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When American film director John Waters took the stage last year at the Rhode Island School of Design to give what should have been the usual “go get ‘em” commencement speech, the crowd grew quiet with the wrong kind of anticipation.

Mobile event apps, introduced just a few short years ago, are now widely used—but how effectively are they being deployed?

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.

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.

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.

Event crowdsourcing techniques get attendees involved in the action long before the meeting or event begins.

Face recognition systems are already available to determine someone’s gender, age, ethnicity and even mood.

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?

The FRESH conference 2015 tested out new meeting formats and event technologies. Here's a look at the rising trends they found.