Detailed Program

We will organize a StorySlam for attendees

Think about how social media and mobile technology has changed communication in the past few years. Then look into your crystal ball and consider how it will continue to evolve and influence our events. Hosted by David Adler the CEO of BizBash this session will lead the audience through a discussion and series of questions that asks us to consider the event’s world in 2015. What will it look like? How will the changes that we are going through with Social Media impact the future of events?

Sponsored by BizBash

While our events are an explosion of content, ideas, conversations and new connections, we have a hard time keeping the conversations going after the event. It’s time that we put our heads together and figured out how we can use those massive piles of content, ideas and network connections to create lasting value and conversations beyond our event.

Join Erica St. Angel, VP of Marketing at Sonic Foundry, as she leads us through a collaborative process to come up with 37 dynamite ideas and strategies for leveraging our post event content.  This session will start with a group confession where we uncover missed opportunities, and end with a shared self-help wiki of (at least) 37 ways to create lasting value from events.

VP Marketing at Sonic Foundry

The A/V Girl is to Meeting Professionals what “Q” is to James Bond. In this interactive lab type session, the Chief A/V girl will lead you through some consumer reports, white lab coat testing on the latest technology gadgets. You get to try them out, see how they work.

Learning outcomes:

>  Understand different technology gadgets that are available to organizers.

>  Compare and contrast between these different tools.

>  Discuss important evaluation criteria to use for selecting the best tools for your events.

Can Hybrid and Virtual Events be interactive experiences? Many people think about it like watching TV.  Join Mike Westscott, VP of Marketing from InXPO to discuss the challenges in making events social and interactive. Then, Mike will share with us some strategies that you can implement at home for making hybrid and virtual events social and interactive.

Learning Outcomes:

>  Discuss the challenges in engaging attendees with hybrid and virtual events.

>  Identify simple strategies (or some short steps) for making virtual and remote events interactive and social.

VP Marketing at INXPO

Get behind the wheel and take over the reigns of an Italian racing team. Will you lead your team to victory lane or will you spin out?  This business simulation puts you in leadership situations where you have to think fast, make decisions then consider why you did it.

This collaborative learning and business simulation that was designed in conjunction with INSEAD, one of the Top Business Schools in Europe.  This simulation has been used by IKEA, Novartis, Fiat, the US Government and others. See how business games can change the way that your attendees learn.

Twitter is like turning on a fire hose for most people. The ideas and content flies at you so fast, you feel like you can never keep up. Event content, by comparison, can seem boring and slow. The Pecha Kucha format is one answer. Using a 20 slides X 20 seconds per slide format, speakers are driven to deliver fast paced presentations that convey important ideas and content quickly.

Centered around the themes of event design, social media in events, and tradeshow innovation, this session will be a crowdsourced set of presentations, created by EventCamp attendees on topics they’re passionate about. We guarantee that you’ll be challenged, entertained, and informed by what you see and hear!

Here are the presenters:

Elling Hamso on “Event ROI for non-believers.”
Brandt Krueger on “PowerPoint SchmowerPoint: Formatting Presentations
for the 21st Century.”
Lara McCulloch on “Stories, Sagas & Fables.”
Lisa Qualls on “#EventsThatLast.”
Lindsey Rosenthal on “Give Your Event a Charitable Makeover!”
Greg Ruby on “Foursquare for Events, Exhibitions and Destinations.”
Adrian Segar on “Face the Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design!”

Can we learn anything about content delivery and consumption from Television and YouTube? Television, YouTube, and TED have transformed the way information is delivered, and taken in. Are there elements of these formats that can be extracted and applied to your live events? Join Glenn Thayer, professional master of ceremonies and content delivery strategist as he explores these alternative mediums looking for insights that can be extracted and applied to general sessions and breakout sessions.

In this interactive, discussion based session, participants will discover:

•  How to use television show based models as a content delivery platform.

•  Engagement tools to “hook” your attendees before, during, and after your event.

•  A new format for your specific meeting or event that you can implement now.

How often have you been fired up while attending an event, resolving to put into effect ideas and strategies you’ve learned, only for your good intentions to evaporate as soon you return to the daily demands of your regular work?

In this closing session, Adrian Segar will lead participants through a Personal Introspective, a structured exercise that will help you identify and prepare for changes in your life and work resulting from your time at EventCamp Twin Cities. Part of the Conferences that Work methodology, this session will combine private reflection and group sharing to take stock of participants’ conference experiences, develop strategies for the future, and to further build community by discovering and sharing the commonalities of our time together.

Sponsored by Freeman

Reception sponsored by Freeman