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Make the meeting bigger!

Conferences that Work

For too long, we’ve equated a meeting’s “success” with its size. ” But if we concentrate on increasing attendance, we overlook getting the meeting design right. Improving an event’s design makes the meeting better for all the stakeholders: meeting owners, sponsors, and participants.

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Don’t keep me a secret!

Conferences that Work

Increasing attendee satisfaction increases the effectiveness of the event for all stakeholders: attendees, sponsors, and event owners. Since 1992, I’ve designed and facilitated hundreds of conferences and thousands of meetings. I make conferences better by dramatically increasing attendee satisfaction.

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Working with suppliers and practitioners at meetings

Conferences that Work

By “suppliers” I mean vendors of products or services, and sponsors. By “practitioners” I mean the folks who do what the meeting is about; e.g., doctors at a medical event or scientists at a conservation conference. Suppliers explicitly identified as sponsors, of course, get to pitch a little.)

Meeting 118
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Cultivating Corporate Partnerships: Strategies for Long-Term Business Relationships — Build Synergy, Reap Mutual Rewards

Traveler's Q

Engaging the right sponsor acts as a force-multiplier, vastly extending your event’s influence to resonate with a paralleled target audience. By navigating partnership challenges with a clear, solutions-oriented mindset, we unlock the potential for mutually beneficial opportunities, ensuring each sponsored event drives home a substantial ROI.

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Anca Trifan interviews me about participation-rich meetings and event design

Conferences that Work

07:45 Behind the scenes: How I got into designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich meetings. 11:00 What participant-driven and participation-rich meeting design means, and the core components. 15:00 Why we need to have participant-driven and participation-rich meetings.

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Humanity’s problem is a meeting problem

Conferences that Work

It’s why businesses sponsor meetings. It’s why we judge meeting experiences largely based on how they were perceived at their peak and at their end. All meeting design needs to recognize this reality. Much as we would like to believe otherwise, our emotions run us, not our rationality. Institutions.

Meeting 115
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[Webinar] Get Them Engaged! Three Lessons for Increasing Retention at Meetings

MeetingsNet

Time to rethink meeting environments, using spaces and room sets where people are best able to learn and network. What does this mean for meeting design, including the room layout, hosting events indoors versus outdoors, food, lights, and more. Attend this webinar to: Learn how to rethink meeting design for improved engagement.

Meeting 58