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Don’t keep me a secret!

Conferences that Work

For over thirty years I’ve been making clients’ conferences significantly better, for about the cost of a conference coffee break. I make conferences better by dramatically increasing attendee satisfaction. Since 1992, I’ve designed and facilitated hundreds of conferences and thousands of meetings.

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5 Creative Ideas for Conference Sessions

Slido

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. At the end, they compared and commented on the results.

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Bringing a ‘Sense of Place’ to Meeting Design

PCMA Convene

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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Are Online Meetings Reducing Our Collective Intelligence?

Conferences that Work

After participants completed the pre-test survey independently, they initiated a conference call with their partner. This occurred during the first Meeting Design Practicum in Utrecht, The Netherlands: more details here ). Image attribution: Business people having online meeting by Jacob Lund from Noun Project.

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Prescribing a Hub-and-Spoke Approach

PCMA Convene

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. Courtesy of AIM Group International). Yet at the same time, the small group setting gave them a chance, she said, “to have a very informal relationship with the experts.”. Adrian Segar.

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Why switching to active learning is hard — and worth it

Conferences that Work

Let’s look at these three conclusions in the context of meeting design. Most meeting presenters still lecture. And most meeting session presenters resort to lecturing as their dominant session modality. . The majority of college STEM teachers choose traditional teaching methods.

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How Hybrid Is Taking Center Stage in Convention Centers

PCMA Convene

When looking for sites for hybrid meetings, more than one-third of respondents to Convene’ s Recovery Dashboard surveys conducted in late summer and fall were looking for venues with broadcasting facilities — and convention centers around the world have worked quickly to meet the demand. As they do, we’re noticing a trend.