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Competent logistics are the new meeting minimum

Conferences that Work

I’ve been convening meetings for decades, though, so I know a fair amount about meeting planning. As I prepared to review the venue’s meeting spaces, room set options, and traffic patterns, I thought about how, today, competent logistics are the new meeting minimum. Sadly, few clients know any better.

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3 Tips for Shifting to an Architectural Model for Meeting Design

Smart Meetings

Real meetings are all about content,” he says. “You You can skip just about any other part of a meeting—a venue, a meal, even a speaker and still be productive, but if there isn’t relevant content, then it isn’t a meeting.”. Legs of a Meeting Design Foundation. They play off human nature.

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The Power of Multi-Hub Meetings: Maarten Vanneste

Endless Events

An entrepreneur since he was only 18 years old, Maarten has over 35 years of experience in meeting design. He’s an author, a speaker, a trainer. Ready to hear all about the ground-breaking magic of multi-hub meetings? In 2006, Marteen started the Meeting Design Institute. These people are so in demand.

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Something is rotten in the state of meeting industry education

Conferences that Work

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. In my case, the demand for the meeting design and facilitation services I provide has been exploding. (In

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Elevating Virtual Events: Transforming In-Person Meetings to Digital

Brightspot Incentive Events

To execute a successful virtual event, our team was tasked with developing a strategy that enhanced meeting design, optimized the attendee’s experience, and increased attendee engagement. There also needs to be someone seamlessly transitioning between speakers and breaks. Virtual Event Platform and AV Partner.

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The UnExpo Experiment

Conferences that Work

Fun fact: the testing community often uses my term “peer conferences” for their get-togethers, due to a chat about meeting design I had with tester James Bach at the 2004 Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference.) Most meeting conveners concentrate on feedback about meeting content (“great speakers!”)

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#RotterdamExperiment 2 – The best gamification is gamification that is unnoticed

The MICE Blog

The first speaker, Farshida Zafar, L.L.M., The challenges included a fossil-free future, conflict prevention, conscious cities, internet of logistics, healthcare, public safety and security, outcompeting destructive systems, nature 2.0, We used meeting design to do that, which already had some gamification elements to it.

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