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

Turn participation in the event into an experience. When his entire participation in the event turns into an experience, the participants they will be grateful to you by applying the information provided.

Presentations take on a new form
We know how difficult it is to keep the attention of a room of 200-300 participants when you present reports or presentations that seem endless. That is precisely why we propose that the respective presentations be presented in the form of Pecha Kucha or Ignite – two forms of short and dynamic presentations. They 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 faces and capture the audience’s attention, their impact is maximized by the post-presentation discussion sessions with the speakers.

For example, last year, we organized a conference for a banking client who presented the results of the previous year and the objectives of the following year in the Pecha Kucha format. The presentations captured the attention of the entire hall through an entertaining method.

Q&A session
To avoid the moments when only one person speaks and the rest of the people participate by listening, launch the challenge for everyone to form teams of two, so everyone has the opportunity to get involved by listening, speaking and thinking. The questions released will take the form of discussions, and pairs of participants will have 30-60 seconds to think of an answer that will 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 certain number of answers, and the participants must distribute themselves in the room according to the desired answer.

For example, ask the people in the room to move to a certain place in the room that corresponds to the place where they live or work. Once you arrive at 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, the participants are challenged to express their choices regarding certain given themes. Learn more about this activity >>

Change of places
In order to encourage networking between the participants at the tables, between two sessions they announce a change of seats. For example, the change can be done in a funny way, in which each person whose name starts with a letter from the first half of the alphabet takes a seat in the first 3 rows of tables.

In addition, the badge used by the participants can be a creative method of involving the participants. For example, it can contain messages that encourage networking or belonging to a group.

We challenge you to use one of the above techniques for the next conference to see the difference in the involvement of the participants in the event.