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Anca Trifan interviews me about participation-rich meetings and event design

Conferences that Work

07:45 Behind the scenes: How I got into designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings. 11:00 What participant-driven and participation-rich meeting design means, and the core components. 15:00 Why we need to have participant-driven and participation-rich meetings.

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What Meeting Profs Can Learn from Pop-Up Immersive Art Experiences

Smart Meetings

What can meeting professionals learn from this popular pop-up social media craze? This larger-than life projection is worlds away from a droning PowerPoint presentation on a distant screen. Why not transform the welcome reception into a jungle or beach to fit your meeting theme and put everyone in a fresh frame of mind?

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Which meeting design books should I buy?

Conferences that Work

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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Friends don’t let friends give away their content

Conferences that Work

Let me be clear, by all means share your content for free on any of the gazillion social media platforms available. Determine how your content is presented. Friends don’t let friends give away their original content to third-party platforms. I’ve been saying this for years, but do people listen? No they don’t.

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Floral Event Attracts Budding Young Professionals, New Programming

PCMA Convene

The “Advanced Design Techniques” workshop — one of several — was described as “speed dating meets design education.” Participants were given the opportunity to cycle through six presentations within an hour, touching on topics such as floral-crown design, bouquet-making techniques, and leaf manipulation.

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What I learned from organizing my first hackaton

Gallus Events

You will find me going on about the importance of the venue in a lot of posts (specially the ones that cover meeting design ) as the venue helps the organiser create the right atmosphere and environment. We even had access to a VIP screening room which allowed us to have presentations in a separate area. Big, bright and open.

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An Ode to 40 Women Influencers In the Events Industry

Hubilo Blog

She has been voted one of the top 100 movers and shakers in the UK Event Industry 2016 and a top 10 Event Industry social media influencer. Her company connects the MICE industry with the right social media influencer, to tell the story of the suppliers in an authentic and fun way within the right target audience.