Notes for the people who carry the plan.

Practical writing on programme design, budgets, rooms and reviews. Each note is written from the questions that come up in planning meetings.

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N / 01

A conference is a sequence before it is a list of sessions. The order decides how much attention the room has left when the important idea arrives.

Programme

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The first draft usually covers the venue and the catering. The costs that cause trouble arrive later, in smaller lines, after the approval.

Budget

N / 03

Capacity is a number. Behaviour is a decision. The plan for the room should follow the way you want people to work together.

Venue

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Most reviews collect opinions. A useful review collects decisions, tests them against the brief and gives each change an owner.

Review

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