To Go or Not to Go – Social Considerations for Association Meetings
MPI
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Deciding where to hold a major conference or meeting has always been driven by a complicated calculus for professional and trade association meeting organizers.
Association Meeting Minutes: The Dos and Don’ts
StraussCA
OCTOBER 21, 2021
One thing all associations have in common is the recording of meeting minutes. Minutes are an official record of actions that the board or committee took at a meeting. Minutes are taken at all meetings whether they are board, committee, or member meetings. Don’t wait to type up the meeting minutes.
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Associations Look to the Future
EventMB
APRIL 19, 2024
Skift Take: Societal transformation and the future of association meetings were the themes an ICCA conference, part of Business Events Industry Week, held in the most apropos setting, ASAE's headquarters. Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings
Scottish cities account for 24% of all major association meetings in the UK
Event Industry News
MAY 15, 2019
Scotland is bucking the trend with the number of major association events held in 2018 up 5% from 2017, despite the UK dropping two places in the latest ICCA Country and City Statistics report for total number of international association meetings. Where ideas become legend”.
How meetings help create connectedness, combat loneliness
MPI
MARCH 5, 2024
In our increasingly digital world, where loneliness and a sense of disconnectedness are prevalent for many people, live events such as business conferences and trade association meetings are becoming more important than ever for human connection and belonging.
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Conference Destinations Compete With Academic Firepower
EventMB
MAY 27, 2022
“We see intellectual capital engagement as a key to success for a meetings destination. The first edition of the report focused only on board members of international associations organizing meetings with 500 attendees or more. The post Conference Destinations Compete With Academic Firepower appeared first on Skift Meetings.
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Something is rotten in the state of meeting industry education
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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22 Types of Networking Events You Can Organize in 2023
Eventmobi
OCTOBER 10, 2023
A networking event is a gathering where people meet to build professional relationships. These events come in many forms from casual meetups in a café to formal conferences. Meeting new people–and learning about their needs–creates opportunities to connect with potential customers or partners Brand building.
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Union of International Associations releases 63rd International Meetings Statistics Report
Event Industry News
JULY 19, 2022
The Report provides two views of a sector continuing to face multiple challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic: data for meetings in the year 2019 are presented in-full, the “last good year” before the crisis, in addition to an analysis of what took place in 2021. Number of international association meetings.
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Peer Conferences Deep Dive—Meeting Doctors transcript and video
Conferences that Work
APRIL 1, 2024
On Tuesday, March 26, 2024 , I sat down with Martin Duffy and Paul Nunesdea on LinkedIn Live for an hour’s deep dive conversation about peer conferences: the participant-driven, participation-rich events I’ve designed and facilitated for over thirty years. Peer Conferences Unveiled—The Transcript! Here it is—enjoy!
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Making Conference Swag Sustainable
PCMA Convene
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
She realized that she needed “to be able to meet our customers where they are” and to pursue “progress over perfection,” she said. “If We very much focus on meeting our customers where they are and being transparent about what we’re doing.”. That was our response to meeting our customers where they were. …
Green Meetings Are Easier to Plan than You Think
Master the Event
NOVEMBER 12, 2023
Here we are assuming that our readers have done their own research and understand the importance of green meetings. Okay, now that I’ve got that off my chest, let’s take a look at how easy it is to make your meeting a little greener. And many meetings are now conducted virtually with the use of video conference calls.
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Union of International Associations releases 62nd International Meetings Statistics Report
Event Industry News
JUNE 22, 2021
The Report provides two views of a sector now facing multiple challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic: data for meetings in the year 2019 are presented in-full, the “last good year” before the crisis, in addition to an analysis of what took place in 2020. . Number of international association meetings.
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Planners Get Straight Talk from Hotel Owners
MeetingsNet
MARCH 29, 2024
At a recent meetings-industry conference, hotel executives explained how their properties struggle to balance rising operational costs with competitive rates for meeting groups. What’s In It for Event Groups?
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Concerns about using facial analysis at events: part two
Conferences that Work
JANUARY 22, 2024
Badge scanning tech is common at meetings. Kamprath and I gave examples of how often the most impactful sessions at meetings—impactful in the sense of changing future behavior rather than entertaining an audience —can be somewhat uncomfortable for participants at the time. What about consent versus notice? Advance notice we love.
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Vienna launches €4 MILLION Meeting Fund
Event Industry News
MAY 5, 2021
The City of Vienna is providing the Vienna Tourist Board and its Vienna Convention Bureau with an additional €4 million to support national and international organisers of meetings held in the city, from 1 May 2021 to 31 December 2023, paving the way for the sector’s growth offering up to €60,000 of funding per event.
