Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Training associations how to create powerful and effective participant-driven and participation-rich conferences is one of the most rewarding aspects of my work: I love facilitating the learning that occurs, and the organization is then equipped with the process tools needed to transform their events.

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2013 2014 Education Conference 219

Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 24, 2018

The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida.

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Conference 2014 2018 Speakers 215

Conferences that Work

APRIL 3, 2017

How do room sets imply and influence what happens at meetings? Related posts: The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida.

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2011 Government 2017 Education 220

Conferences that Work

APRIL 29, 2019

The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida. It is one.

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Conference 2011 2012 Education 155

Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Highlights included experiential activations designed to inspire what comes next in designing better meetings. And Marriott partnered with Google on The NEU Project to pioneer ways to design more neuro-diverse-friendly events. And a bright, tropical design freshened the halls and meeting spaces.

2022 52

2022 Airlines Hotels Tourism 52

Conferences that Work

MAY 14, 2018

Mythodology: Event socials are a good way to meet people. Reality : People tend to stay with people they already know at event socials. Participant-driven and participation-rich events provide far more opportunities to meet people you actually want to meet. But making your meeting better lasts.

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Conference 2011 2014 Contracts 205

Conferences that Work

JUNE 19, 2017

Can meetings where no one says a word exhibit significantly different interpersonal dynamics? The Solution Room—an introductory video The talented graphic facilitator Kristine Nygaard of Kiss the frog, whom I had the recent pleasure of meeting at FRESH 2013, has created a delightful one-minute video that introduces The Solution Room, a.

2011 152

2011 2013 Education Conference 152

Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Want to get a taste of my new book Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need ? (It Here are some Event Crowdsourcing free chapters for your enjoyment. Read Event Crowdsourcing free chapters. Chapter 2 – Why you need to crowdsource meeting content [pdf]. It is one.

Education 130

Education Conference Events Meetings 130

Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Participant-driven and participation-rich peer conference designs improve on traditional events because they don’t treat openings and closings as necessary evils but as critical components of the meeting design. Let’s examine each phase of the peer conference arc in more detail.

Conference 160

Conference Conference Design Meeting Design Education 160

Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida. It is one.

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Conference 2011 2012 Education 178

Conferences that Work

MAY 21, 2018

The Solution Room is rapidly becoming a popular meeting plenary. Invented at MPI’s 2011 European Meetings and Events Conference, the session fosters active meaningful connections between attendees, and provides peer support and solutions to the real professional challenges currently faced by participants.

2011 154

2011 2013 2014 Consulting 154

Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida. It is one.

Conference 144

Conference 2010 2011 Conference Design 144

Conferences that Work

MAY 29, 2017

Related posts: The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida.

Education 190

Education Conference Events Meetings 190

Conferences that Work

MAY 25, 2020

Although less critical, I’d encourage participants to join the meeting on a PC too, if possible.) At the start of the meeting, make the facilitators Zoom co-hosts , so they can manage participants (mainly mute/unmute) in their Three Questions breakout room. Have everyone mute their audio except the facilitator and scribes.

Conference 221

Conference Meetings Education Management 221

PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2017

Attendees who want more from their meetings don’t want to sit and listen passively to a formal presentation. Welcome to the era of disrupted meetings, in good company with other industries and institutions whose established norms are being taken down to the studs. They have expectations of involvement.

Meetings 103

Meetings Meeting Design Speakers Tech 103

Conferences that Work

MAY 18, 2020

Frequent and well-designed small group work is the key to creating active learning and connection at any meeting. Zoom allows facilitators to speedily split a meeting into up to 50 separate sessions. Practice using them at small group meetings before employing them for a significant event!

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Conference 2009 2019 Meetings 239

Conferences that Work

JUNE 15, 2020

At the end of each session, participants return to the main Zoom meeting, and indicate their choice for the next set of sessions. At an online conference using the Zoom platform, once participants are in a specific breakout room/session, they can only leave the room and return to the main Zoom meeting. Moving between breakout rooms.

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Conference Meetings Education Event Design 183

Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Nook has been added to the post-Covid portfolios of FIRA Barcelona, RAI Amsterdam, Frankfurt Messe, and Business Design Centre London among others. Quiet, comfortable seating spaces double-up as meeting rooms – semi-private areas that enable progressive business discussions. Long-term vision.

Advertising 105

Advertising Transportation Events Event Design 105

Event Industry News

AUGUST 17, 2022

IMEX America, which returns to Las Vegas October 10 – 13, is set to address the new needs of the industry head on, bringing together the global business events community in a four-day event designed to deliver a tailored, targeted and enjoyable business experience.?? . 3,000+ global buyers.

Hotels 56

Hotels Education Contracts Speakers 56

PCMA Convene

MAY 19, 2016

When 19,000 attendees descended on Orlando this week for SAPPHIRE NOW and the ASUG Annual Conference — hosted by SAP and ASUG (America’s SAP Users’ Group) and billed as the largest global business technology event — they weren’t dreading long registration and check-in lines at the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC). .

