Guest Blog Post from Barbara Scofidio SKIFT Meeting March 28th, 2025 IMEX Head of Programming Tahira Endean lives and breathes creativity. So it makes perfect sense that she would dream up the idea of categorizing ‘joy’ as a KPI — and then write an entire book about it. Tahira Endean was effusive as she shared …
Yes, I said it. Let’s move past the UnConference, the UnSession, and move from Un to “In” – Intentional that is. We have been hosting symposia, salons, festivals, events and conferences for thousands of years, and it is only in the last decade we invented the Un, as a response to ‘boring’ conferences. I am …
Dopamine: Harvard Medical School has referred to it as “the pathway to pleasure,” stating in an article earlier this year that it “is most notably involved in helping us feel pleasure as part of the brain’s reward system.” And isn’t that what live events are all about? Triggering dopamine releases at every touchpoint? It could start with …