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Beyond Sun, Sea and Sex
Conference marketing and communication issues of the future
Anthony JudgeDirector, Communications & Research
Union of International Associationswww.uia.org
5th IAPCO Forum: Deciding on the Future (Brussels, 1999)
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Focus• Extending boundaries of PCI identity
– Logistics vs Content communication• Neglected functions
– Participant focus vs Organizer / VIP focus• Hidden / Unexplored markets
– Niche markets vs Mass Markets• Emerging vulnerabilities and possibilities
– Conventional vs Enhanced communication• Conference innovation
– Conventional events vs Innovative events
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UIA Conferencing Concerns
• International Congress on Congress Organization:– Barcelona 1970, Kyoto 1975
• Professional spin offs:– AIPC, IAPCO, AIIC, FIT, etc
• Associate Members (October meeting):– open space, networked laptops
• Transformative conferencing studies– http://www.uia.org/uiadocs/aadocdia.htm
• Participant messaging experiments:– Rio 1992, Chicago 1995, electronic conferencing
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Meetings as learning contexts
• About social systems
• Why they fail
• Possibilities for experiment
• Cross-sectoral, cross-cultural, cross-language• If change cannot be achieved in a meeting…
can the meeting recommend anything useful for wider society?
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My Credo !Meetings are...
• Most vital dynamic in society• Essential to deciding / preparing the future• Basic to celebrating the past
• Currently inadequate to these challenges• Inhibited in exploring necessary innovation• Reflect all the societal problems and
possibilities to which they are addressed
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Meeting…a quality without a name defining
“a good place to be”
• There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a person, a place, a community, a meeting. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named– (Apologies to Christopher Alexander: The Timeless
Way of Building, OUP, 1979)
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Component qualities
• Alive ?• Whole ?• Comfortable ?• Free ?• Well-fitted ?• Egoless ?• Eternal ?
• Too beautiful !• Too enclosed !• Too ambiguous !• Too theatrical !• Too determined !• Too effacing !• Too mysterious !
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Focus• Extending boundaries of PCO identity ?
– Logistics vs Content communication• Neglected functions ?
– Participant focus vs Organizer / VIP focus• Hidden / Unexplored markets ?
– Niche markets vs Mass Markets• Emerging vulnerabilities and possibilities ?
– Conventional vs Enhanced communication• Conference innovation ?
– Conventional events vs Innovative events
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?IAPCO: International Association of...
• 1. Professional Congress Organizers• 2. Podium Communication Organizers• 3. Participant Communication Organizers• 4. Participant Content Organizers• 5. Perfect Congress Organizers• ?
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1: Professional CongressOrganizers
2: Podium CommunicationOrganizers
4: Participant Content Organizers
3: Participant CommunicationOrganizers
5: PerfectCongressOrganizers
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IAPCO ?International Association for Participant Communication
Organization
PCO ?Participant Communication
Organizer
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Who is the client ? -- Who counts ?Who is the event for?
• Sponsor ?• Organizer (convening organization) ?• Speakers / VIPs ?• Exhibitors ?• Participants ?• Accompanying persons ?
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Whose friend is the PCO ?• Organizer ?• Participant ?• Sponsor ?• Speakers / VIPs ?• Exhibitors ?• Conference centre management ?• Press ?
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Who Decides ?Who is responsible?
PCO
Organizer
Sponsor
Site
Budget
Speaker
Participant
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PCO’s responsibility ?
• Do what the client wants..they are paying ?• Remind the client of constraints / risks ?• Offer unsolicited alternatives to the client ?
– in the light of client’s statements– in the light of similar events– in the light of cutting edge possibilities
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What business is the PCO in?
• If IBM reinvented itself….• …from being in the “typewriter business”
to being in the “communication business”
• How might a PCO be reinvented…• ...from being in the “congress business” to
being in the “…???... business” ?
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Question 1
• Does thinking of the PCO role in new ways
open new marketing possibilities for the
future ?
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Focus• Extending boundaries of PCO identity ?
– Logistics vs Content communication• Neglected functions ?
– Participant focus vs Organizer / VIP focus• Hidden / Unexplored markets ?
– Niche markets vs Mass Markets• Emerging vulnerabilities and possibilities ?
– Conventional vs Enhanced communication• Conference innovation ?