Association Meetings 72

Association Meetings Conference Meetings Management 72

Conferences that Work

AUGUST 6, 2018

As an example I’ll use a three-day conference I’m currently designing. The participants are four hundred scientists who work all over the world and only get to meet en masse every few years. By “short” I mean four minutes per scientist.

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Conference 2010 2011 Conference Design 233

Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2019

Though it’s clearly sensible to keep a conference running on schedule, we’ve all attended meetings where rambling presenters, avoidable “technical issues”, incompetent facilitation, and inadequate logistics have made a mockery of the published program. Stay on time! It seems obvious to do this.

Contracts 175

Contracts 2011 Conference Education 175

SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Meeting professionals have always shouldered a hefty bag of tricks to fix the jagged edges that emerge at even the most meticulously polished events. Today, though, even veteran meeting organizers face Code Red calamities previously unimaginable. Right now, those sorts of challenges are popping up at events all over the world.

Food and Beverage 111

Food and Beverage Contracts Hotels Meetings 111

PCMA Convene

MAY 20, 2018

And Rosen Plaza — which offers 60,000-square-feet of meeting space, including a 26,000-square-foot Grand Ballroom, a 12,500-square-foot Ballroom Foyer, and 22 meeting rooms — incorporates local flair into all of their events. “The food, the venue — and most of all, the service — are beyond compare.”.

Meetings 40

Meetings Venues Hotels 2018 40

PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

When a group in the health-care and medical-research industry meeting at the Hilton Orlando needed an in-house broadcast studio, it turned the camera on the property’s Lake Eola room. . The team at the Hilton Orlando has witnessed livestreaming becoming more of a trend,” said Stacie Sargis, the hotel’s senior sales manager. “As

Conference 40

Conference Meetings Management Event Design 40

Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida.

Conference 120

Conference 2011 2012 Education 120

Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Most people won’t ask questions at meetings. So how can you get authentic audience engagement at your events? In a thoughtful article “ Audience Engagement – at the Heart of Meetings “, Pádraic Gilligan writes: “…We all want audience engagement so why doesn’t it take place?…While ” I disagree.

2011 120

2011 Education Tech Conference 120

Conferences that Work

MAY 31, 2016

with a matched receiver and software that processes and displays responses — are so commonly used to provide anonymous voting at meetings today that many event planners and attendees are unaware that public voting is a simple and, in many cases, more useful alternative. ” But how often is this necessary? It is one.

2011 149

2011 Tech Education Conference 149

Conferences that Work

MAY 23, 2016

Related posts: The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida. Near Atlanta? Come to my workshop next Tuesday on session participation techniques!

Tech 174

Tech 2011 Education Conference 174

PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Originally, each of CBA’s eight member sectors — from mortgage banking to auto-loan financing — had its own meeting. Events were smaller, with about 800 bankers attending the meetings in total, and held in less desirable locations, with reduced star power among speakers.

Banking 40

Banking Meetings 2011 Speakers 40

MeetingsNet

JANUARY 3, 2017

Try this quick tip from Sharon Fisher, Idea Sparker (CEO) at Orlando-based Play With a Purpose. Want to make your general session more welcoming? read more.

Event Design 56

Event Design Meetings Events 56

Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Over the years I’ve contracted with hundreds of organizations for meeting facilitation and design consulting, and I’m starting to wonder if I need to adopt Van Halen’s approach. I am well aware of the incredible demands made on meeting planners before and during events.

Contracts 120

Contracts 2014 Consulting Conference 120

PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2016

I happened to stay at two Four Seasons hotels during one week in May — the Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World Resort and the Four Seasons Houston. In Orlando, I had used the jacket flap of a hardcover book I was reading to mark my page and left my book next to the bed. Please make your nominations by June 13.

Tourism 40

Tourism Hotels Hospitality Travel 40

PCMA Convene

JUNE 16, 2016

More than 2,000 meeting professionals met in Atlantic City, New Jersey, earlier this week for MPI’s 2016 World Education Congress , three days of education and networking at the Harrah’s Waterfront Conference Center. What would you do, Herrera asked us, if an active shooter burst into our meeting room at Harrah’s right now ?

Education 74

Education 2016 Conference Venues 74

Conferences that Work

JULY 18, 2016

Each session was designed to discover and meet wants and needs of the executive officers and volunteers of the association’s regional chapters’ members in an area of special interest. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! Session goals. other issues related to the session topic.

Consulting 120

Consulting Sponsorships 2010 Conference 120

PCMA Convene

APRIL 17, 2017

That’s why Rosen Shingle Creek is a leader in the meeting and event planning industry — it has the ability to create solutions in a unique way. . Recently, the hotel proved that it could indeed handle anything as it simultaneously hosted multiple events that catered to thousands. Rosen Shingle Creek. Clients hate to be told no.

Hotels 45

Hotels Negotiating Corporate Events Events 45

PCMA Convene

JUNE 13, 2017

For Sandy Reynolds, CMP, president of Meetings & Events USA, the session was both fun and thought-provoking. “It When most people think of Disney, their minds focus on a famous pair of ears and the spires of an iconic castle in Orlando — but the global brand does much more than entertain its fans.

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Education Speakers Conference Entertainment 80