A recent article on Forbes.com picks the brains of interesting players in the meetings and events world: talent agencies and speaker bureaus. Some of the observations from the talent agencies and speaker bureaus include:A huge pent-up desire for attendees to catch up with colleagues is requiring that meeting sessions be shorter, giving people more time in between sessions for social interaction. Speakers must be skilled enough to make their sessions more of a discussion than a one-way presentation. Organizations are conducting reinforcement of the in-person meeting message through their speakers, who host a virtual meeting several weeks after the in-person event – an “accountability check-in” or pep talk based on attendee feedback and data collected after the in-person event. Lead times are shorter, with agencies and bureaus seeing the typical six- to nine-month booking window shrinking to as little as 8 to 12 weeks.

Source: Forbes June 17, 2022 18:57 UTC