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The High Cost of Hybrid

Velvet Chainsaw

Innovation and change require commitment and fortitude. Planners must help their organizations move forward with creative ideas and innovations for their live events. It is becoming evident that the additional cost of in-person safety protocols will be primarily the responsibility of the event organizer. What’s Next?

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7 Design Considerations for Your Conference Hub

Velvet Chainsaw

High-tech user conferences like Dreamforce and Microsoft Ignite have been designing innovative hub spaces to engage and nurture their top customers for years. A conference hub should be a destination that participants want to go to when not attending sessions or walking the expo hall. Here’s what we came up with.

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5 Low Cost Ways to Boost Your Next Conference

Association Success

There has been a rise in popularity of “ unconferences ” at meetings of late, in response to meeting delegates increasingly shunning lecture-style, didactic conferences. The thought of planning a completely unstructured conference scares many in the association world. And why do buffets have to be linear? Build in Time.

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How to Choose the Right Event Technology Provider for Your Association: 16 Essential Questions for Vendors

EventMobi: Association Events

Ask about the provider’s off-the-shelf integrations and their ability to facilitate custom integrations and any associated costs. Many associations offer Exhibitor Lead Capture to earn non-dues revenue and offset the cost of running their events. How can the platform help me promote my events and register attendees?

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Here’s a big idea: Innovation can be small

Association Success

I bet that if you pull any association’s job posting for a leadership opening, you will find the word “innovation” at least half the time, either as a requirement of the type of person or a descriptor of where the organization is going. This is not the only way to define, measure or think of innovation.

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Data Driven Innovation

Potomac Core

According to the Conference Board , corporate profitability may face headwinds resulting from higher costs as “the business cycle matures.” If member companies introduce more innovation to drive more profitability, is your association positioned to respond with equal or greater amounts of innovative solutions?

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Virtual Conferences Might Level the Speaker Playing Field

Smooth The Path

A conference that typically draws over 20,000 in-person attendees a year just announced their keynote speakers. Hopefully, virtual conferences will level the playing field for speakers. Have women, industry innovators, busy members, or young professionals been unable to attend your in-person conferences?