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Anca Trifan interviews me about participation-rich meetings and event design

Conferences that Work

We talk about all kinds of things, with a focus on my work and thinking about participant-driven and participation-rich meetings and event design. 06:00 On traveling to events, and my passion for what I do. 11:00 What participant-driven and participation-rich meeting design means, and the core components.

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5 Trends That Are Changing Meeting Design

PCMA Convene

More Meeting Trends. What the ‘Sense of Place’ Travel Trend Means for Event Design. Thrival Festival Integrates Pittsburgh Locale into Event. PCMA and Marriott on the Future of Events. Download “The Future of Meetings and Events” report. Kelsey Ann Rose).

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5 Ways To Design Intentional Meetings That Put People & The Planet First

EventMB

Skift Take: Intentional meeting design has emerged as a growing trend since the pandemic changed everything about our industry. Here are five areas where meeting planners can apply intentionality to build better, more meaningful events. Visit Seattle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Moving from Virtual to Hybrid Events: 37 Tips to Maximize Your Success

Stova

Hybrids will likely see widespread adoption as F2F meetings reemerge from the pandemic for a number of reasons: Some attendees may not wish to travel to the event for fear of contagion or other health and safety concerns. There will likely be reduced travel funds available for event attendance due to economic downturns.

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27 years of peer conferences

Conferences that Work

At the time, I had no idea that what I instinctively put together for a gathering of people who barely knew each other would lead to: a global design and facilitation consulting practice; over 500 posts on this blog, which has now become, to the best of my knowledge, the most-visited website on meeting design and facilitation; three books (almost!)

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Associated Luxury Hotels International’s (ALHI) executive team welcomes Silvia Zamora

Event Industry News

As ALHI’s new Vice President of Meeting Design and Experience, Zamora will lead and accelerate the company’s vision for meetings and events in partnership with more than 250 member hotels and partners. Zamora culminated her tenure at Virtuoso as the Director of Event Operations.

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Want Audiences to Interact? Unleash a Pit Bull

PCMA Convene

When FRESH18 — which bills itself as the first annual conference focused exclusively on meeting design — gets underway Feb. 27-28, it will be showcasing its own solution to a common event-design problem: getting the audience to participate. Indeed, I hope others will use it in their meetings and speaker sessions.”.

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