– Conventional events vs Innovative events
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Sun …. Stars
• Conference stars• Sponsors• Podium focus• -----------------------------------------------------• Participants as planets…being shone upon• Stars as resources…disempowered participants• Participants “like children”...“Daddy knows best”
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Sea …. Seeing
• Seeing sights• Conference as a show…show and tell• See the famous … be photographed• -----------------------------------------------------• Passive participants• Sight seeing as a relief from the conference• Conducted tours
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Sex …. Intercourse
• Congress … in the original meaning• Networking• Corridors, bars and hotel rooms…privately• -----------------------------------------------------• Demeaning the plenary• Corridor discussion is “what we really come for”• “Safe sex”: conceptual contraceptives
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“Congress” vs “Rape”
• 1. Sexual intercourse• 2. Formal meeting of delegates for
discussion…• 3. The act or action of coming together and
meeting
– (Longmans Dictionary of the English Language)
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Inhibiting participants
• Over-programme• Restrict document distribution• Discourage gathering outside sessions• Discourage spontaneous events• Prevent networking• Restrict question time• Priority to stars….however long-winded
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Types of Participants-- a UNESCO study --
• 1. Attend every session; take every document
• 2. Attend selected sessions; talk in corridor to 3
• 3. Talk in corridor to Level 2 & 3 participants
• 4. In bar, organizing next conference
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Personal Basic Needs(Maslow’s hierarchy)
• Physiological needs• hunger, thirst, shelter, sex, and other bodily needs
• Safety needs• security and protection from physical and emotional harm
• Social needs• affection, belongingness, love, acceptance, and friendship
• Esteem needs• internal (self-respect, autonomy, achievement)• external (status, recognition, attention, power, and face)
• Self-actualization needs• drive to best realize one’s potential, including potential in personal
growth, achievements and self-fulfillment
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Participant Need Hierarchy(apologies to Maslow)
• Physiological needs (Food, Hotels, etc)• hunger, thirst, shelter, sex, and other bodily needs
• Safety needs (Badges, Transport, Documents, Signs, etc)• security and protection from physical and emotional harm
• Social needs (Ice-breakers, Informal spaces, etc)• affection, belongingness, love, acceptance, and friendship
• Esteem needs (Show and tell, Distinguishing symbols, etc)• internal (self-respect, autonomy, achievement)• external (status, recognition, attention, power, and face)
• Self-actualization needs (Content, Insight, Results, etc)• drive to best realize one’s potential, including potential in personal growth,
achievements and self-fulfillment
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Professional Participants ?
• Handicap (eg golf, chess)• Risk tolerance• Passivity tolerance• Intervention performance• Responsibility to colective• Certification (licence) ?
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Question 2
• Does thinking of participants in new ways
open new marketing possibilities for the
future ?
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Focus• Extending boundaries of PCO identity ?
– Logistics vs Content communication• Neglected functions ?
– Participant focus vs Organizer / VIP focus• Hidden / Unexplored markets ?
– Niche markets vs Mass Markets• Emerging vulnerabilities and possibilities ?
– Conventional vs Enhanced communication• Conference innovation ?
– Conventional events vs Innovative events
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Purpose of meetings
• Income• Impress• Important people• Inform / Inculcate / Indoctrinate• Inspire (Incentive, Impowerment)• Initiate• Interact (Intercourse)• Integrate
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Purpose vs. Market niches
• Income• Impress• Important people• Inform• Inspire (Incentive) • Initiate• Interact (Intercourse)• Integrate
• Very developed• Very developed• Very developed• Well developed• Well developed• Somewhat developed• Poorly developed• Undeveloped
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“Escaping” markets ?
• Electronic• Exotic• Economic• Exploratory• Enhanced communication• Extraordinary• Evanescent• Integration?
• No competence !• No experience !• No profit margin !• Unacceptable risk !• No facilities !• No experience !• No need !• What’s that ?
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Types of tourism…and meeting?
• Cultural / Heritage / Spiritual
• Gastronomic • Environmental (eco,
hunting)• Adventure /
Mountaineering• Multi-destination
• Entertainment• Recreation (seaside, etc)• Sports• Business • Incentive• Cruise ship
• ?
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Challenge: Converting “tourists” into “participants”
• Tire kickers
• Unused potential
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Question 3
• Are the meeting markets of the future
escaping from the “conference industry” ?
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Focus• Extending boundaries of PCO identity ?
– Logistics vs Content communication• Neglected functions ?
– Participant focus vs Organizer / VIP focus• Hidden / Unexplored markets ?
– Niche markets vs Mass Markets• Emerging vulnerabilities and possibilities ?
– Conventional vs Enhanced communication• Conference innovation ?
– Conventional events vs Innovative events
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Electronic enhancement of podium communication
• Beamers• Control of microphone use• Restricted microphone movement• Wall-screen (video conference)• Controlled voting• Electronic security
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Electronic enhancement of participant communication
• Facilitate floor intervention• Participant-to-participant• Cross-session• In-session -- Out-session• Out-of-session• Distant participation• Pre- and Post-• Laptops in session (wireless networking)
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Business travel communications
• Laptop during travel• Checking in…downloading e-mail• In airport lounges, aircraft…• Facilities in hotel rooms…not “business centres”• In conference sessions ????• Working while the VIPs speak ???
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Challenges of the past…and present
• Promotion• Registration• Badges• Documents• Meeting rooms• Hotels• Press
• Interpretation• Transportation• Security• VIPs• Speakers• Finance• Insurance
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Challenges of the future ?
• Enhanced communication• Electronic conference integration• Content organization on-the-fly• Emergent order• Spontaneous conference re-design• From grid tracks to network tracks• Risk management
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“Active Worlds”http://www.activeworlds.com/
• Home to hundreds of thousands of users and millions of kilometers of virtual territory.
