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. Designing an online workshop in Gatherly. I’ve shared the why?

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APRIL 11, 2022

First, you need to understand before the meeting what your practitioners and suppliers want, need, and expect. As a meeting designer, if a meeting is going to include both practitioners and suppliers I always ask my clients about the relationship between these groups and their wants and needs.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

As Dee W Hock , founder and former CEO of VISA, put it: Any idiot can impose and exercise control. Any idiot can impose and exercise control. To “elicit freedom and release creativity”, we need to recognize that participants are stakeholders in the event, rather than “just” an audience.

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MAY 24, 2021

My second objection concerns the brevity of the research exercises. “Six tasks ranging from 2 to 6 minutes each” simply doesn’t reflect what people with more than a passing relationship do in real-life meetings. This occurred during the first Meeting Design Practicum in Utrecht, The Netherlands: more details here ).

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Plan Your Meetings

JANUARY 15, 2018

The simple idea is to make a small notebook, where there is both pre-written key messages and a mix of exercises that invites to either write or draw own thoughts, reflections and ideas. begins when you succeed in getting all of the five elements into your meeting design. The real magic….

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MARCH 25, 2019

I did a good job, but had to omit the major exercise planned for the session. Experienced presenters are able to creatively improvise in response to last-minute changes to their environment. However, losing a third of my time with no notice was a challenge. The resulting experience was less impactful than it could have been.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2017

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. So is something as basic as changing a room’s energy.

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