Complete Guide to Planning the Budget of Your Conference

Complete Guide to Planning the Budget of Your Conference

Planning a conference requires more than just good ideas. It takes a good budget in place to make it a success. However, the road to planning a sustainable budget does not come without its own set of challenges. Before laying down a solid budget plan, it is important to analyze the essential elements of your conference and note down the areas of primary and secondary budgeting.  Continue reading

AMS Audit Checklist for Your Next Conference Cycle

AMS Audit Checklist for Your Next Conference Cycle

Let’s face it! Running an AMS audit is usually a little stressful.

Each time an event occurs, there is that moment of hope that everything will go well. We assume the abstract management system (AMS) was updated correctly, although none of us knows for sure. 

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9 Creative Poll and Survey Ideas to Increase Participation

9 Creative Poll and Survey Ideas to Increase Participation

What’s a better way to understand your audience than asking them directly while the event is actually happening? As an event organizer, you already have a lot on your plate. You manage speaker schedules, speaker coordination, tech and logistics, and so on. In the middle of all that, polls and surveys often feel like a nice-to-have.

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AI-Powered Matchmaking and Its Benefits for Conferences

AI-Powered Matchmaking and Its Benefits for Conferences

Think about the last networking session you organized. You likely watched a room full of people with badges on, moving from one conversation to the other.  Yet when the event ended, only a small number of those interactions turned into real follow-ups. Most guests would have left having spoken to many people, but connected deeply with very few. That outcome is common in in-person networking. On the flip side, virtual networking has now changed that dynamic. It gives more flexibility to organizers who wish to connect with people more thoughtfully.

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How to Avoid Scheduling Conflicts When Organizing Events

How to Avoid Scheduling Conflicts When Organizing Events

Let’s be real! Scheduling conflicts are almost unavoidable when planning events. Even when you’re making the best effort to plan ahead, sessions collide, your calendar is fully booked before the week has even started, and priorities of the organization will often change at the eleventh hour.  Scheduling conflicts may indicate other problems beneath the surface, including half-baked organizational priorities, communication gaps, or workflows that no longer serve the purpose. Continue reading

12 Time-Saving Hacks for Multi-Track Conference Planning

12 Time-Saving Hacks for Multi-Track Conference Planning

In planning a simple, ‘straightforward’ conference, event professionals, well into planning, realize that even the most uncomplicated of gatherings are tough in execution. On that note, imagine having to plan a conference with not a single but multiple tracks leading into and across a number of sub-domains or niches. The task grows harder and multiplies with each additional track you add. But here’s what we must do, apart from acknowledging the madness of it all: acknowledge the professionals and the tech that make this possible.

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