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Kill the Keynote. Save the Budget. Elevate the Experience.

June 9, 2025June 7, 2025 Adrian SegarEvent design, Event professionals, Meeting industry

Here’s something that many conference organizers suspect but rarely act on: Big-name keynote speakers don’t make your event memorable. In fact, they’re probably sabotaging both your budget and your attendees’ experience. I’ve spent decades designing and facilitating conferences that people […]

Mistakes Associations Make — Part 2

May 26, 2025May 19, 2025 Adrian SegarAssociations

After four decades of founding associations, serving on non-profit boards, and designing and facilitating countless association meetings, I’ve seen a lot. Enough, in fact, to spot patterns—especially when things go wrong. Earlier this year, I documented three common-but-overlooked mistakes associations […]

Why trust is the deciding factor in whether I attend your conference

April 28, 2025April 28, 2025 Adrian SegarEvent design

Do I trust you? I live in rural Vermont, so if I want to go to an in-person conference that isn’t close to me, I need to get on an airplane. The closest airport to me is a two-hour drive. […]

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Making the human spectrogram map even better

April 14, 2025April 13, 2025 Adrian SegarEvent design

I get some of my best ideas from my clients. (That’s because consulting—when I listen well—is a two-way street!) So I wasn’t surprised when, during a recent debrief, a client mentioned a simple way to improve the human spectrogram maps […]

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A Participants’ Bill of Rights

April 7, 2025April 3, 2025 Adrian SegarEvent design

I love the folks (especially my good friend, Jan-Jaap In der Maur) at Masters In Moderation, a company that has been providing meeting and facilitation services and training in the European Union since 2012. Why? Because their core beliefs about […]

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Improve your meetings: Make attendee status a real-time construct

March 3, 2025March 3, 2025 Adrian SegarEvent design

Aside from my first book, I haven’t written much about the effects of attendee status — attendees’ “relative rank in a hierarchy of prestige” — at events. It’s time to revisit this important topic because you can improve your meetings […]

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Why event planners often overlook the importance of attendee conversations

February 10, 2025February 8, 2025 Adrian SegarConnection, Event design

Event planners often overlook the importance of attendee conversations. Why does this happen? For a clue, read this AT&T advertisement promoting telephones in the 1900’s! Here’s Kevin Kelly’s analysis of what AT&T totally missed about how telephones could be used. […]

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Are for-profits muscling in on association events?

January 27, 2025January 24, 2025 Adrian SegarAssociations

Are for-profits stepping into territory traditionally held by associations? Lately, I’ve seen signs that they might be. Recently, I’ve received inquiries from suppliers of products and services wanting to hold events for the communities they serve.  In fact, I’m currently […]

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Nine snippets of wisdom for 2024

December 23, 2024February 3, 2025 Adrian Segarlife lessons
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Learn how to transform conferences with my meeting design workshop

December 16, 2024December 19, 2024 Adrian SegarEvent design, Event professionals

If you are serious about improving your conferences, my meeting design workshop can be the game-changer your organization needs. Here’s what happens at a typical one-day workshop. In a world where passive listening no longer satisfies attendees, traditional lecture-based conferences […]

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