Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Teusen recently worked as general manager for Embassy Suites by Hilton Akron Canton Airport in Ohio. Teusen serves on the board of trustees for Ohio Hotel & Lodging Association and is vice chair of the association’s membership committee. Niederschulte is general manager and Summerall is area director of sales and marketing for C.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 12, 2023

PCMA’s Convening Leaders gathered 3,300 meeting professionals in Columbus, Ohio, for three days of education, networking and some transformative ideas. Smart Meetings was there for a backstage view of what went into the production and brought back tips for planning even more intelligently in 2023. Behind the Scenes.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 9, 2024

Playing on the small-batch distilling and culinary legacy in Louisville, Kentucky, Meeting Professionals International (MPI) is approaching its annual World Education Congress as a personally crafted experience that allows attendees to build a calendar of sessions that fits their career goals. Meet some new people.” Act accordingly.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 28, 2023

Samuel Spurrier Samuel Spurrier Spurrier is appointed as The Westin Maui Resort and Spa Ka’anapali ’s director of sales and marketing. Margaux Helm Margaux Helm Helm steps in as marketing manager for meetings at Visit Seattle , the city’s tourism and promotion bureau.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 7, 2023

Because even the smallest meeting is the best place to find new leads, clients and prospects. This works well for a meeting with under fifty individuals and where attendees don’t know each other. The goal is to meet as many individuals as possible in a structured, timed event. However, there is good news.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 21, 2021

Remember conferences and events before COVID-19, mask wearing and social distancing? We all know masks help save lives—but here’s the clencher—are you willing to wear your mask the entire conference time? Meetings Could Look Like [Way Outside of the Box]. When it comes to meetings in the Asian market, they look vastly different.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 11, 2024

Watch Live: 2024 Hospitality Predictions from Mike Dominguez President Clinton ventured that meetings could be the antidote for bad decisions being made by divided, angry people. “Asia-Pacific and Latin America, we’re just scratching the surface is that surface and all those markets,” he said.

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Unique Venues

AUGUST 22, 2022

Chicago Southland Dazzles with Unique Meeting Spaces. The Chicago Southland is enthusiastically ready to assist you in planning your regional meetings and events! We pride ourselves on stellar service and going the extra mile in assisting all planners, regardless of meeting or event size. Guided tours are available as well.

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Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 14, 2017

We called on five veteran hospitality professionals (shown in order from left below) for their takes on diversity in the events industry and society as a whole: Dan Williams, v ice president of convention sales at Experience Columbus (Ohio); Wanda Collier Wilson, p resident and CEO at Jackson (Mississippi) CVB ; Fabian J.

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Bizzabo

MAY 10, 2019

Searching for the best customer success conferences to attend in 2019? Whether you're looking to turn casual customers into lifelong fans or improve your company's NPS score, the 40 conferences listed below will help you achieve your goals. Customer Success Conferences. Customer Success Summit Conference. Look no further.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 6, 2017

They’re all great places for companies and associations to meet. As a destination for meeting planners , Indianapolis offers the Indiana Convention Center and Lucas Oil Stadium, which has 566,000 sq. of meeting and event space with ballrooms and a 2,500-seat theater. USS LST 325, a WWII warship, is docked along the Ohio River.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 21, 2018

From the excitement of Palm Springs International Film Festival to the fascinating cities of South Korea, the Smart Meetings editorial staff was busy traveling throughout the world in 2018 to bring back ideas and inspiration about destinations for you to consider for upcoming meetings and events.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

“Millennials and Gen Z grew up playing highly competitive video games, and now, they want to watch the best in the world play those games,” said Gary Gonzalez, managing partner and director of strategy at Seattle-based marketing agency Convoke. As Gonzalez, a featured speaker at Destination Showcase in Washington, D.C.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

She also worked as reservations agent and manager in training for conference services and groups sales. Boyett is director of sales and marketing for The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands. Ryan is area director of sales and marketing for Dorchester Collection ’s three U.K. Nadeem Siddiqui. Cynthia Boyett.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 10, 2022

Ferguson came together at Union Market for its annual Travel Rally, held during U.S. Research by MMGY Travel Intelligence, HIS Markit, Travel Market Insights, National Travel & Tourism and U.S. Travel Is Up, But Not Out of Weeds Yet appeared first on Smart Meetings. On May 4, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel E. Much like D.C.,

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 16, 2019

“I went to college in Cleveland, Ohio. And after I got through kind of simpler tasks, like answering fan mail, as I grew in that position, they let me work on his marketing summit. “I was at a conference and I was very excited to be there because I wanted to connect with new people”, Ashlee recalls.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When most of us think of the competition, we only consider other conferences. Having a good grasp on this information will help you structure a more robust conference. If the hotel and conference center you’ve been going to for the last ten years has a significant price increase, take time to understand why. About De-de.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Imagine this scenario: you walk into the opening reception of a large conference, and quickly realize you don’t know a soul. Quickly downing your drink, you head back to your hotel room with the hopes tomorrow will lead to a more connected conference experience. . This is not how your first-time guests should feel. About De-de.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 22, 2018

He’ll work remotely out of the nation’s capital, where he’ll focus on booking conferences requiring more than 550 rooms. Trevina Height Benchmark, a global hospitality company, appointed Height director of catering and conference services at Delta Hotels Marriott Watters Creek Convention Center, a Benchmark Resorts & Hotels property.

