Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2024

Since 2005, I’ve written three successful books on meeting design and facilitation and over 800 weekly blog posts on a wide range of topics. My books continue to sell, and this blog is the world’s most popular website on meeting design and facilitation. It was recognized fairly quickly as an important book on meeting design.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 19, 2023

Resorts and organizations partner to solve an ecological disaster The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, otherwise known as the massive seaweed blob, is currently heading for the coastline of South Florida, and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and is guaranteed to be problematic every time it washes ashore.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 24, 2022

Craighead has won several accolades, including the Planner of the Year Award by Smart Meetings in 2020 and the Show Manager of the Year Award in 2015 from the Expo Group and Trade Show News Network. Port has been with the organization for 20 years, most recently working as director of brand and content. Patrick Lacassagne. Paula Port.

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 6, 2024

He also will develop new marketplace opportunities for IAEE’s annual meeting and strengthen industry relationships in partnership with IAEE’s sales, marketing, and membership teams, as well as develop attendee acquisition strategies. Jennifer Ramsey has joined Talley as a meeting planner.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 7, 2019

Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, leaders of the Meetings Mean Business coalition—which showcases the tangible value that face-to-face meetings, conventions, and trade shows provide to people, businesses, and host communities—revealed what coalition co-chair Julie Coker Graham called the group's "activation strategy" for 2019.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Thompson is director of meeting and event services at Talley Management Group in Mount Royal, New Jersey. Jules CEO of the organization. Jules was previously director of marketing for her current organization and, prior to that, was CEO of PEAEYE7 Marketing International for five years. Michael Thompson, CMM. Charles-St.

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 17, 2023

Samantha Veneruso, director of learning programs at the American Geophysical Union (from left); Goradesky; and Lauren Parr, SVP, meetings and learning at AGU, were introduced by Joni Opperman, Hilton Worldwide Sales.

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Travel Daily News

APRIL 9, 2023

Both Conrado and Mendoza, along with the other Board nominees, will be on the ballot at the 2023 Annual Shareholders Meeting. billion technology budget and oversaw multiple organizations. Such organizations include Pre-K 4 SA, UP Partnership and The Holdsworth Center. DALLAS – Southwest Airlines Co.

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Blue Spark Event Design

JANUARY 19, 2024

Meeting organizers are constantly on the lookout for the best hotels in every city (if you need help with site selection and negotiation , let us know!) Rosen Shingle Creek Renovated in 2019, the hotel features 1,501 stylish guest rooms and suites with 524,000 square feet of meeting space.

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DCI

DECEMBER 14, 2021

As cities and regions across the country vie for talent , we are featuring economic development organizations implementing creative talent attraction marketing efforts as part of our Talent Attraction Spotlight blog series. Talent Program at a Glance: Duration : Began in 2009; website relaunched in 2019 .

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 30, 2022

The all-volunteer, fan-run convention got its start in 1997 as a 36-hour anime marathon organized by the Triangle Area Anime Society at North Carolina State University. Since its first official event in 1998, this celebration has continued to grow, moving from small hotels to its current host venue, the Raleigh Convention Center, in 2009.

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The MICE Blog

JULY 27, 2022

One of the talks that impressed me the most was ‘Participant experience design – how do we create meetings which move people more deeply?’ It was established based on the theory of meeting design, a well-known ‘tool kit’ used by planners worldwide. Transitioning to the new event world: What can a meeting look like?

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Returning to F2F, do alcohol and meetings still mix? It happened in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2009,” Juliane Farinazzo, co-founder and events director of Bijou Events, remembers as if it were yesterday. Faceplanted on the table during a global investigator meeting, causing four glass bottles to topple to the floor.”. Yes, they did.

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Social Tables

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

If you’re like me when planning a meeting or event, the rentals portion of the budget can consume all of your time and energy. How Flexible Are Your Meeting Dates? It is really important to prioritize what you absolutely need versus what you want at your meeting. Good news: it doesn’t have to. Can You Stay Local?

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The newest study from Oxford Economics on the economic significance of the meetings industry is out, illustrating the size and impact of meetings, conferences, incentive travel programs, and trade shows. million meetings • 251 million meeting participants. The meetings industry in 2016 supported: • 5.9 In the U.S.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 8, 2019

1992: I organize a conference where there are no expert speakers available (it’s a new field, there are no experts). Organizations hear about these conferences and ask me to design and facilitate them. I decide to write a book about it, and in… 2009: I self-publish Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 18, 2020

Besides connecting people around their fundamental interests, The Three Questions is one of the best formats for discovering important topics, issues, and questions that were previously unknown to event organizers and a majority of the participants, as well as associated levels of interest. The Power of Participation [2015] (Chapter 31).

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Conferences that Work

MAY 31, 2021

I frequently meet people who are, and I certainly understand the temptation. Figuring out ways to make the fundamental human act of meeting better, motivated by nothing more than the pleasure it gave me, led me to write a book about what I had learned. And organizations pay me to do it! The first twenty-five years of my life.

