Endless Events

AUGUST 11, 2020

Each and every one of these conferences will help inspire your planning process and better understand what you can do to cook up a successful hybrid experience. Let’s kickstart today’s inspiration session with a conference that’s been at it for years. Growth Marketing Conference. Webinar World.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I’m noticing that event promoters are increasingly using the word “ unconference ” to describe traditional conferences. <Sigh> Here’s how Wikipedia defines an unconference: “An unconference is a participant-driven meeting.” I prefer the term peer conferences , but no one else cares.)

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 13, 2022

At a time when many are reacting to changes in climate and attendee expectations, the golden state’s hospitality sector is leading the way to a future that will continue to welcome change-makers for decades to come. Let’s look at the legacy of sustainable innovation, where it is going next and what it means for meeting professionals.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Is it time you discovered a new approach for that annual conference or general session? IBM Impact Conference. With some 18,000 people attending the IBM Impact Conference, every aspect of the event must engage huge amounts of people. Organizers assigned each conference topic a color. Sony E3 2012 Press Conference.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Attendees are free to explore on their own or follow a leader. Feature : Spatial video enables attendees to easily move in and out of conversations as if they were in person. The Conference variation allows for concurrent tracks, reception area, and exhibitor booths. Explore a public world here. . Albert’s Aha! Albert’s Aha!

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A certain percentage of your conference participants don’t return. This is attendee churn. In the next few weeks, we’ll cover proactive ways to stop attendee churn in its tracks. How Attendee Churn is Calculated. The 550 attendees at this year’s conference don’t specify the number of new attendees.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Merely knowing what attendee churn is and why it happens isn’t enough. As we know, attendee churn is your event’s failure to retain guests year over year. Since attendee churn can take a drastic toll on your brand, event, and even budget, let’s focus on seven preventative methods to keep it at bay.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 11, 2020

I’ve been designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich in person meetings — aka peer conferences — for almost thirty years. Because participants love these meetings ! Now the covid-19 pandemic has forced meetings online. Zoom has rapidly become the dominant platform for online meetings.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 21, 2019

You can improve meetings by de-emphasizing status. I think about status at events as the relative levels of proclaimed or perceived social value assigned to or assumed by attendees. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Improve meetings by de-emphasizing old-school status appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 13, 2017

How do we get people to participate at meetings? We know that participants — people who are active learners — learn more, retain more, and retain more accurately than passive attendees. Seth Godin describes a desirable meeting mindset: What would happen… if we chose to: …Sit in the front row. Seth Godin, What Would Happen.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

I’ve been attending conferences for over forty years. This seems to be the norm, because when you talk to attendees you find they set a low bar for satisfaction, e.g. “I t’s OK if I learn one new thing a day, oh, and if I make a useful connection or two that would be great! ” “I’m an introvert.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 21, 2023

How can we maximize the real value of a meeting? By maximizing how participants “connect the dots”—what they actually learn from their experiences at the meeting—rather than documenting what we or they think they should have learned. We know that these kinds of meeting evaluations are unreliable ( 1 , 2 , 3 ).

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 18, 2018

CoffeeGate One sunny morning in 2105, two hundred of us arrived for the opening breakfast at a Canadian conference to discover There Was No Coffee. I’ll bet that even today, if you asked attendees what they remembered about the event, most would immediately recall the There Was No Coffee moment.

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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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Conferences that Work

APRIL 9, 2018

Over the last five years I’ve heard increasing concern from the meeting professionals community about the deterioration of the quality of our national industry conferences. I’ll illustrate with the area where I have most experience: providing education at these meetings.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 13, 2021

A number of Velvet Chainsaw’s consulting clients have made social responsibility a cornerstone of their conference strategy — with the desire “to leave the host city better because we were there.” When you adopt a strategic objective like that for your conference, it leaves room for creativity in achieving that desired outcome.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

However, meetings have tremendous potential to change lives. Attendees have something in common: a profession, a passion, a shared experience together. Unfortunately, most conferences squander this opportunity. Peer conferences support change. But… appeared first on Conferences That Work. Change is hard.

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 29, 2024

At a 2012 Ted Talk, Charlie Todd and Improv Everywhere planted a fake speaker whose PowerPoint presentation seemingly failed, with the multicolored “spinning ball of death” on screen instead of slides. When I work with meetings and events, I like to design things that are participatory as well. I think people don’t see that coming.

