Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

. ‘And the men [sic*] who had the same or similar problems to meet in the actual running of their employers’ businesses found that an exchange of views and ideas benefitted them without hurting their employers.'” This is a touching, century-old example of how communities of practice benefit from sharing information.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Events and media consultant Julius Solaris shared at the Unforgettable Experience Design Summit that he was initially very enthusiastic about unconference format events. But Julius didn’t see them catch on and now focuses on other aspects of the meeting industry. Venue room capacity charts don’t include these designs.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 3, 2023

Back in 1992 , I developed The Three Questions as a fundamental opening process for participant-driven meetings and conferences. Answering it gives every person present, in turn, an opportunity to share what they would like the ensuing meeting to be about. For example, writing this in 2023, I might mention artificial intelligence.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 11, 2021

Today, meeting and event planners are pressed to do more with less while being expected to raise the bar on experiences year-over-year. In addition, they’re asked to achieve a variety of goals for a range of stakeholders and prove the value of their meetings or events. Define how the meeting will drive results. Phillips, Ph.D.,

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 16, 2019

An example of the successful curious neo-generalist — me! I grew fascinated by the social dynamics of large research meetings and how national educational models and cultures influenced how people interacted and behaved. Meeting design and facilitation. The solar energy company.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 22, 2020

Virtual meetings require careful design to keep attendees engaged and deliver value for the hosts. But how do you translate the energy and insights from a face-to-face meeting through a computer screen? One of the main reasons for business events or meetings is to deliver some kind of information.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 11, 2020

I’ve been designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich in person meetings — aka peer conferences — for almost thirty years. Because participants love these meetings ! Now the covid-19 pandemic has forced meetings online. Zoom has rapidly become the dominant platform for online meetings.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As evidence of software tester conference awesomeness, I offer three examples below. I first designed and convened what I called a “ peer conference ” in 1992 for a group of IT managers at small schools that eventually became known as edACCESS. Three examples of how software testers do peer conferences right.

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EventMB

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Here are 30 examples of great UX from real life events to inspire you. This comprehensive collection of user experience examples within events covers websites, branding, flyers and invitations, décor and catering. Event Websites These websites feature excellent examples of […].

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Plan Your Meetings

JANUARY 15, 2018

Creating a space design where the atmosphere and physical set-up immediately embraces the participants with a feeling of comfort and safety is the best start to a meeting that you can give your participants. The design of the physical meeting space should also be seen as the body language of a meeting.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2019

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. FLIPPED LEARNING.

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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.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 24, 2019

Convene ’s own look at the attitudes toward homelessness in the meetings industry show that a number of meeting professionals are bucking that trend: Thirty-five percent of those who responded to a survey last August reported they had organized CSR activities to benefit homelessness in the destinations where they hold meetings.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 29, 2016

Whenever I’ve had the pleasure of meeting David (not often enough!) BizBash consistently uses the term “event design” to mean “ visual design” As an example, consider the 2016 Design Issue. The cover proclaims “What’s Next in Event Design?”

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 21, 2022

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. I’ve never seen this happen on Zoom, for example.).

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Gallus Events

MARCH 22, 2016

3 Use meeting design to create the framework for great content. With these first two steps covered: bringing together the content expert and the programme expert, the next step was to add some meeting design. That’s Meeting Design. This included speaking to each other 1.2.1 and in small groups.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

Paul Nunesdea : And hello, hello, dear viewers, this is a soft start of our third episode in 2024 of Talk to Your Meeting Doctors. Lovely to meet you, Adrian. And it’s mostly about meeting design and facilitation, but I write about all kinds of things. Martin, welcome! Martin Duffy: Well, good afternoon.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 16, 2018

(Fun fact: the testing community often uses my term “peer conferences” for their get-togethers, due to a chat about meeting design I had with tester James Bach at the 2004 Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference.) Most meeting conveners concentrate on feedback about meeting content (“great speakers!”)

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

There’s a blizzard of white papers and trend reports that seek to help meeting professionals understand what to expect in the future — including research conducted by the German Convention Bureau (GCB) as part of its Future Meeting Space initiative. For example, what makes a person a ‘networking’ or ‘knowledge-sharing’ person?

