All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
- George Bernard Shaw
5) Registration websites: you know me, you know my company. Why do I have to fill out the same information again?
4) Registration lines: They are the first impression of a conference. Why are they so hard to get right? Why do I have to wait so long, only to get something I then have to go into a corner alone to read and figure out what to do next next?
3) Plates and cups and not enough places to put them: The conference grab-and-go breakfast; the evening reception with appetizers. Never enough high boys, and no event venue uses those AWESOME plate+cupholder things that I can take to a tailgate party! Come on people! I need a free hand to shake/eat/social media with!
2) QR codes: I tried to like them. Really, I did. But I'm convinced they are mostly useless.
1) Badges! I hate where they hang, I hate waiting in line to get them, I hate that they flip around and do not serve their purpose for identifying people 100% of the time!
What do you want to see evolve?
3 comments:
Liz:
Some of these things have evolved but the conference host has not decided to use them. I was using registration systems in 2003 that prepopulated a consumer's contact information. They've been around for a long time and meeting planners should use them.
Second, back in 2003, we moved away from registration lines and instead had self-service kiosks and banks of printers to print out name tags. You could make changes at the kiosks before they were printed. We timed our attendees and they spent less than 90 seconds in this process.
Now for the other three things...I agree, time to change.
#4 is an absolutely! we want to see event promotion evolve. currently ineffective with so many consumer niche channels. hard to achieve broad distribution efficiently.
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