The Meeting Design Institute is a member-based organisation with a mission of developing meeting design in order to create more effective meetings and events. It is a global community of companies and professionals that offer creative solutions for meeting and event planners.
Leslie Robertson, Founder and CEO of Open Audience, said, “We are excited to have this opportunity through our MDI membership to reach potential clients in new ways, but we will also have the chance to meet more meeting professionals and learn from them, as well as to deliver our own educational content. We are really looking forward to our first MDI events.”
Membership of the Meeting Design Institute will increase Open Audience’s ability to network with individuals and companies with similar event technology and services and explore a greater number of collaboration possibilities.
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There will always be a time and place for live meetings, but as we have found, both from personal experience and working with clients, flexibility, responsiveness, and clarity around meetings strategy means that blended solutions can help us deal with the ongoing global and local challenges we face.
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We’re starting to see more organisations think about a blend of events and meetings. We’re working with an organisation on a series from Ireland where there will beat least one hub of people meeting face-to-face, with the sessions streamed out to people who will watch virtually. After two years of working from home and attending events virtually, there is a comfort level with connecting via Zoom or other platforms. People have established a pattern behaviour, which is to join meetings online from the comfort of their home – albeit with the variability of the quality of delivery from poorly run sessions to positive, engaging meetings that encourage people to join future sessions.
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Enhancing the delegate journey in a hybrid event: 1. Adapt your strategies: improve engagement through translation. 2. Question what’s right: What’s the profile of these delegates from different parts of the world?, Why would they come to a live event?, What might stop them from coming? What can we do to still reach out and engage them more effectively, make it meaningful and impactful for them, and potentially bring in current and future membership fees?
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Whether through networking or poster sessions, the point is to create ways in which the audience can learn from the experts, engage with key opinion leaders and gain access to respected leaders they wouldn’t normally have a chance to speak with. How that is branded – networking, engaging conversations – or the methods used are less important than ensuring learning is more interactive.
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Virtual conferences reduce financial and travel barriers that are inherent to in-person conferences, opening up knowledge-sharing to participants that don’t have the resources to travel to major conferences. However, survey results found many respondents found virtual networking to be contrived and inauthentic. One way this can and has been addressed is through local networking sites or hubs.
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