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Five Reasons to Change Conferences

Conferences that Work

Here’s my article “ Five Reasons to Change Conferences “ , published in the December 2018, NSA Speaker magazine. But our conference programs still focus on lectures, where a few experts broadcast their knowledge to passive listeners. Related posts: Conferences That Work goes to Japan!

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The job you’ll be doing in the future hasn’t been invented yet

Conferences that Work

1992: I organize a conference where there are no expert speakers available (it’s a new field, there are no experts). Invent a way to make the conference successful based on the collective needs, wants, and experience of the attendees. The conference has run continually for the last 27 years.) This is something new.

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Top Tips on Hiring Interpreters for Your Meetings and Events

Eventinterface

Countless multilingual business meetings, conferences and events are conducted around the world daily, the success of which largely depends on attendees understanding each other. Plan on interpreters for all the languages used at your meeting or event. Interpreters should be briefed before the meeting to they can prepare.

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The Event-changing Magic of a Thoughtful Post-con

Smart Meetings

Meeting professionals spend months and sometimes years designing events that are engaging, inspiring and educational. Inclusive pricing covers meeting space, all audiovisual equipment and meals in the pescatarian kitchen (no meat, alcohol or tobacco is allowed on the property).

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The UnExpo Experiment

Conferences that Work

(Fun fact: the testing community often uses my term “peer conferences” for their get-togethers, due to a chat about meeting design I had with tester James Bach at the 2004 Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference.) Most meeting conveners concentrate on feedback about meeting content (“great speakers!”)

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When Peaches Meet Coconuts

PCMA Convene

The answer describes your personal interaction style, in a model that Opening General Session speaker Erin Meyer shared yesterday at PCMA’s Global Professionals Conference – Europe, held at the Palais des Congres de Paris. Which, in turn, requires flexibility on the part of time-obsessed North American meeting organizers.

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Interview of a Digital Event Manager (DEM)

GEVME

While many companies resort to software like zoom to have virtual conferences or meetings, how can one take an entire social group of thousands of people virtual, and how do you manage such an event? The team had to go through with the run down and instruct on which speaker would speak when.