PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The multi-hub format, with multiple connected venues like this meeting with 18 hubs in Spain, combines the benefits of both. The “reimagined” meeting now will take place entirely online, with a daylong agenda that includes keynote speaker Billie Jean King, multiple panels, and breakout sessions.

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Expo Pass

MARCH 31, 2021

Venues are reopening, the virtual world is blending with the in-person world, and hybrid events are definitely the future. Virtual is too accessible and convenient to give up, but at the same time, people can’t wait to meet in person again. From the venue, to virtual elements, everything can be tailored to an organizer’s exact needs.

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Gallus Events

MARCH 22, 2016

3 Use meeting design to create the framework for great content. With these first two steps covered: bringing together the content expert and the programme expert, the next step was to add some meeting design. We had round table sessions which took place in the informal areas of the venue. and in small groups.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 22, 2020

Virtual meetings require careful design to keep attendees engaged and deliver value for the hosts. But how do you translate the energy and insights from a face-to-face meeting through a computer screen? When designing an online event, content must be both engaging and relevant —and rightsized, not too much. Make a Profit.

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Gallus Events

AUGUST 7, 2017

Venues come on line almost by the hour. And new areas such as meeting design, seem to spring up from nowhere. And every speaker should be delivering the best possible session, with the event organisers full support. The possibilities of event technology seem to change almost every day. So how can we cope?

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The UK’s leading platform for the world’s meetings and events community will be officially opened on Thursday 30 September by Tourism Minister Nigel Huddleston at ExCeL, London. Headlining the education programme is keynote speaker Ric Salmon, producer of the first virtual Glastonbury and CEO of Driift.

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Gallus Events

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Choose a unique venue. One of the best ways to liven up your annual conference is to choose a very different venue. We choose Proud in Camden which is “normally” used as a nightclub and cabaret venue. A creative space brings out the best in attendees and speakers. Turn your audience into participants.

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Gallus Events

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

IBTM session was all about Meeting Design and the venue is about 5 miles from my office, so attending that one was much easier! Chances that the organiser will pay for the time the speakers have put into preparing, traveling and delivering that content will be low. Every speaker is free to say no.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 22, 2020

The panel members — a corporate planner, two association planners, a meeting-design expert, and a hotel executive — discussed the viability of hybrid events. The July 2 event at the World Forum in The Hague welcomed 65 attendees in the venue and more than 160 online viewers.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 24, 2017

Perhaps it’s your KEYNOTE / best speaker wrapping up the day. Remove distractions by holding your event at a slightly remote venue. So perhaps, a venue just round the corner from Oxford Street isn’t the best idea! The traditional approach would be to do one, or more of the following things: 1.

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Gallus Events

JUNE 17, 2016

The event was held at one of the particular fantastic – and pretty new- ETC Venues in London and it was a day that promised something different from the standard association conference: and trust me, association conferences can be VERY STANDARD. They used Meeting Design. They had a gender balanced speaker programme.

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Gallus Events

JUNE 17, 2016

The event was held at one of the particular fantastic – and pretty new- ETC Venues in London and it was a day that promised something different from the standard association conference: and trust me, association conferences can be VERY STANDARD. They used Meeting Design. They had a gender balanced speaker programme.

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Event Marketer

MAY 17, 2023

While speakers shared proven tips and tricks, best practices and trends in sustainability, design, DE&I, tech and more, one theme in particular wove throughout several sessions: the importance of building one-of-a-kind experiences.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 25, 2018

The venue is absolutely crucial. 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 had the perfect venue.

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Hubilo Blog

MARCH 7, 2020

They may be event tech enthusiasts, event planners , event speakers , but all of them are influencers for event enthusiasts and followers. With more than a decade of experience as a professional speaker, Dahlia founded The Meeting Pool , a great source of information for event professionals. Liz launched Liz King Events.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

in the early planning stages of an internal meeting, designed to bring together two teams – Digital and Information Technology for the first time – prior to their merger into one ‘Digital Technology’ team. Networking and collaboration were the primary objectives of this all-hands meeting, held in Germany in January 2019.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 30, 2019

Rachael Naylor, the new HBAA Venue Member Chair announced the launch of a Venue Members meeting, designed to forge closer collaboration between venues. This is set to take place along with the Great Venue Showcase on 11 and 12 April. It’s OK not to be OK’. Annual Dinner.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 28, 2022

My work at a pre-con is different from that of a typical meeting planner since I focus on the meeting’s design and facilitation. I’ve been convening meetings for decades, though, so I know a fair amount about meeting planning. The meeting industry has redefined novelty as creativity.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Both speakers emphasised that learning about event technology is crucial now because this is the time when we get to design and define what this means for our industry. I’m a firm believer that everyone needs a technologist on their team now,” said Vismale.

