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Event Report: Google Xi Days

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Skift Take: Google Xi Days colored outside the lines, shifting paradigms to create an all-encompassing future for the events industry. Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Make the meeting bigger!

Conferences that Work

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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Make your entire conference a braindate

Conferences that Work

One of Skift’s “ 10 event trends for 2020 ” is networking. The report predicts: “Activities such as braindates that deliver more meaningful connections will become mainstream at events.” Because good event design is about how a conference works.

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5 Trends That Are Changing Meeting Design

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Kate Fairweather (right) and Amy Blackman present results from “The Future of Meetings and Eventsreport at Convening Leaders 2019 in Pittsburgh. You can’t just get the same people who live and breathe events doing this or you will get the same stuff,” Routh said. More Meeting Trends. Jacob Slaton).

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Don’t keep me a secret!

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So, if you’re one of the thousands of people who have purchased my books or the hundreds of clients who have benefited from my meeting design and facilitation services, please don’t keep me a secret! For example: “Attendees want to connect with peers over shared challenges and specific topics.”

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New Research Considers Human-Centered Meeting Design

PCMA Convene

The final report, supported by IMEX and PSAV, will be delivered at IMEX America in Las Vegas in October. Sperstad brings knowledge gained not only as an event planner and event-management educator to the task, but as a student of the human brain and human behavior. EVENT DESIGN. “My

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Bringing a ‘Sense of Place’ to Meeting Design

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Morgan’s observations are mirrored in the insights from “The Future of Meetings and Eventsreport, a joint research project between Marriott and the PCMA Foundation, which identified five major, future-oriented consumer trends and market forces that will be transforming meetings and events in the years to come.