How technology is changing the way we plan and experience events

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Events and event planning are evolving into new, dynamic formats. Old models are falling away and technology is giving both planners and event participants an opportunity to grow and revisit the underlying ideas about how event spaces work.

"It's been fascinating watching just how fast things have changed," said Brian Solis, principal at Altimeter Group, at a New York conference this year. He spoke about next steps and generational shifts in the ways we approach and interact with the events we attend

"We all have to think — as planners, as organizers, as experience-architects — what that will look like," Solis said. "There was a time we'd ask you to turn your phones off. There was a time when we wouldn't provide Wi-Fi. And there was a time when we actually expected you to make eye contact with the person on a stage. Now, I'm actually better off if I just see your foreheads lift up. It means you're sharing the experience." Read more...

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