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Conference networking is a valuable takeaway in the form of new relationships and essential contacts. Apart from the learning experience, a conference provides excellent opportunities for networking, business or career development. However, if you want networking to be a game-changer, you need to approach it with the right attitude. Before attending a conference, you need […]

Knowledge Exchange, Post Graduate Learning, Efficient Networking – The Future of Scientific Meetings. Author: Christian Mutschlechner The format of scientific congresses has been the same for decades: They typically have plenary sessions, parallel sessions, poster sessions and discussions; some have introduced hands-on workshops, but the overall impression is that nothing much has changed. But times […]

What conference trends can you expect still in 2019 and for 2019? The past two years have been packed with change and innovation in the events industry. Recently, we’ve seen personalisation, immersion, and interaction become the driving forces of all event types. New technologies have quickly made inroads into trade shows, conferences, and meetings all […]

All over the world, the gamification market is going from strength to strength, achieving a value of more than $5.5 million and expected to grow by an additional 30 per cent by 2024. Gamification is now a pervasive trend in multiple industry sectors, and as such, it has an application to conference organisation and design […]

Are you planning your next conference? With information on everything under the sun quite literally available at the click of a button or the swipe of a finger, it’s getting more and more difficult to keep attendees engaged at conferences. How exactly do you successfully educate attendees while keeping them engaged and stimulated at the […]

Infographic The future of meetings is here: from new benchmarks for user experiences to technological upgrades. We take a look at the forces redefining the meetings industry. According to the latest research the number of real-time meetings and events — such as medical conferences, trade shows or sales and marketing meetings — is still on […]

Conferences offer invaluable opportunities for the scientific community to explore new areas of learning, share their research findings and network with their peers. It is not unusual for researchers to be called upon to organise a science conference or medical symposium and while the chance to engage with others working in their field can be […]

Why The Attendee Experience Matters In Conference Planning Engagement is one of the key themes in the digital era and is equally important in the conference management and event planning industries. If a conference cannot generate engagement, it will impact the attendees’ ability to retain information. The human attention span is notoriously short, and if meeting […]

In our workshop, we analysed what conference formats Millennials and the Gen Y require. It is well known that the way to engage with Millenials and the Generation Y attendees is different and that their expectations of a congress include interactivity, new learning formats and state of the art digitalisation. To meet these special requirements, […]