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IMEX Frankfurt FRESH Dinner Registration is now open! 60 participants already registered!

Posted April 15th, 2013 by mireia.iglesias
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FRESH dinner is the place where you meet others with an interest in the content side of meetings. You will have the opportunity to meet meeting planners, meeting designers, facilitators, ROI specialists, technology suppliers, actors etc. Our last dinner at IMEX Frankfurt was a great success and was sold out with more than 120 people.

Mission Possible - Why Volcanos, Floods, Snowstorms (and strikes) can no longer stop us from meeting

Posted December 6th, 2010 by ruudwjanssen
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Mission Possible – How do you keep going despite volcanos, oil spills, snow storms and floods?

We are an operational industry and it is time to embrace that.

Posted September 21st, 2009 by maarten.vannest...
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For over a decade we now have heard about the ‘seat at the table’, ‘strategic meeting management’, ROI etc.  All very interesting topics, but the vast majority in the meetings industry have not walked far with these things.
 
I believe that the explanation is simple: Meeting planning is an operational world and the hearts and minds of the people are not into C-level stuff.

VIDEO: Workplace trends with impact on Meetings...

Posted December 12th, 2010 by maarten.vannest...
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Some brilliant minds start to doubt the social networking, Web2.0 and consequently doubt the true value of so much collaboration in organisations. Brace yourself for some far seeing visions...

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EXPERT on Micro Expressions: Yann Van den Branden

Posted February 11th, 2011 by maarten.vannest...
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Yann is a speaker on micro expressions and how you can use them to learn more about your 'opponent' in a commercial situation. Yann mostly teaches interactive sessions, trainings, workshops with real exercises for the participants or as a keynote speaker for a larger group. Yann has reference in large corporations in the pharmaceutical, banking, insurance and automotive world, from the USA over Japan to Russia. As an Actor he is also a member of the international business communication theatre group called YESSI JADA.
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Successful Events for Not for Profit Organisations

Posted July 20th, 2011 by rosa.garriga
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This book is designed to demonstrate the need for a strategic approach to event management. Everyone involved and interested in the strategic role that events can play will gain insight from the areas discussed.

With practical examples and thought provoking questions in every chapter, we see how the event organiser and senior management can together shape the events business for the benefits of stakeholders or members.

What Color is Your Event?

Posted July 20th, 2011 by rosa.garriga
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This book approaches the communication value of live experiences through events and meetings. It provides a refreshing and unique perspective on the correlation of advertising and public relations and the relationship among these three disciplines to increase the efficacy of a business message.

PREZI , a revolution in presentation software

Posted April 4th, 2010 by maarten.vannest...
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Prezi is presentation software that starts with one big canvas. It works not linear, like a series of slides, but follows a logic of the big picture and zooming in towards details. A very different but natural approach that breaks with rather boring series of slides and keeps your participants attention by regularly zooming out to the big picture...
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Give Participants Time to Talk

Posted September 21st, 2009 by DanTobin
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It is a common error, and one that I made early in my career. Because bringing participants together is so costly to the company, and because it happens so infrequently, there is a natural tendency to cram as much information as possible into the available time.

Networking, the magic force in meetings and events.

Posted February 13th, 2009 by maarten.vannest...
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We say networking or networking events when we talk about putting people in a room with drinks and music. Yet what happens at such occasions is that most people will find their fiends and enjoy the evening together.  People have the totally acceptable and natural tendency to stay on well-known/safe territory and the amount of networking can be expected to be low.

"Networking is far too important to leave it to receptions and lunches." says Ib Ravn.

And right he is!

Networking is Important. It may even be the final buoy, saving meetings from going under all together, especially in an already challenging economy,

Learning (watching presentations) you can do on-line, but meeting new people, works really only face to face. The power of random; encounters is really unique to meetings: innovations are the sparks that sometimes fly around when one bumps into a stranger at a meeting.

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