Year long programme will unite talent from the Meetings and Incentives industry, the Corporate world and the Academic fields Inspired by the acclaimed book, “Into the Heart of Meetings”
The idea behind Meeting Design Weeks
Dates for a year-long programme launching a number of Meeting Design Weeks have been announced and the comprehensive schedule of events promises to unite talent from the Meetings and Incentives industry, the corporate world and academic fields in 16 cities across 3 continents.
The Meeting Design Weeks, inspired by the content in the acclaimed book “Into the Heart of Meetings” by Eric de Groot and Mike van der Vijver, will be held in 16 different cities on three continents.
Meeting Design is the art of matching the format of a meeting with its content and aims and Meeting Design Week is set to bring that art to your city. Your University can cooperate with local Meetings Industry partners to create a program for lecturers, students, meeting professionals and creative talent. At the end of the week, a network of trained professionals can apply the knowledge to business meetings, educational sessions, conferences and day-to-day meetings. All of this activity will also support the local economy through supporting the delivery of a higher quality of meetings, resulting in better ideas, more effective coordination and more engagement in education.
The Meeting Design educational event
The MD-weeks bring a Meeting Design certification Level 1 two-day course to each of the cities. The courses will be open to professionals like meeting planners, corporate communication managers, live communication designers and trainers and consultants. They will have the opportunity to dive deep into the nature of meetings, and how to design them, as well as receiving their very own copy of the book.
On top of this, local universities will host a novel Education Design workshop for academic teachers. Finally, the Meeting Design Week offers the opportunity to apply Meeting Design on an actual event that is on the agenda in the city. This Meeting Design Kick-Off meeting is open for corporate organising teams.
A closing network event brings academics and corporates together, to embrace design thinking and empower the creative potential of a city.
Eric de Groot, from MindMeeting comments,
“Meetings design is a structured process enabling people to deliver better meeting programmes, which will support their meetings to obtain better outcomes. Certified attendees know how meetings work and how to structure them to achieve impact. We want to help professionals as well as educators to grasp the huge potential of well-designed meetings as they are vital to the success of any organisation and the network in which it operates.”
David Benitez, Founder of CoCoA Content Cocktails comments,
“This will be a week of innovation in business and education where Meeting Design is introduced. Lecturers will benefit from Meeting Design Techniques and will be encouraged to identify, educate and foster Meeting Design talent. There will also be a number of networking opportunities between creative talents in businesses, the university and independent professionals.:
Meeting Design Educational Events Calendar
Dates announced for 2019 Meetings Design weeks are:
Meeting Design Practicum
- 14-16 February 2019 – Milan, Italy (sold out)
Meeting Design Courses
- 22-23 February 2019 – Better Meetings course (Level 2) Bucharest, Romania (sold out)
- 15-16 March 2019 – Better Meetings course (Level 1) Amsterdam, Holland (sold out)
- 24-25 March 2019 – Meeting Design course (Level 1) Taipei, Taiwan (sold out)
- 10-11 April 2019 – Meeting Design course (Level 1) Helsinki, Finland (sold out)
Lesson Design
- 13 February 2019 – University of Milano, Italy (sold out)
- 14 February 2019 – University of Torino, Italy (sold out)
- 28 February 2019 – NHL-Stenden University, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands (sold out)
- 27 March 2019 – Lesson Design with Eric -National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan (sold out)
- 30 March 2019 – Education Design Workshop with Mike -Feng-Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan (sold out)
Meeting Design Keyshops
- 24/25 March 2019 – Creative Thinking for your brainstorming meetings with Eric – Taipei, Taiwan (sold out)
- 24/25 March 2019 – How to breath life into any meeting topics with Eric – Taipei, Taiwan (sold out)
- 25 March 2019 – Measure results of your meetings with Eric – Taipei, Taiwan (sold out)
- 26 March 2019 -Steal from the Tabloids! Create engaging session titles thanks to content with an edge with Eric – Taipei, Taiwan (sold out)
- 9 April 2019 – Helsinki, Finland (sold out)
Meeting Design Week
- 13-17 May 2019 – Guayaquil, Ecuador
- 20-24 May 2019 – Quito, Ecuador (sold out)
- 29-30 May 2019 – Mexico DF, Mexico
- 24-26 June 2019 – Madrid, Spain
- 9-11 September 2019 – Malaga, Spain
- 7-8 October 2019 – Dubai, UAE (sold out)
- 2-3 December 2019 – Lloret de Mar, Spain
For more information, applications and registrations, or to find out ways to get involved please contact Pati – pati@cocoa.network.
For a short video on what Meeting Design is please visit www.mindmeeting.org/video