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EventUp

JULY 10, 2019

Client meetups and more formal board meetings are best placed in an office or other business settings, such as a coworking space or even a restaurant’s banquet room. With corporate team events, however, you have room to mix things up a bit. Live-Streaming and Virtual Participation. feel welcome.

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Maritz Global Events

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

On the last day of the conference, let them know if they sign up and pay for the next meeting on that day, they will receive a significant discount. Use organic and paid digital marketing tactics. Usually, your major budget items are F&B, A/V, and meeting space. Create a zero-waste meeting. Posters and banners?

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Before this, he worked with Arizona Grand Resort, where he worked in various managerial roles, including director of front operations, conference services manager and front desk manager. Before joining Destination Cleveland, Taylor worked as complex director of sales and marketing for Waldorf Astoria Chicago and Conrad Chicago.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2016

Like most places, Columbus, Ohio, has a few quirks that make it unique: German Village. And while food- and drink-focused trails may initially have been designed with leisure travelers in mind, they’re now being used to entice business travelers and meetings as well. James Thurber’s old house. That sparked an idea.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Despite the increasing number of events held yearly, many still feel like copycats of other successful conferences. Workshops are fast becoming the preferred activity for many conferences and meetings. Business meetings and similar events are quite grueling, with goals and deadlines to be met at every turn.

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Event Leadership Institute

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Meeting & Event Job Openings | January 2018. Marketing Internship | Wow! Events Marketing Manager, Google Cloud | Google | Mountain View, CA. Senior Event / Fields Marketing Manager | Jobvite | San Mateo, CA. Event Marketer | Kitchen Magic, Inc. Learn More. Emeryville, CA. Emeryville, CA. Emeryville, CA.

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Event Leadership Institute

APRIL 2, 2018

Meeting & Event Job Openings | April 2018. Marketing Internship | Wow! Marketing Event Coordinator | Barefoot Networks | Santa Clara, CA. Meeting Planner | Stanford University | Stanford, CA. Special Event Planner / Marketing Manager | Saks Fifth Avenue | Boca Raton, FL. Learn More. Emeryville, CA.

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Event Leadership Institute

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Technical Meeting & Event Production. Event & Meeting Management Fundamentals. Meeting & Event Job Openings. Marketing Internship | Wow! Events Marketing Manager, Google Cloud | Google | Mountain View, CA. Event Coordinator / Event Marketing | Mammoth Marketing | Denver, CO. Learn More.

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Event Leadership Institute

JANUARY 31, 2018

Meeting & Event Job Openings | February 2018. Marketing Internship | Wow! Events Marketing Manager, Google Cloud | Google | Mountain View, CA. Senior Event / Fields Marketing Manager | Jobvite | San Mateo, CA. Conference & Event Specialist | Yale University | New Haven, CT. Learn More. California .

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Bizzabo

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of three rivers: the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio. It means you have options when it comes to your next corporate conference, business meeting, private cocktail party, or any other get-together that you have planned. What does all this information mean for you? Capacity: 300.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 28, 2017

These top-tier cities are meetings hotspots, with enough convention space and hotel rooms to accommodate thousands of attendees at any given time, plus the cultural amenities and intangible cachet to keep them around. Convene recently spoke with representatives from three such cities that recently have hosted renowned international meetings.

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TicketBud

MARCH 1, 2017

Today we have myself Kayhan Ahmadi, CEO of Ticketbud as well as Sean Burke, Director of Marketing. And I when to school in Ohio, I’m from Cleveland, C-TOWN! It’s in Chile, Argentina and Brazil and Chicago, now they have a couple other markets: Austin City Limits, the NFL draft, partnering with the NFL. Sean: AHHH Yes!

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 6, 2020

The editors of Convene looked back over 2019, asking this question: What’s one meeting and event trend on my radar in 2020? A conference rolled out plans for an all-women speaker lineup. The Boston Consulting Group projects the global market for robotics to reach $87 billion by 2025. Personalized Marketing. Janelle Shane.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Curt Wagner/Convene) As face-to-face meetings have returned, seven out of 10 event professionals we surveyed late last year for our Recovery Dashboard said they were planning in-person events only in 2023. Prescott, CMP, DES, head of North American Event Operations for Markets Group; and William F.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The editors of Convene looked back over 2019, asking this question: What’s one meeting and event trend on my radar in 2020? A conference rolled out plans for an all-women speaker lineup. The Boston Consulting Group projects the global market for robotics to reach $87 billion by 2025. Personalized Marketing. Janelle Shane.

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Bizzabo

JUNE 1, 2021

Face-to-face communication proves to still offer value to these major corporations, while virtual recruiting events offer a cost-effective way for companies to both build their brand and meet promising candidates. Recruiting events merge recruitment marketing and event marketing strategies. Expos/Conferences. Hackathons.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2016

“Everyone seemed excited to see us there, because the conference hadn’t been to the United States since 1967,” said Nathan Hermiston, director of destination sales for Meet Minneapolis, whose colorful booth at Apimondia 2015 was the culmination of an 18-month-long bid for Apimondia 2019.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 4, 2019

The appetite for experiential tours among those who come to Portland for meetings and conventions has grown noticeably in the last two years, Morgan said. So much so, that she predicts that the days when business travelers see only see the inside of their hotels, moving from conference room to hotel room and back again, will soon be history.

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