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Create Powerful Meetings Instead of Power-over Meetings

Conferences that Work

All meetings incorporate power relationships that fundamentally affect their dynamics and potential. Traditional conferences unconsciously promote and sustain power imbalances between the “speakers” at the front of the room and the audience. Read the full article at Conferences That Work.

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Mountain Festivals Beckon Groups

Smart Meetings

If you crave fitness more than food, trek on over to Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows in Olympic Valley, California, on July 18–21 for live music, outdoor yoga classes (think Acroyoga) and guided adventures at Wanderlust Festival , an event for the inner explorer to unplug and recharge. Vermont Renaissance Faire. Coming soon online.

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Smart Moves in San Antonio, Atlanta and More

Smart Meetings

With over 25 years of experience in travel, tourism and business events, and in leadership roles with Starwood Hotels and Resorts and Destination Toronto, he brings extensive experience to oversee BestCities operations, focusing on their values of legacy, sustainability and advancement of the global impact of meeting events.

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Growing Appetite for Local Ingredients on Event Menus

PCMA Convene

Event venues are reporting a renewed interest in where a venue’s food comes from — and the closer it is to the kitchen, the better. I want to meet the farmer. For further information on the environmental and social reasons for buying locally sourced food, read “ Ten Reasons to Buy Local Food ” from the University of Vermont.

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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. Lovely to meet you, Adrian. Martin, welcome! Adrian Segar: Okay.

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

Conferences that Work

For each domain, I’ll include examples of meeting processes you can use to satisfy participants’ problem solving wants and needs. Peer conferences reduce problem solving limitations in the obvious domain, by allowing participants to influence the content and scope of meeting sessions in real time during the event.

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Four Tips for Hosting Cold-weather Outdoor Activations and Events this Winter

Event Marketer

Fall is in full swing, but as an event marketer, you’re already on to the next season. More on Cold-weather Outdoor Activations: Monthly Pulse Survey Results: The State of Outdoor Events Five Steal-worthy Ideas for Cold Weather Outdoor Activations Theme the activation to the setting. Meet consumers on the slopes.

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