Boring presentations and 'old school' meeting approaches disengage attendees at meetings and conferences. Participants leave confused and demotivated, regretting that they wasted so much of their time. What's worse, the bad experience diminishes their Return On Investment and raises question marks about their attendance of future events. In this presentation, you'll learn some of the best practices for audience engagement from the world leading conferences.

2. Why is it important to
keep your events
interactive?

3. Content Inflation
Content Inflation

4. TED
TED

5. Empowered User

6. How interactive do you find your
meetings?!
!
(live barometer)

7. What was the worst meeting/conference
that you’ve ever experienced?
WHY?
Activity 1

8. How could you fix it?
Activity 2

9. 30s to present your solution
Activity 3

10. What our customers !
taught us

11. Marketing Festival, Pioneers Festival, Quartz in London
dedicate 10-15min to onstage interviews

12. Maximising the Q&A time
UBER Q&A STORY

13. Anonymous Q&A for sensitive or controversial topics
Source: https://blog.sli.do
54%

14. Panel Discussions

15. Collect and ask audience questions
within the first
10minutes

16. Run a poll to gauge audience opinion
and have panelists to comment on the results

17. Pro Tips

18. !
Endorsing networking with live polls
“Who do you know?”
a) A person on my right
b) A person on my left
c) People on both sides
d) No one
Then have participants greet the person whom they don’t know.

19. Have people brainstorm!
Get them to send their input in
Have them upvote the input of others

20. Peer-to-peer discussions

21. Opening question!
Ice-breakers!
Get feedback with live polls!
Conduct interviews and Q&A!
Organize Peer-to-Peer Discussions!
Endorse networking!
Brainstorming and sharing sessions !
(Think write share)!
Live Barometer!
A new toolkit

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