Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

To avoid being fad-like in our conference planning process, here are seven emerging evergreen practices to consider and invest in instead. Conference leaders often use data like a weather report— summarizing the event conditions. In the future, conference professionals must use data to make better decisions.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 31, 2018

Often our conference planning teams and volunteer advisors follow our lead as we give more precedent to what feels right. So before assuming we can persuade others with the data on why we need to change, we need to enroll them in our conference improvement planning process. We have to ask them for a commitment.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 29, 2018

This means their experience both during and in-between conference events are in your hands. Not to worry, that’s why we’ve put together all our conference planning guides here, to make sure you plan the best event experience for them. Where to Host Your Next Conference: 8 Best Locations. Click To Tweet.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 13, 2024

applications is Margaret Launzel-Pennes, CEO of Los Angeles-based events agency Pop Experiential; in fact, she has conducted every element of conference planning, from site selection to marketing to content creation to speaker selection to post-event data analysis, with significant assistance from A.I.

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Event Marketer

AUGUST 21, 2023

Enter: Confluent, a platform that enables teams and systems to act on real-time data instantly, and its industry event, Current, a two-day summit that brings together data professionals to learn, share and network, and talk all things fast-moving data streaming.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

When you follow data-driven best practices, you can rest assured your email marketing strategy will work wonders to promote the perfect event. Before we delve deep into how to personalize, let’s look at some of the data as to why you want to personalize in the first place. By using behavioral data, Birchbox keeps emails relevant.

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Eventmobi

MAY 23, 2024

Make sure it’s enough to cover conference management software, a venue (for in-person events), speaker fees, marketing campaigns, event workers, AV equipment, and whatever else you need. Assemble Your Conference Planning Team You’re not going to plan your conference all alone, are you? We hope not!

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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.

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Eventmobi

JANUARY 10, 2024

Before we dive into providers, you need to know what a conference app is. A conference app is a mobile application used to simplify event, conference, or meeting management. Successful event organizers know that the best way to improve an event is to gather data and feedback from previous events.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 26, 2018

Once you’ve observed the conference through the lens of your target customer and gained insights from conference data, you can move to the next steps. These steps are critical for you and your conference planning teams to embrace, enlist and employ. These leaders become the customer advocates.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 31, 2019

We search for data that verifies our past. Understanding new problems, and evaluating complex data and uncertain information, requires a great deal of mental energy. How has inertia influenced your conference planning? What steps can we take to avoid inertia stalling our conference progress?

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Eventmobi

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Choose the right event tech tools to help you streamline different aspects of planning and executing your conference, like registration, check-in, networking, panel discussion, and more. With an event management platform like EventMobi, you can track data on attendance, interest, and action.

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Expo Logic

DECEMBER 27, 2019

With tracking data, you can collect information before, during and after an event to help improve current and future experiences for everyone. Attendees, exhibitors, vendors and event organizers can all benefit from tracking data. Now, it's time to take advantage of all the available data as your guests enjoy the event.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 12, 2018

These mental models are deeply embedded in our conference planning and management practices. Once we bring our conference mental models to the surface we can examine them rigorously in the light. We use data from past events to see if there is any evidence to back our beliefs.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 3, 2017

We have likes, dislikes, preferences, strengths, weakness, emotions, experiences and knowledge that do not show up in organization data systems. We are much more than recorded data when it comes to personalization! Data and technology can help make your conference more configurable.

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Planner WIre

DECEMBER 6, 2017

There is a big change coming for those that plan and execute meetings and events in Europe. You and your partners need to get your house-o-data in order and you need to do it pronto. You must downsize the amount of data you hold on attendees and you must default to the best privacy settings in all of your technology.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 14, 2017

With regard to the fourth approach to personalization, when most of us talk about personalizing for the masses, we really mean making recommendations based on their other choices — i.e., attendees who signed up for one session are also planning to go to another related one. Ask the speaker or moderator to share those with the participants.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 17, 2019

Even though we know that figures and numbers—the hard data—gives us the best and most reliable information for our decisions, we let personal stories affect us more. We shape our behavior based on incomplete or inadequate data. How can we make round table story sharing more effective by promoting empirical data over anecdotes?

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

While these siloed activities might have been helpful when they emerged, today they are less than optimal in the never-ending chase for cost savings, data gathering, personalization and process optimization. Procurement principles are useful tools for you to establish your own organization’s buying power for future conferences.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

While these siloed activities might have been helpful when they emerged, today they are less than optimal in the never-ending chase for cost savings, data gathering, personalization and process optimization. Procurement principles are useful tools for you to establish your own organization’s buying power for future conferences.

