SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Meeting professionals have always shouldered a hefty bag of tricks to fix the jagged edges that emerge at even the most meticulously polished events. Today, though, even veteran meeting organizers face Code Red calamities previously unimaginable. Right now, those sorts of challenges are popping up at events all over the world.

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Event Industry News

JULY 8, 2020

Due to a significant reduction in demand for events due to the pandemic, nearly half of all those surveyed (40%) implied that the business they are involved in may not exist in its current form within the next 6-12 months and urged that alterations to the realignment of their costs are imperative in order to stay afloat.

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Event Leadership Institute

AUGUST 28, 2020

August 28, 2020 – As planning for modified in-person events for 2021 begins, planners are left wondering how attendees feel about attending on-site events – including the health protocols and procedures that will make them feel safe. Pandemic Meeting & Event Design Certificate.

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Event Leadership Institute

AUGUST 26, 2020

Taiwan’s early enactment of strong procedures and protocols spared the island of large COVID case numbers seen elsewhere around the globe, which is one significant factor in the rapid return to large-scale events. The online certificate course is designed to provide planners with the resources to implement safer event design.

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Attendease

JANUARY 21, 2021

This eloquently sums up what 2021 will need as we return to live events. When we emerge from our government-imposed cocoons, we are less likely to find participants content with trends that meet pop culture standards but rather will shift and seek those that tie into the deeper values they have put to the test over this past year.

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Event Leadership Institute

AUGUST 13, 2020

“Until we meet again.”. But event and meetings pros have been saying this since the pandemic began – longing for the days to be back together, doing what they love. And it isn’t just event and meeting pros who feel this way – eight in ten who are working from home miss in-person events.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Highlights included experiential activations designed to inspire what comes next in designing better meetings. And Marriott partnered with Google on The NEU Project to pioneer ways to design more neuro-diverse-friendly events. And a bright, tropical design freshened the halls and meeting spaces.

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Event Leadership Institute

JANUARY 14, 2022

In 2021, ELI continued to lead the way in helping the event industry adapt to the constant changes being thrown at us, by curating new resources, sharing key insights and strategies, and developing training content to drive the upskilling needed to continue to prove the value of our events, our jobs, and our teams.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Highlights included experiential activations designed to inspire what comes next in designing better meetings. And Marriott partnered with Google on The NEU Project to pioneer ways to design more neuro-diverse-friendly events. And a bright, tropical design freshened the halls and meeting spaces.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 14, 2018

Each year, along with the numbers we collect for the annual Meetings Market Survey , we ask respondents open-ended questions, including this one: What’s the biggest challenge facing the meetings industry?”. A lot of associations rely on events as an income stream and their viability is affected by the increase of events in the market.

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The MICE

MARCH 11, 2021

Christel Sieling, Director of Operations at Odyssey, shared how they’ve pivoted their live hackathon, called Momentum, into a virtual format in 2020. In the beginning, we looked at what was on the market and saw that many online event platforms attempt to mimic real life. And we really wanted to bring that online.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Welcome to another episode of #EventIcons, and this time around we’re talking 2020 event tech trends! If you know Endless, you know we love talking about event tech. In recent past episodes, we covered several 202o trends in the industry, including marketing and design. ” 2020 Event Tech Trends: 5G.

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Attendease

MARCH 16, 2021

We can see a shift in event management processes that may persevere longer than the pandemic itself. Here are 5 trends that are transforming – and enhancing – meetings and events. As we change the way we host events, out of necessity, we have learned new ways to innovate. And that may not all be bad news.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

in meeting and event management. Most meeting professionals are familiar with Certified Meeting Planner certification, which was launched in 1985 by Washington, D.C.-based based Events Industry Council (EIC). One aspect of the industry you won’t learn much about yet in the CMP curriculum is the virtual meeting.

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EventSource

MARCH 11, 2021

Brittany and Karan Photo Courtesy of Christine Lim Photography “We were originally planning a 150-person wedding in July 2020. We were already so happy to have Iris of Blue Lavender Events planning our wedding, but that was amplified even further when it came to pivoting for the pandemic.

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Planning Pod

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

FYI … We are not affiliated with our competitors Tripleseat or Caterease and so are not entitled to speak for them, and everything in this post is based on our opinion and a good faith effort to provide a fair comparison of these venue event management software products. Sales Documents & Tools (Proposals, Contracts, etc.).

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Event Leadership Institute

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

KEY TAKEAWAYS: Racial inequality in the meeting and event industry is not an issue for Black people to solve alone—it will take New roles such as diversity and inclusion officers can help set goals and measure progress. April Goff Senior Associate, Events & Meetings, KPMG Connect with April on LinkedIn. April Goff. “We

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Event Leadership Institute

MARCH 17, 2021

In Part Two of this series where I focused on in-person events, I talked about the difficult—but necessary—contraction on the supply side (at venues, hotels, and other suppliers) to deal with the dramatic drop in demand. 2020 was a free-for-all in hiring virtual event providers. Increased Competition Brings Lower Prices.

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