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<parsererror style="display: block; white-space: pre; border: 2px solid #c77; padding: 0 1em 0 1em; margin: 1em; background-color: #fdd; color: black">=== This page contains the following errors: ===<div span style="font-family:monospaceArial;font-size:12px">error on line 1 at column 12426: Opening and ending tag mismatch: table line 0 and colgroup </div>=== Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error. ===</parsererror><span id="docs-internal-guid-91ca43df-6366-7278-7b02-6211c96c2b01"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How to plan/host an innovation convention</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-91ca43df-6366-7278-7b02-6211c96c2b01"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When you have determined who your audience is, you can use a tool like Strategyzer to plan your event. Strategyzer offers an awesome chart called the Value Proposition Canvas. This is a tool that helps you plan by thinking about your stakeholders and what you can offer them.</span></span>
<br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-91ca43df-6366-7278-7b02-6211c96c2b01"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Audience</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-91ca43df-6366-7278-7b02-6211c96c2b01"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Remember that you can’t make everyone happy so chose your audience! The primary audience for an innovation convention are any students interested in innovation. When Fellows at Rowan planned their innovation convention, they focused on promoting the event to business and engineering classes. It’s a good idea to promote the event by giving short speeches in classes where innovation is inherent in the program, but keep the event open to everyone. Remember, even if work for the event is dragging you down, talk up the event to the nth degree.</span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-91ca43df-6366-7278-7b02-6211c96c2b01"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While planning the event, create a responsibility matrix to split the workload and set deadlines. This will make your team more efficient. Use color coding to easily see which tasks need the most attention. An example is shown below.</span></span>
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<span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evaluation</span>
<div dirspan id="ltrdocs-internal-guid-91ca43df-6367-e260-7da6-dda80a19840f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For any event that you plan, you and your team should come up with an MVP, or a minimum value proposition. This is a least amount of success that you still consider a success. For example, an MVP can be: one person walks away feeling empowered. Use your MVP to evaluate your success. Did you meet your goal?</span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-91ca43df-6367-e260-7da6-dda80a19840f"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" >Lessons learned and tips for others</span></span><ol style="margin-lefttop:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-91ca43df-6367-e260-7da6-dda80a19840f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Create a comfortable atmosphere and be attentive to your guests. It is your job to make sure they have a good time!</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-91ca43df-6367-e260-7da6-dda80a19840f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space:38pre-wrap;">Expect and be ready for things to go wrong.25pt</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-91ca43df-6367-e260-7da6-dda80a19840f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have comfort food and market it! College kids LOVE free food.</span></span>{| </li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-91ca43df-6367-e260-7da6-dda80a19840f"><span style="borderfont-size: 11pt; background-widthcolor: initialtransparent; bordervertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank your guest speakers! They are taking the time out of their days to help you put on an awesome convention. Show your appreciation in anyway possible!</span></span></li><li><span id="docs-internal-guid-91ca43df-6367-e260-7da6-dda80a19840f"><span style="font-size: none11pt; borderbackground-color: initialtransparent; vertical-align: baseline; borderwhite-collapsespace: collapsepre-wrap;">Have Fun! Be extra prepared so you can enjoy the event you are hosting.</span></span></li></ol>|}<br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-91ca43df-6367-e260-7da6-dda80a19840f"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This page was created by students Jacquelyn Demshick and John Kershner, two Fall 2017 UIF Candidates. Special thanks to UIF 2015 graduate Brandon Graham.</span></divspan>