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Under pandemic conditions, former alumni, faculty, staff, and other friends of the institution cannot even meet in person to grieve. So I decided to design and run an online memorial service. A Zoom meeting recorder. Zoom meeting monitoring. I taught there from 1983 – 1993. Zoom waiting room monitoring.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The multi-hub format, with multiple connected venues like this meeting with 18 hubs in Spain, combines the benefits of both. As efforts to contain the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus by restricting travel ripple across the globe, a growing number of event organizers are opting to move meetings online as an alternative to canceling them.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

Oklahoma City is using influencer marketing in the form of a travel-writing team who will highlight the city’s leisure attractions — and is also bolstering its meetings portfolio with a new convention center. But despite all of these shiny new additions, the one thing the CVB keeps hearing from meeting planners is, why Oklahoma City?

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The MICE

JULY 27, 2022

One of the talks that impressed me the most was ‘Participant experience design – how do we create meetings which move people more deeply?’ According to Felix, the term ‘participant experience design’ is a work in progress. Transitioning to the new event world: What can a meeting look like? Practical examples.

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Gallus Events

MAY 18, 2017

This is something very different from the networking that we casually think about: you know, the random meetings over coffee or picking up the delegate pack. So first, a definition of structured networking at conferences: “Using the environment, meeting design or technology to ensure that the right conversations happen”. .

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Event Industry News

JUNE 6, 2019

Ahead of his discussion at The Meetings Show, ‘The future is hybrid, are you ready?’ he gives the lowdown on hybrid meetings and outlines the benefits involved in hosting them. What is a hybrid meeting? Any meeting that offers a way to participate online can be considered a hybrid meeting.

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Gallus Events

MARCH 22, 2016

3 Use meeting design to create the framework for great content. With these first two steps covered: bringing together the content expert and the programme expert, the next step was to add some meeting design. That’s Meeting Design. This included speaking to each other 1.2.1 and in small groups.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 19, 2021

Ever since my first encounter with the hybrid hub and spoke meeting topology at Event Camp Twin Cities in 2011, I’ve been a big fan of the format. Yesterday [see below], I realized that hub and spoke is a great format for purely online meetings too. What’s a hub and spoke meeting? But first…. A terminology reminder.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 18, 2017

Every programme should reflect the slight differences in the audience; those delivering the content; the physical space in which the meeting takes place; the budget, and a good few other aspects too! Add some meeting design. In this example (unusually for a PA event) the conference did actually end the day at 16:30.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

When looking for sites for hybrid meetings, more than one-third of respondents to Convene’ s Recovery Dashboard surveys conducted in late summer and fall were looking for venues with broadcasting facilities — and convention centers around the world have worked quickly to meet the demand. As they do, we’re noticing a trend. Explore St.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 9, 2017

For example, this site uses WordPress on a Dreamhost VPS (Virtual Private Server). One example: the rights to anything you post to Huffington Post belongs to them. Posting your original content exclusively on someone else’s platform puts you at their mercy. Don’t do it! Instead, invest in your own website. No problem.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 12, 2019

Following the links below, you’ll find examples of how event strategists used one tool at their disposal — their creativity — to design those kinds of memorable and meaningful events. Volunteer program at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting gives student attendees an option to lower or eliminate registration fees.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 10, 2017

For example, at some conferences, 25–50 companies could represent 20 percent to 50 percent of total attendance. The first heat map shows the percent of loyal attendees by region, who tend to go anywhere your meeting is being held. Some companies will rotate the team members they send from year to year.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

These are just a few examples of how Marina Bay Sands can help event organizers create bespoke, customized experiences that will impress attendees and, ultimately, drive engagement. Engaging, authentic experiences and events are a priority for meeting planners and attendees, alike.

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Expo Pass

MARCH 31, 2021

Virtual is too accessible and convenient to give up, but at the same time, people can’t wait to meet in person again. Helenic added to this that, “Hybrid events are what will allow everyone to meet in personal constraints. And give guests a piece of mind so they can safely meet at home or in person.” It’s just another meeting.”

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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.

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Gallus Events

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

A lot of venues tend to be designed, almost as an after thought, for events. As well as a poor location for the meeting space, they are designed to be an as “inoffensive” as possible and to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. They can be found in basement floors across the globe! Make the most of these spaces.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 6, 2016

All the ten examples should provide some food for thought for any organisation that run events, and importantly, that company doesn’t need to be an events company. What I’ve decided to do, as an example, is to show how Gallus Events try and reflect our brand at the events we run. Using Events to bring your brand to life.

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