Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

QnA with Event Industry Influencer, Author and Founder of Conferences That Work – Adrian Segar. Amazed by the modern concept of organizing conferences and ideas that change the concept of corporate meetings planning; we approached Adrian Segar to discuss his work! How did you land up with the idea of “Conferences That Work”?

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MAY 11, 2020

I’ve been designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich in person meetings — aka peer conferences — for almost thirty years. Because participants love these meetings ! Now the covid-19 pandemic has forced meetings online. In person meetings have vanished overnight.

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APRIL 11, 2022

By “practitioners” I mean the folks who do what the meeting is about; e.g., doctors at a medical event or scientists at a conservation conference. Often, vendors meet with practitioners at a tradeshow, and sponsors (who are usually vendors too) get opportunities to address practitioners.

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MARCH 13, 2017

This is all very well, but it begs the question: what can meeting designers do to make it easier for attendees to participate more at meetings? Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Seth Godin, What Would Happen. Here are three things we can do. Sources for additional information.

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MARCH 4, 2019

After a highly successful debut in 2018, three Meeting Professionals International (MPI) Chapters — MPI Toronto , MPI Montréal/Québec , and MPI Ottawa — have again joined forces to provide cutting edge, innovative, experiential education at The EVENT. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Participate!

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Lecturing has been the core modality in our education systems for centuries. Let’s look at these three conclusions in the context of meeting design. Most meeting presenters still lecture. And most meeting session presenters resort to lecturing as their dominant session modality.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The UK’s leading platform for the world’s meetings and events community will be officially opened on Thursday 30 September by Tourism Minister Nigel Huddleston at ExCeL, London. Here are some of the highlights of The Meetings Show 2021: Inspiring exhibitors. Education, education, education.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 22, 2023

Hey everyone, especially educators who teach courses on meetings and hospitality. My ebooks are now available on VitalSource , the largest global supplier of digital course materials to higher education! It is critical to understand how to design conferences and events effectively.

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JUNE 13, 2016

When attendees feel safe to share and empowered to ask questions and express what they think and how they feel, what happens at a conference can be amazing. Bonus insight on another relationship between censorship and meeting design: How you may be treating your meeting evaluations like a Chinese censor. to say and do.

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APRIL 1, 2024

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! Here it is—enjoy!

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JUNE 26, 2017

The meetings industry is far more aware of the importance of treating and supporting attendees as active participants rather than passive consumers of education. I also moderated the #eventprofs Twitter chats for several years, and until recently, ran the weekly #Eventprofs Happy Hour Hangout for meeting professionals.

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AUGUST 8, 2016

For over 25 years, I’ve been designing and facilitating Conferences That Work : successful, innovative, highly interactive, participant-driven events that leverage attendees’ expertise and experience to create just the conference that participants want and need. Earn CIC education credits. I’m excited!

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MARCH 25, 2019

Though it’s clearly sensible to keep a conference running on schedule, we’ve all attended meetings where rambling presenters, avoidable “technical issues”, incompetent facilitation, and inadequate logistics have made a mockery of the published program. I can’t think of any situation where this is a plus.

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JUNE 18, 2018

CoffeeGate One sunny morning in 2105, two hundred of us arrived for the opening breakfast at a Canadian conference to discover There Was No Coffee. The young first-time volunteer staff had forgotten to brew it. Three days later, people were still grumbling about CoffeeGate.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 24, 2019

Next month, Thomson again will be looking for innovative ways to address the issue, this time as part of “ Hackathon: How the Events Industry Can Help the Unsheltered/Homeless ,” at PCMA’s Education Conference in Los Angeles on June 25. The duo will be back at this year’s Educon. What can we do as an industry to help?

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AUGUST 13, 2018

“But they too often focus on the job the planner did with event logistics: meals, entertainment, transportation and similar elements,” says John Nawn, founder of meeting design and measurement firm The Perfect Meeting , and former director of education for Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA).

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

has a larger and more secular audience in his sights: conference-goers. Packard shared how “conference refugees” — who find the hallway more appealing than the breakout room — are pointing the way for meeting professionals to adapt. I was just at a religious conference, and it was incredibly dissatisfying.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

has a larger and more secular audience in his sights: conference-goers. Packard shared how “conference refugees” — who find the hallway more appealing than the breakout room — are pointing the way for meeting professionals to adapt. I was just at a religious conference, and it was incredibly dissatisfying.