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Michael Dominguez to Be Honored for Career of Service
MeetingsNet
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
You can’t make a list of meetings industry thought leaders without including Michael Dominguez, president and CEO of Associated Luxury Hotels International. And when you think about in-demand educators, Dominguez is at the top of that list, too, with his data-driven sessions detailing the meeting and incentive-travel landscape.
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Five Associations Professional Meeting Planners Need to Know
Unique Venues
JANUARY 6, 2022
Five Associations Professional Meeting Planners Need to Know. Have you recently entered the events industry and are looking for associations to join that will help you learn the tricks of the trade? Are you an experienced event planning professional and searching for new associations to become a member of?
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DCMS launches new £250,000 competition for conference venues
Event Industry News
AUGUST 16, 2019
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has today announced the launch of a £250,000 competition to improve broadband connectivity for event venues that have conference facilities. Conferences. It is open for six weeks and will end at 23:59 on Friday 27 th September 2019. The sector is currently worth £32.6
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ABPCO and Lime Venue Portfolio Partner to ask if the industry is ‘Making Legacy A Thing?’
Prestige Events Magazine
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
The Association of British Professional Conference Organisers (ABPCO) has joined forces with Lime Venue Portfolio and The Imperial War Museum London to produce a live discussion on how legacy is changing the way major events are produced. We’re keen to hear the positive stories as well as understand where the pit falls can be.”
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CHS Group Launches CHS Meetings & Events Industry Week
Event Industry News
JULY 8, 2021
The CHS Group, in partnership with the wider West Midland meetings and events industry, has launched a celebratory week for event professionals. CHS is once again collaborating with ICC Birmingham as part of the week long itinerary, but also bringing together the industry’s key trade associations.
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67 Successful Meetings and Conferences Begin in Chicago’s Metro West
Connect Your Meetings
DECEMBER 5, 2016
With more than 2 million square feet of combined meeting space, and nearly 16,000 guest rooms in more than 100 hotels, the professional staff will help you find the perfect fit for your next meeting or event. > Collecting proposals from hotels and meeting facilities matching your criteria. >
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The Power of Purpose is Fueled by Collaboration
Smart Meetings
MARCH 11, 2024
What to expect at Business Events Industry Week 2024 The meetings and events industry calendar is a crowded place, filled with must-attend association conferences, regional gatherings and our own projects, especially in the summer and fall. The group will meet April 9 at ASAE’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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Sign of the Times? GE Sells its Famed Training Facility
MeetingsNet
APRIL 22, 2024
Changes in the work environment and in the next generation’s mindset mean that in-person corporate meetings must be different—but still must happen. In addition to online training, GE will now hold more regional meetings at hotels and other venues that are near the company’s production facilities around the country.
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Scottish Cities flying high in ICCA rankings
Prestige Events Magazine
MAY 31, 2023
Released last week (23 rd May 2023), the latest edition of the annual report tallies the number and location of international in-person association meetings held across the globe in 2022. Glasgow ranks 27 th in the world for number of international association meetings held (54) and Edinburgh ranks 30 th with 52.
German meetings & events sector continues to grow
Event Industry News
MAY 9, 2018
The results of the “Meeting- & EventBarometer 2017/2018” reveal the importance of digitisation and internationalisation for the German meetings, conference and events sector. Attending meetings and conferences also plays an important role for the 2.2 Hybrid meetings flourish. percentage points.
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How Planners Are Celebrating GMID 2022
Smart Meetings
APRIL 6, 2022
Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID), a celebration of everything wonderful about the meetings industry, is kicking off its seventh year with the theme “Meet Safe,” a redux of GMID 2021’s theme. While most events across the globe took place virtually last year, more events are now meeting in person. Advocating Voices.
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Increasing Post-Session Survey Response Rates
PCMA Convene
JANUARY 27, 2023
asked Jennifer Mammele , manager, conference & events, Merchant Advisory Group in the PCMA Catalyst forum. After each session at our conference, we ask attendees to rate the session topic, speakers, length of session, etc. At our recent marketing & sales conference, the audience was comprised of marketing directors and above.
The Eastside Rooms Partners with Watterston Associates
Prestige Events Magazine
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
The Eastside Rooms is continuing to target domestic and international association meetings through a partnership with industry expert Julie Watterston from Watterston Associates. They have a great team and a really good product that association meeting organisers will find easy to work within.
How Will Europe’s New MedTech Guidelines Affect Your Meetings?
PCMA Convene
MAY 3, 2017
based medical conferences — and to continue to do so for years to come. Medical conferences should brace themselves for an impact,” Andrade said. No longer will a conference merely be vetted as in the past — an entire procedural change must take place, she added. Andrade says this won’t be the case for 2018.
