TweetEach role inside a conference’s organization team has it’s own challenges but probably one of the most demanding is that of the Program Director. It’s her main responsibility to assure content that is great, new, relevant, inspiring, useful, well told (having good public speakers and storytellers), etc. Monique van Dusseldorp, experienced program director with a [...]
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TweetVenues and event organizers work in a symbiotic status of mutual need but often engage in conflicting relationship because they don’t recognize each others needs. Yves Cretegny, now CEO of Lift Conference and in the past as CTO and CFO of Geneva-Palexpo (an important venue in Switzerland) thinks that in order to create a win-win [...]
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TweetThe TEDx format can be a powerful instrument for inspiration when applied to the right message, which is a key point I think most TEDx organizers often forget. The big brother TEDs (no pun intended) always have a polarizing theme to which most talks connect to, for example TED Global 2010′s one is “And Now the [...]
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Tweet Before the conference: you promote and try to sell. During the conference: you engage with people and generate real-time buzz. After the conference: you disappear… until you will have to promote your next event. This often involuntary behavior is comparable to the refractory period after sexual intercourse or “the recovery phase after orgasm during [...]
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TweetGary Vaynerchuck (or garyvee for short) is like a nuclear powered volcano with clear ideas: if you start him up on one topic he will erupt in honest, direct and rather colorful descriptions of what he thinks of it, and you will hardly be able to regain control of him. That is probably why so [...]
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TweetI recently met Jeffrey Hayzlett, Chief Marketing Officer Worldwide for Eastman Kodak, at the 140Conf in London and we talked about his vision on The Future of Conferences. Jeffrey, who was one of the keynote speakers during PICNIC ’09, is the rare kind of corporate executive that has embraced social media into his regular business [...]
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TweetYesterday I met Peter van Lindonk, director of the PINC Conference during a workshop and I asked him for his vision on the Future of Conferences. “The human size of conferences will be emphasized more and more and more [...] the eye to eye, arm to arm, hand to hand meetings will be far more [...]
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TweetI met Bruce Sterling, famous science fiction author and media guru, last month in Turin (Italy) during a very interesting event; I Realize. After his participation to a panel discussion on cities, movement and interaction, we talked about the future of conferences, Italy’s ability in pulling out big events and other interesting conferences like ARS [...]
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Tweet You might think that My Name is E, a Dutch startup, is just an service related to the exchange of social business cards like the that of competitors Poken and Mingle360. While this is true, it is only half of the story. Today it is basically an online platform that allows people to share [...]
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TweetLast Tuesday I met Jasper Bouwsma at a new European event, I Realize – The Art of Disruption. Jasper is the founder of Vujàdé Ltd, a company that provides consultancy services to start-ups and established companies on innovation processes and change management and serves as an incubator for new ideas. Jasper has attended many innovative [...]
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