March 16th, 2016Categories: Curated by Universum

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When participants are actively involved in a conference, they retain and apply information taken from the event much more easily.

Turn attending the event into an experience. The moment his entire participation in the event turns into an experience, The participants will remain grateful to you by applying the information delivered.

Presentations take a new form
We know how hard it is to keep the attention of a room of 200-300 participants when you are presenting reports or presentations that seem endless. That's why we suggest you present your presentations as Pecha Kucha or Ignite - two short and dynamic forms of presentation. These limit the speaker to designing the presentation in 20 slides and 20 seconds (Pecha Kucha) or 15 seconds (Ignite) per slide. While these presentations bring smiles to the faces and capture the audience's attention, their impact is maximized by post-presentation discussion sessions with the speakers.

For example, last year, we organized a conference of a banking client presenting its previous year's results and the goals for the coming year in the Pecha Kucha format. The presentations captured the attention of the whole room in a fun way.

Q&A session
To avoid moments where one person talks and the rest of the people participate by listening, challenge everyone to form teams of two, so that everyone has the opportunity to get involved by listening, talking and thinking. The questions will take the form of discussions, and the pairs of participants will have 30-60 seconds to think of an answer to be discussed in pairs.

Body Voting
Also known as Human Graphs, Human Spectrogram or Continuum Voting, it is one of the most versatile participatory techniques used. Basically, the speaker asks a question and offers a given number of answers and the participants have to distribute themselves in the room according to the desired answer.

For example, ask people in the room to move to a certain place in the room that corresponds to where they live or work. Once they are in the right place, invite them to introduce themselves to the people next to them, offer their business card, etc.

An alternative with a techy twist to this method is Who's Who - Using tablets installed on 6 colored pillars, participants are challenged to express their choices on given topics. Find out more about this activity >>

Changing places
To encourage networking between table participants, announce a change of seating between sessions. For example, the change can be done in a funny way, where each person whose name starts with a letter from the first half of the alphabet takes a seat in the first three rows of tables.

Plus, badge used by participants can be a creative method of engaging participants. For example, it can contain messages encouraging networking or group membership.

Te provocam ca pentru urmatoarea conferinta sa folosesti una dintre tehnicile de mai sus pentru a vedea diferenta implicarii participantilor in eveniment.

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