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Rarely do meeting professionals maintain detailed conference customer profiles except registration and certification data. This strategy aims to give meeting professionals an up-to-date record of each conference customer’s individual strengths, needs, motivations, progress and goals.

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Momencio

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Monitor and evaluate your performance data regularly to discover patterns, assess progress, and make informed changes to your resource allocation plan. Event Planning Solutions Consider investing in full event planning solutions to maximize event ROI. How to Allocate Resources for Maximum ROI 5.

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GEVME

JANUARY 18, 2021

Add to that the ease of judging the audience’s reach and response, only further speaks in favour of Virtual Conferences. THE NEEDS OF VIRTUAL CONFERENCE PLANNING. All that we need now is a plan to put to action. Virtual conference tools. Keep that Money Safe-. Did You Do It Right?-.

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GEVME

JANUARY 18, 2021

Add to that the ease of judging the audience’s reach and response, only further speaks in favour of Virtual Conferences. THE NEEDS OF VIRTUAL CONFERENCE PLANNING. All that we need now is a plan to put to action. Virtual conference tools. Keep that Money Safe-. Did You Do It Right?-.

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GEVME

JANUARY 18, 2021

Add to that the ease of judging the audience’s reach and response, only further speaks in favour of Virtual Conferences. THE NEEDS OF VIRTUAL CONFERENCE PLANNING. All that we need now is a plan to put to action. Virtual conference tools. Keep that Money Safe-. Did You Do It Right?-.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 28, 2019

Efficient planning does not mean reinventing the wheel each time. Leverage the three Ds: Delegate tasks, collect data, and incorporate deadlines. Successfully planning an academic conference can take years. Make the most of your planning time. Listen to the data.

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Momencio

OCTOBER 8, 2023

They can choose the best next step by delivering thorough event metrics, including first-party data on your guests, to your marketing team and sales agents. Encourage a data-driven culture. Measuring event success metrics regularly instills a data-driven approach. The foundation of every successful gathering is event planning.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 14, 2018

Conferences that dictate facts and data suffocate any inkling of curiosity. As meeting professionals you have a tremendous opportunity to create conferences that inspire your participants’ curiosity. Relevant, interesting questions can serve as the cornerstone for your conference planning. Questions do!

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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. Mobile apps are great sources of data.

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Eventinterface

MARCH 23, 2017

The integration also offers an opportunity for planners to poll sessions and event attendees, and data can be projected in real time in the meeting room. That is the reason why we partnered with Eventinterface, a world-class, conference planning and engagement platform. ” -- Al Wynant CEO and Co-Founder of Eventinterface.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 3, 2016

Just like regular preventive maintenance for your car, your conference needs regular preventive maintenance. The first place to start with a conference check-up is collecting the right data. We’ve got to ignore those vanity metrics that make feel good. They will lead us to false security and fake hopes.

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Velvet Chainsaw

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Your brain on story acts very differently than when your brain is receiving data, facts and information. We are helpless story junkies says author, journalist, and storyteller Michelle Weldon. We can’t help it. It’s part of our human nature to crave and connect with stories.

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GEVME

JUNE 25, 2021

Since virtual corporate events produce a lot of data, you will be establishing Key Performance Metrics which will measure the success of your event through this data—for instance, the click rates, the ticket registrations to audience conversions ratio, etc. The best way to begin with virtual event planning is to create a checklist.

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GEVME

JUNE 25, 2021

Since virtual corporate events produce a lot of data, you will be establishing Key Performance Metrics which will measure the success of your event through this data—for instance, the click rates, the ticket registrations to audience conversions ratio, etc. The best way to begin with virtual event planning is to create a checklist.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 11, 2019

Why do so many organizations invest in student programming when their data shows they are not effective? The post The Right Rewarding Student Strategy For Your Conference appeared first on Velvet Chainsaw. Reprinted with permission of Convene, the magazine of the Professional Convention Management Association.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Andrew Ng’s research is in machine learning and in statistical AI algorithms for data mining, pattern recognition, and control. Keynote speakers on Big Data. Beyond his proper books, he served as editor for the 2011 book 101 Lightbulb Moments in Data Management: Tales from the Data Roundtable. Where to find him?

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Andrew Ng’s research is in machine learning and in statistical AI algorithms for data mining, pattern recognition, and control. Keynote speakers on Big Data. Beyond his proper books, he served as editor for the 2011 book 101 Lightbulb Moments in Data Management: Tales from the Data Roundtable. Where to find him?

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