Too many conference organisers start with content and speakers, rather than tuning into the community they invite to the event and tapping into an inspiring vision of the experience they want to create. Participants end up experiencing a disintegrated conference,...
At most conferences, participants are still just seen and treated as an audience. Speeches might be inspiring, even groundbreaking. Often they are not, but no matter how gripping the talks are, very few actively engage the audience. And while a conference is not a...
I have been to conferences with a mix of very good and very boring talks, but if you asked me a few months later, I could not remember for the life of me what the conference or any of the talks were about. I have also been to quite different conferences, notably the...
So many conferences fall short of their potential. And yet it is so simple to get a conference room buzzing with engaged participants, inspired by talks that matter, and memorable for the connections made. Let's start with Connections. Because connection always...