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CMP Spotlight: Get to Know Tarin Horan, CMP

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Tarin Horan, CMP, knew that meeting planning was the industry for her when she began interning with sports teams. In this role, she planned their season ticket holder events. In this role, she planned their season ticket holder events. “I She attended several events, webinars and conferences.

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Solving for Pricing, Sponsorships, and Skills Challenges When Going Digital

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Joe Colangelo, CEO and cofounder of Arlington, Virginia–based Bear Analytics , a consulting and tech firm for associations and events, said that associations realize that they must pivot faster. If they have a live meeting planned in 2020, Colangelo said, they see that they must take it down — like a house, brick by brick.

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Think Outside the Ballroom: 5 Unconventional Event Venues

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The southernmost buildings of Seattle’s famed shopping emporium contain a variety of meeting and event spaces offering between 250 and 2,275 square feet, with features such as large windows, high ceilings, and views of Elliott Bay, the Seattle Great Wheel or the historic market sign. Top Golf operates 28 U.S.

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When the Boss is You

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Our five planners share their stories — the good, the bad, and the ugly of independent planning — as well as the industry trends that keep them on their toes. Annette Suriani, CMP AMS Meetings Solutions Fairfax, Virginia Time as an independent planner: 5 years. How did you become an independent planner?

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2017 Smart Stars Award Winners

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Best Conference Center Hotel. A multi-million-dollar transformation added a fresh design scheme, all-new plush furnishings and tech in the 802 guest rooms, and enhancements to its 38 versatile meeting and functions rooms. of indoor meeting space. of meeting space and a state-of-the-art conference center.

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Don’t Believe Everything You See on Twitter About a San Francisco Meeting Apocalypse

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After a blow to international travel due to Covid, a wave of tech layoffs and some negative publicity, the city is leaning into its strengths as a diverse, business savvy and beautiful destination to reemerge stronger. Now the city is benefitting from an AI boost. It goes back to its roots. San Jose’s DNA is strong.

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Tailor-Made Team Building

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High-tech, climate-controlled hitting bays stocked with supplies eliminate rainouts, the need to own equipment and delays common to course play. To bolster the nation’s declining honeybee population, Lansdowne Resort and Spa in Leesburg, Virginia, added beehives to the property and hired a resident beekeeper to care for them.