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. In 2023, in-person is back!

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Gallus Events

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Workshops are a very popular format for getting people stuck into a topic. But not all workshops are created equally. I attended a workshop in Barcelona last week. What is a workshop. Back in 2015 (probably after attending workshops that weren’t workshops) I wrote a post: Definition of a Workshop.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 8, 2016

Now I’m bringing my expertise to Chicago for a 1½ day October 6 – 7 workshop, a unique opportunity for you to: Learn how to make your conferences and conference sessions far more engaging and effective ; Gain powerful meeting design insights ; Significantly increase participation and satisfaction at your sessions and events; and.

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2011 2016 Education 2012 120

Conferences that Work

APRIL 9, 2018

Over the last five years I’ve heard increasing concern from the meeting professionals community about the deterioration of the quality of our national industry conferences. I’ll illustrate with the area where I have most experience: providing education at these meetings.

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EventMB

MAY 1, 2018

Meetings are a necessity in terms of everyday working life and also creating smaller gatherings or workshops as part of a larger business event can be fruitful if done right. The post 17 Meeting Ideas to Encourage Learning Retention by EventMB Team appeared first on [link].

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Meetings Corporate Meetings Meeting Design Events 165

Conferences that Work

JUNE 7, 2021

Why am I writing about social learning on a blog that’s (mainly) about meeting design? Which means, to create the best meetings we need to maximize the social learning that takes place. Instead, build social learning into your meetings as much as possible. Humans’ true superpower.

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Meeting Design Conference Meetings Event Design 284

Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 12, 2016

or Europe, I’ve got a POPWORKS workshop for you! February 2-3, 2017: RAI Amsterdam , The Netherlands 1½-day workshop, registration now open — €895. March 20-21, 2017: Catalyst Ranch , Chicago 1½-day workshop, registration now open — $599 if you register by January 7 , $699 afterwards. I am sick that I missed it.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 13, 2016

Why mention this on an event design blog? Well, the most effective aspect of China’s online censorship regime illustrates what happens when you don’t incorporate covenants into your meetings. When such freedoms are agreed to individually and as a group at the start of a meeting, ambiguity about meeting behavior dissipates.

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Meetings 2011 2012 Government 159

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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Contracts 2011 Conference Education 175

Conferences that Work

MARCH 13, 2017

How do we get people to participate at meetings? Seth Godin describes a desirable meeting mindset: What would happen… if we chose to: …Sit in the front row. Seth Godin describes a desirable meeting mindset: What would happen… if we chose to: …Sit in the front row. Ask a hard question every time we go to a meeting….

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2011 2012 Education Meeting Design 200

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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Meetings 2017 Meeting Design Speakers 86

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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2019 Meetings 2009 Education 94

SmartMeetings

JULY 5, 2016

From books that take an irreverent approach to meeting planning to comprehensive guides on everything from meeting design to green events , this reading list has everything the modern meeting planner needs for a relaxing day of poolside reading. Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design.

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Meetings Food and Beverage Sustainability Meeting Design 66

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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Meetings Meeting Design Speakers Tech 103

Conferences that Work

JULY 24, 2017

The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida.

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Conference 2011 Education Meetings 180

Conferences that Work

AUGUST 29, 2016

Whenever I’ve had the pleasure of meeting David (not often enough!) There is nothing in the 2016 BizBash Design Issue that explores the heart of event design: what will happen at the event? 2 — Elementary Meetings. Instead, let’s broaden our conceptions of what meeting design is.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 26, 2017

I’ve spent 25 years working on changing outmoded mindsets about what we should be doing in meetings. Historically, topics had to be determined in advance, the meeting format was mainly lecture and did not encourage interaction, and content was king. Adapt to the reality that we primarily learn from our peers rather than experts.

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Education Conference Meeting Design Meetings 125

Event Marketer

MAY 17, 2023

Designed as the ultimate three-day conversation, EMS 2023 delivered senior-level perspectives on the current state of experiential marketing as the industry continues to find its footing in a post-pandemic climate.

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2023 2024 Marketing Speakers 52

Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 10, 2017

Among those to exclude are expo only, staff, exhibitors, sponsors, press, guests, workshop-only, and students. (If The first heat map shows the percent of loyal attendees by region, who tend to go anywhere your meeting is being held. If student attendance is material, we like to analyze separately.)

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Conference Education 2017 Speakers 288

Gallus Events

JUNE 17, 2016

An “insight” session: basically an introduction session to a workshop. They used Meeting Design. Event Strategy in Associations. Much of the day was set to addressing very useful but quite practical areas of events. So in this back up post to the event I’d like to talk strategy.

