Smart Meetings

APRIL 1, 2022

How do you make virtual meetings immersive? Can a hybrid meeting deliver the same—or more—impact than a contained ballroom? Hubilo demonstrated the answer to these and other questions in its Mastering Immersive Experiences (MIX) 2022 hybrid event this week. Meeting professionals have the power of data. Then she paused. “If

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 1, 2022

How do you make virtual meetings immersive? Can a hybrid meeting deliver the same—or more—impact than a contained ballroom? Hubilo demonstrated the answer to these and other questions in its Mastering Immersive Experiences (MIX) 2022 hybrid event this week. Meeting professionals have the power of data. Then she paused. “If

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Expo Pass

JANUARY 26, 2022

This year is looking to be jam-packed with live events, all-new event technologies, and more ways to meet and connect than ever before. So to help you out, these are our top 5 nightmare scenarios and everything you can do to sleep easy in 2022. Keep in mind, as we get back to in-person events, there may be more devices on the system.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Winning Best Hybrid Event at this year’s Event Tech Awards 2022 marked a significant milestone in WBCSD’s journey with both their agency partner 2Heads and in the way their events communicate their vision. Proving that the creative marriage of technology and events can create sustainable results that benefit business and people.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The system will cost travelers as well, although the site’s FAQ sheet says that the amount has not yet been determined. Meeting Planners Takeaway: Consider that the cost may be anywhere from $15-25 (or possibly more) and that as the system rolls out, electronic delays or snafus are possible.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Among brands embracing the micro-event trend of 2022 is Subaru, which has reimagined its WinterFest platform as a music and mountain lifestyle adventure tour featuring small, curated and high-touch experiences under the umbrella of its large presence at eight resorts across the country. Agency: Powdr.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Experts weigh in on what needs to change to work together better Editor’s Note : Hospitality sales consultant Steve Steinhart will be speaking at Smart Meetings Extraordinary Experience in Monterey, California, Nov. If all the meetings that we have re-scheduled for 2024 come through, we will show a very nice gain in the group market.”

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2022

Gareth Warnock, Group Sales Director at De Vere, a collection of historic mansion house estates and distinctive contemporary hotels and event destinations, has shared the key factors he believes will shape the meetings and events industry in 2022. Go on a Workcation. The pandemic has created a new holiday trend – the ‘workcation’.

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SpotMe Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The timeline for your event or meeting strategy are key as well. a pre-meeting survey. Likewise, with your town hall meeting , you may want a simpler tool. Internal meeting tools. Integration exist for CRM, marketing automation systems, and other event registration systems. a calendar invite. an event site.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Rebranded in October but operating under the same umbrella for six months plus, the STOVA amalgam is the ‘definitive event technology eco-system’, its tech providing for everything from meetings management and registration to analytics and reporting. A perfect standard for ETL 2022’s own broad agenda.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Next Friday the 25th and Saturday the 26th of November 2022 the second edition of the Future of Festivals will take place in the Arena Berlin. It is the industry meeting for all organizers, service providers, associations, decision makers and trainees from the festival sector. FOF Innovation Award 2022 for ventures and festivals.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Wyboston Lakes Resort is delighted to be shortlisted in the Greengage 2022 Sustainability Awards for Sustainability Initiative of the Year – accommodation and meetings venues. These also dramatically improve the quality of air in the meetings spaces and many public areas.”. business.

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ePly

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

List of Enhancements Company Dashboard: Meet your new home base. The post November 2022 Platform Updates appeared first on GTR™. In our latest release, we’re introducing an event creation wizard, revitalized company dashboard, badge builder, emails templates, and more. Visit our Knowledge Base to learn more about our latest release.

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EncoreAPAC

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

What's hot from CES 2022. January 2022 saw the in-person return of one of the most exciting technology symposiums, Consumer Electronics Show (CES). An overhead projector, Lamp+ uses a proprietary operating system to accommodate a minimalist interface for touch interactions without physical inputs. Learn more at Abusizz.ch.

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EventSource

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Suffice to say 2022 was quite the boom year for the wedding planning industry. Reviews | 20 Blog mentions Photos Courtesy of Liza Litvinovich “Jamie and Dean’s beautiful wedding at Fairmont Royal York was one of our favourites from 2022. We wouldn’t have had it any other way. .”

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All Seated

JANUARY 21, 2022

While the last two years have been nearly impossible to predict, there is a sense of cautious optimism about what 2022 will bring. . For event technology companies, 2022 is the year to growth. “It’s We will see more technology improvements being introduced in 2022 – and we at Allseated are not planning to slow down.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Here’s our report from September 29, “ Hurricane Ian Damages Florida’s Peak Meetings Season.”. For some winning suggestions, read “ Comfortable Shoes for the Show Floor: 2022 Edition ” from October 4. In 2022, the resort story that grabbed the most attention was about the 1,200-room VAI Resort in Glendale, Ariz., Gating level.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

As the Asia Pacific region broadly reopened over the second half of 2022, travel demand from the region to Europe is likely to rebound in 2023 said the study. Arrivals from this market to Europe are 25% below 2019 levels in 2022 and are expected to recover 82% of 2019 volumes in 2023. arrivals exceed 2019 levels. More than 100,000 sq.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 27, 2023

DOT Announces Investigation into Southwest Holiday Chaos The Department of Transportation (DOT) announced an investigation this Wednesday into Southwest Airlines’ chaotic holiday weekend in December 2022. The post Meeting Planners Travel Report: DOT to Dig Into Southwest Airlines Holiday Chaos appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 20, 2023

Smart Meetings selected a few of the top mentions to highlight initiatives and event spaces that are working to keep the Earth clean and green. of event space, which includes 62 meeting rooms and a 58,000 sq. The Omni operates a food waste recycling system. The Summit totals 563,770 sq. column free and divisible ballroom space.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 1, 2024

A meeting professional’s responsibilities are far reaching, but they haven’t typically required knowledge of the host hotel’s guest-room door keycard system. The vulnerability was revealed at a hackers convention in late 2022, but as Wired magazine recently reported, Dormakaba has only fixed 36 percent of the locks to date.

