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1 Clock Hour | Domain I: Marketing
Ciara Feely will share a collection of case studies on what makes up a winning proposal. You can expect to receive real life examples of hotel/venue clients that went from 0% to 75% conversion rates by making 3 main changes in their approach with the planner and to the proposal.
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1 Clock Hour | Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
With increasing change, driven by technology and speed, it is becoming even harder to deliver event experiences that create moments of meaning and inspire creative thinking as well as deeper learning. We will explore how event professionals can maximize the brain’s capacity for deeper understanding and ignite innovate thinking.
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1 Clock Hour | Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
During this 'Playshop', Joshua will share some of his best practices and 'easy-to-adapt' musical interventions that you will be able to use in your own particular setting. He will also discuss his insights regarding the use of music in meetings and the participants will also have a great time together learning some new skills.
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2 Clock Hours | Domain B: Project Management
Technology adoption accelerates when there are processes, standards and resources in place to simplify and support its usage. The same is true for the technologies for your events. Identify best practices in creating and managing these technologies by looking at them from a variety of perspectives. Preview breakthroughs from a groundbreaking research study that examined network and wi-fi, registration and badging, mobile, engagement, social, digital signage, hardware acquisition, attendee tracking, content capture and streaming across different event types. Understand who and how decisions are made in terms of planning and executing technology, and how to use best practices at your organization.
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Not for Clock Hour Credit
Much has changed over the past five years in the meetings industry, yet rarely are meeting professionals represented at the executive level. Hear real-life stories of people who have been successful in being promoted to the executive level in meeting- and event-planning jobs.
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1 Clock Hour | Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
Presentation-based meetings need to be facilitated so participants want to act on the input provided. Researchers have shown that "intrinsic motivation" is promoted when people's needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness are met. This session applies these concepts to meetings and uses a handful of facilitated meeting processes as examples.
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Not for Clock Hour Credit
Learn concrete and efficient techniques for creating peacefulness, balance, and energy in your daily life. You will become acquainted with mental training, breathing techniques, and mindfulness, tools that will help you prevent stress while simultaneously improving your performance.
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1 Clock Hour | Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
By the time EMEC draws to a close, your head will be filled with new ideas and you will be the hero of your own story. We will celebrate the achievements of the past days to ensure that you can return home and begin implementing all of these powerful design principles to your meetings.