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Why you should hire curious people

Conferences that Work

An example of the successful curious neo-generalist — me! My curiosity about what else was going on in my professional field at the time, would eventually lead me to the meeting design and facilitation work I do today. Meeting design and facilitation. Read the linked post for full details.). Hire curious people.

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Event Tech Trends to Watch in 2019

Meeting Tomorrow

SXSW is the classic example, but this has often fallen flat in the corporate space. There are a number of meeting design elements that need to be accounted for, but the cost savings and expanded participation seem well worth it.

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Hybrid events: what are they and what are their benefits?

Event Industry News

What have been some of the most effective examples of hybrid events you’ve seen so far? Many of the large tech conferences like Google I/O and Facebook’s F8 arguably have a greater response online than in the meeting itself. What do you hope attendees of your session at The Meetings Show will take away from it?

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Using events to bring your brand to life

Gallus Events

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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Designing an online memorial service

Conferences that Work

For example, we might have rooms for alumni who graduated in the 60’s or between ’90 and ’95, a room for staff, and a room for faculty. Tech assistance on prerecorded content (if any) in Zoom. A Zoom meeting recorder. Zoom meeting monitoring. A “photographer” for the Zoom event.

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How Hybrid Is Taking Center Stage in Convention Centers

PCMA Convene

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.

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Hybrid is happening, here’s what works!

Expo Pass

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. On the venue side, Helenic mentioned StaySafe Sonesta as a good example. First off, much of the tech needed is in venues already.

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