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Venue Fail

Gallus Events

The Hotel in question is the Garden Inn Hotel in Davos, Switzerland. And you have meeting rooms with this view. If event planners want meetings to deliver value to their attendees, they have to stop using meeting rooms like this. Hilton Davos, your meeting rooms could have looked out onto the Swiss Alps!

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Want Audiences to Interact? Unleash a Pit Bull

PCMA Convene

When FRESH18 — which bills itself as the first annual conference focused exclusively on meeting design — gets underway Feb. 27-28, it will be showcasing its own solution to a common event-design problem: getting the audience to participate.

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What Meeting Trends We’ll Be Watching in 2020

PCMA Convene

I learned about this new and improved form of the Q&A during a chat I had earlier in the year with Maarten Vanneste , president of the Belgium-based Meeting Design Institute. One way to keep participants involved in the conversation is called C&I — short for “Conversations and Input.”

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PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2017

PCMA Convene

What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far? 18, 2014, after a tough selection process, I became one of the youngest participants to attend the exclusive IAPCO Annual Seminar in Wolfs-berg, Switzerland. I will revolutionize attendee engagement through innovative meeting-design practices.

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