacy presidents, committee members or owners of past planning initiatives.
Velvet Chainsaw
MAY 4, 2017
This list of conference big ideas just doesn’t belong to the traditional, average conference planning process. Big Conference Ideas On The Road Less Traveled Part 2. All Planning Team Members Espouse The Same Mental Model For Learning. One of these things is not like the other.
InitLive
NOVEMBER 29, 2019
Make sure to check out - Mastering the Art of Conference Planning in 5 Easy Steps. To learn more about InitLive and how we have helped customers like the Social Media Examiner and other conferences just like them successfully grow and scale their conference, please visit: www.initlive.com or send us an email at sales@initlive.com.
Velvet Chainsaw
MARCH 6, 2017
You’re expected to deliver highly participatory, forward-thinking, experience-driven, sensory-laden, learner-centered, performance-focused conferences that move the needle for your customers. Too often our current conference planning processes focus on the greatest common denominator. We’re outdated from the start.
Velvet Chainsaw
SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
Then instead of trying to manage them during the conference experience, lead them. Often our conference planning teams represent different generations. Then lead your conference planning and advisory teams to flex where they can to accommodate different generation’s preferences. Motivating different generations.
InitLive
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
There is a lot of planning that goes into an in-person conference event. That's why it is so important to start your conference planning process well in advance. It is helpful to review your successes and shortcomings from your last conference and use that information to help inform your planning this time around.
Master the Event
DECEMBER 11, 2023
It is the responsibility of the meeting planner and team to make sure that everything, and I do mean everything, has been planned, organized and is ready for the onslaught of attendees. Conference Planning Resources – It’s All About Business!
Velvet Chainsaw
JULY 31, 2018
As conference organizers, we frequently ignore the evidence all around us of what’s working and what’s not. Often our conference planning teams and volunteer advisors follow our lead as we give more precedent to what feels right. That evidence is everywhere. It’s just that we don’t know what to do with it once we have it.
Velvet Chainsaw
JANUARY 25, 2018
What does “owning the conference customer experience” mean to your daily conference planning tasks? Who all needs to be involved with owning that conference customer experience journey? The post The Conference Owner’s Guide: From Conference Touchpoints To Journey Experiences Part 1 appeared first on Velvet Chainsaw.
Velvet Chainsaw
JUNE 28, 2017
Although our attendees may not struggle with serious addictions like drug abuse, we can easily get sucked into conference experiences that are novel. And our conference planning teams want to out-do last year’s novelty and wow. Thus our dopamine addicted audiences constantly ask what’s new or how will they top that.
Velvet Chainsaw
JULY 13, 2016
What is the breakthrough you most want to see happen in your conference in the next year? What do you imagine could be possible if you were truly collaborating with your conference planning team, leadership and volunteers? How will this webinar help your conference planning?
Event Smart
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Every year, businesses across different industries plan for conferences for their businesses. Event organizers are spearheading the conference planning process – from booking venues and crafting event programs to writing event details. The Purpose of a Speaker Bio If your […]
Velvet Chainsaw
FEBRUARY 2, 2017
If you are, you need a conference intrapreneur! More than just one intrapreneur, you need a conference planning culture of intrapreneurship. Ultimately, you’ll want to develop a conference team of intrapreneurs. Ask yourself this: Do our conference planning teams have the willingness, capability and confidence to __?
InitLive
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Finalize the planning and execution committees and allocate their respective tasks. These are the crucial months in your conference planning process and if you can get the majority of the planning done during this period, then you will feel less stressed in the coming time. Choose your vendors to suit your needs.
Event Marketer
AUGUST 21, 2023
In this episode, we sit down with Jessica Blake, senior director-global strategic events at Confluent, to talk about “year-two” planning for the event, which takes place Sept. The idea is that it’s a place for anyone who works with or in the data streaming industry.
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