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85 Conference and Interactive Event Ideas For 2023
These event ideas will help you to impress your attendees and turn your conference into an unforgettable experience.
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Tips on How to Moderate a Panel Discussion as a Beginner
When it comes to a panel discussion, everything depends on the moderator. While they’re not easy to get right, there’s an art to doing a panel event well. For those that are moderating a...
15 Introduction Icebreakers to Open Your Conference With
Icebreakers are the perfect way to make a good first impression at the start of a presentation or conference. They aid with boosting audience engagement, help people to settle in, and set the tone of...
What ENGAGE Virtual Event Taught Us About Engagement
“What is your biggest challenge with virtual events?” When asked in a survey, event planners usually give the same answer – audience engagement. To put a number to it, more than 73% are...
The Beginner’s Guide: How to Run Your First Virtual Conference
Are you planning to run a fully remote event and you don’t know where to start? To help you achieve this, we asked an expert virtual conference organizer for advice. Magda Sowierszenko, Head of...
Case Study: Switching an Event from Live to Virtual in 5 Days
The COVID-19 pandemic surging around the world has taken a heavy toll on the events industry. The growing risk has forced SXSW, IMEX and other conferences to cancel. Many others were postponed....
Best Practices for Running Virtual Events from Gerrit Heijkoop
Are you considering moving your live event online? You’re not alone. The recent budget cuts have forced many conference organizers to switch to virtual events. If you are a virtual newbie, there...
How Slido Allowed Thousands of Kids to Speak With an Astronaut
If you were a child, can you think of anything cooler than speaking with a real astronaut? New Scientist Live made that dream come true for over 6000 children at their last years’ festival....
How Instagram Nailed Users’ Learning Experience and Why Event Profs Should Care
I have a love-hate relationship with Instagram. I hate myself for checking it way too often. On the other hand, it’s a platform where I go to learn about the things I love, like cycling or events....
5 Creative Conference Ideas to Try in 2020
How many times have you reached into your creative ideas shelf when planning a conference and realized you’ve used all the usual session formats way too often? To make this constant search for...
7 Event Ideas That Will Turn Your Event from Yawn to Yay
As event professionals, we always look for new, creative concepts that would raise the bar of our events. And we understand that a great idea is worth its weight in gold. Since time is another...
5 Reasons to Use Slido at Your Event
How to make an event truly memorable? That’s the question that runs through every event organizer’s mind every now and then. Granted, there are many variables at play. But there’s...
The Complete Guide to Successful Fireside Chats
A fireside chat is a great alternative to the traditional presentation format. Popular with event organizers, it is a fixed element in the agendas for many conferences. If you’re looking to freshen...
The Power of Facilitation at Web Summit: 15,000+ New Connections in Just Two Minutes
We understand that event networking is important for our delegates. More often than not, it’s the main reason why they join our events. We use an arsenal of tools to improve it – event apps,...
10 Awesome Event Concepts That You Will Want to Duplicate
Event attendees crave experiences that’ll sweep them off their feet. They want to be impressed. This so-called experience economy is what constantly drives the event planners to think up new...
Top 21 Event Blogs That Every #EventProf Must Follow
Staying up to date with the latest industry news and trends means reading a lot. To help you find the best of the game content as well as the hidden gems of the event blogosphere, we scoured the web...
7 Tips for Creating Networking Opportunities at Your Event
Recent research indicates that 75% of delegates attend conferences to build new connections. Yet, the networking part of events is often reduced to unstructured “mix and mingle” coffee...
How to Handle Too Many Questions at Your Conference Q&A
Turn the unanswered questions into a perfect content opportunity to multiply the impact of your...
Why Don’t Participants Want to Ask Questions at Events?
Picture this scene: The presenter finishes their session, the moderator steps on stage and asks the audience: “Are there any questions?” Tumbleweed rolls by as delegates shuffle nervously in...
5 Creative Ideas for More Effective Networking Sessions
Networking is one of the main reasons why people go to events. According to the Forbes Insights survey, 85% of people build stronger, more meaningful relationships during a face-to-face interaction....
