MPI

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Although engaging attendees is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to enhance the quality of a meeting, there is still a lot of resistance, according to Bo Krüger, meeting designer, facilitator, trainer and speaker and owner of Moving Minds.

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GEVME

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Most of the meetings today are still about people sitting down and listening to one or more speakers. And in this information age of declining attention span, it is not a surprise to see that 73% of people acknowledge doing other work during meetings. . Kevin Hoffman has written a pretty good book about it: Meeting Design.

Trade Shows 156

Trade Shows 2019 Speakers Meeting Design 156

Gallus Events

MAY 11, 2020

Many event organisers and event companies are seeking out the best online training courses for online events and there are a lot on offer. We have searched far and wide to find the five best training courses for online events. . Run by organisations who have been talking about hybrid or online events for a while.

Meeting Design 225

Meeting Design Events Speakers Management 225

Gallus Events

MARCH 22, 2016

At the end of February we supported Practically Perfect PA to run their second “Assist Conference” They reached their target of 100 PAs just a few days before the date of the conference, and everyone was delighted to have sold out the event. And the key to 100s PAs and one sell out event? That’s Meeting Design.

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Conference Meeting Design Speakers Fashion 173

Gallus Events

JULY 1, 2019

PCMA EduCon took place in Los Angeles in June 2019 and I was lucky enough to be asked to mentor the attendees of PCMA’s Homeless Hackathon and to present a session on online events. . PCMA continue to dedicate their efforts towards leading the event industry response to homelessness. Taking Your Online Events To The Next Level.

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Gallus Events

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

November is always a busy month for event organisers in the event industry. Whether we are trying to shoe horn in a few events before peoples minds start to wonder to the festive period or maybe we are upping the marketing for our events in the first quarter of the following year, November can be a car crash of a month!

Event Tech 127

Event Tech Speakers Tech 2011 127

PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Instead of scrapping their events amid COVID-19 concerns, more organizations are moving their face-to-face programs online. The multi-hub format, with multiple connected venues like this meeting with 18 hubs in Spain, combines the benefits of both. Maarten Vanneste. For planners, there’s been a technical barrier, Vanneste said.

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Consulting 2020 Meeting Design Travel 100

Gallus Events

MAY 11, 2020

Many event organisers and event companies are seeking out the best online training courses for virtual events and there are a lot on offer. We have searched far and wide to find the five best training courses for online events. . Run by organisations who have been talking about hybrid or online events for a while.

Trade Shows 130

Trade Shows Meeting Design Events Management 130

Conferences that Work

APRIL 9, 2018

In a nutshell, I think that our industry associations have become too focused on justifying their continued existence financially, and are neglecting their core mission of supporting and representing their members and association meeting attendees. But their inclusion looks good on the promotional materials.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2019

This (slightly edited) interview by JT Long appeared in the March 2019 issue of Smart Meetings Magazine. I invented the format by accident 26 years ago when there were no expert speakers to invite for a conference on administrative computing issues in small schools. What led to writing the book, Conferences that Work ?

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Gallus Events

AUGUST 7, 2017

Staying on top of everything that changes in the events industry is a job in itself, never mind actually organising events. The possibilities of event technology seem to change almost every day. And new areas such as meeting design, seem to spring up from nowhere. Be an event creative. So how can we cope?

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Speakers Meeting Design Events Venues 113

Gallus Events

MARCH 22, 2016

At the end of February we supported Practically Perfect PA to run their second “Assist Conference” They reached their target of 100 PAs just a few days before the date of the conference, and everyone was delighted to have sold out the event. And the key to 100s PAs and one sell out event? That’s Meeting Design.

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Conference Meeting Design Speakers Fashion 100

Event Leadership Institute

APRIL 30, 2021

The Event Leadership Institute’s Business, Design & Strategy Summit , held virtually on June 3, invites meeting and event professionals to chart their course for the future. We will also take a meaningful look at diversity, with Antwone Stigall advising how to make DEI principles part of your event DNA.

Site Selections 98

Site Selections Trade Shows Sponsorships Tech 98

Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Let’s look at these three conclusions in the context of meeting design. Most meeting presenters still lecture. And most meeting session presenters resort to lecturing as their dominant session modality. .” Superstar lecturers and motivational speakers.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Status and power at meetings. I think of status at events as the relative levels of proclaimed or perceived social value assigned to or assumed by attendees. And power at events is an individual’s capacity to influence the actions, beliefs, or conduct of attendees. At many events, only high status people talk.

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Meetings Conference Negotiating Speakers 323

Smart Meetings

JUNE 1, 2022

Coming off her session at the Event Leadership Institute’s Innovation and Engagement Summit, we connected with Dahlia about how to maximize virtual event engagement today. Think of what you can ask in registration and then categorize this into what will and won’t work at your event, or what’s tangible and intangible.”.

Social Media 110

Social Media Tech Speakers Meeting Design 110

PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

We’re tapping the talent of PCMA’s staff so they can share the design thinking and process behind the innovative experiences they create for PCMA events. In other words, we’re showcasing the event professionals behind the events for event professionals. The event’s themes were belonging, impact, and future.

2023 72

2023 Conference Meeting Design Events 72

Gallus Events

JUNE 17, 2016

I always try, if possible, to attend an event every month. However the last few months have conspired to make it pretty hard to get out and spend a day at an event. So I was delighted that the Association of Association Executives allowed me to attend the first day of their “Event Strategy” event in London.

2016 113

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 11, 2021

chairman of ROI Institute, penned this primer on measuring meaningful outcomes along with Joe Fijol, DMCP, founder of ETHOS Event Collective. Today, meeting and event planners are pressed to do more with less while being expected to raise the bar on experiences year-over-year. Phillips, Ph.D., productivity, sales).

