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

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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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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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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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The manufacturer suggests we shouldn’t take for granted the strength of the thick aluminum foil holding our main course. There have been many times when I’ve been understandably silent/disengaged/distracted during meetings, and I’m sure everyone else has too. People who are distracted or disengaged.

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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

Under pandemic conditions, former alumni, faculty, staff, and other friends of the institution cannot even meet in person to grieve. So I decided to design and run an online memorial service. A Zoom meeting recorder. Zoom meeting monitoring. Zoom main room monitoring during group breakouts. No related posts.

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Gallus Events

MAY 11, 2020

In the main the trainers delivering these courses, are people doing online events, not just talking about online events. The main objective when designing the Pivot Your Events to Digital course was to support students to be able to return the investment BEFORE the course was over. Well, that’s not good enough for us.

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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? The Newlywed Game meets live polls At Pulse 2018 , we came across a creative panel idea that quickly pulled people in and enlivened the audience.

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Gallus Events

MAY 11, 2020

In the main the trainers delivering these courses, are people doing online events, not just talking about online events. The course covers all of the events that are taking place virtually, including webinars, virtual festivals, conferences, trade shows, awards dinners and fundraising events. Well, that’s not good enough for us.

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Plan Your Meetings

JANUARY 15, 2018

Creating a space design where the atmosphere and physical set-up immediately embraces the participants with a feeling of comfort and safety is the best start to a meeting that you can give your participants. The design of the physical meeting space should also be seen as the body language of a meeting.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 26, 2017

I’ve spent 25 years working on changing outmoded mindsets about what we should be doing in meetings. Historically, topics had to be determined in advance, the meeting format was mainly lecture and did not encourage interaction, and content was king. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. And it is changing.

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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

JUNE 6, 2019

Ahead of his discussion at The Meetings Show, ‘The future is hybrid, are you ready?’ he gives the lowdown on hybrid meetings and outlines the benefits involved in hosting them. What is a hybrid meeting? Any meeting that offers a way to participate online can be considered a hybrid meeting.

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The MICE

JULY 27, 2022

I want to re-share this article that I wrote back in 2019 and was initially published on VDVO website , because the principles of event design remain the same, the human is in the centre of every experience that we want to design for our events and technology technology should enhance this experience, and not replace it.

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Gallus Events

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

IBTM session was all about Meeting Design and the venue is about 5 miles from my office, so attending that one was much easier! The main stage at Event Tech Live. Main stage at EUBEA Festival. conferences don’t pay for content. Exhibitors, in the main, still don’t get it! What do you think?

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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. As someone who has run a few association event departments I know the main challenge all too well: running enough events to ensure you satisfy all of the members.

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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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Hubilo Blog

MARCH 7, 2020

With more than a decade of experience as a professional speaker, Dahlia founded The Meeting Pool , a great source of information for event professionals. She’s a past president of Meeting Professionals International, Chicago and has been named as one of the 40 under 40 in the meetings industry by Connect magazine in 2015.

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Endless Events

JUNE 21, 2019

Both on Event Tech Podcast and #EventIcons , we shared a lot of good stuff from this fantastic conference. To kick things off, Melissa begins by giving us some interesting facts: “With meeting planners, it’s predominantly… there are a lot more women than men in the industry. “We’re all in this together.

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Slido

MAY 16, 2019

Meet the speakers before the panel Hop on a prep call with all the speakers (or do individual calls) a week or two in advance, to discuss the flow of the panel discussion. If the time, or packed calendars, don’t allow for it, meet at least on the day of the panel.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference. Why have a keynote speaker at your event?

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference. Why have a keynote speaker at your event?

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Gallus Events

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Time was included to network before and after the main part of the session. . There was best practice everywhere! There were only twenty attendees. Although not impossible it is much easier to have a workshop around this number. Physical barriers had been removed.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 25, 2018

So before I list the seven main things I learned from organizing my first hackathon, I wanted to show you what it looked like. Attending a hackathon isn’t like taking the day off work to attend a conference. We were absolutely delighted to attract almost 40 hackers over the weekend. The venue is absolutely crucial.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 2, 2021

For the first fully hybrid National Association of REALTORS® Board of Directors meeting on May 14, the leadership met together in Chicago, while around 800 directors were remote. And that means that a lot of voting takes place — complicated enough to handle at an in-person meeting and challenging for an online meeting.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 4, 2022

Re-Think MS, a multi-hub, one-day medical conference organized by AIM Group International, was broadcast from a main studio to 13 sites across Italy. Nine expert speakers (one remote) broadcast training sessions from the main studio in Rome, with 180 remote participants. Courtesy of AIM Group International). Barbara Sambugaro.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 6, 2020

The editors of Convene looked back over 2019, asking this question: What’s one meeting and event trend on my radar in 2020? A conference rolled out plans for an all-women speaker lineup. Technology trends — both artificial intelligence and the use of robots — have captured the attention of some Convene editors. Why I Have My Eye on AI.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 19, 2018

But, please keep in mind that no blog is restricted solely to that category – it just represents one of the main focuses. Their reads are always packed with helpful stats to support their main points. Connect are dedicated to providing content that helps you reimagine today’s meetings and look into the future.

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Slido

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Those who sign up, receive only vague advance cues about the film, dress code, and a meeting point. Silent conferences Have you heard about silent discos where people equipped with wireless headphones dance to what the DJ is playing in their ears? However, packed conference agendas rarely leave enough time for Q&A.

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Social Tables

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Meetings are growing and evolving rapidly, and each is an experiment in applying new methods to find a perfect formula. Industry Performance Trends Attendee Experience Trends Meeting Destination Trends Event Technology Trends Meeting Design Trends. Demand continues to outpace supply of meetings-eligible hotels.

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