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Travel Daily Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

It demonstrates international event organizers’ confidence in Hong Kong as a strategic, safe and hygienic destination for high-profile business events. Meetings and Exhibitions Hong Kong (MEHK) has provided professional one-stop services every step of the way since the bidding stage.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 13, 2019

Top 5 reasons to book medical meetings in the heart of healthcare innovation, biomedical advancement. In Phoenix, meetings are our specialty. And, with a diverse portfolio of conference-friendly resorts and access to medical innovation campuses, Phoenix emerging as a cutting-edge destination for medical meetings.

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Bizzaboo

JULY 25, 2023

They market themselves as the meeting place for the culturally curious. It is a former church that was converted into a performance space in 2009. Use your event management software to organize your floor layout and decide which configuration is right for your party.

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Solimar International

AUGUST 25, 2023

In agreement with this analysis, Mielke (2009) focuses on three scopes of deficiencies : (i) market access; (ii) internal governance; and (iii) the management of strategic partnerships. As a result, a round of debates was organized to discuss the positive and negative impacts of operating ecotourism and ethno-tourism.

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Gavel International

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Joyful workers bring immense value to organizations. Organizations that desire happy, satisfied employees are more likely to invest in continuous improvement strategies. Organizations that desire happy, satisfied employees are more likely to invest in continuous improvement strategies. ” (7).

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 20, 2023

European Best Destinations —a travel website and organization that has partnered with over 400 tourism offices around Europe—ranked the top 20 “European Best Destinations” based on the votes of 686,244 travelers from 178 countries in 2023. Let’s look at the meetings scene in each of these Euro Destinations. Cittadella, Italy No.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

Paul Nunesdea : And hello, hello, dear viewers, this is a soft start of our third episode in 2024 of Talk to Your Meeting Doctors. Lovely to meet you, Adrian. And it’s mostly about meeting design and facilitation, but I write about all kinds of things. That book came out in 2009, and suddenly I was in the meeting industry.

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AltexSoft Travel

APRIL 18, 2022

With the help of offset schemes, individuals and organizations can invest in diverse environmental projects that help combat climate change such as. Now that we’ve covered the basics, let’s look deeper into the regulating organizations and key legislative acts that supervise carbon offsetting in aviation. How carbon offsets work.

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I am confident, therefore, that our delegates can look forward to a dynamic and directional FIP event here in Thailand in 2014 where they will be able to learn, share and exchange views at lectures, plenary sessions, Council Meetings and the Leadership Conference. 2) Diversified locations.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 24, 2020

Here are five meeting design books I especially recommend. Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design ( ebook or paperback ). Into the Heart of Meetings: Basic Principles of Meeting Design ( ebook or paperback ). In an outrageous display of chutzpah , I wrote three of these books. [If

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 30, 2018

At Smart Meeting East National, we met where the creme de la creme vacation at the majestic The Breakers resort Aug. This is awesome,” said Marin Bright, Smart Meetings founder and CEO, in her opening remarks. This is awesome,” said Marin Bright, Smart Meetings founder and CEO, in her opening remarks. This is better than church.

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Traveler's Q

MARCH 29, 2023

Not only do these events foster closer relationships between co-workers, but they can also help employees better understand their roles within the organization and improve upon their own personal communication and interpersonal skills. This article provides a great way to plan corporate team-building events.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 4, 2018

That’s why event organizers chose to create a multi-dimensional set with a series of screens layered across the stage. Organizers assigned each conference topic a color. Meeting up and fueling up with coffee by @ladyfalconcoffeeclub, breakfast with @navitasorganics and more. Turner Internal Meeting. Today’s the DAY.

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The MICE Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

On other days, the three meeting rooms are available throughout the day. The three flexible meeting rooms have the capacity for up to 90 people. Since its reopening in September 2009, the venue has expanded its facilities. It is renowned for its exceptional acoustics, distinct architecture, and a permanent concert organ.

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Business Traveler USA

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

To use the term “sustainable’’ validly, the fuel must meet criteria such as lifecycle carbon emissions reduction, limited freshwater requirements, no competition with needed food production (such as first-generation biofuels) and no deforestation count. Organizations already on board include Nike, Deloitte, Takeda, BCD Travel and CWT.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 20, 2020

Let’s recall how carriers, hotels, tour operators and other trip-related organizations responded to the greatest shocks of the not-so-distant past. Many global companies banned business trips replacing face-to-face meetings with video-conferencing. So, travel agencies started developing tour packages meeting those needs.

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Gavel International

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Add contingency plans It’s likely that there will be bad weather, you’ll be sick or need to travel, you will be pulled into a meeting, or something else will throw your habit stacking plans off kilter. But upon walking in the door, your boss greets you with an unexpected meeting about one of the top accounts in your portfolio.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 12, 2022

I joined Twitter in 2009 and have had ~8,600 followers for the last few years. As platforms like Mastodon, Counter Social, and Hive Social grow rapidly, they will also have to evolve and scale how they perform content moderation if they are going to meet their founders’ goals as a safe-enough space for conversation.

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