Conferences that Work

JULY 3, 2023

Back in 1992 , I developed The Three Questions as a fundamental opening process for participant-driven meetings and conferences. I’ve written about The Three Questions in all my books , and the links above and this video provide introductions so I won’t describe it further here.

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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. At times, the video stream for some participants on stage (including me) was blank.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

QnA with Event Industry Influencer, Author and Founder of Conferences That Work – Adrian Segar. Amazed by the modern concept of organizing conferences and ideas that change the concept of corporate meetings planning; we approached Adrian Segar to discuss his work! How did you land up with the idea of “Conferences That Work”?

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Gallus Events

JULY 1, 2019

And the best way to get a grip of texturising content is to look at the principles of meeting design. I know that the idea of scaling the “meeting design” mountain can seem daunting. If you are designing a physical or an online event these simple tips will set you right.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2019

Attendees who want more from their meetings don’t want to sit and listen passively to a formal presentation. Welcome to the era of disrupted meetings, in good company with other industries and institutions whose established norms are being taken down to the studs. They have expectations of involvement. FLIPPED LEARNING.

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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. Receive and curate writing, photos, audio, and video for creating some form of keepsake remembrance(s) for the event and, perhaps, post-event.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2017

Attendees who want more from their meetings don’t want to sit and listen passively to a formal presentation. Welcome to the era of disrupted meetings, in good company with other industries and institutions whose established norms are being taken down to the studs. They have expectations of involvement.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The multi-hub format, with multiple connected venues like this meeting with 18 hubs in Spain, combines the benefits of both. As efforts to contain the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus by restricting travel ripple across the globe, a growing number of event organizers are opting to move meetings online as an alternative to canceling them.

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SpotMe Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Clearly, adding a virtual component to an in-person event is so much more than adding a video camera to the back of the room. We’ve confirmed that virtual events can be engaging and productive, but only if the meeting design is truly participant driven and takes into consideration the needs of that audience.

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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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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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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

Oklahoma City is using influencer marketing in the form of a travel-writing team who will highlight the city’s leisure attractions — and is also bolstering its meetings portfolio with a new convention center. But despite all of these shiny new additions, the one thing the CVB keeps hearing from meeting planners is, why Oklahoma City?

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Event Industry News

MAY 3, 2019

Most modern methods of conversation—email, phone calls, texting, video conferencing— rely on digital technology. These are already finding their way onto show floors and into event meeting spaces, though these experts generally agree that current applications are just scratching the surface of what’s possible. VR is also huge.

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Slido

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Here are some of our favorite blogs that bring the best from our industry, as well as some amazing companies that have inspired us on our journey toward better meetings. MPI Blog The Meeting Professionals International (MPI) website is THE destination to find out what the industry is talking about. Event trends, news and inspiration 1.

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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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Slido

JANUARY 30, 2019

In December 2018, we set out to explore the future of town hall meetings. The goal of our one-day event in partnership with Convene was to show how a successful all-hands could look in 2019 and beyond by using interactive technology and meeting design thinking. The second panel joined remotely by Priscilla Barolo of Zoom.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 22, 2019

Most modern methods of conversation—email, phone calls, texting, video conferencing— rely on digital technology. These are already finding their way onto show floors and into event meeting spaces, though these experts generally agree that current applications are just scratching the surface of what’s possible. VR is also huge.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Posts can range from takeaways from keynotes, photos of the event, or a heads up to your location in order to meet other event attendees. After an event, organizers can share valuable recap content, like videos and blogs, with their attendees and give them previews for the following year’s event, if held annually. Room Design.

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Hubilo Blog

MARCH 4, 2019

Let’s delve into some of the best picks of event blogs/videos collection from the month of February. Meetings Net –. Every attendee expects and experiences different things at exhibitions and conferences. Gamification enhances the event experience of attendees at meetings and corporate events. Special Events –.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 1, 2018

Many of these discoveries have a huge impact on best practices for holding meetings and conferences, and, in turn, how we think about what it means to be engaged in a meeting setting. This means the tone of a meeting or event can change dramatically based on one person’s mood. Impact on Happiness and Creativity.

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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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Social Tables

OCTOBER 28, 2016

If you don’t like reading check out our video with an abbreviated list of influencers on YouTube. ). Meetings & Events. Tahira Endean tweets about the intersection of experiential, immersive meeting design and technology. If you’re active on the event and hospitality conference circuit, you might bump into her.

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EventMB

AUGUST 9, 2017

Speakers have an important role at conferences because they not only need to share learning, we need them to connect, interact and engage with attendees to make a strong impact. Be more engaging and ditch the slideshow with these presentation ideas that will ramp up your keynote and really get the message across.

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Meeting Tomorrow

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Tracking event industry trends is a favorite activity here at Meeting Tomorrow. There are a number of meeting design elements that need to be accounted for, but the cost savings and expanded participation seem well worth it. About the author: Phil Hamstra is the VP of Strategic Initiatives at Meeting Tomorrow.

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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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PCMA Convene

APRIL 4, 2019

The appetite for experiential tours among those who come to Portland for meetings and conventions has grown noticeably in the last two years, Morgan said. So much so, that she predicts that the days when business travelers see only see the inside of their hotels, moving from conference room to hotel room and back again, will soon be history.

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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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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 12, 2019

Instead of showcasing, as we’ve done in past years, extraordinary places, spaces, destination videos, F&B offerings, tech tools, and other bits and pieces that make the events world go round, we zoomed in on you. For this year’s Best in Show feature, we switched gears. We hope that you are likewise inspired. Art Therapy. Back to School.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The POPWORKS format focuses on active learning through direct experience of a multitude of participatory meeting techniques. I’ve been convening, designing, and facilitating conferences for over 35 years, concentrating on participant-driven and participation-rich event facilitation and design since 1992.

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Capterra Event Management

JULY 19, 2016

It has a slight focus on conferences and corporate events, but contains lots of helpful content for everyone. Conferences that Work. It also includes rankings of top meeting hotels and destinations. Event consultants and meeting designers, Gallus Events uses its blog to offer advice and tips on the industry.

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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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The MICE

MARCH 11, 2021

We used meeting design to do that, which already had some gamification elements to it. Gamifying a conference – ShipCon case study. Anne Geelhoed, Vice-Chair at YoungShip Rotterdam, shared how they pivoted their bi-annual conference—ShipCon—into a virtual format. And we really wanted to bring that online.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 25, 2018

Attending a hackathon isn’t like taking the day off work to attend a conference. You will find me going on about the importance of the venue in a lot of posts (specially the ones that cover meeting design ) as the venue helps the organiser create the right atmosphere and environment. The venue is absolutely crucial.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Care to join us for some stimulating conversation about multi-hub meetings? Everyone who works in the event industry knows the power of meetings. And who says we have to stop at single-hub meetings? An entrepreneur since he was only 18 years old, Maarten has over 35 years of experience in meeting design.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Adding to my reports on new platforms providing online incarnations of traditional conference socials , here’s a review of online social platform Rally. My current table, where I’m video chatting with Jake and Steve, is shown below Aimey’s video (she’s on stage — more on this later).

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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. We had a video play at the beginning of the event, showing that all the venues were connected, so it was just not a local event they were at — they were part of something bigger.”

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Planning Pod

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Say you are preparing for a meeting, or a conference, or a class, or a banquet, or a wedding, and you want to optimize the venue or space you are using so that the seating and tables are set up for the best attendee experience. For example, conferences and meetings usually focus on networking and professional development.

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