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Most Innovative Meetings 2016: #5 Dreamforce
A mix of high-tech and high-touch strategies help attendees find meaning in the midst of Salesforce's huge conference.
Between the two main venues, attendees experienced “Dreampark,” which offered food, beanbag lounges, live music on two stages, giant screens streaming the keynote sessions, games, and volunteer opportunities.
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Most Innovative Meetings 2016: #6 South by Southwest
The massive multiday, multi-industry event is demonstrating how data can be used to help attendees determine where and how to spend their time.
President Obama discussed civic engagement at a special event during SXSW with audience members selected in a random drawing.
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Most Innovative Meetings 2016: #7 Marriott Sales, Marketing, Revenue Management, and Event Management Conference
By banishing PowerPoint, Marriott cultivates engaging educational practices.
Organizers looked for PowerPoint alternatives, including a fashion show that depicted each brand’s aesthetic via designer clothes and accessories.
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Most Innovative Meetings 2016: #8 Social Capital Markets Conference
Diversity is non-negotiable at the entrepreneurship event.
Organizers require every panel at the conference to include participants that reflect gender, racial, and ethnic diversity.
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Most Innovative Meetings 2016: #9 Summit at Sea
Organizers bring 3,000 attendees off the grid for intense conversation and collaboration.
Musical performances and pop-up art installations created a high-energy “unconference” with themed tracks so attendees could focus on their passions.
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Most Innovative Meetings 2016: #10 C2 Montréal
Organizers create unusual experiences to drive brainstorming and interpersonal connections.
To create an intimate environment for sharing ideas, organizers invited attendees to take a stroll under a shared umbrella as artificial precipitation sprinkled down from a machine above.
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Most Innovative Meetings 2016: #11 Sapphire Now
Software company SAP is using a very non-technical method of surveying attendees.
While attendance rose more than 10 percent compared to 2015, organizers were able to reconfigure the show floor to provide wider aisles and more open areas for networking.
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Most Innovative Meetings 2016: #12 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference
Microsoft rolls out the red carpet for first-timers at its landmark tech conference.
Keynotes brought all 15,000 developers together, while specialized education ensured attendees got the most out of their time.
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Most Innovative Meetings 2016: #13 Collision
Volunteers play a critical role at the growing start-up conference.
Group leaders walked with attendees to a number of bars as part of the conference’s opening-night pub crawl.
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Most Innovative Meetings 2016: #14 Engage!16
The wedding-industry summit pours on the perks.
As with all Engage events, the color scheme reflected the destination: a coral palette evoked Palm Beach.
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Most Innovative Meetings 2016: #15 Code Conference
To ensure a diverse audience, Re/Code builds its attendee list the old-fashioned way.
Organizers cultivated a guest and presenter list that went beyond “the usual suspects” of the tech industry.
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