Conferences that Work

JANUARY 15, 2024

There he “was surprised a few minutes in when they told us we were being watched at that moment by cameras which were analyzing our age, gender, and emotions” A March 2023 Skift Meetings post “ The Ethics of Facial Analysis for Events ” by Dylan Monorchio covered the issues involved. ” on Medium.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

I’m indebted to Martin Sirk for sharing remarkable information about an 1828 conference designed by the German geographer, naturalist, and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Unlike previous such events at which scientists had endlessly presented papers about their own work, Humboldt put together a very different programme.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2024

After a four-year gap due to the COVID pandemic, we eagerly returned to Anguilla for a two-week vacation. We love this tiny Caribbean island and have taken a welcome break from Vermont winter for fifteen years. I have written many posts about lessons from Anguilla gleaned during our visits, and this trip uncovered more.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 20, 2023

Yes, you , you know who you are. George Meyer , My Undoing: Obsessed with conferences , The New Yorker, May 28, 2007 Of course, every good meeting planner is fixated on the details of the events we plan. . We consider the minutest aspects of the logistics and every minute of the run of show. Hey, meeting planners!

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Well, there’s nothing unusual about that; it happens frequently. While I love to do this, the requests are often silent about something important. That’s why we have introduced a new format, “Meet the Experts” for our 2023 show.’ BUT THIS TIME I GET TO PAY FOR THE PRIVILEGE! No, you pay us!

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Conferences that Work

JULY 25, 2022

Event professionals: it’s time to talk about COVID, duty of care, and the meeting industry. Actually, we should all have been talking about this for the last couple of years, but better late than never. We’ve known since mid-2019 that COVID-19 spreads by airborne aerosol transmission. As I write this, the BA.5

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Over the last 13 years as a lead sponsor, Adobe has leveraged the festival as a platform to merge product announcements with events and CSR missions to help tell a cohesive story about its brand and mission. 18, we hopped on a call with Freeland to talk program strategy, engagement and advice for fellow brand marketers making the trek.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2024

She loved everything about the business. But she noticed that while it was largely women who did the work, planning events, coordinating with hotels, even cleaning the rooms, opportunities for women in leadership were few and far between. Hear what attendees said about the 2023 Smart Woman Summit.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 7, 2024

Agency: 160over90) We spoke with Tonia Constable, vp-global marketing partnerships: sports, entertainment and brands at Marriott International, who offered insight into the brand’s activations across the NFL season, recent Super Bowl experiences and its growing year-round portfolio of partnerships with Formula 1, college sports and soccer leagues.

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Event Marketer

APRIL 11, 2024

based so that we could create a local, deep community and start creating city chapters. So this is the launch of a nationwide expansion that we’re taking this year,” says Sharon Yi, svp-brand solutions at Future. “We’re We need those in-person touchpoints. We need to create community with people that are around us.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 5, 2024

Q: What inspires you about the hospitality industry? We have the opportunity to impact people’s lives every day, whether it’s our guests, our team members or the community. We have the opportunity to play a key role in the fulfilment of other people’s lives. A: We can really be creative in the pop-culture brands.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Virginia Beach’s agricultural industry tells a story beyond economics Every morning David Trimmer wakes up thinking about the viability, sustainability and growth of the agricultural industry in Virginia Beach. We started producing our wineries. We’re doing the same thing on agriculture side. We got a story to tell here.”

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

While these methods may not work for every single meeting you organize, whether you are in charge of large conventions or small meetings, taking the opportunity to get to know your attendees and sharing insights about them with your audience can create great dynamics and prove to be a positive experience for all involved.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 20, 2024

Where Certified Meeting Professionals gather, connection and innovation flourish From March 11-13, 2024, events industry professionals who hold the esteemed Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) designation gathered in Toronto at the Fairmont Royal York. One topic in particular came up again and again: how do we connect, really ?

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EventMB

MAY 31, 2022

“Disability is not a monolith – someone who has experience with one will not necessarily have it with others,” said Samantha Evans, certification manager for the International Association of Accessibility Professionals. We have to do a lot more asking and do a deeper dive,” said Evans. Transportation.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 23, 2024

To level the playing field during the day-long event, name badges did not include titles for the 250 women who gathered in the nation’s capital at Walter E. “It was a safe space to come together, be themselves and talk freely without being judged,” said Marsha Flanagan, new president of the organization founded almost 100 years ago.

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Event Marketer

DECEMBER 18, 2023

“What we learned this year is that folks really do like in-person experiences, as a lot of our community works remotely and works from home. We hosted AfroTech Conference in Austin, TX, the first week in November, with 20,000 attendees citywide. Why do attendees get excited about going to this event?

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 26, 2024

I think we have something really unique and special here.” Can we sell it? Can we grow it for groups? Can we sell it to individuals?” I love to see the outcome of what we’ve shared with everybody when it comes to health and wellness. “I It’s about feeling good about your body and mind.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 23, 2024

Emily Laufgraben Emily Laufgraben, Maritz market insights manager, noticed a vacuum in behavioral data about what is driving people from diverse industries to register for events post-Covid. There seems to be this real disconnect between the set of rules that we’ve operated under as an industry and how attendees are actually behaving.”

