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Event Design Handbook

Systematically Design Innovative Events Using the #EventCanvas
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Event Design Handbook by Roel Frissen and Ruud Janssen provides a practical approach to creating successful events, focusing on strategic design elements. The authors offer tools and frameworks to help professionals understand the impact of their events, optimize the attendee experience, and align event objectives with business goals. This book is essential for anyone looking to innovate and improve the value of their business events.
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This book may appeal to you if you are interested in the intricacies of crafting memorable events. It provides a detailed guide to the methodology of designing innovative and impactful experiences that captivate audiences. Ideal for event planners and entrepreneurs, it offers practical insights and creative strategies for effective event design.

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Everyone at some point in time experiences events that change the course of history or their life. The are powerful and can be impactful. Some events are taken for granted and their fundamental design is overlooked or simply copied. This book identifies the starting point (braiding point) of any event and names the steps of how they come alive.

This book identifies the starting point (braiding point) of any event and names the steps of how they come alive. It aims to put your finger on the DNA of your event. This book shows you the components of the DNA of events. It gives you insight into the way you can observe, analyse any event. Understand who has what at stake. Define the behaviour change required to deliver value. Identify the levers and mechanism by which you can influence this behaviour change in your event design.

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Everyone at some point in time experiences events that change the course of history or their life. They are powerful and can be impactful. Some events are taken for granted and their fundamental design is overlooked or simply copied.

Event Design Handbook identifies the starting point (braiding point) of any event and names the steps of how they come alive. It aims to put your finger on the DNA of your event.

This book shows you the components of the DNA of events. It gives you insight into the way you can observe and analyse any event. Understand who has what at stake. Define the behaviour change required to deliver value.

Identify the levers and mechanisms by which you can influence this behaviour change in your event design. This book lays the foundation for creating a common languageβ€”a language that can be spoken and understood by those who know and those who don't yet know the mechanics of events.

Event Design Handbook will allow them to make event design the starting point and approach for creating events that matter.

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Event Design Handbook is highly recommended for its practical use, with the event canvas regarded as a valuable tool akin to other notable canvases. It is considered essential for every event planner's toolkit.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9789063694340

Publisher: BIS Publishers B.V.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 September 2016

Country: Netherlands

Imprint: BIS Publishers B.V.

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 209.0mm

Height: 209.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 204

About the Author

Roel Frissen (Author)

Roel Frissen is entrepreneur, speaker, facilitator and event designer for corporations and associations. On a quest to create a common and visual language to ease the conversation between Event Planner and Event Owner, he created together with Ruud Janssen the #EventCanvas. Roel is the co-founder of EventCanvas.org Foundation and Event Model Generation -the event design consulting & training firm.

Ruud Janssen is an international speaker, facilitator and designer of high stakes conferences & events. He helps organisations innovate by thinking differently based on functional, social and technological advancements using business and event model innovation. He created the #EventCanvas with Roel Frissen to enable teams to systematically design events that matter.

Ruud is is the co-founder of EventCanvas.org Foundation and Event Model Generation -the event design consulting & training firm.

Story Engagement Engineer Dennis Luijer believes in making thoughts visible by drawing them out into reality. His role in visualizing how events create value as an Industrial Designer, brings the narrative to life. It s the connected way of the future and will end up bringing the world together! So get your pen out and start drawing some doors so others can come in and connect to your thinking.

Ruud Janssen (Author)

Ruud Janssen is an international speaker, facilitator and designer of high stakes conferences & events. He helps organisations innovate by thinking differently based on functional, social and technological advancements using business and event model innovation. He created the #EventCanvas with Roel Frissen to enable teams to systematically design events that matter.

Ruud is is the co-founder of EventCanvas.org Foundation and Event Model Generation -the event design consulting & training firm.

Dennis Luijer (Author)

Story Engagement Engineer Dennis Luijer believes in making thoughts visible by drawing them out into reality. His role in visualizing how events create value as an Industrial Designer, brings the narrative to life. "It's the connected way of the future and will end up bringing the world together! So get your pen out and start drawing some doors so others can come in and connect to your thinking."

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