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The MICE Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The city promotes public transport by offering free tickets to attendees who book their hotel stays through Stuttgart Marketing. 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. Additionally, Stuttgart has efficient road networks.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 11, 2021

How do you think the experience of the pandemic will change how your conferences will be designed in the future and how attendees will want to participate? Sitting on Zoom for the duration of an entire conference is tiring and lacks the same opportunities to experience a host city and to connect with fellow attendees.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 13, 2016

Well, the most effective aspect of China’s online censorship regime illustrates what happens when you don’t incorporate covenants into your meetings. When such freedoms are agreed to individually and as a group at the start of a meeting, ambiguity about meeting behavior dissipates. to say and do. to say and do.

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Travel Daily Media

MARCH 21, 2023

WITS began with the creation in 2012 of the World Indigenous Tourism Alliance (WINTA) by participants from six countries. He congratulated Taiwan for hosting the next World Indigenous Tourism Summit, and on behalf of the attendees said they hope to participate next year in Taiwan.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

How do we build conference programs that attendees actually want and need? Here’s what happened when I incorporated dot voting into a recent two-day association peer conference. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. It’s an honor to work on a classic Conferences That.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 20, 2023

At the recent Convening Leaders 2023 conference, the association for convention and trade-show management delivered advice from experts on pushing beyond one’s comfort zone to try new approaches. For Convening Leaders attendees, the lesson from Brag and Kandil ( in photo ) was that seeking discomfort fuels creativity.

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Convene by PCMA

MAY 27, 2022

A family member had a coffee cart at the Microsoft Conference Center and … he said, “Well, you should talk to this meeting planning agency because they do events for Microsoft.” freaking out because if attendees didn’t have the most up-to-date agenda they wouldn’t know what to do. I was so lucky. It [was] terrifying.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Let’s look at these three conclusions in the context of meeting design. Most meeting presenters still lecture. And most meeting session presenters resort to lecturing as their dominant session modality. Attendees learn more when presenters use active learning modalities. Conclusion.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

She recently spoke with Convene about uplifting marginalized communities as it relates to sustainability and making conferences both greener and more people-focused. Today, Lewis serves as co-chair on the Health Equity Advisory for the International WELL Building Institute, and board chair of clean energy nonprofit Groundswell Inc.

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Maritz Global Events

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Inherently, if a hacker takes your attendees’ credit card information, it may lead to unwanted charges, identity theft, or sale of their data on the dark web. As a former meeting planner who has received Ohio MPI’s Planner of the Year award twice (2006 & 2012), she brings a unique perspective to these blog posts.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Imagine this scenario: you walk into the opening reception of a large conference, and quickly realize you don’t know a soul. Quickly downing your drink, you head back to your hotel room with the hopes tomorrow will lead to a more connected conference experience. . This is not how your first-time guests should feel. About De-de.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 8, 2016

For over 25 years, I’ve been designing and facilitating Conferences That Work : successful, innovative, highly interactive, participant-driven events that leverage attendees’ expertise and experience to create just the conference that participants want and need. The attendees are still here talking to each other!

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 20, 2016

Conferences that leverage all the expertise in the room, rather than the contributions of a few experts. Meetings that become what the participants want and need them to be, autofocusing on the topics and questions that are of genuine relevance, rather than sessions predefined six months in advance. Sources for additional information.

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Maritz Global Events

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

33% sponsored an email blast to the attendee list. One of the challenges with multiple logos on printed signage or a banner is attendees consider it to be ‘logo soup.’. Record your breakout sessions and give attendees a sponsored card that will allow viewership of them for the next 12 months. Create a zero-waste meeting.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 22, 2018

When we enable people to meaningfully connect at a meeting, something extraordinary happens. We transform a conference from an impersonal forum for information exchange to a place where people feel they matter: their views, their experience, their ability to contribute become seen. Your conferences will be all the better for it.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In an increasingly digital world, event marketing gives consumers and brands a unique opportunity to meet in person, create real relationships, form personal connections, and get hands-on experience with new services, products, and brand advocates. Email open rates on mobile grew 68% in 2016 compared to 21% in 2012 ( Campaign Monitor ).

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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 10, 2024

According to The state of in-person B2B conferences report , 80.4% of organizers believe in-person conferences will become increasingly critical to their organization’s success in the coming years! BOND Events Canton, MA BOND Events hosts meetings forums for the world’s leading Principal Architects, Interior Designers and Specifiers.

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Travel Daily Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Conrad Seoul has held more than 500 MICE events since its opening in 2012. The conference provided a forum for sharing goals, ideas and information on the Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome with 900 delegates attending from 20 different countries all over the world including Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I think in 2012 was the first episode that he did it in and that’s light years. So, a little bit about me and my background, I worked for meeting and event-. So, I come a meeting and events background of about 20 years. He obviously focused on one to one. I started doing Event Icons in, what, 2016 is it now, or so?

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