Adrian Segar
Ph.D.
VT, USAdrian Segar has organized and facilitated conferences for over thirty years. Dissatisfied with traditional conferences, and realizing that he loved to connect with people, and to create spaces for them to connect with each other, he created the first peer conference in 1992, and has been refining peer conference process ever since.
His ground-breaking book Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love was published in November 2009, and he currently consults on, designs, and facilitates participant-driven and participation-rich events. His next book The Power of Participation: Creating Conference Sessions That Deliver Learning, Connection, Engagement, and Action will be published in 2015.
Adrian has a Ph.D. in experimental elementary particle physics, was an independent information technology consultant for 23 years, taught college computer science for 10 years, and co-owned and managed a solar manufacturing company before that. He lives in Marlboro, Vermont, is active in the non-profit world, and loves to sing and dance.
Adrian has been named one of the most innovative people in events by BizBash Magazine, one of MeetingNet's Eleven Most Influential Online Personalities in Meetings and Travel, and has been quoted on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. He has presented at most of the major meeting profesion conferences, writes regularly on event design and related issues on his blog, and is the community manager of the Google Plus #eventprofs community.
Adrian Segar has organized and facilitated conferences for over thirty years. Dissatisfied with traditional conferences, and realizing that he loved to connect with people, and to create spaces for them to connect with each other, he created the first peer conference in 1992, and has been refining peer conference process ever since.
His ground-breaking book Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love was published in November 2009, and he currently consults on, designs, and facilitates participant-driven and participation-rich events. His next book The Power of Participation: Creating Conference Sessions That Deliver Learning, Connection, Engagement, and Action will be published in 2015.
Adrian has a Ph.D. in experimental elementary particle physics, was an independent information technology consultant for 23 years, taught college computer science for 10 years, and co-owned and managed a solar manufacturing company before that. He lives in Marlboro, Vermont, is active in the non-profit world, and loves to sing and dance.
Adrian has been named one of the most innovative people in events by BizBash Magazine, one of MeetingNet's Eleven Most Influential Online Personalities in Meetings and Travel, and has been quoted on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. He has presented at most of the major meeting profesion conferences, writes regularly on event design and related issues on his blog, and is the community manager of the Google Plus #eventprofs community.
Transform Your Sessions With These Participative Techniques
"I've been sending e-mails to clients apologizing for NOT coming by their offices and taking them to Adrian's presentation. I am so ashamed! I kept THEM from experiencing one of the most productive and informative workshops I have ever attended. It was great networking too!"-Kevin Priger: participant in Adrian's workshop "Transform Your Sessions with These Participation Techniques"
The simplest and most powerful way you can improve attendee learning,...
Designing Participant-Driven and Participation-Rich Meetings: What You Need to Know and Why
"A true innovator in the conferences space, Adrian is at the forefront of attendee-driven conferences and meetings. His blog posts are extremely insightful and incorporate ideas and tactics from other disciplines (like physics and psychology) to shed light on how to better plan and manage meetings. His blog is required reading for this industry."-Jeff Kear, Planning Pod
At Designing Participant-Driven and Participation-Rich Meetings: What You Need to Know and...
Designing Participation Into Your Meetings
"Sat in on Adrian Segar's course on participant driven events at Affordable Meetings this morning - Excellent course!"-Dawn McEvoy, Director of Education, Professional Convention Management Association
This interactive session will give you an overview of participation techniques and an experiential glimpse of the value to your stakeholders and attendees of turning attendees into participants-more learning, more connection, more engagement, and more action outcomes-thus...
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