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2016 Meeting Design Sponsorships Events 113

PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 28, 2018

For the past 134 years, florists have flocked to the Society of American Florists (SAF) Annual Convention , where organizers “work hard to come up with programming that is attractive to all segments of the industry,” said Laura Weaver, CMP, SAF’s director of meetings and conventions.

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Social Media 2018 Retail Meeting Design 55

Gallus Events

JUNE 17, 2016

An “insight” session: basically an introduction session to a workshop. They used Meeting Design. Event Strategy in Associations. Much of the day was set to addressing very useful but quite practical areas of events. So in this back up post to the event I’d like to talk strategy.

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2016 Meeting Design Sponsorships Events 100

PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2019

The European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) Congress had been held annually for more than three decades when the organization reached out in 2015 to Maarten Vanneste, president of the Meeting Design Institute, based in Turnhout, Belgium. That is what we need in meetings.”. That is magic. C&I in Action.

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2015 Speakers Meeting Design Fashion 63

Gallus Events

MAY 9, 2017

Here’s the Bank of Scotland organising a “half day workshop” Again, I wonder, has the event been put together by an events professional? That half day digital workshop, will empower and add really value to every attendee and their business. Large Corporate Companies are using the power of live communications.

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Banking Advertising 2017 Hotels 133

Conferences that Work

JULY 30, 2018

I often design and facilitate workshops for association members who mostly haven’t met before. During the workshops each participant shares and receives consulting from a small peer group on a current personal professional challenge. Why are these workshops successful?

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2011 Education Consulting Conference 136

Conferences that Work

APRIL 18, 2022

I’ve been writing about hybrid meetings for a long time; my first post was in February 2010. The COVID19 pandemic created an explosion of interest in hybrid meetings, and the marketplace and event professionals are still defining what “hybrid” means. (No, Want to read my other posts on hybrid meetings?

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2010 Meetings Conference Travel 411

Slido

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Try something along these lines: What do you expect to get out of this event/training/workshop? At a recent full-day workshop, our facilitator Lukas Bakos prepared an ongoing quiz competition to keep us engaged from 9.00 Using one word, what themes do you want to hear about? What’s your level of understanding of the topic?

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Conference Speakers Meeting Design 2016 80

PCMA Convene

APRIL 4, 2019

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. As the building’s event coordinator, Ross works with clients to design events, including tours and hands-on experiences, ranging from turning wood on a lathe to screen-printing.

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Meeting Design Meetings Food and Beverage Hotels 40

PCMA Convene

AUGUST 12, 2019

American Society of Hematology asked participants at its annual meeting to share — through art — their answers to the question, “What Keeps Your Heart in Medicine?”. The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers declared war on boring lectures in July at the two-day leadership workshop, “Leadership Lessons From World War II.”.

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Meeting Design 2019 Meetings Insurance 93

Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If you’re interested in scheduling Bob to speak at your company meeting, conference or convention, please contact Kathy Tagenel at (775) 220-6995 or click here to email her. Together they co-produce strategic sales series workshops at Stanford University. Where to find him? Brian Tracy Who is he? Where to Find him?

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Speakers Consulting Healthcare Financial 101

Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If you’re interested in scheduling Bob to speak at your company meeting, conference or convention, please contact Kathy Tagenel at (775) 220-6995 or click here to email her. Together they co-produce strategic sales series workshops at Stanford University. Where to find him? Brian Tracy Who is he? Where to Find him?

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Speakers Healthcare Consulting Financial 98

Planning Pod

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Say you are preparing for a meeting, or a conference, or a class, or a banquet, or a wedding, and you want to optimize the venue or space you are using so that the seating and tables are set up for the best attendee experience. For example, conferences and meetings usually focus on networking and professional development.

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Speakers Trade Shows Conference Entertainment 95

PCMA Convene

JANUARY 25, 2019

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. As the building’s event coordinator, Ross works with clients to design events, including tours and hands-on experiences, ranging from turning wood on a lathe to screen-printing.

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Travel Event Design Food and Beverage Hotels 74

Conferences that Work

JULY 15, 2019

The past It’s been a long journey becoming brave. Fifty years ago, I was a teenager who, after a single embarrassing moment, gave up dancing in public. For forty years. Twenty-five years ago I was a college professor who spent hours preparing classes, fearful that students would ask me a question I couldn’t answer.

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