The Art of Organizing Successful Q&A Sessions at Conferences
Many Q&A sessions are like a weather forecast: you know roughly what to expect but you don’t know what you’ll get on the day. But if it is well planned, the Q&A session can become the...
10 Practical Tips for Every Event Moderator
Back in February, when we asked the meeting professionals at our New York City event what role a facilitator plays in their meetings, almost 40% responded that they have one to help with the...
Expert Debate: an Interactive Alternative to a Traditional Keynote Session
Event organizers are always on the lookout for innovative session formats and tips to make their events an unforgettable experience. The organizers of this year’s Festival of Marketing in London...
How to Brief Your Conference Moderator (Tips from Pros)
Organizing an event without briefing a moderator is like sending a tour bus on a journey without informing the driver where you want the passengers to arrive. During our event in New York,...
5 TED Videos That Will Help You Organize Better Meetings
As event professionals, we’re constantly hunting for new ideas that could help us design better meetings. With this in mind, we browsed through the TED archives and discovered a few amazing videos...
Three Exceptional Panels That Sparkled with Interaction
Pulling off an engaging panel discussion is not easy. As an event planner, you need to tick a number of boxes in order to achieve a great result. It starts with a trending topic that will attract a...
How Elon Musk Could Have Avoided the Super Bizarre Q&A Session
As an entrepreneur, when you see a problem that you’ve built an exact solution for, you get so excited that you just want to shout: “Here, here. I can solve your problem. I’ve got the perfect...
5 Essential Pieces of The Audience Engagement Puzzle
The times when participants attended events just to listen to a string of presentations are over. People expect interaction. They want to be part of the experience. But living up to these new...
The 7 Most Interactive Sessions We’ve Seen at Innovative Events
As event organizers, we are constantly searching for new creative meeting formats that will wow our audience. We all want to move beyond the one-size-fits-all, been-there-done-that sessions. We want...
Interactive Event Opening to Help Your Attendees Select Breakouts
If you organize an event with multiple tracks, your attendees will sooner than later face the dilemma of which session to attend. As everyone wants to maximize own learning, it is always a tough...
Slido Cheat Sheet for Moderators
When used well, Slido can radically increase audience interaction and transform learning during the sessions you moderate. But to get the most out of it, it’s important to follow a few simple, yet...
Case Studies: How to Organize Interactive Panel Discussions
At one of our workshops, I brought up the topic of panel discussions. The moment I mentioned the word ‘panel’ people rolled their eyes. One of the participants raised a hand and said: “I hate...
4 Quick Hacks To Make Your Conference Sessions More Interactive
Traditional conferences are overflowing with presentations. But how do you ensure that your speakers deliver talks that will engage your audience? Well, unless you coach every one of them as...
What Will The Conferences of The Future Look Like?
What will the conferences of the future look like in 2016 (and beyond)? Are traditional conferences truly dead as some claim? How are delegates’ expectations and needs changing? To offer you a...
7 Conference Icebreakers That Aren’t Awkward
I was sitting in the audience waiting for the panel discussion to begin. It was pretty late in the evening and the energy in the room was low. I was dozing off along with the other 150 attendees. The...
How to Moderate Panels and Q&A Sessions with Slido – Tips for Moderators
I heard this great analogy from a colleague of mine on the role of an event moderator. He told me: “event moderator is like a driver who is able to drive your event happily to its destination or...
How to Make Your Conference More Interactive
Recently I’ve attended a renowned conference dedicated to event professionals. Naturally, my expectations were high as I expected event organizers to play their best cards and show off in front of...
Interview: Stories are food of the brain says speaker coach Nathan Gold
Nathan Gold is a professional coach training people around the world to deliver more compelling presentations and memorable product demonstrations. He has an impressive 15.000 presentations and...
10 Tips For Networking Like a Pro
With hundreds of people around, conference networking often feels overwhelming. To get the most out of it, you need to craft your networking strategy carefully. Below we share 10 tips for effective...
