One of the earliest conversations I had with the Director General, at one of the associations where I worked, was to “advise” him that he should never again, chair one of our conferences. You can imagine how this went down! Especially as I’d only been working there a few weeks. And before you ask, I […]
If you run are running a one day conference, it is very likely that you will see a slight tailing off of attendees as your day draws to an end. If you are running a longer duration event, like a congress, you will probably be used to a much quieter room come the end of your […]
There is a common problem for many conference organisers: the “disappearing delegate” I covered the more traditional ways an event planner can look at to reduce the number of attendees who disappear towards the end of the day in a previous post. However, in this post I wanted to look at the practical aspect (no one […]
No one likes to see a half empty room at any point during an event. It makes no difference that the room has been full for most of the day; it’s still a pain to see empty seats and even empty rows at the end of an event. What “traditional” ways are there to stop […]
Why do so many hotels make the ultimate mistake? You have a hotel with this view. And you have meeting rooms with this view. Really, what were you thinking? If event planners want meetings to deliver value to their attendees, they have to stop using meeting rooms like this. If venues really want to run […]
I have event manager friends who, at the end of every event, receive hugs and high fives from their attendees. These people have had such an amazing time, at the gig or the music festival that my friends have organised, that they simply HAVE to show their appreciation! Now, as any Conference Organiser will tell you, we […]