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Why you should hire curious people

Conferences that Work

If you had told me forty years ago, a freshly minted high-energy particle physics postdoc, that I’d go on to have four additional careers (owner of a solar manufacturing business, computer science professor, independent IT consultant, and meeting designer/facilitator) I wouldn’t have believed you. Hire curious people.

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Finding a creative venue and what to look for

Gallus Events

Too many venues, especially hotels, are still designed and to house traditional conferences. If you want to run a creative conference, one that uses Meeting Design you have to find a venue that will really support your conference. In this post I thought I’d add a little Meeting Design Venue Check List!

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Winning at Maximizing Virtual Audience Engagement: 10 Fun Ideas from Dahlia El Gazzar

Smart Meetings

urges Dahlia El Gazzar, DES, altMBA, EWD, and Tech Evangelist & CEO at DAHLIA+Agency. ” Read More : Virtual and Hybrid Meeting Tech Updates You Need Now. Read More : Virtual Meetings Are Missing These Two Things, Meta Is Working on a Fix. “Know thy audience!” ” “What are you binging on Netflix?”

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Get Ready for the Future of Events at ELI’s Business, Design & Strategy Summit

Event Leadership Institute

Other sessions will address positioning your company for post-COVID growth and how the work-from-home culture and decrease in business travel will affect in-person meetings. Another common challenge is creating sponsorship models that work in a virtual or hybrid environment.

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Become A Meeting Hero at IMEX America 2018 – October 16th-18th

Evenium

Join us on booth F1968 in the Event Tech area. Our onsite Event Tech specialists will be helping planners design interactive meetings with the right tools and tricks. If you’d like to meet with one of our Event Tech specialists, you can schedule a meeting now.

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Event Tech Trends to Watch in 2019

Meeting Tomorrow

There are a number of meeting design elements that need to be accounted for, but the cost savings and expanded participation seem well worth it. Imagine that each event has a “window” into all the other locations, and that the focus can be shifted from place to place–like a group video chat but with an event in each window.

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4 Ways to Leverage Virtual Event Design to Increase Engagement

EventMB

High production value — including quality event design — is incredibly important when it comes to matching live engagement online, which almost half of eventprofs struggle with when sourcing virtual tech. Here are 4 design ideas from recent online events to enhance the virtual experience.