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The Castle Group

APRIL 22, 2024

Joe Curtatone, former Mayor of Somerville, and President of the Northeast Clean Energy Council (NECEC), joins Deanna LeBlanc, The Castle Group’s VP of Public Relations and Crisis Communications, for a conversation about effectively communicating in the energy sector. When we’re not clear what is factually incorrect becomes the truth.

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Expo Pass

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In this article, we’re going to cover 5 essential things to think about when it’s time to calculate those ticket prices. Think about the goals you have for your upcoming events and brand overall. We know it can cost a pretty penny to make all of the magic happen – including the event venue, staff, marketing, and more.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 29, 2024

Where we see the most implementation is in classrooms, and it’s specifically focused on using creativity to help kids learn across subjects,” she says. This is not about artistry; this is not about art class. It’s about using creativity to engage kids and help them learn across core subjects.

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ePly

APRIL 18, 2024

At A2Z Events, we simplify event registration to encourage more sign-ups. Below, we’ve listed several strategies you can use to increase your event registration. The more your audience knows about your event, the more they’ll know about how your event will benefit them. Consult with SMEs. Convene focus groups.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The Honors Gala is meant to “honor and acknowledge our community,” Moore told Convene , “but it’s really about inspiration” — particularly inspiring the next generation of association professionals. We are blessed to have former leaders still actively involved in Forum activities. How do we storyboard this now?

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Event Marketer

MARCH 27, 2024

So we asked Alice Milligan, cmo at Morgan Stanley, for insights into the new sponsorship strategy and how it plays into broader business objectives. The journey is guided by longtime Morgan Stanley brand ambassador and 11-time PGA Tour winner Justin Rose, who provides exclusive commentary for each moment.

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Coterie Spark

APRIL 3, 2024

You get to keep enjoying the show while we handle business backstage. What kind of business do we handle, you ask? We produced a conference for 250 guests where a famous singer was set to perform in the evening. It was late in the day by now, so we dropped EVERYTHING and called everybody.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 12, 2023

Only 1 percent of respondents to a Freeman survey said they preferred celebrity speakers to those who had something relevant to say to their groups. Whatever Media Group) Event organizers who are considering straining their budgets to hire celebrity speakers — or who feel pressure to do so — may want to think again.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Economic, cultural, and technological issues are impacting who makes it onto the podium at meeting and conventions. Overall, meeting professionals seem less confident about this year compared to their sentiment over the past couple of years. . Also, she says that “we’re expecting a shift in how we approach DEI topics this year.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Illustration by Ellen Weinstein) Dan Lyons is a New York Times bestselling author who has spent much of his career covering technology for Forbes and Newsweek. That itself is kind of a superpower — to be someone who goes through life making the lives of the people around them better in little ways, and honestly getting better information.”

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Event Marketer

MARCH 21, 2024

“We wanted to take advantage of this once-a-year opportunity to reach such a large-scale, diverse audience to drive awareness and buzz for Shipt, but importantly, in service of creating connection with consumers. To dig deeper into the strategy, we sat down with Stadd to gather tips on going guerrilla at a global tentpole.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Don’t Neglect AI In DMA West’ s first general session, “Your Introduction to AI for Tourism & Hospitality,” Brian Matson, senior director of strategy and education of full-service tourism marketing agency TwoSix Digital , began with a story about the discovery of the early internet’s ability to connect people. “I

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 25, 2024

I am saying this out loud because there are a lot of people in a similar situation to me who do not have the platform or comfort to say such things. In 2019, they began including a frustration of purpose clause when “we started seeing these really egregious state laws,” said Nneka St. We had what we thought were guardrails,” St.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 1, 2024

These destination partners are dedicated event professionals who have expert local knowledge of their areas and can connect meeting producers with the resources they need to meet their strategic goals. We are an extension of your team,” says Amberlee Huggins, DCMP, and chief marketing officer of CSI DMC. “We

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

But when we find that we’re feeling stressed more often than not, we could face serious effects on our physical and mental health, our work and our quality of life. People who experience high levels of stress are also more likely to experience depression or anxiety disorders and even engage in addictive behavior.

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APRIL 12, 2024

That is why we need mentors who are father down the road in their career,” or perhaps younger mentors who are savvy about technology or the motivations and communication styles of their cohorts. For an industry that often seems invisible, GMID is its annual coming-out party. Which delivery/service model should be used?

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 20, 2024

Cohen, a partner at Cohen, Cooper, Estep & Allen LLC, who specializes in entertainment, criminal defense and hospitality law, to chat about what planners should consider adding to their contracts in 2024. If there’s a problem you need to know who you can go to on the property, not just your initial contact,” says Cohen.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 26, 2024

And these are intuitively easy-to-understand products, but it is important to have that ‘first great sip,’ we like to call it, to build that advocacy and to make people believers in the proposition. What we’re seeing about our consumer, broadly, is that it’s people who are moderating.

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