Meeting Design Virtual Summit 02.21.2020

Meeting Design Virtual Summit

Domain G: Meeting or Event Design | 3 clock hours

Sponsored by: Arlington CVB

Liz King Caruso

Presents: The Live Event Experience: A Holistic Approach to Transformative Events

Your attendees could choose to go to a hundred other events, so why would they choose yours? Event planners have become experiential masters, content marketers and more in order to grab the attention of their audience. In this session, we're going to look at events from a big-picture perspective and talk about how seating arrangements, registration processes, content delivery and more play a huge role in your attendee's love for you and your brand.

Key Take-Aways:

1. Learn 5 new ideas you can take back to your next event to enhance the attendee experience

2. Understand the value of great overall event experience on your bottom line

3. Use technology to enhance their overall event

Christopher Bent

Presents: Get Your Crowd Comfortable with Creativity

Have your smartphones ready for this interactive experience where we’ll dive deep into creativity - what it is, why we need it and how it can take our events to the next level.

Key Take-Aways:

1. Bring clarity to creativity to better understand and embrace it

2. Reflect on your relationship with creativity and discover what holds it back

3. Actively practice creative expression in order to inspire others and gain inspiration in yourself

Kristin Arnold

7 Easy Ways to Add More Pizzazz To Your People

Panels. The very word causes most of us to groan and it brings up feelings of dislike and disdain. But it doesn’t have to be that way! A panel discussion, when done well, can be the highlight of the conference.

Key Take-Aways:

1. Choose an appropriate format to meet the published objectives AND resonate with the audience

2. Discover unique ways to keep the audience engaged and involved

3. Appreciate the steps to spark and facilitate controversial and interesting discussion resulting in a memorable panel discussion chock-full of meaningful, tangible takeaways.