FRESH dinner is the place where you meet others with an interest in the content side of meetings. You will have the opportunity to meet meeting planners, meeting designers, facilitators, ROI specialists, technology suppliers, actors etc. Our last dinner at IMEX Frankfurt was a great success and was sold out with more than 120 people.

Mobile communications platform The TapCrowd app building platform allows event organisers to easily create a professional mobile app for their event. The platform offers all necessary functionality to offer the best mobile event app available today to your visitors. Updating content or changing the look and feel of your app is easy as pie. Updates are live instantly! For trade shows, conferences and corporate events

WEBGES provides a complete modular solution with a proven software platform and efficient services to manage: Member Management, Registration, Program and Presentation Distribution.

Mission Possible – How do you keep going despite volcanos, oil spills, snow storms and floods?

Prezi is presentation software that starts with one big canvas. It works not linear, like a series of slides, but follows a logic of the big picture and zooming in towards details. A very different but natural approach that breaks with rather boring series of slides and keeps your participants attention by regularly zooming out to the big picture...

It is a common error, and one that I made early in my career. Because bringing participants together is so costly to the company, and because it happens so infrequently, there is a natural tendency to cram as much information as possible into the available time.

We say networking or networking events when we talk about putting people in a room with drinks and music. Yet what happens at such occasions is that most people will find their fiends and enjoy the evening together.  People have the totally acceptable and natural tendency to stay on well-known/safe territory and the amount of networking can be expected to be low.

"Networking is far too important to leave it to receptions and lunches." says Ib Ravn.

And right he is!

Networking is Important. It may even be the final buoy, saving meetings from going under all together, especially in an already challenging economy,

Learning (watching presentations) you can do on-line, but meeting new people, works really only face to face. The power of random; encounters is really unique to meetings: innovations are the sparks that sometimes fly around when one bumps into a stranger at a meeting.

Along with pending education trends that will influence conference education, there are significant challenges that will also have a tremendous impact. Conference organizers will face these challenges in the coming five years as traditional education methods continue to encounter disruptive innovation. Top Ten Challenges Here are the top ten most significant challenges in terms of their impact on logistics, planning, speakers, conference education, learning and delivery of information.

Some brilliant minds start to doubt the social networking, Web2.0 and consequently doubt the true value of so much collaboration in organisations. Brace yourself for some far seeing visions...