Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 6, 2017

Your real conference competition is not that event held six months after yours. Today’s technology driven, hyper-connected, instant gratification, real-time world puts you as a conference organizer in a difficult position. Too often our current conference planning processes focus on the greatest common denominator.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 4, 2018

As conference organizers, why can’t we also have a fun, fulfilling, and collaborative experience planning and designing the conference? Six Ways To Design Your Experience Too. Here are six ways to focus on designing your team’s experience during your next conference planning process. (I confess: I have!).

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 6, 2018

Ah, the ubiquitous conference one-hour lecture. As an example I’ll use a three-day conference I’m currently designing. Here are three session formats we’re using for the middle of the conference arc. In my experience, each of them is far more effective than a traditional conference lecture.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 28, 2018

There is one debt every conference organizer must face and vanquish. It can cripple a conference. Organizational debt—the interest your conference pays when its structures, policies, procedures, practices, committees and leadership roles stay fixed and accumulate even as the world around it changes.* What is this debt?

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

My Dutch friend and expert moderator, Jan Jaap In der Maur , recently shared an innovative format for an in-conference pitch competition he devised for the Conventa Crossover Conference , in Ljubljana, Slovenia: “There were also the Conventa Crossover Awards. given at EventCamp Twin Cities on September 9, 2010? If so, download.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 29, 2016

How your audience responds will have a direct impact on your conference’s brand image and credibility. From a conference design perspective, we believe the current best practice is to bookend your conference by opening with a strong-thought provoking speaker and closing with inspiration.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 8, 2021

Dave will talk about his forecasts for future trends for association events at a virtual education session on July 15 at 10 a.m. EDT for the Reston Herndon Meeting Planners, “Ready or Not, Here They Come: 5 Post-Pandemic Conference Design Changes.”. He believes leadership will be more open to change after a live-event hiatus.

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Coterie Spark

MAY 17, 2023

Over the past few years, there have been dramatic shifts in the way conferences are planned. Below are a few ways we like to go the extra mile to ensure that your attendees feel personally connected to the conference. There’s nothing like a good sweat to shake the nerves associated with attending a big conference.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 10, 2021

Hallway conversations are going to be even more highly valued in future conferences, Dave Lutz says, so planners should consider chopping 15 minutes off of concurrent sessions to create longer breaks. 5 Program Design Change Trends. Long-term traditions can deter next-generation conference participants. Purposeful abandonment :?This

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I’m indebted to Martin Sirk for sharing remarkable information about an 1828 conference designed by the German geographer, naturalist, and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Read what follows to discover that Humboldt was also a meeting designer way ahead of his time! Martin Sirk Modern meeting design!

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2024

And then in 2005, twenty-eight years later, I felt compelled to write a book about the new ways I’d developed to design and lead conferences that became what the participants wanted and needed. I would need every scrap of my conviction about the importance of peer conferences to persist in what followed. and the how?

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Events and media consultant Julius Solaris shared at the Unforgettable Experience Design Summit that he was initially very enthusiastic about unconference format events. He thought conferences would eventually adopt unconference models. Why aren’t unconferences more popular? Here are my six reasons.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

I’ve been promoting the Conferences That Work meeting format for so long, that some people assume I think it’s the right choice for every meeting. two meeting types and three situations when you should NOT use a Conferences That Work design: — Most corporate events. Many corporate events have a tight focus.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 22, 2020

I’m leading a free online workshop on Friday, June 26, 12 – 2 pm EDT, that will give you a unique opportunity to experience The Three Questions : in my opinion, the best way to open a conference designed for active learning, connection, and engagement. Full details about the event are available here.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 20, 2019

Events operate by stories. Events operate by stories Like science fiction, events also create futures, and events operate by stories. Just as good stories have a story arc , coherent events have a conference arc. The promise of events springs from the reality that we are the stories we tell about ourselves.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A “creative” event design is one with a novel venue and/or decor and lighting and/or food and beverage. Consequently, planners restrict the entire focus of creative event design to novel visual and sensory elements. Truly creative event design We are biased against truly creative event design.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 28, 2023

How emerging AI and other technology will boost event humanity by putting attendee needs at the center of conference design Attendees expect more from events today and emerging technology is helping to deliver on those demands. We need to build that technology into our events to give them flexibility.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 12, 2017

Clients invariably ask me to help design their meeting after they’ve chosen a venue! Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! Want to see my 6 minute 40 second Pecha Kucha presentation Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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InitLive

