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Alexander von Humboldt: A meeting designer way ahead of his time

Conferences that Work

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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Doing peer conferences right

Conferences that Work

Software testers do peer conferences right! They even call them a peer conference , rather than unconference , a term I don’t like.) As evidence of software tester conference awesomeness, I offer three examples below. a short history of the peer conference. The 2022 SoCraTes peer conference. But first…. …a

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The production line approach to meeting design

Gallus Events

I have always used the metaphor of a production line to explain the need for meeting design. Well, after a visit to two modern production lines in Germany (as part of a fantastic familiarisation trip to Dresden and Leipzig – you can read reviews of both of those fantastic cities) I have to find a new metaphor.

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Driving team building and networking through interactive event technology

Event Industry News

in the early planning stages of an internal meeting, designed to bring together two teams – Digital and Information Technology for the first time – prior to their merger into one ‘Digital Technology’ team. Networking and collaboration were the primary objectives of this all-hands meeting, held in Germany in January 2019.

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How We’ll Meet

PCMA Convene

Fraunhofer also identified six meeting scenarios, developed by projecting how social and business trends will affect meeting design. Whereas the first phase focused on meeting environments and meeting design, this research “will look at human behavior at meetings,” Schultze said.

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We’re Not Going It Alone

PCMA Convene

A few months ago, we announced the acquisition of Singapore-based Incentive, Conference & Event Society Asia Pacific (ICESAP). Recent examples of such partnerships include the PCMA Business School at IMEX in Frankfurt, Germany, and at the Singapore MICE Forum, where we partnered with SACEOS, a Singapore-based MICE association.

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New Event Formats and What They Mean for Business Networking

Converve

For some time, more and more event managers have been concerning themselves with the topic of meeting design. There is still however no clear description of what meeting design actually means. This is the scenario that we already experience at a lot of conferences. (updated 18 July 2018). Totally Analogue. "The