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Curate Destination Experiences for Your Attendees

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They want to be able to return home and say, ‘I learned this content, I connected with these people, and I experienced these things that I couldn’t do anywhere else.”. At the Gallery Pastry Shop, north of downtown Indy, visitors can take classes to make macarons , those scrumptious meringue-based confections from France.

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5 Questions to Answer Before Planning Your Next Meeting

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Your answers can help you focus on delivering the content and experience that your members will value. **1. For example, the nonprofit TechPoint in Indianapolis works with conference planners to find local keynote and panel speakers that can cover the latest and future tech trends that matter to your members. **2.

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The 6 Forces Shaping the Future of Meetings

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Conferences need to deliver high-level technology content and experiences. Indianapolis is a great example of this phenomenon: Salesforce bought marketing-tech success ExactTarget, enabling a cadre of newly-anointed entrepreneurs to launch their own ventures and startups, further spurring activity in the city. Tech-expectations.

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Creating a Sustainable Organization

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And each is in contention for a fifth this postseason. Bill Polian, former general manager of the Indianapolis Colts, said these franchises have in common is “ownership that is committed and lets the people who are hired do their jobs and then put tremendously competent people at the helm who get that job done.".