Time to Unlearn What We Know About Education at Meetings
Opportunities for professional education and information exchange have never been greater in this age of on-demand training videos, live streaming from university classrooms and virtual conferences that bring together communities of knowledge from around the globe.
Build Your Conference, Build Your Brand
How did the data company Tableau grow its user conference from 200 to 8,000 attendees in less than eight years?
Getting the Most Out of Your Event App
Mobile event apps, introduced just a few short years ago, are now widely used—but how effectively are they being deployed?
Planning for Diversity? Take a Look at Your Own Backyard
For many meeting planners, there’s not enough guidance on planning for diversity, or how to make the content and the rest of their programming elements more appealing to a diverse array of attendees.
Discovering Underutilized Visual Opportunities to Engage Attendees
Recent studies have shown that approximately 65 percent of people are visual learners. There are lots of underutilized opportunities to engage attendees visually in between sessions, lunches and receptions, says Cynthia Hornketh, CMM, Experient’s VP, experience design.
3 Tech Trends to Take Over Meetings in 2017
Face recognition systems are already available to determine someone’s gender, age, ethnicity and even mood.
New Meeting Formats Emerge for 2016
The FRESH conference 2015 tested out new meeting formats and event technologies. Here's a look at the rising trends they found.
Using Crowdsourcing Techniques to Give Attendees What They Want
Event crowdsourcing techniques get attendees involved in the action long before the meeting or event begins.
And Now Something Different: Engaging Generation Z
We’ve heard quite a bit in the last two years on how to engage Millennials at meetings, but what about the generation coming up after them—those born in the mid-to-late 1990s?