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Quick tips on increasing audience participation and delighting attendees

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Quick tips on increasing audience participation and delighting attendees

When it comes to presentations, we’ve entered the age of audience expectations. At conferences and summits, time-short and busy attendees anticipate and want more than stale, run-of-the-mill, 45-minute, lecture-style presentations. They want to be engaged.

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Stern Grove Festival: the challenges of organising an admission free festival

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Stern Grove Festival: the challenges of organising an admission free festival

Stern Grove Festival welcomes over 100,000 people to its festival site each year. But how do they organise this admission free event? My interview with Steven Haines, executive director of the festival. 

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Sustainable Events Summit to take place in London

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The Sustainable Events Summit will take place on Monday 21 November. According to Conference News the summit will take place at 30 Euston Square in London. You can read the full article here.  

This conference will present the findings of a research study about how global brands view sustainability. 

Early bird tickets cost £130 + VAT and standard tickets go for £160 (+ VAT). You can find more info on www.sustainableeventssummit.com. 

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Networking at conferences: plan your time!

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Ever been to a conference? How did "the networking" work out for you? Did you leave the conference with new ideas, leads, and useful contacts? Sometimes going to a conference can feel like you wasted precious time. But perhaps that is because you didn't plan it properly. You didn't look at what you wanted to get out of the the conference. How the conference can work for you.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote an article about networking at conferences.