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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

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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Gallus Events

JULY 24, 2017

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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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

There’s a blizzard of white papers and trend reports that seek to help meeting professionals understand what to expect in the future — including research conducted by the German Convention Bureau (GCB) as part of its Future Meeting Space initiative. For example, what makes a person a ‘networking’ or ‘knowledge-sharing’ person?

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

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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Converve

MAY 9, 2017

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. It tries to research the influences of technology on event design. (updated 18 July 2018).

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 2, 2017

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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