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Seminar proposals for the World of Learning 2008

Guidelines

Below are the guidelines to completing the seminar proposal form for the World of Learning 2008.  Please read these carefully to ensure that you complete the form correctly and to give your seminar the maximum opportunity for successful selection.

About the World of Learning Exhibition seminar programme

For the second year, the World of Learning is holding a series of free, educational seminars for visitors to the exhibition.

Through illustrative case studies, the seminar programme is a chance for visitors to learn new techniques, update their knowledge and gain a valuable insight into the latest business learning solutions and best practice.

The seminars will be held in a dedicated theatre within the exhibition, running throughout both days of the show.  The seminars will be extensively promoted through visitor ticket mailings, inserts & adverts in key industry and national press, the Learnevents.com website, email shots and regular PR communications with trade, regional and national press in the months leading up to the show.

To deliver the best quality information for our visitor audience, we will prioritise case study content in our selection process. 

Successful case studies will demonstrate practical, real life case studies that:

• Show evidence of best practice
• Include details on the objective of the learning programme
• Highlight impact on the business as a whole
• Include creative and innovative applications
• Met or exceed objectives
• Provide details on ROI/ results

Content Guidelines

• Ensure that your proposed speaker is of management level (or higher), and that they are comfortable and experienced at presenting to an audience in an engaging and lively manner.
• End-user and case study content is encouraged for this seminar programme as it provides visitors with a practical and demonstrable solution to their own queries.
• Ensure that companies featured in case study content agree to have their logo featured on all World of Learning marketing, sales and PR material sent out in the lead up to and during the show.
• All co-presenting companies/ case study content featured must be referred to by company name in the call for papers document, as we can only select papers based on the information provided. Co-presenters must also have confirmed their participation in the seminar programme in advance – the World of Learning cannot be held responsible for unconfirmed agreements between two organisations and will take all of the information supplied on the seminar proposal form as fully confirmed.
• When putting your proposal together, please ensure that the content is designed with a visitor audience in mind, keep it interesting and informative, for example, provide positive business benefits, independent industry overviews, practical solutions, demonstrations and facts and statistics.
• Your seminar must be informed and educational and not contain and marketing, publicity or sales pitches.
• All of the information supplied on the presentation proposal form must be confirmed in advance of your submission being put forward as these details will be used on our promotional material if your paper is selected.
• Please ensure that your proposed speaker(s) are available at all times on 19 & 20 November 2008 when you submit a seminar paper on their behalf.  If your proposals is successful, you will be allocated a time slot between 10.00am and 4.00pm on one of these days.
• The deadline for seminar proposals is 5.00pm, Friday 6 June 2008.  Any papers received after this date will not be considered for review.
• Submissions do not guarantee speaking positions at the World of Learning Exhibition in 2008.
• Seminar proposals must be put forward via the official proposal form, as seminars will only be selected according to information provided on this form.
• Proposals submitted will only be considered for the free seminar programme within the World of Learning Exhibition 2008, and not the World of Learning Conference 2008.
• There is no limit to the number of seminar proposals that can be submitted by one organisation, however each proposal must be supplied on a separate form.

Go to the Seminar proposal form page