Conferences that Work

MARCH 21, 2022

This coming June will mark my 30th year of designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings. So I designed the workshop as an “ Ask Adrian Anything ” about meeting design and facilitation. Designing an online workshop in Gatherly. I’ve shared the why?

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Conferences that Work

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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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 25, 2021

As Dee W Hock , founder and former CEO of VISA, put it: Any idiot can impose and exercise control. Any idiot can impose and exercise control. To “elicit freedom and release creativity”, we need to recognize that participants are stakeholders in the event, rather than “just” an audience.

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Meetings 2010 2020 Conference 307

Conferences that Work

MAY 24, 2021

After participants completed the pre-test survey independently, they initiated a conference call with their partner. ” Artificial online meetings. My second objection concerns the brevity of the research exercises. This occurred during the first Meeting Design Practicum in Utrecht, The Netherlands: more details here ).

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Conferences that Work

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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Contracts 2011 Conference Education 175

Plan Your Meetings

JANUARY 15, 2018

Communication, information and content in meetings and conferences is often mostly the spoken word supported by visuals in text and photos. The simple idea is to make a small notebook, where there is both pre-written key messages and a mix of exercises that invites to either write or draw own thoughts, reflections and ideas.

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Meetings Meeting Design Travel Conference 62

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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