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Meetings Speakers Consulting Events 110

SpotMe Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Let’s face it, planning an event is never as easy as 1, 2, 3. In 2021, that notion has never been more prevalent as event professionals and brands find themselves teetering between online events , in-person events and something in the middle (aka hybrid events ). Carol Galle, CEO of Special D Events.

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2021 Event Planning Fashion Retail 179

PCMA Convene

JULY 6, 2020

Unless we intervene, we could be heading in the direction where we’re more self-conscious about how we present in meetings.”. As a researcher, digital “events are really fascinating,” she said, “because we’re using these tools now to try to connect.

2020 105

2020 Meeting Design Technology Consulting 105

SmartMeetings

JUNE 22, 2020

Marteen Vannest, senior consultant at Meeting Design Institute , which produces a free masterclass and certified training on producing online meetings , suggests starting with the “why” of the meeting. One of the main reasons for business events or meetings is to deliver some kind of information.

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Meetings Food and Beverage Speakers Travel 111

Gallus Events

APRIL 21, 2017

And you have meeting rooms with this view. If event planners want meetings to deliver value to their attendees, they have to stop using meeting rooms like this. If venues really want to run great meetings they have to give more thought to the spaces they create. You have a hotel with this view. Venue Fail.

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Venues Hotels Meeting Design Speakers 140

Event Industry News

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The Association of Event Venues (AEV) has announced that Samme Allen, speaker, event designer and founder of conferenceemcees.com, will be hosting its annual conference on Friday 26 November 2021 at the Business Design Centre (BDC), London, with the theme ‘Disruption: the new norm.’.

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2021 Conference Sustainability Meeting Design 69

Gallus Events

JUNE 17, 2016

I always try, if possible, to attend an event every month. However the last few months have conspired to make it pretty hard to get out and spend a day at an event. So I was delighted that the Association of Association Executives allowed me to attend the first day of their “Event Strategy” event in London.

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2016 Meeting Design Sponsorships Events 100

Hubilo Blog

MARCH 7, 2020

This International Women’s Day, we would like to raise a toast to the empowerment and diversity in our events industry. They may be event tech enthusiasts, event planners , event speakers , but all of them are influencers for event enthusiasts and followers. She even launched her own events agency DAHLIA+.

Trade Shows 119

Trade Shows Social Media Consulting B2B 119

PCMA Convene

JULY 22, 2020

The Hague Convention Bureau’s first hybrid webinar welcomed five events professionals either in-person or virtually to the World Forum in The Hague. When planning a hybrid and digital event, your content is the key to its success, panelists agreed during The Hague Convention Bureau’s first hybrid webinar. Holland Park Media).

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Financial Meeting Design Venues Events 134

The MICE

JULY 27, 2022

One of the presentations that highly inspired me to think differently about event design took place in 2019 at the MICE Forum at ITB Berlin (Organised by VDVO ). The conference programme was designed to highlight the importance of the individual who is the centre of every live event.

2019 59

2019 Conference 2009 Speakers 59

SmartMeetings

AUGUST 13, 2018

Last month , we addressed how planners can become more hands-on in content creation and speaker preparation. But the only way to prove to executive stakeholders the value the planner added is by effectively measuring the business benefit of that event’s formal and informal sessions.

Education 159

Education Transportation Hospitality Events 159

Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

During all our years designing and deploying event technology for events, one thread remains a constant – that technology adds the most value when it succeeds in actively facilitating human connection and communication. Bringing teams together with event technology. Motivating and unifying the team.

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Event Technology Technology Event Apps Speakers 104

Event Industry News

JUNE 6, 2019

Miguel Neves is a passionate social media advocate and experienced events professional who consults, trains and speaks on digital marketing and event technology. Ahead of his discussion at The Meetings Show, ‘The future is hybrid, are you ready?’ What are some of the main benefits of hosting a hybrid event?

Social Media 108

Social Media Consulting Meeting Design Education 108

Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2022

Conferenceemcees.com , a global network of professional conference emcees, moderators, and facilitators working across virtual, hybrid and in person events, was officially launched today, January 17 th , 2021. They were incredibly professional and flexible and helped us pivot from an in-person event to a virtual one seamlessly.

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Sustainability Meeting Design Government 2021 52

PCMA Convene

JANUARY 16, 2018

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.”.

Tourism 79

Tourism Speakers Hospitality Meeting Design 79

Conferences that Work

APRIL 8, 2019

1992: I organize a conference where there are no expert speakers available (it’s a new field, there are no experts). I decide to write a book about it, and in… 2009: I self-publish Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love. I quickly discover the size and interest of the meetings industry.

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2005 2009 Consulting Conference 147

Slido

JANUARY 30, 2019

In December 2018, we set out to explore the future of town hall meetings. The goal of our one-day event in partnership with Convene was to show how a successful all-hands could look in 2019 and beyond by using interactive technology and meeting design thinking. Here are some of our key learnings.

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Speakers Meeting Design 2018 2019 69

Expo Pass

MARCH 31, 2021

The event world is changing, (once again)! Venues are reopening, the virtual world is blending with the in-person world, and hybrid events are definitely the future. Feel free to stream to the full event — How to Hybrid: The Mysteries Unraveled , and keep reading for our recap. It’s just another meeting.”

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Speakers Venues Tech Hotels 117

Conferences that Work

MARCH 21, 2022

Earlier this month, the folks at Gatherly kindly invited me to host an event of my choosing for their clients and potential users. This coming June will mark my 30th year of designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings. Designing an online workshop in Gatherly. I’ve shared the why?

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Meetings Meeting Design Conference Speakers 348