Meeting & Event Design

As the saying goes, “April showers bring May flowers,” and that sentiment is what makes parasols or umbrellas a fun, themed decoration.

Meeting and event planners share their biggest meeting nightmares in this "What I know" confession.

As CEO and founder of wet paint group, Doug Chorpenning is tasked with helping organizations tell their story in creative ways. Here, he explains why meetings fail and how to spot these red flags before the game begins.

Dan Yaman, CEO of Live Spark, is glad that Millennials have inspired companies to rethink their presentations and to focus on engaging their audiences in brain-friendly, interactive ways. He also laments the fate of the poor, disengaged Gen Xers and Boomers who came before them.

While speakers should definitely take precedent during educational sessions, encourage them to build a quick networking component into their sessions.

Make sure to schedule an event debrief as soon as possible so that feedback on the event is fresh on all team members’ minds.

LEDs have the ability to be dimmed, giving meeting planners ultimate control over light, color and distribution during any part of an event.

The benefit of attracting repeat event attendees not only helps build customer loyalty, but it can be six to seven times more costly to gain a new customer than to retain one.

Bandwidth can vary dramatically around the world by availability, quality and cost.

A Joint Study on Multigenerational Programming by Prevue Meetings & the Incentive Research Foundation.

By bringing less conventional elements into a corporate event such as colorful visuals or hands-on activities, visual and kinesthetic learners will respond more productively to the content.

When it comes to entertaining Millennials, your concepts must be magnetic for maximum attraction.

The face book provides an invaluable reference to conference participants, both during the conference and afterwards.

Meeting industry speaker and consultant Kare Anderson offers suggestions for immersing attendees in planned sequences of memorable moments that involve the 5 senses: smell, taste, sound, sight and even “touchable” experiences.