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Feeling overwhelmed with all the change? Jamie Clarke is the perfect guide to get you to where you want to go and be able to adapt to the ever changing events landscape. After multiple trips to the top of Mt Everest and crossing the world’s most desolate and dangerous desert, he has the strategies how to master collaboration to allow you to tackle obstacles and reach new levels of success through the most adverse and changing conditions using collaboration at the core.

Learner Outcomes: 

• Dive into tangible tools to master constant change and grow stronger
• Understand how to fully utilize the strength and weaknesses of a diverse team
• Learn how to successfully manager cross-team collaboration to increase creativity and efficiency

How do we make our destinations more inclusive and welcoming? Destination representatives from around the country are ready to share the struggles and triumphs they’ve experienced while they work toward a more inclusive future.

Learner Outcomes: 

• Understand how to gather metrics when evaluating success in diversity and inclusion
•  Use shared lessons learned to inform diversity and inclusion efforts at your organization
• Collaborate to achieve your EIDB goals for your event audience and support the destination’s efforts.”

In this authentic and open discussion, Alisha Wenc and Naomi Clare Crellin will share stories of how Empathy has helped them drive innovation and mission in their work. Alisha will shed light on how her work to advance Women – whether in tech or business – has relied upon an empathetic approach to engaging stakeholders. Naomi will share audience insights from the uses and applications of the Empathy toolkit they use at Storycraft Lab.

Learner Outcomes: 

• Frameworks for integrating Empathy in to your process – such as Empathy Mapping and Journey Mapping.
• Practical methods for surveying, assessing and building stakeholder and community engagement.
• Making the business case for power-skills – integrating Empathy into your programming.

Leadership: Ways to Address and Avoid Staff Burnout

Neurodiversity and Events

Inclusive Event Strategies

What would happen if you used limitations to breed creativity and leveraged constraints to progress to new heights? Marketing expert Andrew Davis will break down the ways that successful organizations spark innovation and action—along with creative ways to use your limitations to drive better outcomes more effectively and efficiently.

Walk away armed with ideas and a plan to apply Andrew’s “Cube of Creativity” to your next event—and get ready to create high-impact experiences that are anything but business as usual.

Event Data: How to Start Building a Data Strategy?

Business of Events: How Have You Stretched Your Hybrid Event Budget?

Sustainability: Integrating Solutions at Events and Throughout the Year

Whether it’s a global pandemic or other disruptive forces on the horizon, the ability to approach contracts and negotiations in a collaborative manner has been challenging for both event strategists and suppliers alike. The event leaders in this session will share some “real talk” from both sides of the topic, as well as invite attendees to join the conversation. Discussing real-life examples of success and learnings with a focus on transparency, shared risk, and stakeholder education within the contract negotiation process.

Learner outcomes:

• Obtain a more thorough understanding and ability to articulate the “Why” behind contracting terms to allow for transparency supported by data and details to transform the negotiation process to be less transactional and become more relational.
• Consider and discuss various scenario planning timelines and the inclusion of contract review dates from the perspective of both the planner and suppliers and what is driving the decision-making process for a shared risk approach.
• Confidently approach business conversations and negotiations with the various levels of stakeholders by incorporating a “Education Beyond Your Desk” component in your process.

Are you looking for new audience experiences to add to your engagement bag of tricks? Join this open mic session to swap stories on audience engagement experiments across in-person, hybrid and digital events and the insights gained from them. These rapid-fire case studies will shed light into the approach taken, key learnings and how success was measured. Join the session to dive into tangible tips and tricks to infuse fresh ideas into your next event.

Contracts: Force Majeure, Negotiations and Booking Timelines

Planner and Supplier Relations: Exploring Shared Risk Partnerships & Negotiations

New Attendee Experience Expectations: What Does Your Audience Want Now?

We often speak about diversity before inclusion. However, inclusion and equity must come first. To foster growth in our organizations and expand our event reach we must create environments that cater to different people. DEI Expert Madison Butler will lead this interactive workshop that gives you the opportunity to explore the inherent barriers we all have and how to making space for people to come into your lives, workplace and events so they can live authentically and out loud.

Learn how you can look past previous agendas and geographical stats to gather and use attendees’ behavioral patterns, creating more valuable experiences and developing new event revenue opportunities.

