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Adrian Segar
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I design & facilitate conferences that ➠ what folks want/need
🔸 Author of 3 meeting design books
🔸 ❤️ 2 🎤🕺🏻🧘‍♂️
🔸 Recovering academic
🔸 @[email protected]
🔸 Marlboro, VT, USA; Work globally
🔸 Everything about me: conferencesthatwork.com
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🔸 16 years of 900+ posts on #MeetingDesign #facilitation #consulting #LifeLessons #FacilitatingChange, being trapped in an elevator with a Nobel Prize winner & other #stories at conferencesthatwork.com
🔸 #Nonprofit board member junkie
🔸 Recovering #academic

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Participant-Driven Conference Design & Facilitation | Adrian Segar
Expert conference design and facilitation by Adrian Segar — creator of participant-driven events that foster real connection and results.
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To give everyone the opportunity to share during a meeting, you need agreement on who goes next. Online meetings pose additional challenges. Here's what to do.

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#facilitation #meetings #EventDesign #options #eventprofs
December 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Why is it important for presenters to incorporate audience engagement? Because participation improves learning—and audiences love it!

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#meetings #presentations #engagement #SocialLearning #leadership #events
December 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Here's how 1984 turned out like 1884. And what we can do with our learning environments so that 2084 won't look like 1984.

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#1984 #classroom #furniture #learning #seating
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Here's a tip for sharing new ideas from individual conference attendees to a shared resource that can be used by everyone

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#meetings #EventDesign #tip #SharingInformation #learning #SocialLearning #NewIdeasForm #eventprofs
December 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I'm a strong proponent of learning with others. Here are two examples from physics and coding of the advantages of cooperative learning.

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#learning #CooperativeLearning #PairProgramming #physics
December 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Reposted by Adrian Segar
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.

“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.

This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Reposted by Adrian Segar
“Kill all boats no matter where they are going or what they possess” isn’t a strategy, it’s just a killing spree
WELKER: Is there any hard evidence showing this particular boat was headed to the US?

TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing

WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?

COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
December 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
How do you see leadership and management roles play out in your meetings? What works, what doesn't?

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#leadership #management #meetings #facilitation #events #eventprofs
December 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Reposted by Adrian Segar
FFS
December 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
AI comment spam is increasingly slipping past filters. LLMs are creating a new spam problem—and the arms race is just beginning.

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#AI #LLM #Spam #ContentModeration #WebSpam #Enshittification #Blogging #post
December 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A textbook example of what's wrong with privately owned "public" #healthcare in this country.
December 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Get Rid Of Human Resources! Many organizations still use this term to label the office that hires, manages, and fires employees. UGH!

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#HR #HumanResources #alternatives #leadership
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Reposted by Adrian Segar
What an interesting coincidence.
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Trump is just the worst! The National Park Service is reshuffling its free-admission schedule so that visitors get in free on Donald Trump’s birthday next year, while Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth (previously free days) will now require regular entrance fees.
National Parks are now free on Trump's birthday, but not on MLK Jr. Day or Juneteenth
The Trump administration overhauled the list of free National Park days for 2026.
www.axios.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Reposted by Adrian Segar
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°

Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Designing trust into conferences turns events from transactional into transformative. Here are six practices that reliably create cultures of trust.

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#EventDesign #trust
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Run The Solution Room to foster meaningful connections and provide peer support and solutions to participants' current professional challenges.

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#meetings #EventDesign #SessionFormat #TheSolutionRoom #connections #participation #ProblemSolving
December 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
One of the dangers of requiring measurable outcomes is that it restricts us to concentrate on what can be measured, not what's important

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#FacilitatingChange #MeasurableOutcomes #learning #objectives #measurement
December 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
AI comment spam is increasingly slipping past filters. LLMs are creating a new spam problem—and the arms race is just beginning.

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#AI #LLM #Spam #ContentModeration #WebSpam #Enshittification #Blogging #post
December 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Bigger meetings aren't necessarily better meetings, because it's easier to design for connection around relevant content at smaller events

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#meetings #EventDesign #EventSize #connection #content #events #eventprofs
December 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Reposted by Adrian Segar
Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Do you create events that tug at heartstrings? If so, you should feel proud. I know I do.

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#meetings #EventDesign #eventprofs #marketing
December 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Reposted by Adrian Segar
The National Football League announces it will award the inaugural NFL Prize in Physics during the Super Bowl halftime show.
December 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM