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Getting your delegates involved during your conference and carrying on the momentum once everyone has left can be a challenge for even the most experienced event professional. Here are our top 5 conference engagement ideas.
Delivering professional live conferences is a demanding and exhilarating experience. As a conference organiser, there are many elements of the conference to think about, it is not simple as one, two, or three. Many things can go wrong before, during, or after that are out of your control. To minimise this, you could get help from a professional Conference Management Company. Having a dependable conference management partner, you can trust to deliver, is vital.
A Conference Management Company could include assistance before, during and after your conference or just with some elements. This can include but is not limited to:
With all this help you’ll have the time to concentrate on more important things, simply oversee the project from the top and crucially also get to experience the conference that you have created!
Getting your delegates involved during your conference and carrying on the momentum once everyone has left the building can be a challenge for even the most experienced event professional. You need to clearly identify what impressions, thoughts and feelings you want your delegates to leave the conference with. Because knowing what you are aiming for ensures you can hone the content and itinerary to contribute towards these goals.
Edgar Dale, an American educator, developed an 11-stage model called the Cone Experience, also known as the Learning Pyramid. His concept showcases the advantages of the most effective learning environments. There are many articles talking about percentages that best summarise what people remember while learning. They are:
However, Dale has never attributed % to his findings, instead, it was a visual analogy. An article by Growth Engineering is the best summary we could find on the internet that clearly explains this.
Dale found that the highest number of people remember the most, when a conference has hands on activities with a specific outcome. In other words, when we engage or interact with each other.
There are lots of ingenious ideas, techniques and products (both virtual and live) to help your audience contribute as early as possible and then maintain that connection during and after the conference to help create the highest levels of engagement.
Send out a short teaser video, an introduction to the conference before it starts, and ask for workshop/content suggestions. Allowing your delegates to get involved in the crafting of the itinerary. It really helps to create connection and commitment. For the best results, you can follow that up with conference highlights and regular updates on projects/topics covered!
This is a great way to get people talking to each other, put a group at ease, and build trust. It is designed to complement your conference programme and ensures that it delivers the maximum benefit to you and your guests.
This will invigorate your guests by giving them the opportunity to benefit from a break in the conference schedule, refocus their concentration and get to know their colleagues in a cooperative environment with a Conference Energiser — a short, sharp cooperative activity designed to get your delegates on their feet, energise them and put their concentration back on track.
Never do activities for the sake of box-ticking, aim to deliver your business messages in a fun, unique way. A simple example of this is our Human Bingo icebreaker, which is a unique and fast-paced activity to get to know your colleagues interests outside of the working environment! Another example could be a Wheel of Fortune icebreaker, which can be adapted bespoke to your company requirements, history or messaging as required.
Never do activities for the sake of box-ticking, aim to deliver your business messages in a fun, unique way. A simple example of this is our Human Bingo icebreaker, which is a unique and fast-paced activity to get to know your colleagues interests outside of the working environment! Another example could be a Wheel of Fortune icebreaker, which can be adapted bespoke to your company requirements, history or messaging as required.
Mobile phone (or tablet) web-based internet browser options with no need for app downloads or fully bespoke APPs to download just for your conference. There are so many options available to match your needs.
Put simply, we love, live and breathe every type of corporate event, meeting, conference, party and gathering imaginable!
Our team of 26 event professionals has a combined 297 years of experience in delivering memorable conferences – whilst our current run of winning the Gold Award for “Best Event Provider” (as voted by our peers within the industry) at the prestigious M&IT Awards for the last 5 years, shows that we have the accolades to accompany our vast experience.
Whether a meeting, conference, AV set, gala dinner, awards night, themed evening, or simply finding a venue… we’ve done it all, from as few as 4 guests to as many as 3,000. Our job is to make your conference memorable and stress-free, whilst also striving to deliver flawlessly on your conference objectives.
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