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Top Event Technology Trends for 2024

Smart Meetings

How emerging AI and other technology will boost event humanity by putting attendee needs at the center of conference design Attendees expect more from events today and emerging technology is helping to deliver on those demands. It can turn that conversation into a training module and create blog and social media posts. “We

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5 Ways to Build Community Loyalty

Smart Meetings

Read More : Simple Wellness Activities Can Go a Long Way at Your Next Meeting Consider offering curated “brain dates” where attendees can select topics to discuss with others in between structured keynote presentations. Spatial Design for the Subconscious Mind Cookie-cutter conference designs can be mundane and predictable to an attendee.

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Case Study: Adrian Segar – “Conferences that work”

Conferences that Work

Here’s an independent review of my conference design work, published as a case study in Chapter 25—Designing and Developing Content for Collaborative Business Events—of the book The Routledge Handbook of Business Events. Tip: The hardback version is expensive, the ebook is a quarter of the hardback cost.)

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Alexander von Humboldt: A meeting designer way ahead of his time

Conferences that Work

I’m indebted to Martin Sirk for sharing remarkable information about an 1828 conference designed by the German geographer, naturalist, and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Read what follows to discover that Humboldt was also a meeting designer way ahead of his time! Martin Sirk Modern meeting design!

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Six reasons why unconferences aren’t more popular

Conferences that Work

An event that: Asks potential presenters to submit pre-event proposals for sessions isn’t an unconference. Includes breakout sessions as well as presentations isn’t an unconference. [No, When this doesn’t happen (sadly, most of the time in my experience) the conference design, no matter how good it is, suffers.

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Adrian Segar Speaker Tips Interview

Conferences that Work

workshop for Dutch professional moderators, I was interviewed by Otto Wijnen about speaker and presentation tips for making presentations more effective by incorporating active learning. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! After a one-day Participate! given at EventCamp Twin Cities on September 9, 2010?

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Three better alternatives to the conference lecture

Conferences that Work

In my experience, each of them is far more effective than a traditional conference lecture. After a batch of these talks, each presenter moves to a separate space in the room and session participants are then free to meet in small groups with the presenter(s) they chose for in-depth discussions.