article thumbnail

Why our meetings are still full of lectures

Conferences that Work

Why are our meetings still full of lectures? Well, listen to and consider this June 11, 2021 quote from New York City Mayoral frontrunner Eric Adams : [link]. With new technology of remote learning, you don’t need school children to be in a school building with a number of teachers. It’s just the opposite.

Meetings 316
article thumbnail

How OpenAI Has Misappropriated My Copyright: ChatGPT’s Land Grab

Conferences that Work

I am resigned to the fact that OpenAI ‘s Large Language Model ChatGPT has scraped every blog post I’ve written here (over 750 posts in the last 13 years—around half a million words) so it can parrot my thoughts about meeting design, facilitation, and other topics.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

5 Trends That Are Changing Meeting Design

PCMA Convene

Kate Fairweather (right) and Amy Blackman present results from “The Future of Meetings and Events” report at Convening Leaders 2019 in Pittsburgh. Marriott and the PCMA Foundation worked with New York City–based global consultancy firm Fahrenheit 212, where Kate Fairweather works as an innovation consultant. More Meeting Trends.

article thumbnail

Share information; don’t hoard it

Conferences that Work

Well, here’s an alternative historical perspective from a completely different source, a 1926 article about the New York Club of Printing House Craftsmen, uncovered by Jeff Jarvis and described as “ …a lovely evocation on the value of sharing in our field, which we used to call printing. ” “Stop. .

article thumbnail

Bringing a ‘Sense of Place’ to Meeting Design

PCMA Convene

The appetite for experiential tours among those who come to Portland for meetings and conventions has grown noticeably in the last two years, Morgan said. The Gather Greene event venue and nature retreat in upstate New York is intended to blur the boundaries of indoor and outdoor spaces. No, Don’t Give Them the Generic.

article thumbnail

2023 in review—and a book sale!

Conferences that Work

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!”

2023 208
article thumbnail

What Meeting Trends We’ll Be Watching in 2020

PCMA Convene

The editors of Convene looked back over 2019, asking this question: What’s one meeting and event trend on my radar in 2020? In fact, New York City’s Javits Center already employs Sally the Robot, a technology solution from Chowbotics, to prepare salads for convention-goers — a solution that also helps reduce food waste.

2020 128