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Don’t keep me a secret!

Conferences that Work

For example: “Attendees want to connect with peers over shared challenges and specific topics.” ” “Substance, not celebrity… celebrity speakers will not boost registrations. ” “Attendees have a clear desire for immersive experiences, customization, and event-enhancing technology.

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Participant experience design — moving from the old to new event world

The MICE

One of the presentations that highly inspired me to think differently about event design took place in 2019 at the MICE Forum at ITB Berlin (Organised by VDVO ). According to Felix, the term ‘participant experience design’ is a work in progress. Practical examples. Do we want to create connections?

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Facilitating an online participation-rich workshop in Gatherly

Conferences that Work

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 never seen this happen on Zoom, for example.).

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The UnExpo Experiment

Conferences that Work

(Fun fact: the testing community often uses my term “peer conferences” for their get-togethers, due to a chat about meeting design I had with tester James Bach at the 2004 Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference.) Most meeting conveners concentrate on feedback about meeting content (“great speakers!”)

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5 Innovative Meeting Formats

PCMA Convene

Where past generations of meeting-goers might have been content as spectators, attendees today are looking for more active participation and experiential learning — starting with the fact that much of what they used to travel for is now available digitally. Some speakers might be concerned about giving up the ability to manage the material.

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#RotterdamExperiment 2 – The best gamification is gamification that is unnoticed

The MICE

Now, after one year of hosting and attending virtual events, the events industry is facing the challenge of how to engage attendees and combat ‘zoom fatigue.’ The first speaker, Farshida Zafar, L.L.M., A common example is booking websites. A hackathon is an excellent example of purpose-driven collaboration.

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Bringing a ‘Sense of Place’ to Meeting Design

PCMA Convene

Morgan plans her tours using some of the same skills and insights that event designers employ — her events just happen to be mobile. The Gather Greene event venue and nature retreat in upstate New York is intended to blur the boundaries of indoor and outdoor spaces. More Meeting Trends. American Tobacco Campus).