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How to help meeting design clients figure out what they really want and need

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Scenes from a peer conference A slideshow of images from the Third Annual Vermont Vision For A Multicultural Future peer conference, held at the Mount Snow Grand Summit Resort November 6-7, 2014. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That. Conferences That Work goes to Japan!

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27 years of peer conferences

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The first peer conference I convened and designed was held June 3 – 5, 1992 at Marlboro College, Vermont. on participant-driven, participation-rich meeting design; and plentiful ongoing opportunities to fulfill my mission to facilitate connection between people. That’s 3 x 3 x 3.

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Five reasons NOT to use a Conferences That Work meeting design

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So when should you use the Conferences That Work design? A birthday present for you on the 21st anniversary of Conferences That Work What a long strange trip it’s been The first Conferences That Work event was held June 3–5, 1992, at Marlboro College, Vermont. I thought you’d never ask. If you had told me then that the.

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Why you should hire curious people

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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. The solar energy company.

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Q&A with Adrian Segar on Crowdsourcing

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I was an amateur in the meeting industry, and that led to some mistakes, but it also gave me a fresh perspective at a time when meeting design wasn’t really a “thing.” I discovered that people love the format, and that led to writing the book 10 years ago. If you had told me then that the.

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Introduction to my new book Event Crowdsourcing

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I immigrated to the United States after falling in love with Vermont, a rural state with no opportunity to continue the big-lab science path I’d been traveling. Their passions frequently distracted and detracted from the science we were exploring. Understanding people. Understanding people better became important to me.

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What I wear for running

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I live in rural Vermont on a moderately hilly dirt road that’s quiet enough for me to run a couple of miles daily. Pre-pandemic, I traveled fairly frequently for my work as a consultant on meeting design and facilitator of meetings, and would try to run a couple of miles every day, wherever I was.

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