Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

We outlined the first 10 things you need to kill — from making your annual business meeting part of your general session to promoting invitation-only events — in order to bring your meeting up to speed. Everyone knows what meeting they’re attending, and those templates tend to contribute to more blah decks.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 9, 2018

Over the last five years I’ve heard increasing concern from the meeting professionals community about the deterioration of the quality of our national industry conferences. I’ll illustrate with the area where I have most experience: providing education at these meetings.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Speaker diversity continues to be a hot topic in the meetings and events industry. On average, across different types of events, more than two-thirds — 69 percent — of speakers were male, while less than one-third were female. The speakers and specific events they spoke at remain anonymous. “We

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 15, 2024

Should the event industry embrace facial analysis — a technology that promises to offer new analytic data to event stakeholders? Here’s a short introduction to these technologies, and how the meeting industry is starting to use them. In 2017, Apple introduced Face ID to unlock its phones and authenticate payments.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Meetings don’t look how they used to. Today, planners are racing to adapt to trends that make conferences and events more engaging and dynamic than ever before. But when it comes to trends, where should meeting industry professionals put their focus? Here are five meeting industry trends that are changing the game.

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Canadian Special Events

AUGUST 4, 2017

Last year was a watershed moment for event planning. Traditional events rapidly gave way to experience planning as more event planners and organizers started recognizing that events need to be more than just a series of workshops and speakers. Let’s take a look at what the rest of 2017 has in store.

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Eventinterface

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Eventinterface has been selected as one of the finalist for the renowned Tech Watch Awards by ibtm, the leading exhibition for the meetings industry. The winner will be announced at ibtm world 2017, hosted in Barcelona, Spain, November 28 to 30. We simplify the many tasks you must do as a meeting planner.

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Eventinterface

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Eventinterface has been selected as one of the finalist for the renowned Tech Watch Awards by ibtm, the leading exhibition for the meetings industry. The winner will be announced at ibtm world 2017, hosted in Barcelona, Spain, November 28 to 30. We simplify the many tasks you must do as a meeting planner.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Change is imminent — and in the meetings industry, it’s upon us. From more engaging, holistic experiences to the the bold new expectations of “bleisure,” event planners and suppliers are racing to adapt in an industry that’s as dynamic as it’s ever been. Millennials are the decision makers now.

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Eventinterface

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Eventinterface has been selected as one of the finalist for the renowned Tech Watch Awards by ibtm, the leading exhibition for the meetings industry. The winner will be announced at ibtm world 2017, hosted in Barcelona, Spain, November 28 to 30. We simplify the many tasks you must do as a meeting planner. About Eventinterface.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

If you’re a meeting planner and you happened to book your next gathering in a small village in France, you’re in sync with the top meeting trends for 2017, according to Pacific World’s 2017 Annual Destination Index. Top 9 Trending Meeting Destinations. 10 Top Meetings Trends. 10 Top Meetings Trends.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 18, 2017

Conference Professionals Become Choice Architects Not Just Curators Of Content Or Schedulers of Speakers. Instead of starting the conference planning process with the call for speakers, these maverick conference pros and their planning teams start by identifying the source of friction in their participants’ professional lives.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

To protect, update, and motivate your organization, the in-demand speakers for 2017 will be those who can shed light on the new administration, the changing workforce, and growing risks both online and globally. Who is apropos for your podium this year? read more.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Predictably, big trends impact all industries—including event planning. These are some of the hottest event-planning buzzwords of 2017. Virtual reality (VR) can be used during the course of event planning. During the event, virtual information booths can answer basic questions from attendees. Virtual reality.

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Connect Your Meetings

MAY 4, 2017

Event professionals are the ultimate puzzle solvers. To most, the idea of putting together a set of dates, a venue, a program, a speaker lineup, an education schedule, food and beverage orders, audiovisual packages, marketing materials and more is overwhelming, to say the least. 26 • Meeting Services Specialist. Eduardo Arabu.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 16, 2017

This week, ASAE built buzz for its upcoming annual meeting and exposition by announcing the event’s keynote and game-changing speakers. The 2017 ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition will come to Toronto August 12–15. We are excited for this year’s meeting in Toronto.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Sponsorships are the lifeline that keeps the events industry sustainable. An important aspect of event management is finding the right sponsors who can provide the right financial assistance needed to pull off a big event, in exchange for brand exposure. Why Event Sponsorships Are Valuable. What's an event planner to do?

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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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SmartMeetings

MARCH 1, 2017

Last week, Smart Meetings announced the winners of the second annual Smart Women in Meetings Awards. This week, we’re announcing the marquee event that honors these exceptional women: Smart Woman Summit. The summit is a very special opportunity for women in the meeting-planning industry to unite for an empowering event.

