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3 Tips for Shifting to an Architectural Model for Meeting Design

Smart Meetings

For the last 25 years, a former drama teacher from The Netherlands has been advocating for taking a similar approach to event planning. Real meetings are all about content,” he says. The power of meetings depends on the human dynamics they are capable of unleashing. Legs of a Meeting Design Foundation.

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Podcast: The Importance of Reconnecting

EventMB

In this episode you can hear from: Kemp Gallineau, CEO at Groups360 Thorben Grosser, vice president of product marketing and events at EventMobi Annette Gregg, senior vice president of experience at Meeting Professionals International Tahira Endean, head of programme at IMEX Robert Dunsmore, independent creative director Martin Sirk, owner at Sirk (..)

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Are Online Meetings Reducing Our Collective Intelligence?

Conferences that Work

This occurred during the first Meeting Design Practicum in Utrecht, The Netherlands: more details here ). In 2016, I experienced my first escape room. Two teams competed to escape two identical rooms. Both teams included people I hardly knew.

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C&I Is the New Q&A

PCMA Convene

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. Learn more about the Meeting Design Institute at meetingdesigninstitute.org.

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U.S. and Europe Power of Participation Workshops registration opens!

Conferences that Work

February 2-3, 2017: RAI Amsterdam , The Netherlands 1½-day workshop, registration now open — €895. significantly increase owner and attendee satisfaction and participation at your sessions and events.

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5 Innovative Meeting Formats

PCMA Convene

Where past generations of meeting-goers might have been content as spectators, attendees today are looking for more active participation and experiential learning — starting with the fact that much of what they used to travel for is now available digitally. In this way, graphic visuals organize goals at a glance. “If

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PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2017

PCMA Convene

I will revolutionize attendee engagement through innovative meeting-design practices. Events and Marketing Manager, TQ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I will become a world-renowned speaker for industry events organized by key international players such as IMEX, IBTM, ICCA, PCMA, MPI, and IAPCO. AMANDA MAROCHKO, DES.

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