Conferences that Work

JANUARY 10, 2022

The event industry unduly focuses on large meetings. Our trade magazines mainly report on big events, the ones with big-name speakers and eye candy razzle-dazzle. How can we get our old, big events back? For too long, we’ve equated a meeting’s “success” with its size. What to do?

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Meetings Meeting Design 2020 Speakers 330

Conferences that Work

JUNE 7, 2021

Why am I writing about social learning on a blog that’s (mainly) about meeting design? Which means, to create the best meetings we need to maximize the social learning that takes place. [Hint: We’re not more intelligent than other species.]

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Meeting Design Conference Meetings Event Design 284

Smart Meetings

JANUARY 22, 2024

Prismm event design platform Rich media can be inserted into any experience, including branding elements like a logo or promotional video. Collaborators can create their vision in the cloud, provide design notes and feedback, and save details in a shareable canvas. “All

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Technology Event Planning 2014 Sustainability 96

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. I’ve shared the why? and the details of how I typically run this format here.

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Meetings Meeting Design Conference Speakers 348

Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

A Zoom meeting recorder. A “photographer” for the Zoom event. Zoom meeting monitoring. Zoom main room monitoring during group breakouts. I am closing registrations five days before the event. Tech assistance on prerecorded content (if any) in Zoom. Zoom waiting room monitoring.

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Wireless Meetings Event Tech Conference 316

The MICE

JULY 27, 2022

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. Inspiration is the main currency here.

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Plan Your Meetings

JANUARY 15, 2018

The participants are creating their own understanding of the data flow and interdependencies of the new system through color-coordinated lighted balls that resemble the system’s main areas and strings as the roads on which the data travels. begins when you succeed in getting all of the five elements into your meeting design.

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