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GEVME

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Taking an active part in growing the MICE industry in the APAC region, we continue to cover the critical event industry events across the region. Today we have a story about Be @ Penang event. Malaysia’s most prominent business events conference returns for the fourth edition this December at the Setia SPICE Convention Centre.

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The Expo Group

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Welcome to the October 2017 edition of the Exposure Podcast from The Expo Group produced and hosted by Dana Freker Doody and Todd Carruth. In this month's podcast, Dana and Todd discuss event security and EMSSI, The Exhibitions and Meetings Safety and Security Initiative. And hopefully, you listen as well.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When we invited event professionals to participate in this Annual Meetings Market Survey in November, the U.S. Similarly, the chief indicators of the business-events industry continued to reflect a healthy economic environment, with mostly positive increases. 2017 attendance vs. 2016 attendance — +3.6 percent vs. +4.6

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2019

Attendees who want more from their meetings don’t want to sit and listen passively to a formal presentation. Welcome to the era of disrupted meetings, in good company with other industries and institutions whose established norms are being taken down to the studs. They have expectations of involvement. FLIPPED LEARNING.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 10, 2021

Entrepreneur, public speaker, author and current board member of the European Advisory Council of Meetings Professional International. Mariska has more than 20years working experience in tourism and the meetings and events industry. Passionate about storytelling, Mariska founded her company Word of MICE in 2017.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Photo from Play with a Purpose Room, Smart Monday of IMEX 2017. IMEX America launched its 2017 event in Las Vegas with a full schedule of educational content—powered by MPI —for the 1,000 planners who arrived on Monday, a day before the show opened. How People Think is as Important as What They Think. We Learn by Touching.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

According to the results of the Decision to Attend Study, the destination is the second most important factor in determining whether to register for a meeting or event. Plenty of event organizers use pre- and post-meeting experiences as additional selling points to nudge prospective attendees to register and make the trip.

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Hubilo Blog

MARCH 7, 2020

This International Women’s Day, we would like to raise a toast to the empowerment and diversity in our events industry. They may be event tech enthusiasts, event planners , event speakers , but all of them are influencers for event enthusiasts and followers. She even launched her own events agency DAHLIA+.

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zkipster

MARCH 8, 2022

Olivia Robinson is a native Londoner and English speaker. “My other loves are art, culture and events, so my next role was a dream come true: volunteer and workforce management for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. “I brought zkipster to the V&A , and loved using the product as an event planner.

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Social Tables

DECEMBER 27, 2018

What does it mean to be a part of the events industry in 2019? Meetings are growing and evolving rapidly, and each is an experiment in applying new methods to find a perfect formula. For venues and planners, that means looking into the crystal ball to get ahead of event trends and expectations. Well for starters, don’t blink.

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Plan Your Meetings

MAY 30, 2017

There remains a litany of conferences for meeting and event professionals to receive education and valuable networking throughout the duration of 2017. Following are highlights, including events with hosted buyer programs (*), which can reduce or limit the cost of a planners’ attendance. CONFEC blue *. ibtm America *.

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GEVME

DECEMBER 24, 2018

If you want to organise a corporate event that is widely spoken about and unforgettable, you will need to utilise some unusual event format ideas or innovative event ideas. You should carefully consider the format of the event since the format will determine the final product. Start-up events. For business events.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 20, 2017

In addition to data about quantifiable things like the size, frequency, costs, and types of meetings, our Annual Meetings Market Survey also captures a wealth of data in the form of comments in response to a series of open-ended questions. In terms of your job, what is at the top of your wish list for 2017? For this week: .

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Eventory

JUNE 28, 2018

Reading Time: 9 minutes It is a struggle of many event organizers to help attendees in effective networking at events. One of the common goals at events is to make new business connections and event organizers do their best to make this goal easily achievable for their attendees.

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Plan Your Meetings

JULY 30, 2018

That may be the first sentence a potential attendee hears from her boss when asking to attend a conference, training or networking event. based Eisenstodt Associates, a meeting consulting, facilitation and training company. Microsoft is not alone in helping their attendees justify the meeting to their higher ups.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

So, you want to plan an event. Take the event planning process one step at a time. How about you start with creating an event timeline? Event timelines help you stay on track and get you excited about the event you’re going to throw together. Event timelines should support you, not weigh you down.

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TicketBud

AUGUST 28, 2023

Event fails come in all shapes and sizes, from minor mishaps to epic messes. When high profile events go wrong, they make the news and we all get to learn from them. Though these mistakes may seem obvious, they happen when proper planning and risk assessments are not at the forefront of the event organizing process.

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Connect Your Meetings

JANUARY 9, 2017

For planners, that means nailing down powerful speakers to drive greater attendance. Here, we play matchmaker for 2017. This event in July is a natural fit, plus it’s in Baltimore—an easy commute from D.C. This event in July is a natural fit, plus it’s in Baltimore—an easy commute from D.C. AGM Event and Conference.

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