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20 Bright Ideas for Personalizing Attendee Experiences
Real-world examples of ways to make sure your event attendees don’t get lost in the crowd at large events.
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How AI Could Help Build Better Meeting Spaces — Online and IRL
VML Intelligence’s Future 100 trend forecast spotlights “Imagination Stores,” digital retail spaces created with the help of gen AI. How might that trend translate to the business events industry?
Scientific Discovery and Diversity at ABRCMS
The hybrid Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists draws culturally diverse attendees from wide-ranging scientific disciplines for a “remarkable experience.”
Digging Deeper: Inside EAA’s Conference on Archaeology and History
How the European Association of Archaeologists’ annual conference in Belfast wove Northern Ireland’s rich history — and its current residents — into its program.
Learning to Listen
Listening is a skill essential to the knowledge exchange that takes place at business events, but how can organizers cultivate better listening behavior among our audiences? Convene reached out to four listening experts and one of the world’s top experts on coaching for their advice.
Enhance Your Event Experiences by Shutting Up and Listening
In order to listen, you first have to be quiet — or shut the eff up, as bestselling author Dan Lyon puts it in his recently published book.
The Hard Work of Intentional Listening
Intentional listening is the key to effective and meaningful communication at work and home, but it seems to be a rare practice. Listening coach and educator Sandra Bodin-Lerner wants to change that.
Event Professionals ‘Are in the Business of Soul’
The work of events organizers is more important than ever, says innovation expert Shawn Kanungo, but he asks: Are you willing to disrupt yourself to stay competitive?
One Surprising Trend Shaping Work in 2024
No, it’s not hybrid work or gen AI. It speaks to the polarized world we live in and how that is felt in the workplace.
Clear Roles, Effective Collaboration With the RACI Matrix
Here’s a simple project-management tool that can help streamline internal communications — and clarify accountability — for annual meetings.
Indigenous Artwork Gives Visual Identity to HIV Science Conference
When the International AIDS Society commissioned a local artist for its conference logo, it did more than honor the Indigenous population of host city Brisbane. It helped raise awareness of that community’s challenges with HIV.
5 Small Event Tweaks to Create Big Returns
These easy-to-implement ideas will make your attendees’ experience more personalized and highly engaging.