PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Convening Leaders 2022 Main Stage speaker Scott Galloway hopes to inspire participants to find opportunities in the post-pandemic business industry. New York University business professor and New York Times bestselling author Scott Galloway spent the pandemic looking at how COVID-19 was impacting businesses.

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Unique Venues

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Convene Unconventionally in 2024 Our trends show that planners search for venues to host conferences on UniqueVenues.com each February We’ve got ideas to help you think outside the box for your 2024 and 2025 conferences! In February 2023, 61% of the leads sent by UniqueVenues.com users were for professional & corporate events.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 6, 2022

Moderator Aurora Dawn Benton, with panelists Brandon Felder and Heather Seasholtz, offer advice on making social and environmental impact with event F&B. Improving the social and environmental impact of your events not only requires a change in culture but planning and persistence. Curt Wagner is digital editor at Convene.

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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. Here are the next 10 elements to knock off. Your distinguished-lecture series does not engage. Lose the PowerPoint templates.

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Social Tables

JANUARY 27, 2021

Skip to content Menu Solutions Interactive Floor Plans Collaborative event sales software that increases qualified leads and drives direct revenue. Event Diagramming Collaborative event management software that saves time, boosts revenue and drives loyalty. Discover some of 2021’s top event planning conferences: 1.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The Birmingham 2022 Festival Sites and The Sky Safari by Exclusive Ballooning took away Event of the Year Award – Public Sector, and Event of the Year Award – Private Sector, respectively at this year’s NOEA Awards.

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Eventmobi

AUGUST 11, 2023

They’re the space where current members can access their benefits, new visitors can scope you out, and you can highlight upcoming events in detail. We’ll show you 11 examples of the best association websites, plus a look at high quality association event websites! Event tech integration. Not sure where to start?

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 11, 2021

Convene asked individuals from inside and outside the business events industry to talk about behaviors and other changes brought on by the pandemic that are lasting, and in particular, to share which ones they think are likely to transform events. Lisa Delpy Neirotti. Lisa Delpy Neirotti, Ph.D., Naomi Clare Crellin.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 13, 2022

Sina is a Certified Meetings Professional (CMP) with extensive knowledge in organizing hybrid, online and in-person events. She organized the ICCA Congress 2020, a global hybrid event with 8 hubs around the world that attracted 1500 delegates, featured 220 speakers and over 100 hours of content. Who has inspired you in your career?

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

As the events industry continues to navigate the COVID-19 crisis, the Events Industry Council (EIC) has started releasing a series of guides for different industry sectors that will be updated regularly as more information on containing the spread of COVID-19 becomes available. Amy Calvert.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 1, 2020

based virtual event platform Hopin, currently in the early-access stage, is expected to be fully live by September. Key takeaways: Virtual event platform startups were seeded before COVID-19, but the pandemic has resulted in a mass of postponed and canceled events around the world, “very quickly” accelerating their ramp-up.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 19, 2018

After all, event industry blogs are accessible, provide information about events from around the globe and cover every aspect of event planning. You can find bigger and better ways to deploy events, the latest in event tech, and follow where other event profs’ careers are taking them. Endless Events.

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The MICE

MARCH 10, 2022

The barriers to attending events, learning and networking have been lowered thanks to the virtual and hybrid event solutions available. With these new tools and knowledge base at their fingertips, association event planners can truly excel at delivering events in 2022 and beyond.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 25, 2019

Unconscious gender bias “is everywhere, like a fog,” says actor Geena Davis during Convening Leaders 2019 in Pittsburgh. The “one category of gross gender inequality that could be fixed absolutely overnight is on screen,” Davis said. “In Barbara Palmer is Convene ’s deputy editor. Jacob Slaton). And then life imitates art.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 7, 2019

7 at Convening Leaders. Major consumer and market forces at work today will change the face of the business events industry as we know it. based Fruition, who researched the latest global macrotrends and applied them to the business events industry. Every event must have a message. Jacob Slaton).

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

in 2021 — opened at Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) in early January, it was more of a deep dive than a dip into in-person events during the pandemic. in 2021 — opened at Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) in early January, it was more of a deep dive than a dip into in-person events during the pandemic.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Huge thanks to the conveners and leaders: my friend, team performance and facilitation expert Kristin Arnold , and corporate innovation leader Scott Kirsner. 5 mins: Scott shares some recent learnings from virtual events. Pre-event calls with panelists. I think pre-recorded lessens the authenticity of the event????.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 25, 2019

Kate Fairweather (right) and Amy Blackman present results from “The Future of Meetings and Events” report at Convening Leaders 2019 in Pittsburgh. You can’t just get the same people who live and breathe events doing this or you will get the same stuff,” Routh said. Jacob Slaton). Emotional Intelligence. Orchestrated Serendipity.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 5, 2021

Attendees in West Palm Beach, Florida, take part in a live event for the hybrid 2021 PCMA Convening Leaders at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. Many organizers are finally planning a return to in-person events, while simultaneously figuring out the role that digital offerings will — or won’t — play in a post-pandemic future.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 23, 2019

