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Satisfying wants and needs at conferences

Conferences that Work

I use the phrase “wants and needs” a lot when talking about participant-driven and participation-rich conferences. Satisfying wants and what Abraham Maslow called growth needs are core goals of any event. Whom is your event for? Otherwise, why bother creating the conference in the first place?

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Configurable Conference Journeys

Velvet Chainsaw

For many annual meetings, the Great Resignation has resulted in erosion of loyal, regular attendees and an increase in first-timers, whose experience can be improved with guidance on the best course for them to follow during your program. Publish these itineraries on the website about a month before the event. Design-your-day sessions.

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Peer Conferences Deep Dive—Meeting Doctors transcript and video

Conferences that Work

On Tuesday, March 26, 2024 , I sat down with Martin Duffy and Paul Nunesdea on LinkedIn Live for an hour’s deep dive conversation about peer conferences: the participant-driven, participation-rich events I’ve designed and facilitated for over thirty years. Peer Conferences Unveiled—The Transcript!

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Why people continue to speak for free at meeting industry conferences

Conferences that Work

Why people continue to speak for free at meeting industry conferences : Another issue of an occasional series— Dear Adrian — in which I answer questions about event design, elementary particle physics , solar hot water systems, and anything else I might conceivably know something about. an unknown level of expertise.

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Q&A: Inside Google’s New ‘Inclusive Event Design Guide’ for the Industry

Event Marketer

“Google wants to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible—that is the mission of the company—and I think if you follow that sentiment to its logical conclusion, accessibility and making things accessible to all of our users can only happen if we understand what our users need, and that goes for live events, as well.”

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Top 10 Event Planning Resources For Meeting & Event Planners

Attendease

Guide to Implementing Virtual Events , by Attendease Having the right technology stack is essential to run a successful virtual conference. Download this implementation guide to learn the pieces that you need to run your multi-session online event. This is what Tahira Endean talks about in her book Intentional Event Design.

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Competent logistics are the new meeting minimum

Conferences that Work

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. Steve Jobs said, “Design is how it works”. And good event design is about how a conference works.