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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. Here’s her video and podcast for your viewing and listening pleasure. 06:00 On traveling to events, and my passion for what I do. Thank you, Anca!

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Why our meetings are still full of lectures

Conferences that Work

When the leading candidate for the Mayor of New York City has this take on how people learn, perhaps it’s not so surprising that we’re still sitting through endless broadcast-style sessions at meetings and conferences. Learning researchers and our best teachers and meeting designers have known this for a long time.

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Powerful Panels interview with Adrian Segar

Conferences that Work

During our 25 minutes together, we discussed various panel formats, their value, and how to structure and design powerful panel discussions into the larger context of meetings, conferences, and events. Annotated timeline of the video. 0:00 Introduction. 5:30 When and how to use panels, and why.

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Are Online Meetings Reducing Our Collective Intelligence?

Conferences that Work

New research from Carnegie Mellon has been widely interpreted as concluding that, for example, “Zoom is actually less effective than a phone call” , and “Video conferencing can hurt collaboration” Not so fast. New research about online meetings. But I have no problem accepting their results.

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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. At times, the video stream for some participants on stage (including me) was blank.

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Peer Conferences Deep Dive—Meeting Doctors transcript and video

Conferences that Work

On Tuesday, March 26, 2024 , I sat down with Martin Duffy and Paul Nunesdea on LinkedIn Live for an hour’s deep dive conversation about peer conferences: the participant-driven, participation-rich events I’ve designed and facilitated for over thirty years. I define myself as a meeting designer and facilitator.

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Evolution of Spatial Design Technology Could Simplify Event Planning

Smart Meetings

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.