Event Industry News

OCTOBER 21, 2021

RainFocus Essential brings event and marketing teams together with one easy-to-use platform for meetings and small events. This provides them with consistent data across their entire event portfolio and consequently a clearer view of how meetings have impacted their customer journey.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

If you are interested in getting customized training and support on how to significantly improve your meetings, please don’t hesitate to get in touch ! It is one.

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2013 she was awarded PCMA’s highest honor for lifetime achievement. She has also served on ASAE’s Meetings and Expositions Council and as an adjunct member of the ASAE Board of Directors. Lisa was inducted into the Inaugural Washington, D.C.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 7, 2022

PCMA and CEMA President and CEO Sherrif Karamat celebrated the achievements of Patrizia Semprebene Buongiorno with the Global Meetings Executive of the Year award. The award recognizes a business events strategist who has demonstrated a vision, commitment and passion for the advancement and education of the global meetings industry. “I

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Master the Event

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

According to Skytrax’s 2013 Airport awards, Vancouver enjoys the number one position for North America. For the 2013 awards, there were over 12 million submissions. After all coming into, and leaving from, airports is a common component of most meetings and events. Click here to see Skytrax’s 2013 Top 100 airports in the world.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 30, 2019

Real meetings are all about content,” he says. You can skip just about any other part of a meeting—a venue, a meal, even a speaker and still be productive, but if there isn’t relevant content, then it isn’t a meeting.”. “You The power of meetings depends on the human dynamics they are capable of unleashing. “The

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The Planner's Lounge

APRIL 17, 2024

In 2013, she founded the Skagit Wedding Society, a networking group for wedding professionals to meet and collaborate on weddings and styled shoots and to promote Skagit County, WA, as a premier wedding destination in the Pacific Northwest.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 12, 2021

Including many different kinds of short experiences during our meetings, allows us to hack the peak-end rule to maximize the impact of an event on attendees. Hack the peak-end rule to maximize conference impact , April 2013. Is the end of an event important? It’s complicated. Here’s what I said…. Well, maybe not.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 9, 2024

In 2013, professional meeting facilitator Kristin Arnold decided to devote her full attention to the art of moderating panel discussions. The panel survey questions are designed for planners who organize — as well as those who attend — panel discussions, in addition to moderators and panelists.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 23, 2022

What meeting planners may be pleased to discover is Asheville’s potential for hosting eventful gatherings. Executives and meetings professionals in search of locations to hold meetings, executive retreats, conferences, and incentive trips will be inspired by Asheville’s spirit, scenic beauty, and fresh mountain air.”.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 18, 2023

He brings experience in religious, fraternal and ethnic meetings segments to drive new conventions and meetings to Cincinnati and establish it as a top national meetings destination. She recently celebrated ten years with the company, having joined in 2013 as a catering sales manager.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 19, 2017

Can meetings where no one says a word exhibit significantly different interpersonal dynamics? The Solution Room—an introductory video The talented graphic facilitator Kristine Nygaard of Kiss the frog, whom I had the recent pleasure of meeting at FRESH 2013, has created a delightful one-minute video that introduces The Solution Room, a.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By now I am sure you have read the latest “State of the Meeting Industry” survey of over 380 meeting planners conducted by the US based organization Destination Hotels & Resorts. The survey mapped out the business of meetings and how those meeting planners surveyed see our industry shaping up for 2013.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 8, 2017

During a livestream hosted by PCMA back in 2013, Marie Lou Coupal, CMP, struck up a conversation with other meeting professionals in the group chat. “I Coupal and event-marketing strategist Rachel Stephan, whom she also met during the livestream, chartered a bus to Boston for 25 meeting professionals. Branding the experience.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 26, 2019

My final destination was the Fairmont Le Montreux Palace, a five-minute walk from the train station, and the site of Global Meeting Exchange 2019 (GME 2019), hosted by Accor Hotels. In total, the hotel offers more than 40,000 square feet of meeting space and 15 meeting rooms. Nobs died in 2013 in a skiing accident.).

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 8, 2019

since 2013/14, with a GVA to London alone of £117m. . This spend covers a range of activities including overnight stays, subsistence and expenditure in the local economy, and is 5% higher than in 2017/18 and a staggering 71% higher than six years ago in 2013/14. increase on the 2,001 estimated jobs generated in 2013/14.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 22, 2020

Global healthcare event management business, Ashfield Meetings & Events, part of UDG Healthcare plc, has started 2020 with three appointments to its Global Leadership Team. Jason Erickson joins Ashfield Meetings & Events having successfully run Ashfield Commercial and Patient Solutions in Canada for the past seven years.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2023

Before this position, Patterson was executive chef of the property since 2017, after joining the team as executive sous chef in 2013. The post Smart Moves: Food and Beverage appeared first on Smart Meetings. David Patterson Patterson is vice president of food and beverage at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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Stova

JANUARY 17, 2023

Event Event Xperiology Event The StadiumBusiness Summit is the world’s leading meeting for the owners, operators and developers of stadiums, arenas and sport venues from around the world. The organization’s 2013 event was comprised of four different venues, four conference tracks, two stadium tours and one awards night.

