How to Train AI for Session Personalization October 16, 2025 by Dave Lutz Concurrent sessions are the meat and potatoes of professional conferences. Use AI to improve the recipe. Evaluating, scoring, and slotting sessions can be a monumental task for staff and volunteer peer reviewers. Here’s where AI can really help, by streamlining these processes and more importantly, raising the quality bar. To get the maximum benefit from … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Technology
Show-Floor Theater Best Practices October 8, 2025 by Dave Lutz Last month, I was able to experience InfoComm, billed as “The Coolest Pro AV Gathering on the Planet.” Here’s what I took away from that experience. InfoComm, held June 7-13, attracted nearly 31,000 AV professionals to Orlando. One of the events highly engaging features was the handful of large theaters on the show floor. Three … [Read more…] Filed Under: Experience Design
Learning Business Future Outlook September 15, 2025 by Dave Lutz Our friends at Tagoras are conducting a survey to help guide your association’s future learning strategy. We’re sharing this because Tagoras has a great track record of doing high-quality research and sharing the insights with those participating in the survey. To contribute and learn about the trends that will have the most impact on association … [Read more…] Filed Under: Uncategorized
Night at the Disco August 20, 2025 by Dave Lutz **Lost Post written five years ago. This blog post was published in Convene, but not published on our site in 2020 due to the pandemic and changing priorities during that time** My wife, Margie, loves to dance. To ring in the New Year and new decade, we went to one of our favorite hangouts. As … [Read more…] Filed Under: Experience Design
Sweat the Small Stuff July 10, 2025 by Dave Lutz **Lost Post written five years ago. This blog post was published in Convene, but not published on our site in 2020 due to the pandemic and changing priorities during that time** When it comes to making your event more attendee-centric, even adding a few inches between chairs can go far. For my first job, I … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning
Proactive Planning in Uncertain Times June 26, 2025 by Dave Lutz It’s really hard to provide advice for navigating changes that could significantly impact your next meeting’s performance. Trade shows and gatherings with a significant deal-making benefit could end up just fine. It’s the scientific, academic, and research meetings and those with a large international attendance that potentially face the strongest headwinds. We’re all seeking answers … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning
Growing Your Credibility May 8, 2025 by Dave Lutz Gross profit is the metric that matters most to leaders. As a business event strategist, you can grow your credibility and value with your senior leadership by having your finger on the pulse of this metric. To arrive at your largest event’s gross profit, you need to connect the dots to apply attendance, revenue, and … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning
Attracting & Engaging High-Po’s April 16, 2025 by Dave Lutz Annual conferences can be a valuable platform for helping your attendees — and their organizations — develop and retain future leaders, aka “hi-po’s.” According to the Forbes Human Resources Council Expert Panel, a modern high-po (high-potential) workforce strategy involves more than having a list of candidates for succession planning. “It is about having actively engaging … [Read more…] Filed Under: Attendance Marketing
DOGE and It’s Potential Impact on Scientific Meetings April 9, 2025 by Dave Lutz It might be premature to sound the alarm, but here goes. The executive order that is intended to transform government spending will likely have a significant impact on meetings in the scientific, healthcare and academia sectors. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cost efficiency initiative executive order includes a section for “Non-Essential Travel Justification”. Here’s … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning
High-Beam Insights for Applying AI March 13, 2025 by Dave Lutz Most conversations around the use of Artificial Intelligence in the event industry are around use cases that improve workforce productivity and performance for repeatable processes. Here are three other approaches. Tech strategy firm Future Point of View (FPOV) recently released its Humalogy® Trends Report 2024, which includes responses from thousands of leaders across many industries, … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning, Event Technology
