EventMB

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Skift Take: Intentional meeting design has emerged as a growing trend since the pandemic changed everything about our industry. Here are five areas where meeting planners can apply intentionality to build better, more meaningful events. Visit Seattle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 25, 2019

When Marriott and the PCMA Foundation joined together to update research on the trends that can be expected to transform meetings and events in the future, they made the decision to look everywhere except within the industry. It demonstrates the idea of celebrating local surroundings in meeting design. Kate Fairweather.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2017

This new research won’t appear in a peer-reviewed journal, Sperstad said, “because our industry doesn’t go to those, academics do. Our goal is to pique curiosity and to shed light in areas that [meeting professionals] wouldn’t normally think of.”. EVENT DESIGN. “My I’m a person who really cares about practical work.

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EventMB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Skift Meetings Studio Team Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Skift Take: Once again, we are looking ahead at how business events are evolving and what event professionals must do to stay ahead of the curve.

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Event Leadership Institute

JANUARY 19, 2022

The events industry is ever-changing, always adapting, and continuously growing – which is one of the many reasons why we love what we do! We should all be looking for the best tools, resources, designations, and skills to acquire into our professional toolkit, but we know this can be an overwhelming and time-consuming feat.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Presentation versus interaction at meetings. But our meeting designs, in large part, haven’t changed to reflect this shift in cultural awareness. It has remained in first place ever since. Society, as reflected by books in English, now talks about interaction about twice as often as presentation.

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Gallus Events

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

November is always a busy month for event organisers in the event industry. IBTM session was all about Meeting Design and the venue is about 5 miles from my office, so attending that one was much easier! It is run by Event Industry News an online magazine. Details of my session at IBTM World. What do you think?

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 21, 2024

JT Long, vice president and content director of Smart Meetings, has an insightful conversation with Edward Perotti, an award-winning meeting designer and principle of EP Events and Experiences.

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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. In this blog, we are representing the industry’s brightest minds that are renowned for their own contributions and the work they are doing. She is currently the Head of Events with SITE Global.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 24, 2020

Here are five meeting design books I especially recommend. Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design ( ebook or paperback ). Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design ( ebook or paperback ). Intentional Event Design ( ebook or paperback ).

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Before 2020, I was designing and facilitating around a dozen in-person meetings and conferences a year. After COVID decimated the meeting industry, I focused on the design and facilitation of online meetings. He has stayed on top of new meeting trends and technologies for decades. My brain is on fire!”

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 16, 2019

If you had told me forty years ago, a freshly minted high-energy particle physics postdoc, that I’d go on to have four additional careers (owner of a solar manufacturing business, computer science professor, independent IT consultant, and meeting designer/facilitator) I wouldn’t have believed you. Hire curious people.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

As an experienced facilitator and designer of participant-driven and participation-rich meetings, I love to share what I’ve learned during my four decades in the meeting industry. A freewheeling Ask Me Anything about meeting design that delivers optimal learning, connection, engagement, and action outcomes?

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 28, 2021

2:30 A brief history of meetings; why lecture formats are still so popular; how panels fit into the larger context of meetings. 10:15 Adrian describes the fishbowl sandwich format, and how he used it to find solutions for an industry-wide problem with a group of several hundred people. Annotated timeline of the video.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 11, 2021

All meeting design needs to recognize this reality. As I’ve shared above, our emotions, institutions, and technology also frequently conflict when we are planning meetings. Emotions run us; our rationality comes in a distant second. Institutions. The things we do reflect our culture.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 25, 2022

Ask Adrian Anything: using a fishbowl sandwich to facilitate group discussion on meeting design and facilitation. Creating the right program. Consolidating learning. Facilitating individual and community growth. This workshop is limited to 100 attendees, so register now !

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EventMB

JUNE 3, 2022

It features testimonials from a diverse group of 21 event industry professionals who share their core reasons for being at the 18th edition of the trade show, the first since the start of the Covid pandemic. This special podcast episode was recorded on site at IMEX in Frankfurt 2022.

