At Hannover Messe, booths with interactive demos hold visitors 4x longer than passive displays.
One hands-on demo station or product configurator turns a glance into a 10-minute conversation. Passive displays get noticed; active experiences get remembered.
This is what Adam Expo Stand designs for — booths built to pull people in.
Deep dive → https://adamexpostand.com/create-impactful-booth-display-trade-shows-2026/
#BoothDesign #ExhibitionStands #EventProfs #ExpoDesign #HannoverMesse
A great, permanent, personal, and inexpensive appreciation that you can provide to meeting volunteers and staff during an event
#events #tip #volunteers #appreciations #thanks #meetings #eventprofs
It’s not a festival, it’s a funeral. When conferences stop serving their core audience, communities don’t disappear—they go elsewhere.
#newpost #EventDesign #eventprofs #community #GDC #GameDev
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2026/03/its-not-a-festival-its-a-funeral
Scenes from a peer conference: The Third Annual Vermont Vision For A Multicultural Future peer conference, November 6-7, 2014
#meetings #EventDesign #Vermont #PeerConference #unconference #MulticulturalFuture #eventprofs #assnchat
How do you market a new peer conference? Here's an example of marketing language you can use to address potential attendee concerns.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/dear-adrian/2013/09/market-new-peer-conference
#meetings #EventDesign #marketing #PeerConference #ideas #eventprofs
Short-term traditional meeting evaluations are unreliable. They tell you nothing about the long-term effects of a session. We can do better.
#meetings #EventDesign #evaluations #bias #unreliable #HowToImprove #eventprofs
We'll all get a lot more out of our events when we practice wirearchy, not hierarchy. I encourage you to join me.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/10/wirearchy-not-hierarchy
#meetings #EventDesign #hierarchy #wirearchy #eventprofs #events
The Solution Room is a powerful conference session that engages & connects attendees, & provides peer advice on their most pressing problems
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/03/solution-room
#meetings #plenary #SolutionRoom #engagement #connection #events #eventprofs
Brandt Krueger interviews me about the secrets behind conference engagement, how to get your audience tuned in and engaged, and much more
#meetings #EventDesign #interview #BrandtKrueger #EventIcons #engagement #learning #crowdsourcing #eventprofs
How we used ScribbleLive to create our live blog of PCMA Convening Leaders 2014
#blogging #tool #LiveEvents #ScribbleLive #events #PCMACL #eventprofs
Adam Expo Stand - Booth Design
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