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SpotMe Blog

MAY 11, 2023

The right MedComms agency team should be able to leverage their expertise in medical communications to ensure that your event is successful and meets all of its goals. Services – You’ll want a company with an experienced team who can handle a range of tasks such as marketing, creative design, and digital media planning.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 21, 2018

The Solution Room is rapidly becoming a popular meeting plenary. Invented at MPI’s 2011 European Meetings and Events Conference, the session fosters active meaningful connections between attendees, and provides peer support and solutions to the real professional challenges currently faced by participants.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 6, 2017

of meeting space. of meeting space. of meeting space. of meeting space. of meeting space. of event and meeting space. of event space with 6 meeting rooms; the largest accommodates 325. of event space, with 10 meeting rooms, accommodates up to 1,000 guests. of meeting space. Fort Wayne.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 17, 2023

At least 11 meeting and event-related companies are featured in this year’s Inc. companies based on revenue growth, is led by a healthcare management company, but a close second is a group-transportation platform that meeting and event planners may want to know about if they don’t already: CharterUp. 5000, an Inc.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

What if you could go back in time and see what you thought then would be different in the meetings industry a decade later? 3, All-electronic signage, all-electronic program books with voice activation to get attendees from meeting to meeting. All meeting rooms will have technology in them permanently to save on sets and resets.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 26, 2020

The Convention Centre Dublin (The CCD) is an inspirational setting for meetings with fantastic views of the city. The award-winning venue has 22 multi-functional, flexible rooms, suitable for meetings, conferences and exhibitions up to 8,000 delegates. Contact Details: Adrienne Clarke, Head of Conference Sales. W: www.theccd.ie

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Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2023

Before this position, Patterson was executive chef of the property since 2017, after joining the team as executive sous chef in 2013. The post Smart Moves: Food and Beverage appeared first on Smart Meetings. David Patterson Patterson is vice president of food and beverage at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Pan Gongsheng, vice governor of the People’s Bank of China, told a financial meeting over the weekend that Bitcoin is a bubble waiting to burst, like “tulip mania” in the 1600s and the dot-com crash. Meeting planners can potentially save money by paying in Bitcoin. Why Do We Need It? Why is this important? The Bottom Line Here?

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

Oklahoma City is using influencer marketing in the form of a travel-writing team who will highlight the city’s leisure attractions — and is also bolstering its meetings portfolio with a new convention center. But despite all of these shiny new additions, the one thing the CVB keeps hearing from meeting planners is, why Oklahoma City?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

She began with the Marriott brand in 2007 at Renaissance Vinoy Resort & Golf Club and excelled in a number of positions before moving to Tampa Marriott Water Street in 2013. Read More: Smart Moves in Las Vegas, New York and More The post Smart Moves in Hawaii, Half Moon Bay and More appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 31, 2022

That success is a product of the judges who have ordered ETA submissions since 2013. Their contemporary tech nous is a core component in the awards’ reputation.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Until January of this year, Martin was partner events manager for RingCentral, and before that, she was senior meeting manager for National Conference of State Legislatures, both in Denver. The post 9 Smart Moves in London, Dallas and More appeared first on Smart Meetings. Stacey Kokosinski. Salinas moved to the U.S. Markus Laahanen.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2019

Those attributes, along with sustainability efforts that made it the European Green Capital back in 2013, have regularly placed Nantes at the top of lists of the best cities to live in. What used to be another French second-tier city is now a vibrant destination driven by innovation and knowledge.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 21, 2017

Meeting professionals are tasked with making sure the audio of presentations is clear , that there’s no feedback and that it is at a comfortable volume—but what about the attendees who live in silence? The child was ecstatic after meeting the characters because he didn’t know they would speak ‘his language,’” a rep for the group told KABC-TV.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Charlotte Hammerbeck, Director, Meetings Technology at GSK. As Director, Meetings Technology, Charlotte Hammerbeck drives the use of systems and processes to simplify and improve the way GSK plans and delivers its events across the organisation. Michael Shapiro, Editor, Technology, Northstar Meetings Group. Areas of interest.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 29, 2019

on a Friday afternoon in February 2013. People were enthusiastic about the concept, but in 2013, the number of people using the platform to complete braindates was low. I looked at the clock: 4:45 p.m. Then came the call: “Let’s bring braindates to C2.”.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Company name: Visualizer Founded: 10 th January 2013 Web address: www.visualizergroup.com. About: Visualizer provides a customisable virtual sales tour for meeting hotels and event venues. Type of events served: Conferences Meetings Weddings Hotels and venues. An example link: [link]. Areas of interest. Brand Events.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As anyone that plans meetings for a living will tell you; there is a powerful connection between good health and diet. 2013 isn’t the first year the trend of healthful eating has hit the event and meeting industry and it surely won’t be the last. And I’m not being naive when it comes to meetings and healthy foods.

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