WHY ATTEND
Geared for professionals who plan conferences, the Conference Organizers Summit really connects attendees with each other – and the best ideas and practices in today's radically different event world. No long speeches; no PowerPoints (seriously). Instead, the Summit is an energizing mash-up of conference, support group, peer learning, practical training, and a ton of real human interaction and networking.
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Truly Interact
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Feel Invigorated
Engage with a peer-learning format that doesn’t rely on tired PowerPoints, boring speakers, and dull panels.
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Solve Your Own Challenges
Be able to pick the brains of dozens of other senior-level conference organizers, solve your own challenges and make your event easier, more engaging and more profitable.
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Network with Others
​in your shoes to both learn and share within a powerful network of conference professionals.
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An Online Platform
​See an online platform used in new ways to put you – and your own attendees – at the heart of the event.
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Take Home Lessons
​Take home real professional development lessons that you can pass on to others in your organization and apply immediately to your own events.
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The Experience
An attendee-centric online event built around human connection that will engage you with a half-dozen new tools, techniques and formats for your own events.
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Discover
​Discover real, actionable ways to make your own events more compelling, marketable and profitable – for attendees, exhibitors, and sponsors.
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Feel Supported
​Interact with dozens of other professionals and feel supported in this time of uncertainty and change.
ATTENDEES
​In an attendee-driven event filled with practicing experts with 2500 years of events experience, you are the speakers; the speakers are you.
MITCH JOWEL
Chief Executive
Human Welfare Society
MITCH JOWEL
Chief Executive
Human Welfare Society
ALLISON WOTING
Chief Executive
Human Welfare Society
ALLISON WOTING
Chief Executive
Human Welfare Society
MITCH JOWEL
Chief Executive
Human Welfare Society
MITCH JOWEL
Chief Executive
Human Welfare Society
ALLISON WOTING
Chief Executive
Human Welfare Society
ALLISON WOTING
Chief Executive
Human Welfare Society
Geared for professionals who plan conferences, the Conference Organizers Summit really connects attendees with each other – and the best ideas and practices in today's radically different event world.
SPONSORS
​No long speeches; no PowerPoints (seriously). Instead, the Summit is an energizing mash-up of conference, support group, peer learning, practical training, and a ton of real human interaction and networking.
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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
All times are US Eastern (New York)
Schedule subject to change
​1:00-1:50 pm
Welcome, Orientation, and Connections!
​Get oriented to the event, the agenda and the tech. See who else is attending. Set some goals. Jump right in and meet 4 fellow attendees – plus discover 2 online conference tricks you can apply right away!
​5:30-6:30 pm
Pre-Conference Reception
​No jet lag. No wearisome ride from the airport. No standing around in a room of strangers. No rehashing the same old conversation with the same old group of colleagues and coworkers. No freezing conference center. No cheap wine. No circling the crudités to strike up a conversation. Could an online reception actually be better than one in-person? Join us before the conference starts to find out – and start connecting with your new meetings industry BFFs in a fun, low-pressure mix-and-mingle. BYOB, obviously.