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Hubilo Blog

MARCH 4, 2019

Corporate Events like these provide a great platform for networking, business opportunities and to unveil the latest event technologies , to recognize the talent of the event industry and so on. Event profs, event leaders, event planners and all the people surrounded with event industry, can spot the influence in the industry easily.

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Gallus Events

JULY 1, 2019

PCMA continue to dedicate their efforts towards leading the event industry response to homelessness. Following the Social Justice panel session at Convening Leaders in January , PCMA decided to run a hackathon to look at, event industry based, solutions to the dire, global, homelessness crisis. What a packed few days.

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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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EventMB

JANUARY 4, 2017

Are you wondering what’s on the horizon for event and meeting design? This past fall, we surveyed over 1,000 event professionals asking them questions about trends in the industry and what they saw as the biggest factors shaping things […].

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2019

I was an amateur in the meeting industry, and that led to some mistakes, but it also gave me a fresh perspective at a time when meeting design wasn’t really a “thing.” I discovered that people love the format, and that led to writing the book 10 years ago.

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EventMB

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The event industry is simply amazing. The post More, More and More: How The Event Industry Got it All Wrong by Julius Solaris appeared first on [link]. The post More, More and More: How The Event Industry Got it All Wrong by Julius Solaris appeared first on [link]. Now that I’ve put on paper my […].

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 11, 2022

First, you need to understand before the meeting what your practitioners and suppliers want, need, and expect. As a meeting designer, if a meeting is going to include both practitioners and suppliers I always ask my clients about the relationship between these groups and their wants and needs.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 4, 2019

” Using peer to peer learning techniques, innovative technology, and creative meeting design, The EVENT ‘s objectives are to: encourage participants to collaborate with industry peers; cultivate new ideas; and elevate the entire meeting industry. I’m happy to offer a rare Participate!

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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.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Her brand of high energy moderation and facilitation is exactly what we need as the industry returns to normality or the new normality in which we find ourselves. AEV director, Rachel Parker, said, “I am delighted to announce that Samme will be hosting our conference.

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GEVME

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Today, we see professionals from the UX & Design field apply design thinking to meetings to explore how to reinvent them. Kevin Hoffman has written a pretty good book about it: Meeting Design. And we also see the concept of open space for events picking up.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 29, 2021

The essential characteristics of meeting professionals. If there is a heaven on earth in the event industry, there are four essential characteristics of successful meeting professionals you’ll meet there. Our industry, by definition, is people-centric.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

QnA with Event Industry Influencer, Author and Founder of Conferences That Work – Adrian Segar. Amazed by the modern concept of organizing conferences and ideas that change the concept of corporate meetings planning; we approached Adrian Segar to discuss his work! As an event industry influencer, what’s your typical day like?

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 6, 2022

A meeting designer used a carbon-dioxide meter in all the spaces he moved through while attending a recent conference. In late May, Adrian Segar attended a meeting-industry leadership summit in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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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. “What industry/job role fits you best?” I’ve shared the why?

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 9, 2023

For meeting designers, ChatGPT can save the organizer time by answering mundane questions like, “What does business casual mean?” thereby freeing up time to design more meaningful, sustainable and motivating programs. Harris referred to the recent “ The Future of the Incentives Industry Workforce ” study.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 8, 2019

Five years earlier, self-publishing was a minor industry for vanity projects. I quickly discover the size and interest of the meetings industry. Due to interest and demand, I become a meeting designer and facilitator of participant-driven and participation-rich meetings.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 11, 2020

In person meetings have vanished overnight. It’s time to implement what we’ve learned about great face-to-face meeting design and process into online meetings. Meetings will never be the same. My mission is to make meetings better for everyone involved.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 29, 2016

However, one recurring theme in David’s magazine irritates me, because it perpetuates a common misconception in the events industry. BizBash consistently uses the term “event design” to mean “ visual design” As an example, consider the 2016 Design Issue.

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