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Conference Planning: A Step-by-Step Checklist for Success

InitLive

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.

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Conference Planning: A Step-by-Step Checklist for Success (Backup - Aug 2022)

InitLive

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.

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The Ultimate Conference Planning Checklist

InitLive

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. Train your volunteers for a smooth process.

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The Secret to Using A.I. Effectively: Persistence

MeetingsNet

generated content already spreading across the internet is used to train the next generation of A.I. so that she creates unique educational sessions, marketing copy, and other elements of her conferences—an approach that includes feeding websites URLs and other data and information that she finds on the internet into her A.I.

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[Webinar]The Future Is Not as Simple as Just Going Hybrid

Velvet Chainsaw

Presenters Tracey Steiner, NRECA’s senior vice president for education, training and events, and Velvet Chainsaw Consulting’s managing director, Dave Lutz, will share learnings, pros, cons and alternatives that associations are exploring for their 2022 event portfolios.

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Fostering a Winning Conference Culture

Velvet Chainsaw

That means training and supporting all association staff who will be working on site at your events and ensuring they have the resources and information necessary to do their jobs well. Here are a few tips to create a winning on-site culture: Make training mandatory (even for executives). How to Create an Effective Event Culture.

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Key Vendor Service-Level Expectations

Velvet Chainsaw

At times, these priorities compete against training inexperienced — or fixing issues with — vendors. Training and onboarding of new team members often takes months. At the same time, event planners have never had more organizational pressure to deliver meetings with increased attendance, revenue, and resulting net income.