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Social Media Marketing World , held by Social Media Examiner (SME), is a conference designed for social media experts. More than 48,000 marketers have attended events held by Social Media Examiner since 2013. Texting each other and scrambling around on the day of the event heightened the risk of stress for attendees.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 12, 2018

Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: A birthday present for you on the 21st anniversary of Conferences That Work What a long strange trip it’s been The first Conferences That Work event was held June 3–5, 1992, at Marlboro College, Vermont. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 29, 2016

The following year, David was kind enough to honor me in his flagship publication BizBash as one of the most innovative event professionals. However, one recurring theme in David’s magazine irritates me, because it perpetuates a common misconception in the events industry. 3 — Conferences That Work.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 2, 2018

Recently, a client asked for help designing a new conference. Thirty minutes of discussion with three stakeholders revealed they hadn’t yet settled on the event’s specific purpose, scope, and format. hoping that in the process the event’s purpose and desired outcomes will become clearer.

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Eventory

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It’s a commonly known fact that global conferences have numerous advantages. Attending a big industry event not only offers you a wide range of inspiration and knowledge but it’s also a great opportunity to network. Conferences can equip attendees in new skills, business contacts and increase their awareness of new industry trends.

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Eventbrite UK

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

What's the right badging solution for your event? The post A Quick Guide to Conference Badging appeared first on Eventbrite UK Blog. We run you through the 3 main options to help you make the right choice.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 25, 2018

The newly AIM Gold awarded Cloth Hall Court by Well Met will welcome around 300 delegates tomorrow, Friday 26 January, for the very first dedicated conference designed for cyber security experts. The post Cloth Hall Court to host sell-out cyber security conference appeared first on Event Industry News.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 12, 2017

The 2017 PCMA Education Conference kicked off Sunday at the Marriott Marquis Times Square, where attendees were quickly immersed in a distinctively New York vibe — minus the traffic. Magical technology to kick off @pcmahq Education Conference in NYC. Opening reception at Rockefeller Center Plaza. Matt Wallaert. Tony Awards afterparty.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 17, 2017

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. What obstacles are preventing you from live streaming your conference education?

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Eventbrite UK

AUGUST 18, 2016

Great conferences have strong brands. Use this worksheet to run through the exercises that will help you create a stand-out event brand. The post The Conference Director’s Branding Worksheet appeared first on Eventbrite UK Blog.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 27, 2016

In this two-part article I’ll share a little of my experience and takeaways, followed by their relevance to event design ( red ). Although that opportunity had to be passed up—PCMA made me an offer I couldn’t refuse: facilitating the 2015 PCMA Education Conference —I made it to the 2016 workshop. How I got there.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

How to incorporate a sense of belonging into the attendee event experience The phrase “sense of belonging” is defined as the psychological feeling of connectedness to a social, spatial, cultural, professional or other type of group or community (Hurtado & Carter, 1997).

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Event Marketer

MAY 24, 2023

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. It’s a curated experience unique to ‘me.’

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Traditional conference designs also adopt this model. Eventually, a transforming idea or event allows a period of transition away from chaos, via integration and practice , towards a new status quo. Somehow, the inspiring keynote will instantly change attendees’ lives for the better. This provokes our feeling unsettled.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 18, 2016

I’m in San Antonio, Texas, having just run two 90-minute “panels” at a national association leadership conference. Each session was designed to discover and meet wants and needs of the executive officers and volunteers of the association’s regional chapters’ members in an area of special interest.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 11, 2021

What makes attending conferences worthwhile? As I described in Conferences That Work , the two most common reasons for attending conferences are to learn useful things and make useful connections. But there are numerous other ways that conferences provide value to stakeholders. Complicated problems.

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Tito Blog | An Event Blog for Organisers

AUGUST 23, 2019

To help you get among that community, we’ve put together a collection of events for business owners in 2019 and 2020, beginning with: 1) South Summit CDMX 2019. After two successful editions earlier this year in Malaga and Bogotá, the event will be back this October in Madrid, and this December in Mexico City. Tickets : Free !

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 6, 2020

Several scientific and medical conferences are changing to meet the demand. has been to many conferences. who conducts research in vector biology and mycology, is also a regular conference-goer. He’s taken home awards for his presentations at events like the European Congress of Entomology. Jeremy Leung illustration).

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Slido

OCTOBER 24, 2018

To help you find the best of the game content as well as the hidden gems of the event blogosphere, we scoured the web and put together blogs that keep us on top of things. Event trends, news and inspiration 1. Eventbrite Blog Who in the event world wouldn’t know Eventbrite? Julius is also a community building pro.

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