• In Active Worlds you can: explore over 1000 unique virtual worlds (3D “conferences” ?) build your own 3D world on the Internet (own conference centre?) make new contacts and chat with people from all over the world play interactive 2D and 3D games choose from a vast range of identities (conference roles?) shop online in a 3D virtual mall
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Multi-meeting participants-- here but not here --
• Electronic interest groups• Electronic task groups• Conventional meetings• Spontaneous gatherings• Portable phones linking participants• Internet-enhanced portables
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Temporal reframing of “participant”
• Extended participation (before and after event)• External participant (away from event)• Partial participant (specific sessions only)• Conditional participant (“only if X is there”)• Much shorter “meetings”• Much longer “meetings”• Marketing and financial implications
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UIA Conference mind-mappinghttp://www.uia.org/data.htm
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UIA Conference mind-mappinghttp://www.uia.org/data.htm
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Question 4
• If the computer technology available in
meetings in 1999…
– is as different from that available in 1979, 1989
• what are the implications for …
– meetings in 2019… or 2029 ?
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Focus• Extending boundaries of PCO identity ?
– Logistics vs Content communication• Neglected functions ?
– Participant focus vs Organizer / VIP focus• Hidden / Unexplored markets ?
– Niche markets vs Mass Markets• Emerging vulnerabilities and possibilities ?
– Conventional vs Enhanced communication• Conference innovation ?
– Conventional events vs Innovative events
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Risk Options -- for Client and PCO !
• Play it safe …• Discuss the risks …
check client’s tolerance
• Involve the participants
• Risk tracks• High risk events
• “nobody got fired for buying IBM” !
• Theatre “angels” ?
• Venture capitalists ?
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Risk typology of meetings
• Pre-planned, pre-scheduled, guaranteed budget
• Last minute planning
• Open space sessions
• Spontaneous re-design
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Cool…let’s do
it
If you insist
Thanks…maybe not
You mustbe joking
Spontaneousorganization X
Participantcontent X
Participantcommunication X
Podiumcommunication X
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Conferencing and riskOrder
Disorder
High Participation
Spontaneity (“corridor”)Crowd
Congress session Caucasing
Low participation
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Stakes and risk(High stakes)
Low risk
Spontaneity (“corridor”)Crowd
High stakes / Low risk
Caucasing
Low stakes / Low risk
Average congress
High stakes / High risk
Low stakes / High risk
High risk(Low stakes)
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10 50 200100 500 1000 5000 10000
1:1
1:50
1:100
2:1
10:1
20:1
Odds of successful conferencing ?
Participants
Staff per Participant
Summits
Average congress
Eliteevent
Unexplored ?
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Future Conference Marketing Criteria ?
• Site -- Conference center ?• Tourism -- Cultural events ?• Stars -- VIPs ?• Contacts ?• Novelty?• Enhanced communication ?• Enhanced social dynamics ?• Cost?
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Long-term future of conferencing?
• 10 years ?
• 100 years ?
• 1000 years ?
• 10,000 years ?
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Focus -- reminder• Extending boundaries of PCO identity ?
– Logistics vs Content communication• Neglected functions ?
– Participant focus vs Organizer / VIP focus• Hidden / Unexplored markets ?
– Niche markets vs Mass Markets• Emerging vulnerabilities and possibilities ?
– Conventional vs Enhanced communication• Conference innovation ?
– Conventional events vs Innovative events
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Conventional PCO-associated roles
• Marketing / Public relations / Press• Budget / Finance• Travel / Facilities• Registration / Management• Documents / Reproduction• Podium communications / Interpretation• Recording / Video
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Future PCO-associated roles• E-communication
• e-mail / web marketing• pre-, post- and in-conference• registrations• conference product sales (e-commerce)• contact facilitation
• Group dynamics• contact facilitation (social host)• facilitation• group psychologist
• Content organization• knowledge organizer• session mind mapper / content visualizer• e-editor / digitalizer / web-CD-producer
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Who Decides ?Gang rape or Mutual seduction?
PCO
Organizer
Sponsor
Site
Budget
Speaker
Participant
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Conference co-creation ?
• “Running a meeting”• …. participants may not wish to be run
• “Targeting an audience”• …. participants may not be passive targets
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What if PCOs were like...
• Gardeners• Chefs• Astronauts• Animal tamers• Casting directors• Interior designers• Conductors• Actors
• Midwives• Genetic engineers• ?
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Ideal PCO of the future ?…a hybrid of...
• Tourguide• Troubadour• Charismatic leader• Nasruddin• Computer freak• Psychotherapist• Agony aunt
• Facilitator• Financial wizard• Aikido master• Magician• Quartermaster• Spin doctor• Social host(ess)
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PCO competitive edge• Cost• Experience
– Conference size, security– Multi-cultural, politically sensitivie– Locations (national, international, etc)
• References• Image / Reputation
– VIP events– Special events– Communication
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Challenges for PCOs
• Should the PCO role be reframed / extended ?
• Are there neglected functions ?
• Are there unexplored markets ?
• To what is the conference market vulnerable ?
• Who is responsible for conference innovation ?