8 Low-Cost Tips for Making Conferences More Family-Friendly
SmartMeetings
MAY 14, 2018
Academic conferences are very important to the careers of professors and researchers. Conferences also provide networking opportunities with other professors, publishers, universities and vendors. Attending one, two or three conferences a year can make a huge difference in an academic career. Not just money, but personal costs.
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Destination spotlight Bern, Switzerland: Site visit from 28–30 August 2020 for Event Planners Talk e-conference
The MICE
JANUARY 11, 2021
When the idea to stage an international, multi-day conference in Bern was born back in 2018, we didn’t know how things would turn out, and that we’d need to change our plans upside down. From a four-day live event format, the conference turned into an e-format and was live-streamed from Bern, Switzerland from 28–30 August 2020.
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Lime Venue Portfolio joins ABPCO
Event Industry News
JANUARY 16, 2023
Lime Venue Portfolio is looking to grow its partnerships within the association meetings community by joining ABPCO.
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Berkeley Sets Stage for Meetings by the Bay
Connect Your Meetings
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Featuring a dramatic location on sparkling San Francisco Bay, Berkeley is an inspiring destination for meetings, events, and celebrations. Meetings and conferences gain focus and status from Berkeley’s university-town climate of thought leadership. There’s also the Berkeley bonus.
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Smart Moves in South Carolina, Missouri and More
Smart Meetings
JANUARY 14, 2022
In her prior career, she was executive director for Meet, a South Carolina company, director of sales at Visit Myrtle Beach and convention sales manager for Kingston Plantation Resort. Travel Association, Meetings Mean Business Coalition, PCMA Education Foundation and Chautauqua Institution in New York. Daniel Gibson.
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Does Size Matter for a Convention Center?
Master the Event
DECEMBER 11, 2023
When you think of a convention center, most of us think of a large conference facility in the center of town. At a glance, it appears that these convention centers cater to large groups or associations. See also: Event Planning and the Convention Center Convention Centers and Conference Centers Similar or Different?
Twickenham Introduces Pitch Side Conferencing
Prestige Events Magazine
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
The Ultimate ‘Alfresco Auditorium’ Twickenham Stadium is expanding its conference capacities by offering the stadium’s seating ‘bowl’ for upwards of 1,000 delegates. It also allows the stadium to expand its conference capacity to 3,000, although the stadium bowl seating can comfortably take many more.
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Whittlebury Park reports surge in demand for corporate events
Prestige Events Magazine
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Whittlebury Park luxury hotel, conference centre and golf course in Northamptonshire, experienced a robust growth in enquiries and bookings for corporate meetings and events in August and September this year, 95 per cent more than in May and June. Whittlebury Park now offers an enhanced variety of outdoor meetings and events options.
In-Person Events: Good News and Bad News
MeetingsNet
JULY 7, 2020
Two bodies of research highlight planners’ challenges and potential attendees’ preferences when it comes to meetings. In a late June webinar that drew more than 700 corporate and association meeting planners, 64 percent of attendees responded that they expect their organizations to return to holding in-person events by January 2021.
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LA vs. Paris: Which Olympic City Wins for Meetings?
SmartMeetings
JULY 17, 2017
The Olympics is essentially one of the largest meetings on earth. According to the International Congress and Convention Association’s (ICCA) 2016 rankings, the number- one city for international association meetings is Paris. The Athlete Village will be on the UCLA campus, which has several venues for meetings.
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Lessons for The Great Interruption from Destinations International
SmartMeetings
JULY 15, 2020
Destinations International ’s 2020 Virtual Annual Conference streamed over two days vividly illustrated the challenges and upside of the state of what the organization dubbed The Great Interruption—a pandemic , civil unrest , massive unemployment , a recession and a giant cloud of sand from the Sahara. Make a Difference. Special Recognition.
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ABPCO reveals content for inaugural Festival of Learning
Event Industry News
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
ABPCO (the Association of British Professional Conference Organisers) has announced details of the content line up for the Festival of Learning taking place from 1 st -9 th December, sponsored by GES. Register here – [link]. Registration is open at [link].
CHS Birmingham to partner with The Eastside Rooms
Event Industry News
AUGUST 9, 2021
Since launch, the venue has already hosted a number of high-profile events, including banquets, conferences and smaller meetings. This is such an exciting time for Birmingham and the CHS show couldn’t have come at a better time for us or the city,” commented Leanne Bladen, sales & marketing director, The Eastside Rooms.
A Collective Effort to Address Racism
MeetingsNet
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
Initially developed by SearchWide Global in partnership with Destinations International and the International Association of Venue Managers, the program provides hands-on work experience to ethnically diverse applicants in three career tracks: meetings and events, destination hospitality, and sports. Travel Association.
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