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Revolutionize Your Meetings & Events

Webinar Presenter: Jeff Hurt, Velvet Chainsaw Consulting

Date: February, 25th, 2015

Time: 2:00 PM, ET

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Revolutionize Your Meetings & Events

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Jeff Hurt is Executive Vice President, Education and Engagement at Velvet Chainsaw Consulting.

Jeff has worked in leadership roles with associations, government organizations and companies in the education, events and meetings departments.

He’s considered a leading authority on meetings, adult education, conference design, digital events and social media for events and has been recognized as the PCMA Educator of the Year.

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About Me• Coal Miner’s Grandson

• West Virginia Hillbilly

• Nonprofit Junkie

• Meeting & Event Planner

• Education Evangelist

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Executive Vice President

Education & Engagement

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If you can have any super power…

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Which of these LOs

important to you?

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Your Turn

1. Identify and assess six big conference

disruptors.

2. Discuss the effective function of content in

conference education programming.

3. Explore the evolving role of a speaker in

21st century education.

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Define hacking.

Why is conference

hacking important?

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~ Seth Godin

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~ Smart Customers, Stupid Companies

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What is the primary

product that conferences

have offered?

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1.

Describe the traditional

conference experience?

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What is content?

What is the role of content in

reinvented conferences?

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Too much content creates

CONTENT BULIMIA

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What is the job of a speaker?

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When people attend

conference education, what

are they searching for or

expect to leave with?

• Information

• Wisdom

• Data

• Knowledge

• Understanding

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What is the task of

technology in revolutionary

conference experiences?

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DECISIONS BASED ON

“WHAT’S IN BEST INTEREST OF

ATTENDEE?

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What is your biggest

takeaway from this

presentation?

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