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Gallus Events

JULY 19, 2018

It’s not just the content and the speakers, it’s also about having time and a space to think about things differently, and perhaps see challenges in a different light. However, attending a conference like this allows organisers to do exactly that. – We were also aware that our conferences were quite expensive for some members.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Tahira Endean tweets about the intersection of experiential, immersive meeting design and technology. Dahlia is an event technology evangelist, speaker and educator. Events Uncovered is an innovative space for event experts to meet, discuss, learn and share their knowledge of the event industry. TahiraCreates. ChipConley.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 4, 2019

They might see what were rundown buildings finding new life as pop-up dinner spaces or music venues or art galleries. “At The Gather Greene event venue and nature retreat in upstate New York is intended to blur the boundaries of indoor and outdoor spaces. More Meeting Trends. 5 Trends That are Changing Meeting Design.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 17, 2022

We will have an intentional mix of physical and virtual presences with in-person gatherings driven by purpose and designed for collaboration.”. When it matters enough to gather, the meeting design could be much different that in the BC (before-Covid) times.

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Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 27, 2016

Meeting or event design elements cover a wide array of details ranging from thematic tie-ins, signage, audiovisual production, speaker selection, technology use, seating, room set-ups, food and beverage menus and program content. Design program. Engage speakers and performers. Design site layout.

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The MICE

MARCH 11, 2021

The first speaker, Farshida Zafar, L.L.M., We used meeting design to do that, which already had some gamification elements to it. These themed nights will be two hours long and will also include a keynote speaker, presentations and panel discussions. Why use gamification? And we really wanted to bring that online.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 4, 2022

Another multi-hub AIM event connected as many as 40 venues, she told Convene. Nine expert speakers (one remote) broadcast training sessions from the main studio in Rome, with 180 remote participants. Barbara Sambugaro. It wasn’t only a one-way knowledge transmission, however.

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Event Industry News

MAY 3, 2019

“Slowly but surely, the meeting industry is learning that the old lecture-saturated conference model is increasingly inferior to meeting designs that incorporate the active learning, connections, engagement, and outcomes that attendees actually want and need.” ” — Corbin Ball, Founder at Corbin Ball & Co.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Rally provides a venue with multiple rooms , and each room can have a variable number of tables. Venue owners can make other attendees co-hosts. Venue owners can make other attendees co-hosts. Rally can provide hosts with a custom URL for their venue. The company says they are exploring increasing room size to 50.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 22, 2019

“Slowly but surely, the meeting industry is learning that the old lecture-saturated conference model is increasingly inferior to meeting designs that incorporate the active learning, connections, engagement, and outcomes that attendees actually want and need.” ” — Corbin Ball , Founder at Corbin Ball & Co.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

An entrepreneur since he was only 18 years old, Maarten has over 35 years of experience in meeting design. He’s an author, a speaker, a trainer. Ready to hear all about the ground-breaking magic of multi-hub meetings? In 2006, Marteen started the Meeting Design Institute. These people are so in demand.

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Social Tables

APRIL 17, 2019

Each week, we email a short survey to a mix of over 23,000 planners, venues, and hotels. Meanwhile, venue respondents reported that important pieces get lost in endless email chains and cross-functional work can get confusing due to a lack of alignment on priorities across departments.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

Paul Nunesdea : And hello, hello, dear viewers, this is a soft start of our third episode in 2024 of Talk to Your Meeting Doctors. As you probably know by now, we are pleased to entertain today our guest speaker Adrian Segar. Lovely to meet you, Adrian. Or people who own sports venues in the United States.

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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. What type of layout or setup would you choose? Maximize use of space. Auditorium Setup.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

All of the above is driving the generation’s expectations for meetings and events, ultimately redefining the meeting industry entirely. Attendees want more control over the meeting agenda. Gone are the days of static schedules, where speaker after speaker shuffle on stage while attendees remain seated.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

All of the above is driving the generation’s expectations in regards to meetings and events, ultimately redefining the industry as a result. Control over the meeting agenda is moving to attendees. Gone are the days of static schedules that shuffle through speaker after speaker while attendees remain seated.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 30, 2018

Such workshops routinely meet the outcomes they’re designed to achieve: creating useful and memorable learning experiences and connections. These workshops are not successful because of the: excellence of a speaker; beauty/novelty of the venue/F&B/entertainment; or extraordinary facilitation.

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Slido

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The venue is usually revealed shortly before the event starts to heighten the expectations. The organizers reimagine the concept of lecture and push its boundaries to create immersive worlds and unforgettable moments with world-class speakers. The venue always matches the film setting to create a unique atmosphere.

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