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Take Your Conference Full Frontal

Velvet Chainsaw

It’s time to take your conference full frontal! It’s time to challenge and encourage your conference stakeholders to focus on engaging their brains at a higher level. It’s time to develop conference experiences that help your stakeholders think smarter. So how do we put full frontal into practice in our conferences?

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Blow-The-Bugle-Awesome 21st Century Conferences Emulate These Core Beliefs

Velvet Chainsaw

Your conference-slip is showing! I once worked for a Texas elected official. Well conference professionals, your conference-slip is showing. Six 21st Century Conference Core Beliefs. Here are six core conference beliefs we must begin to embrace to help our stakeholders succeed in the future.

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Where to Host Your Next Conference: 8 Best Locations

Endless Events

When it comes to planning a conference, location is key. Today’s conference attendees expect more. And that all starts with a great conference location. . A conference is more than just the convention center. Cities can start to run together on the conference circuit. Planning a conference?

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Grit, Mentorship and H-Town with Melinda Mintz

Smart Meetings

After I graduated college, I moved to Texas and the first job that I applied for was in a catering sales office as an assistant. She helped push me into the conference planning role and it really helped me launch my career in the meetings and planning industry. I started at the front desk and I got to know everybody.

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Your Favorite Meeting Venues in the South

Connect Your Meetings

Hammons Convention Center Northwest Arkansas and the Alpharetta Conference Center, home of Connect Georgia 2018. Hotel Van Zandt in Austin, Texas, got the love from Kat Sanford, chief fun officer at Kat Sanford Events. Hilton Americas , Omni Dallas , Gaylord Texan and Hilton Anatole were also among Texas hotel favorites.

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10 Smart Moves in the Meetings Industry: August 16, 2016

SmartMeetings

Plano Centre named Karen Fey as sales representative for the convention center in North Texas. She has also worked for Texas Instruments, Texas Health Resources and Travelers Insurance. “We It has more than 12,500 sq. of flexible function space. Jana McGee. Kathleen Bernesby. in Orlando, Florida.

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference. Why have a keynote speaker at your event?

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