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We are biased against truly creative event design

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A “creative” event design is one with a novel venue and/or decor and lighting and/or food and beverage. Consequently, planners restrict the entire focus of creative event design to novel visual and sensory elements. Truly creative event design We are biased against truly creative event design.

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Crafting Corporate Events That Resonate with Gen Z

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Gen Z includes people born between 1997 and 2012. Emphasize Experience and Connection Instead of planning a traditional speaker-and-audience setup, try something new for Gen Z. If it makes sense for your event, group attendees into teams so they instantly have a group to chat with.

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Mixed Reality For Virtual Events With Touchcast!

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How can these emerging technologies and production partners elevate your virtual events? “When we started in 2012, it really focused on the future of video communications. The people attending in terms of speakers don’t need to learn anything new. Introducing, Touchcast! So, how did Touchcast come about?

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The top educational meeting format

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In contrast, that’s way ahead of their second choice: Professional speakers delivering presentations (58%). I’ve been designing and facilitating workshop-style, participatory sessions since 1992, and participants love them ! Smart conference producers incorporate participatory sessions into their events.

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Any questions? Rethinking traditional Q&A

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Designing Participation Into Your Meetings No, that’s not me up on the stage, and that’s not the kind of session I’ll be leading next Tuesday, May 22, at the MPI New England 2012 Northeast Education.

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Why switching to active learning is hard — and worth it

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Superstar lecturers and motivational speakers. “ Including highly paid keynote speakers at meetings is a meeting industry fixation. .” College students are the focus of this research. There’s no reason to believe that these conclusions would not apply to adult learning during meeting sessions.

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Create Powerful Meetings Instead of Power-over Meetings

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Traditional conferences unconsciously promote and sustain power imbalances between the “speakers” at the front of the room and the audience. All meetings incorporate power relationships that fundamentally affect their dynamics and potential.

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