Belgium, 9 January 2012. The Fresh Conference, which is taking place on 15-17 January in Copenhagen, will be presenting 5 new products for the meetings industry: 2 books, 2 technology tools and 1 meeting format to increase the effectiveness of your events.
The first innovation is a book published by the FRESH organiser, the Meeting Support Institute, titled ‘The Tweeting Meeting’. The Tweeting Meeting is a crowd sourced book, featuring many industry leaders, on how to use Social Media for events. Every participant of the conference will receive an exclusive complimentary copy and will have the chance to personally meet some of the authors.
The second book being globally launched at FRESH is called ‘Kick-start your work meeting – A handbook for facilitators’. Maria Eliasson and Pia Villför Larsson are the co-authors of this publication on how to facilitate workshops for maximum outcome. Maria Eliasson will be delivering an interactive session at FRESH that will highlight common problems with the meeting culture in organizations and how to get rid of them.
“This book plays a key role in highlighting the importance of the meeting as a tool for business development. Kick-start Your Work Meeting is not only a vital contribution to the development of workshops and other work meetings – but to the meetings industry as a whole”, said Atti Soenarso and Roger Kellerman, who have published the book through Meetings International Publishing.
Also on the topic of facilitation, a new format will be presented at FRESH: Theatre Constellation. 2 facilitators and 4 actors will showcase, for the first time for a professional audience, this novel way of facilitating a change process. This practical and innovative tool uses inputs from the audience to analyse a question or issue, which is represented by actors. This play opens up the creativity of the participants to brainstorm and find solutions. The theatre techniques, coupled with a lot of humour, will surely bring a FRESH experience to all the delegates!
Are you into events technology? Then come to FRESH to discover 2 exciting product launches: the Triskel presentation recorder and Whales on Waves, an Ipad quiz.
Triskel is a new product from Klewel, the Swiss start-up company dedicated to capture event content, that allows for simple recording, webcasting and archiving for on demand use. One of the highlights is the powerful search system: viewers can search for keywords from the slides or the speeches, thanks to the voice recognition software. FRESH will be recorded with Triskel and available on-demand.
Finally, Whales on Waves will test the knowledge of the FRESH participants in a fun and engaging way. During dinnertime, participants will collaborate with their table mates to enter the right answers on Ipads.
By now we hope to have enticed you enough to come to Copenhagen! Remember that FRESH is the only conference fully dedicated to the content side of meetings. Come to learn from other sciences such as psychology or neuroscience and network with an interesting mix of professionals from different backgrounds.
To register or to get more updated information about the FRESH Conference, visit the official website at www.thefreshconference.com
