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3 Tips for Shifting to an Architectural Model for Meeting Design

Smart Meetings

For the last 25 years, a former drama teacher from The Netherlands has been advocating for taking a similar approach to event planning. You can skip just about any other part of a meeting—a venue, a meal, even a speaker and still be productive, but if there isn’t relevant content, then it isn’t a meeting.”.

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7 Event Planning Tips the Pros Are Leaning on in 2021

SpotMe Blog

But with change comes growth, and if the last year (and a half) has taught us anything, it’s that events are more transitional than ever. Keep reading to find out how today’s event specialists are making events work for them from planning and organizing, to design and production. You just might learn something.

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Why have a keynote speaker at your event? The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference.

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Top 98 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Why have a keynote speaker at your event? The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference.

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Best Event Planning Resources of 2016

SmartMeetings

That’s on top of staying abreast of the latest industry trends and current events that can affect the outcome of your next meeting or event. Smart Meetings has rounded up the best event planning resources of this year, in order to help planners face challenges in 2017.

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17 things I learned running an online event

Gallus Events

As a firm believer of “meeting design” : the principle of texturising content to avoid it being stale and boring, we made sure we integrated meeting design into the programme. Brief and support all your speakers. Of the seventeen sessions on our online event we had sixteen which were top notch.

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Hybrid is happening, here’s what works!

Expo Pass

Venues and organizers are ready with plans to keep people safe. One of the biggest takeaways from all our speakers is that they are ready to keep hybrid events safe, and meet all regional guidelines for meeting in-person. This allows organizers to book speakers that they may have thought were out of reach.

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