At C&IT’s conference in London yesterday Rob Davidson of Westminster University gave an engaging talk on the changing face of events. He talked about research being published into trends towards virtual meeting environments, rss feeds, mashups and moblogs. Although he confessed he didn’t actually know what some of those things mean :)

Here’s a quick summary:

• Participation and interactivity is increasingly what delegates want.
• There’s a trend towards trying to incorporate some kind of ’social legacy’
• ‘Generation Y’ want shorter presentations and they want ‘infotainment’

If you want to know more about this he said you can download a free report from http://www.eibtm.com/