Inspiration Hub

Inspiration Hub

education at meetings, meeting tips, event tips, professional development blog

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.
Tableau Conference

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?
event apps, meeting tips, professional development blog

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, meeting tips, event tips, professional development blog

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.
Engage attendees, increasing attendee engagement, meeting tips, professional development blog

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.
Tech Trends, Inspiration Hub, Corbin Ball, meetings technology, technology trends, event technology

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, meeting tips, event tips, professional development blog

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?