Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Before 2020, I was designing and facilitating around a dozen in-person meetings and conferences a year. After COVID decimated the meeting industry, I focused on the design and facilitation of online meetings. And David gave me a free hand with the design. The design parameters were interesting.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 18, 2017

There is no such thing as the “perfect” conference programme. Every programme should reflect the slight differences in the audience; those delivering the content; the physical space in which the meeting takes place; the budget, and a good few other aspects too! Conference Programme Template. Add some meeting design.

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Gallus Events

MARCH 22, 2016

At the end of February we supported Practically Perfect PA to run their second “Assist Conference” They reached their target of 100 PAs just a few days before the date of the conference, and everyone was delighted to have sold out the event. The five keys to great conference content. And the reason?

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 3, 2022

Here’s a rare opportunity to ask me anything about meeting design and facilitation at a unique, free, online workshop. When it’s over, you’re welcome to stay and socialize online, and I’ll stick around for informal chats. Though the central core is the AAA session, this is an active learning workshop.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 24, 2017

So you’re holding a conference. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida.

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Conferences that Work

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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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Well, information dumps from an expert lecturer are one of the worst ways to learn anything important. All meeting design needs to recognize this reality. What we think of as modern business meetings and conferences are hundreds of years old. Yes, humanity’s problem is a meeting problem. Want more evidence?

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Gallus Events

MARCH 22, 2016

At the end of February we supported Practically Perfect PA to run their second “Assist Conference” They reached their target of 100 PAs just a few days before the date of the conference, and everyone was delighted to have sold out the event. The five keys to great conference content. And the reason?

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Gallus Events

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In February Gallus Events organised the fourth annual conference for Europe’s largest blog for Personal Assistants “Practically Perfect PA” Attracting over 150 attendees to the physical event in London and over 100 watching online, we created an event that was very different from any other conference for Assistants.

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Prestige Events Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2022

Award-winning events and meetings space provider, Warwick Conferences , has announced the appointment of Christine Jones as Business Development Manager. Supporting organisations in the pharmaceutical, finance and legal sectors, Christine has worked at Warwick Conferences for more than 12 years as a Sales Manager.

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PCMA Convene

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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PCMA Convene

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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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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Gallus Events

MAY 2, 2017

Clients often ask me, what should they look for in a venue that will support a creative conference? Too many venues, especially hotels, are still designed and to house traditional conferences. If you want to run a creative conference, one that uses Meeting Design you have to find a venue that will really support your conference.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 24, 2020

Here are five meeting design books I especially recommend. Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design ( ebook or paperback ). Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design ( ebook or paperback ). Intentional Event Design ( ebook or paperback ).

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Slido

OCTOBER 15, 2018

How many times have you reached into your creative ideas shelf when planning a conference and realized you’ve used all the usual session formats way too often? This can be difficult at the end of a conference day as people’s attention tends to wane. The format stimulated focused thinking among the attendees.

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Conferences that Work

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. Sources for additional information. Seth Godin, What Would Happen. Here are three things we can do.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 6, 2022

A meeting designer used a carbon-dioxide meter in all the spaces he moved through while attending a recent conference. In late May, Adrian Segar attended a meeting-industry leadership summit in San Juan, Puerto Rico. With the meeting-room doors open, my meter typically showed readings between 500 and 600,” he noted.

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Conferences that Work

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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Conferences that Work

MARCH 4, 2019

Organizer Karen Norris , who invited me, summed up The Event as follows: “We pride ourselves on the fact that our conference is not a typical, didactic conference and we are an ‘experience.'” For more information, check out the full program , registration , and accommodation and travel details.

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GEVME

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Take a look at the following picture of a trade fair back in 1979: National Tire Dealers and Retreaders Association Conference & Trade Show 1979. Same goes for meetings format. Most of the meetings today are still about people sitting down and listening to one or more speakers. Sure, what people wear has changed.

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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. I’ve shared the why? and the details of how I typically run this format here.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The term wake evokes a more informal event and experience than that of a traditional funeral. As the registrations come in, I will use the affiliation information included to create appropriate descriptions for these rooms. I decided to start somewhat formally with everyone together, as in a traditional memorial service.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The NAS study gives us some important new information: “ [M]ost college STEM instructors still choose traditional teaching methods…We find that students in the active classroom learn more, but they feel like they learn less. . Let’s look at these three conclusions in the context of meeting design.

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Conferences that Work

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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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 26, 2019

I embarked on a series of careers that increasingly integrated my technical background with working with people: owning and managing a solar energy business, teaching computer science at a liberal arts college, and consulting in information technology. If you had told me then that the. Whoever they are—young developing leaders,

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

So here’s my review of Butter, a meeting platform for facilitators to shine. In this review of Butter, I’ll share a big picture overview, what I think is Butter’s finest feature, an example of how to implement a meeting design in Butter, and my closing thoughts. Meeting design case. Butter rooms.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 29, 2021

And I know many great meeting professionals who strive to wear on their sleeve how they love being with people. Twenty years ago I was a successful, independent information technology consultant. What has surprised me during this journey is meeting so many meeting professionals I like along the way. Yay for us!

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Korea Tourism Organisation, VisitDenmark and Gibraltar Tourist Board are just a handful of the international destinations ready to help planners find the perfect location for their next meeting or event while a large number of UK destinations, including Conference Leeds, Meet Leicester and London Convention Bureau will be doing the same.

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Conferences that Work

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. I’m excited! Earn CIC education credits.

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Gallus Events

JULY 19, 2018

I had a brilliant day at the Event Strategy Conference in London on the 16th July. However, attending a conference like this allows organisers to do exactly that. The fundamental purpose for most associations is to provide information to their members. Most associations run events that disseminate information.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 11, 2021

What makes attending conferences worthwhile? As I described in Conferences That Work , the two most common reasons for attending conferences are to learn useful things and make useful connections. But there are numerous other ways that conferences provide value to stakeholders. Complicated problems.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 13, 2018

But the only way to prove to executive stakeholders the value the planner added is by effectively measuring the business benefit of that event’s formal and informal sessions. Yes, most every meeting has after-the-fact attendee evaluations. Such quizzes are an easy addition to an audience-response system or a conference app.

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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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MeetingsNet

MAY 29, 2019

The brain gets more opportunities to transfer new information from the short-term to the long-term memory because of the deeper context from various viewpoints. Participants learn more by chunking information and having time to process it, as opposed to when focusing on a long presentation.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2019

“The higher-level reality is that so many of the meetings we attend and plan these days look and feel exactly the same as meetings designed prior to the internet,” said Marc Pomerleau, vice president of global strategy for FreemanXP. That’s the old model. If you don’t let the Millennials have input, they’ll opt out.”.

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Gallus Events

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I spoke at IBTM in Barcelona ( you can read the “review” here ) at the end of November on one of my favourite topics, Meeting Design or fresh formats for conferences. I then picked out five key things to consider when you thinking about designing fresh formats. What objectives should underpin meeting design.

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