Learner Outcomes:

• Gain a foundational understanding of DEI meanings.
• Explore how similarity bias shows up in your lives and work.
• Recognize what the act of exclusion represents and learn how to take steps to create more psychologically safe environments.

More than ever event organizers are expected to increase attendee engagement with every event. This workshop discussion will present two frameworks around fostering human connection in events through meeting purpose and recognizing how neurotransmitters impact attendee engagement. You’ll be challenged to rethink your team’s tactics for your upcoming events, including how you can better balance engagement opportunities between in-person and remote audiences.

Learner Outcomes:

• How to develop and drive an engagement strategy based on an event’s purpose.
• Explore how D.O.S.E neurotransmitters are can be used to your advantage when planning events.
• Design an event experience that engages stakeholders while balancing in-room, virtual, and hybrid attendees.

Building inclusive events and workplaces isn’t a “one size fits all” strategy. So, how can you truly welcome everyone—and invite all voices to the table? In this fireside chat DEI Truth Teller and workplace changemaker Madison Butler will reveal what it means to create welcoming, psychologically safe spaces by breaking down intersectionality in all its forms—and showing you ways to better understand, answer, and celebrate the unique individuals who attend your meetings and experiences. Learn how you can effectively determine what your attendees and colleagues need to thrive–and walk away with empowering advice for how you can also show up as and care for yourself in the process.

Feeling overwhelmed with all the change? Jamie Clarke is the perfect guide to get you to where you want to go and be able to adapt to the ever changing events landscape. After multiple trips to the top of Mt Everest and crossing the world’s most desolate and dangerous desert, he has the strategies how to master collaboration to allow you to tackle obstacles and reach new levels of success through the most adverse and changing conditions using collaboration at the core.

Learner Outcomes: 

• Dive into tangible tools to master constant change and grow stronger
• Understand how to fully utilize the strength and weaknesses of a diverse team
• Learn how to successfully manager cross-team collaboration to increase creativity and efficiency

How do we make our destinations more inclusive and welcoming? Destination representatives from around the country are ready to share the struggles and triumphs they’ve experienced while they work toward a more inclusive future.

Learner Outcomes: 

• Understand how to gather metrics when evaluating success in diversity and inclusion
•  Use shared lessons learned to inform diversity and inclusion efforts at your organization
• Collaborate to achieve your EIDB goals for your event audience and support the destination’s efforts.”

Mental Health: How Do You Achieve & Maintain a Healthy Mindset?

Contracts: Force Majeure, Negotiations and Booking Timelines

What would happen if you used limitations to breed creativity and leveraged constraints to progress to new heights? Marketing expert Andrew Davis will break down the ways that successful organizations spark innovation and action—along with creative ways to use your limitations to drive better outcomes more effectively and efficiently.

Walk away armed with ideas and a plan to apply Andrew’s “Cube of Creativity” to your next event—and get ready to create high-impact experiences that are anything but business as usual.

In this virtual-attendee exclusive session, keynote speaker Andrew Davis will introduce Lumiere’s Law and lead a lively discussion about the future of virtual, in-person, and hybrid events.

We’ll even use The Cube of Creativity to brainstorm new ways we can add value in an evolving world.

Bring your ideas, your opinions, and your enthusiasm. It’s going to be a blast!

Whether it’s a global pandemic or other disruptive forces on the horizon, the ability to approach contracts and negotiations in a collaborative manner has been challenging for both event strategists and suppliers alike. The event leaders in this session will share some “real talk” from both sides of the topic, as well as invite attendees to join the conversation. Discussing real-life examples of success and learnings with a focus on transparency, shared risk, and stakeholder education within the contract negotiation process.

Learner outcomes:

• Obtain a more thorough understanding and ability to articulate the “Why” behind contracting terms to allow for transparency supported by data and details to transform the negotiation process to be less transactional and become more relational.
• Consider and discuss various scenario planning timelines and the inclusion of contract review dates from the perspective of both the planner and suppliers and what is driving the decision-making process for a shared risk approach.
• Confidently approach business conversations and negotiations with the various levels of stakeholders by incorporating a “Education Beyond Your Desk” component in your process.

EIDB: Inclusive Event Strategies

New Attendee Experience Expectations: What Does Your Audience Want Now?