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Ins'Tent

APRIL 4, 2022

After two years of dreadful virtual business meetings and events, we can finally resume normalcy and attend face-to-face events. If you’re looking to attend or exhibit at a trade show this year, here is a list of the 11 Top 2022 trade shows in the US that you want to watch out for: . When: April 15- 24, 2022. Automotive .

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Even as in-person meetings continue to reemerge with a vengeance, virtual meetings have taken a primary position in the event professional toolbox. Yes, hybrid meetings are more complicated and costly, but virtual is here to stay without a doubt,” he said. A More Customer-focused Virtual Environment. “We The Back-up Plan.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 30, 2023

NYC & Company Rebrands, Adds ‘Conventions’ to Name NYC & Company, the CVB for Gotham has rebranded as New York City Tourism + Conventions, adding the “conventions” to hit home the value the city has for meeting planners. Meeting Planners Takeaway New York City Tourism + Conventions morphing out of NYC&Co.

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Attendease

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If you are running a corporate event, be it a sales expo, networking meeting, trade show, or conference, it’s vital that you understand the possible vulnerabilities within your event management infrastructure. This means first making a list of any exploitative weak points in your tech systems. Staff training and awareness are crucial.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

After I talked about my meeting design work with pioneer tester James Bach at the 2004 Amplifying Your Effectiveness conference, the testing community somehow adopted the term peer conference for their get-togethers. The 2022 SoCraTes peer conference. Martin (he/him) (@md42) August 25, 2022. Keeping participants safe.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The American Society of Anesthesiologists’ ANESTHESIOLOGY 2022 was held in person in New Orleans. Both ASA’s 2021 and 2022 meetings were held in person in San Diego and New Orleans, respectively, and ANESTHESIOLOGY 2023 will convene Oct. This is the first in a series of stories from the January/February issue of Convene.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 22, 2024

How planners can safeguard their attendees against hotel room breaches In 2022, at a private event in Las Vegas during “hacker summer camp,” as the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences have come to be known, a group of researchers found a flaw that could put millions of hotel rooms around the world at risk of being breached.

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Eventscase Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

October marks the beginning of the last quarter of the year and it’s almost mind-boggling when it seems like yesterday when we eagerly kick-started 2022. On November 15th to 17th, we are happy to announce that we will be at Event Tech Live 2022 in London. Shelley Batey, Completely Events Ltd.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 23, 2023

And last year, by November 2022, U.S. We also need to have real-time, real-person communication when a system breaks down like in the Southwest situation. That system failure left consumers stranded without any information and no one to talk to. In this kind of a massive shutdown, we need a better communication system.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 22, 2024

Following the repeal of Roe v Wade in 2022, 58 bills were enacted in the U.S. Ron DeSantis enacted five laws that banned the discussion of systemic racism in schools and prohibited institutions from spending federal or state dollars on DEI programs, among other actions. And across the U.S.,

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Smart Meetings

JULY 1, 2021

Travel Association believes professional meetings and events (PME) suffer from being lumped in with other gatherings—and is working to change that. Travel Association has kicked off its “ Let’s Meet There ” campaign, unveiled at MPI’s WEC 2021 , to further propel the comeback of PMEs. Currently, about 35 percent of U.S. The post U.S.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

After two years of testing streaming platforms, meeting professionals are asking for more comprehensive solutions and a number of event technology companies have risen to the challenge. How it impacts you: Automated back-end processes allow you to better manage speakers, sponsors, staff and meetings. Cvent: New Vendor Marketplace.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Attendees can expect to meet with industry leading suppliers and manufacturers ahead of what is shaping up to be an incredibly busy 2022. Along with the industry staples and regular exhibitors you’d expect to meet at the show, there’s a whole host of innovative product launches and new exhibitors.

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Nunify

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Big players across industries have already planned some really exciting ‘virtual’ and ‘hybrid’ events for 2022. 2022 has events lined up in both ‘virtual’ and ‘hybrid’ formats to cater to the interests of a wide audience. Top Tech Events in 2022. Date: 19th- 20th April 2022. Date: 3-7 January 2022.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Smart Meetings reached out to our esteemed editorial advisory board to ask what they are grateful for during this transition year and how they demonstrate it personally and professionally. 2022 has been a year of transitions. As always, their thoughtful responses left us inspired. Jenn Artura. Founder, Jenn Artura Consulting LLC.

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EventMB

MAY 22, 2022

Make It Easy to Buy: Implement a Meeting Room. Creating a meeting space in your booth is an awesome way to hold your attendees’ attention and give them the opportunity to speak with you in a private setting. Bonus tip: allow and encourage attendees to make appointments to speak with your team in the meeting room.

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