Conferences that Work

JULY 17, 2023

I am resigned to the fact that OpenAI ‘s Large Language Model ChatGPT has scraped every blog post I’ve written here (over 750 posts in the last 13 years—around half a million words) so it can parrot my thoughts about meeting design, facilitation, and other topics.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 4, 2018

There’s no longer any reason to pick either positional or network era power; we can create systems that incorporate the best features of both. Here’s Harold Jarche again: “…it is up to all of us to keep working on new structures and systems. This is perhaps the only great work to be done for the next few decades.

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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. This arrangement works especially well given the Italian medical system, Sambugaro said. Courtesy of AIM Group International). Adrian Segar. Pod Perspective.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Lecturing has been the core modality in our education systems for centuries. 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.

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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 tools.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 13, 2018

Yes, most every meeting has after-the-fact attendee evaluations. Instead, content-involved planners must develop both on-site evaluations and post-event evaluations that determine how much the meeting furthered the specific goals and objectives of the executive stakeholders who own the meeting. “If

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Event Industry News

JUNE 11, 2019

Exclusively open to businesses which have been in the market for three years or less, the Future of Meetings Award offers a springboard to launching new products and services to the meetings industry.

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Plan Your Meetings

JANUARY 15, 2018

Communication, information and content in meetings and conferences is often mostly the spoken word supported by visuals in text and photos. Bring the product, show it, touch it and use it if possible—even if the content is as intangible as data in a new IT system like this example. The real magic….

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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? Pink Who is he?

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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? Pink Who is he?

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Speakers Healthcare Consulting Financial 98

PCMA Convene

JANUARY 6, 2020

A conference rolled out plans for an all-women speaker lineup. And the Twittersphere erupted in fury and demanded change after a speaker shared how she was denied entry to a conference because she arrived with her still-breastfeeding baby. If most attendees are taking flights to and from an event, those numbers add up quickly.

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Hubilo Blog

MARCH 7, 2020

She is the founder of Strategic Meeting and Events which produces mid to large scale corporate events. She has worked on both the conference side and vendor side of the industry, which made it easy for her to understand the requirements of her clients and hence helped them in strategic problem-solving.

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Event Industry News

MAY 3, 2019

However, the voice interface does not work well in crowded environments such as a meeting room or a tradeshow…(so) text-based systems are starting to emerge as an excellent chatbot alternative.” ” — Adrian Segar , Founder at Conferences That Work. ” — Corbin Ball , Founder at Corbin Ball & Co.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 22, 2019

However, the voice interface does not work well in crowded environments such as a meeting room or a tradeshow…(so) text-based systems are starting to emerge as an excellent chatbot alternative.” ” — Adrian Segar , Founder at Conferences That Work. ” — Corbin Ball , Founder at Corbin Ball & Co.

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Event Technology Technology 2019 Consulting 111

Endless Events

JULY 27, 2018

And good news: this works for both massive events and small conferences. Events, like most other fields, are reliant on set systems that tell you how to work. These systems are not arbitrary: they show us a way of doing things in the most focused, efficient means possible. Nailing Referral and VIP programs.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Meetings & conferences. Smart Meetings. In fact, you’ll often see Smart Meetings articles featured in our Einsteins’ Favorites series. Conferences That Work. Conferences That Work is the creation of conference design and facilitation legend Adrian Segar. About hiring processes.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 1, 2018

Managing an event may not require rocket science, but successfully engaging with attendees does require manipulating the properties of neuroscience, the study of the nervous system, particularly the brain. This means the tone of a meeting or event can change dramatically based on one person’s mood.

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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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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 2, 2021

At some associations, board meetings are the least-stressful events to plan, with far fewer logistics for business events organizers to wrangle than conventions, conferences, and trade shows. At our Chicago headquarters, we had added on a conference level to our building. There was a very choreographed system.

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The MICE

MARCH 11, 2021

They faced the task of enabling an eco-system for over 1,500 people spread all over the world to work together and collaborate to solve complex challenges. Collaborating on such complex challenges requires ‘moving away from ego-systems to eco-systems with all the players.’. Gamifying a conference – ShipCon case study.

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Social Tables

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Industry Performance Trends Attendee Experience Trends Meeting Destination Trends Event Technology Trends Meeting Design Trends. The unprecedented rise in demand for meetings and events will continue this year, with CWT Meetings & Travel predicting a robust 5-10% growth in demand. Industry Performance Trends.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 4, 2020

Most aircrafts actually have very good filtration systems that trap and remove 99.97 In less than two months, we went from a four-and-a-half-day conference in Vancouver to an eight-week extravaganza called TED2020 Uncharted by launching a virtual platform that is in many ways even more engaging than traditional theater-style gatherings.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

Besides a new convention center, MAPS 3 will add a 70-acre downtown park and a streetcar system, which is already underway. But despite all of these shiny new additions, the one thing the CVB keeps hearing from meeting planners is, why Oklahoma City? There’s so much more in the decision-making process for meeting planners than that.”.

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