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SpotMe Blog

JULY 6, 2021

We’ve confirmed that virtual events can be engaging and productive, but only if the meeting design is truly participant driven and takes into consideration the needs of that audience. Over the last 16 months, since the pandemic began, there was a huge rise in education being viewed online through webinars and digital events. .

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Event Industry News

JUNE 6, 2019

Many of the large tech conferences like Google I/O and Facebook’s F8 arguably have a greater response online than in the meeting itself. What do you hope attendees of your session at The Meetings Show will take away from it? The future is hybrid, are you ready?

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 11, 2021

When planning something like a sales meeting, it’s obvious the key measure is to drive sales. But if you’re running a conference on diversity and inclusion , the measurement might not be as clear. Before the conference, create a control group so you can monitor how learning is used post-meeting.

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Hubilo Blog

MARCH 7, 2020

She is the founder of Strategic Meeting and Events which produces mid to large scale corporate events. She has worked on both the conference side and vendor side of the industry, which made it easy for her to understand the requirements of her clients and hence helped them in strategic problem-solving.

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The MICE

JULY 27, 2022

I want to re-share this article that I wrote back in 2019 and was initially published on VDVO website , because the principles of event design remain the same, the human is in the centre of every experience that we want to design for our events and technology technology should enhance this experience, and not replace it.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 5, 2016

From books that take an irreverent approach to meeting planning to comprehensive guides on everything from meeting design to green events , this reading list has everything the modern meeting planner needs for a relaxing day of poolside reading. Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 11, 2019

Exclusively open to businesses which have been in the market for three years or less, the Future of Meetings Award offers a springboard to launching new products and services to the meetings industry.

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OCTOBER 24, 2018

We love it for its educational, in-depth content and fresh perspectives on some of the most interesting topics for eventprofs. Meeting design and interaction tips 11. Dive in for tips on how to design internal meetings that build trust and increase employee engagement. Leadership, culture and meetings 15.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Instead, we’re identifying valuable partners already established in different markets and finding ways to build education that benefits that region and the industry overall. A few months ago, we announced the acquisition of Singapore-based Incentive, Conference & Event Society Asia Pacific (ICESAP).

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MARCH 28, 2022

But when you’re spending all your time on these issues it’s easy to forget that they are not what meetings are about. Today, competent logistics are the new meeting minimum. The deficiencies of meeting planning textbooks and education. Most assume that a meeting planner is all they need. No related posts.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2019

Where past generations of meeting-goers might have been content as spectators, attendees today are looking for more active participation and experiential learning — starting with the fact that much of what they used to travel for is now available digitally. If you don’t let the Millennials have input, they’ll opt out.”. FLIPPED LEARNING.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2017

Where past generations of meeting-goers might have been content as spectators, attendees today are looking for more active participation and experiential learning — starting with the fact that much of what they used to travel for is now available digitally. If you don’t let the Millennials have input, they’ll opt out.”.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference. Why have a keynote speaker at your event?

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JUNE 21, 2019

Both on Event Tech Podcast and #EventIcons , we shared a lot of good stuff from this fantastic conference. But on the matter of inclusion at events, our host Tahira Endean sat down with Maarten Vannest e of the Meeting Design Institute. If you’ve been paying attention, you know we already covered IMEX Frankfurt.

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Event Marketer

MAY 17, 2023

While most days were spent inside Caesars Palace’s conference center, attendees took advantage of outdoor activities, like early-morning 5K fun runs and poolside guided meditations (new this year). The group also talked about growth strategies, including a smaller, but stronger, approach.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference. Why have a keynote speaker at your event?

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 12, 2016

I’ve been convening, designing, and facilitating conferences for over 35 years, concentrating on participant-driven and participation-rich event facilitation and design since 1992. ASegar was the best facilitator/presenter…by far!” — De-de Mulligan, CMP, CMM, former Director of Education, Ohio MPI Chapter.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 10, 2017

IMEX America launched its 2017 event in Las Vegas with a full schedule of educational content—powered by MPI —for the 1,000 planners who arrived on Monday, a day before the show opened. Participants were able to take advantage of 43 sessions, focused on the latest in planning purposeful meetings.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Tahira Endean tweets about the intersection of experiential, immersive meeting design and technology. She’s a stellar resource for the latest event tech news, and also shares her take on industry conferences. If you’re active on the event and hospitality conference circuit, you might bump into her. @TahiraCreates.

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