Many conferences and conventions fail to offer child care to participants, but more event professionals are calling for the service as a standard practice. Accent on Children’s Arrangements, a subgroup of DMC Network, has provided child-care services at meetings and events for 28 years. is president of Accent-DMC Inc., Diane Lyons.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 22, 2020

With the theme “Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World,” you might think that the stakeholders invited to attend Davos have firmly established their place in the highest rungs of business-oriented society. Delegates are categorized in seven levels, denoting their seniority or significance in the business world.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

That drag on sponsor spending was echoed by a number of business-event organizer respondents to Convene ’s recent survey on event sponsorship, who said they find it more challenging to create initiatives that benefit sponsors than to come up with sponsored programs that benefit their audience. Other survey results: .

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It will be the first in the history of the Games to include breakdancing (or “breaking”) as a competitive event, and the first to achieve gender parity (see “Level Playing Field” on p. Photo rendering by Florian Hulleu ©Paris 2024) In ways both small and large, the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games is a series of firsts.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 16, 2018

Here’s my take on what those mega-trends mean will mean for the business-events industry. according to WEC, 94 percent of the new jobs created from 2005 to 2015 fell into the self-employed category — without the safety net of insurance, medical coverage, social security, and paid vacation. In the U.S.,

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PCMA Convene

MAY 24, 2021

“If you’re trying to recreate online what happens when we spontaneously bump into someone at an events — those casual hallway conversations — they’re really, really difficult to recreate,” said sociologist Marissa King, (Courtesy Team Good, LLC). King went with a phone call. And we can actually listen far better.”.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 2, 2021

Andrew Verducci (left), founder and CEO of Verducci Event Productions, and Rahnee Palma, chief sales officer at FACE2FACE Meetings, take part in the PCMA’s Northern California chapter’s LEAP hybrid conference. ” As a business events industry association, “we felt,” she said, “it was our responsibility to answer the question.”.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 9, 2018

The four experts addressing those subjects have been interviewed by Convene and are representative of the diverse line-up of presenters covering a wide range of topics over the three-day program — all with an eye toward inspiring event professionals, no matter the industry or profession they serve. Bridget Brennan. Peter Sheahan.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 9, 2018

Is income inequity a reality in the business-events industry? Is income inequity a reality in the business-events industry? Last year, we reported that women respondents to Convene’s Annual Salary Survey earned 22 percent less than male respondents, a disparity that was similar to results in previous surveys.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 12, 2019

The event used 15,000 flowers and wheat stalks, as well as 75 dancers and other performers. Best in Show 2019: More Inspiring, Creative Ideas for Events. The welcome party was honored with a first place win in the gala category at the 10th Global Eventex Awards. Curt Wagner is an associate editor at Convene.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

But it’s also how fake and predatory events reach out to students, academics, and professionals across a swath of industries. Providing little or no substance, these events — if they even take place at all — not only create confusion in the market, they siphon off the very same audiences legitimate events work so hard to attract and educate.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 9, 2020

While in-person events are on pause, The Toy Association hit the play button on a digital market week series to help toy manufacturers connect with specialty and mass retailers who are buying for the upcoming holiday season. “The The association rolled out its first virtual event on July 13. Kimberly Carcone.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 9, 2018

In terms of jobs, the meetings and events industry creates more direct jobs than large manufacturing sectors such as automotive, chemicals, and food. For every dollar spent on face-to-face meetings and business events in 2016, it generated an additional $1.60 for events and conferences. in benefits to the U.S.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 3, 2018

They also can be workhorses, making it easier for meeting professionals to find and book venues, and streamline the tasks of event planning in a hundred different ways. Event planner or not, almost everyone is looking for ways to save time. Liz King Caruso. I am a planner. “I We have a lot going on.”. Simplify Your Life. a month.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2018

who shared what’s top of mind for global business executives, according to her organization’s recent study. according to WEC, 94 percent of the new jobs created from 2005 to 2015 fell into the self-employed category — without the safety net of insurance, medical coverage, social security, and paid vacation. In the U.S.,

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 13, 2018

Unless you are an independent business event strategist who acts as their own boss, you have probably encountered a bad boss or two in your career. The post A Good Way to Handle a Bad Boss appeared first on PCMA Convene. You might even be dealing with one right now. What are your priorities?

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 28, 2019

The event attracts buyers from across the retailing spectrum — from independent stationery, card, and gift shops to big-box brick-and-mortar and online stores — as well as special event planners and corporate marketers. This summer, the New York–based conference will roll out its second event in 2019.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 1, 2017

In September, with Houston barely dried out, Category 5 Hurricane Irma and Category 4 Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico back-to- back — with Maria leaving up to 95 percent of the island without electricity for weeks or longer. Puerto Rico Convention Center. Virgin Islands in the wake of Irma, to a command center post-Maria.

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