Conferences that Work

MARCH 15, 2021

Recently, I’ve been appearing as a guest at college event planning and hospitality courses to talk about meeting design. (I Rather than lecture for an hour, I’ve been using an Ask Me Anything (aka AMA ) meeting format. I love to do this. Teachers, please contact me , it’s free!)

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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. Answering it gives every person present, in turn, an opportunity to share what they would like the ensuing meeting to be about.

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Gallus Events

MAY 2, 2017

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. In this post I thought I’d add a little Meeting Design Venue Check List!

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

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. Extensive research supports this observation, especially in college-level science courses ( 1 ? ? ? ? –

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Gallus Events

MARCH 22, 2016

Now you will of course have all heard this line numerous times before. 3 Use meeting design to create the framework for great content. With these first two steps covered: bringing together the content expert and the programme expert, the next step was to add some meeting design. That’s Meeting Design.

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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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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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MeetingsNet

MAY 29, 2019

We're all quite familiar with the Q&A portion of a meeting session: The final few minutes where the audience has its chance to drill down a bit with the presenter. Of course, a more focused or specific question can be introduced, using a text slide in the presentation that remains on screen for the period of conversation.

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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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Meetings Meeting Design Speakers Tech 103

Conferences that Work

MAY 22, 2023

Hey everyone, especially educators who teach courses on meetings and hospitality. My ebooks are now available on VitalSource , the largest global supplier of digital course materials to higher education! It is critical to understand how to design conferences and events effectively.

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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. Making assumptions. By making time for you to notice them!

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Conferences that Work

MAY 29, 2023

Meeting designers and facilitators like me get plenty of practice at this balancing act.) There are, of course, many positive aspects to attraction. .” Sometimes, anticipating a potential upcoming pothole will help you avoid it. Additionally, attraction can be fluid and can change over time or in different circumstances.

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Gallus Events

MARCH 22, 2016

Now you will of course have all heard this line numerous times before. 3 Use meeting design to create the framework for great content. With these first two steps covered: bringing together the content expert and the programme expert, the next step was to add some meeting design. That’s Meeting Design.

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Event Leadership Institute

APRIL 30, 2021

The Event Leadership Institute’s Business, Design & Strategy Summit , held virtually on June 3, invites meeting and event professionals to chart their course for the future. So where does that leave you?

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

Paul Nunesdea : And hello, hello, dear viewers, this is a soft start of our third episode in 2024 of Talk to Your Meeting Doctors. Lovely to meet you, Adrian. And it’s mostly about meeting design and facilitation, but I write about all kinds of things. Of course, this was nearly 50 years ago. Martin, welcome!

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Gallus Events

APRIL 18, 2017

Every programme should reflect the slight differences in the audience; those delivering the content; the physical space in which the meeting takes place; the budget, and a good few other aspects too! Add some meeting design. Meeting design. There is no such thing as the “perfect” conference programme.

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Plan Your Meetings

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Meetings are an important tool in any business, but they can often go awry. Poorly planned meetings can cause more harm than good. So how can you improve meeting outcomes and what is the best way to get the most out of your team? So how can you improve meeting outcomes and what is the best way to get the most out of your team?

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Gallus Events

AUGUST 7, 2017

And new areas such as meeting design, seem to spring up from nowhere. I had that multi-faceted scenario in mind when I put together four training courses , which Gallus Events are running across the UK this year. How attendees learn, engage and network is being rewritten by every new piece of scientific research.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 28, 2022

My work at a pre-con is different from that of a typical meeting planner since I focus on the meeting’s design and facilitation. I’ve been convening meetings for decades, though, so I know a fair amount about meeting planning. The traditional bread and butter of a meeting planner’s job.

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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. Adapt to the reality that we primarily learn from our peers rather than experts.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2019

Though it’s clearly sensible to keep a conference running on schedule, we’ve all attended meetings where rambling presenters, avoidable “technical issues”, incompetent facilitation, and inadequate logistics have made a mockery of the published program. By which I mean, of course, don’t run late !)

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Conferences that Work

JULY 19, 2021

Ever since my first encounter with the hybrid hub and spoke meeting topology at Event Camp Twin Cities in 2011, I’ve been a big fan of the format. Yesterday [see below], I realized that hub and spoke is a great format for purely online meetings too. What’s a hub and spoke meeting? But first…. A terminology reminder.

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Gallus Events

JULY 19, 2018

Association event professionals, similar of course to many other event organisers, find it hard to lift their eyes from the events in the here and now to think about the future. Training courses. The CML offered a variety of training courses. We had around 12 courses which tended to run three or four times a year.

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Endless Events

JUNE 21, 2019

And of course, some very important titans from the event world, who shared their insights, strategies, and opinions with us. 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.

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Gallus Events

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The answer is of course yes, all venues are unique, if you just think about the little things that don’t really make a difference. A lot of venues tend to be designed, almost as an after thought, for events. With plenty of colour, light and truly unique features, the spaces really supported the ideas behind Meeting Design.

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Guidebook

APRIL 10, 2015

Sure, you can get all your event and meeting planning information from the internet like most of us do these days. (We Of course, reading books is great too. Event Planning: The Ultimate Guide To Successful Meetings, Corporate Events, Fundraising Galas, Conferences, Conventions, Incentives and Other Special Events by Judy Allen.

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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! But of course in terms of basic format, it’s not too different from Tech Fest the first European Event Tech event that I set up in 2012. Details of my session at IBTM World. What do you think?

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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. Technology could of course help to do so.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 6, 2016

We’ve done our best to stay away from traditional meeting rooms. Meeting Design allows us to think very differently about the content we have at our event. How is your brand reflected outside of the meeting? But of course the flip side is true. What does your choice of venue say about your brand? .

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 30, 2019

In her address to a packed hall at the Park Plaza Victoria London, at the association’s first Members Meeting of the year, new HBAA Chair Angie Mason unveiled this theme as the focus for the year ahead. Paul Hussey of Meetings Benchmark provided a review of the market in 2018 and valuable insight into forward bookings for early 2019.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 25, 2018

The ever-changing expectations of attendees and meeting owners ensure the pressure is well and truly on event planners to deliver an original and highly engaging event experience on time and most importantly, on budget. Klik uses Bluetooth technology to monitor attendee numbers in different spaces over the course of an event.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 27, 2020

Pre-pandemic, I traveled fairly frequently for my work as a consultant on meeting design and facilitator of meetings, and would try to run a couple of miles every day, wherever I was. I live in rural Vermont on a moderately hilly dirt road that’s quiet enough for me to run a couple of miles daily.

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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. Technology could of course help to do so.

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Meeting Design B2B Social Media Technology 40

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. Morgan partners with local women-run businesses to combine an afternoon of dog-led truffle hunting amid stands of Douglas firs with a four-course dinner with wine pairings. “I

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Event Marketer

MAY 17, 2023

Brian Solis, author of “X: The Experience Where Business Meets Design,” highlighted the importance of creating positive personal experiences that meaningfully connect brands with consumers. So determine that and also ensure that it aligns with the brand, of course.”

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Hubilo Blog

MARCH 4, 2019

But to spot the talent and influence that may change the course of the event industry or make event professional’s life convenient is tough. Meetings Net –. Gamification enhances the event experience of attendees at meetings and corporate events. He is a known meeting designer, facilitator of many conferences.

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Gallus Events

OCTOBER 29, 2019

These are of course important points, not just for a workshop, but for any type of format. I loved that the speaker Tim, CEO and Funder of Waitrr introduced himself to all of the attendees before the start of the workshop, with a firm handshake and a smile. This was a great touch!

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