Event Industry News

APRIL 23, 2020

The events that have achieved the standard are, by level: Informa Connect’s Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, 19-22 Nov., As such, events and suppliers are recognised separately according to their achievement of these criteria. Atlanta, Ga., USA (PLATINUM Level) Informa Markets’ Natural Products Expo East, 11-14 Sept.,

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

He brings nearly three decades of culinary expertise to his new role overseeing CE LA VI Bellevue and Fresco as well as all meeting and event catering services in the hotel’s attached Avenue Conference Center. His new menus will feature 70% locally-sourced ingredients to spotlight the high-quality produce of the Park City region of Utah.

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Decibel Management

JANUARY 15, 2022

America’s largest independent film festival has been bringing out upwards of 40,000+ attendees to Park City, Utah for the past forty years to celebrate and recognize independent filmmakers. South by Southwest (SXSW) is described as “an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, music festivals, and conferences.”

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Plan Your Meetings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

European Meetings & Events Conference. April 10-13 – Park City, Utah. The post Essential conferences to attend in the next 6 months appeared first on Plan Your Meetings @ Meeting Professionals International. PCMA Convening Leaders. 6-9 – Pittsburgh. 9-12 – The Hague, The Netherlands. 18-20 – Melbourne, Australia.

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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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EventMB

MAY 12, 2022

When Jay Kinghorn was the associate managing director of the Utah Office of Tourism , he was constantly frustrated by the dearth of visitor data he knew would enhance the agency’s ability to promote itself, support its members, and enhance the experience of individual travelers as well as meeting groups.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 7, 2021

The Utah Valley Convention Center group in Provo was the winner of the Rocky Mountain Reskill Roadtrip hackathon. We had four physical locations in three states — the Hilton City Center and the JW Marriott Cherry Creek in Denver; the Little America Resort and Casino in Cheyenne, Wyoming; and the Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo, Utah.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 4, 2022

She has previously been executive director of Sumba Hospitality Foundation in Indonesia, F&B manager for Benchmark Resorts & Hotels, conference services manager for Riviera Palm Springs and more. Visit Salt Lake in Utah appointed Bajek national sales manager for the Northeast region. Chris Rynkiewicz. Suzanne Bajek.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Before the move to Nashville, Nelson worked as general manager for UNC Charlotte Marriott Hotel & Conference Center. He has worked as general manager for Royal Palms Resort and Spa in Phoenix and spent 12 years with Hyatt Hotels, during which he worked at Andaz Maui at Wailea, Andaz San Diego and Hyatt Centric Park City in Utah.

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Unique Venues

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Consider them for an adult social event, corporate social events, professional meeting/training/conference/retreat, or a youth party. The Miller Conference Center at Salt Lake Community College provides the perfect Utah event space in its beautiful south valley location. Miller Conference Center. Salt Lake City, UT.

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Expo Pass

OCTOBER 20, 2021

From Super Bowl LVI to the Beijing Winter Olympics to countless conferences and festivals, in-person and hybrid events are back on the books for 2022. The main event will be in Park City, Utah, as usual. But what are organizers doing to ensure that these events are a big success?

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Smart Meetings

JULY 28, 2023

After earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in Hospitality Business at Michigan State University, Howell worked in numerous hotels across New York City before relocating to Utah, where he served as director of learning and development and later director of rooms at Waldorf Astoria Park City.

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Converve

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Circles Conference, Fort Worth, Texas. Circles Conference targets User Experience Designers. Epicurrence, Park City / Utah, USA: Lateral thinkers gather to go Snowboarding or Kayaking. Epicurrence in the USA calls itself the "Non-Conference" And this is how the event is presented ! conference.

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Converve

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Circles Conference, Fort Worth, Texas. Circles Conference targets User Experience Designers. Epicurrence, Park City / Utah, USA: Lateral thinkers gather to go Snowboarding or Kayaking. Epicurrence in the USA calls itself the "Non-Conference" And this is how the event is presented ! conference.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 15, 2022

She was most recently JUNO’s account executive, after serving as associate director of conferences for International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer. Martin has also been senior meeting manager for the National Conference of State Legislatures. Robin Flanz. Flanz is now director of sales and marketing at Park Hyatt New York.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 14, 2019

On June 22, diners and winers from all walks of life will flock to Park City, Utah, as Main Street turns into one long alfresco dinner table for Savor the Summit. A post shared by Park City Area Restaurants (@parkcityrestaurants) on Dec 9, 2018 at 3:11pm PST. Loosen your belts, foodies.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 12, 2017

The conference center can be divided into four intimate meeting rooms and can fit a maximum of 200 guests. Montage Deer Valley, Park City, Utah. With locations in Beverly Hills and Laguna Beach, California; Park City, Utah; Maui Island in Hawaii; and Bluffton, South Carolina, meeting professionals have plenty from which to choose.

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Converve

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Epicurrence, Park City / Utah, USA: Lateral Thinkers Meet to Snowboard. Epicurrence in the USA calls itself the "Non-Conference" And this is how the event is presented! In the Utah mountains, creative and lateral thinkers get together at a type of conference, but with snowboarding and skiing!

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Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 28, 2018

As a new Connect employee and a first-timer at the event, I was shocked not only by how much went into putting on a conference of this size, but also impressed by how many attendees Connect personally touches and connects (no pun intended). If there is one thing I learned from the event, it is that Connect knows how to throw a great party.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

He was previously general manager of Keswick Hall and Golf Club in Charlottesville, Virginia, and has worked at The Sanctuary at Kiawah Island and Beaver Run Resort & Conference Center in Breckenridge, Colorado. In this position, he’s responsible for revenue strategies and managing the sales and marketing teams.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 23, 2017

With more than 90,000 square feet of flexible meeting space, the Conference Center at Lake Placid is complete with 12 breakout rooms, a 9,000 square-foot ballroom, full-service kitchen, state-of-the-art AV and lighting, stages, storage and Gold LEED Certification. Salt Lake City, Utah (2002). Lillehammer, Norway (1994).

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Martin was previously Benchmark’s general manager for The Heldrich Hotel & Conference Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Gold worked with a variety of properties, such as Amangiri in Utah, Enchantment Resort and Miraval Resort & Spa in Arizona, and Condado Vanderbilt Hotel in Puerto Rico. The Club at Kukui’ula.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Casino & Hotel Nathan Fillion VisitDallas has welcomed Fillion to the team as regional director of sales for the Southwest; he will represent the CVB in Southern California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah. Fillion comes from almost three years with Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority.

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Guidebook

JULY 17, 2016

The last thing you want is to throw a conference, then find that there’s no interest in the topic,” says Romy Yan from PRIME. Bend WebCAM is a digital marketing conference in Bend, Oregon, with a reputation for their attendee experience, world-class speakers and attention to detail. Listen To Your Audience–Right From the Beginning.

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Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 19, 2017

Notably, you can also get an in-depth look at how one peer, Pat Guerrero, CVA, senior manager of volunteer engagement and programs for Utah-based Best Friends Animal Society, saves staffing expenses by leveraging the power of more than 150 volunteers for her group’s national conference.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 9, 2017

Guests staying at Washington School House in Park City, Utah, are in for a once-in-a-lifetime retreat. Presenting Wet Barre™: With A Twist at the International Aquatic Fitness Conference at the lovely Innisbrook resort in FL! The Baltic Beach Hotel in Latvia offers Aqua Trampoline on Tuesdays-Thursdays. Stand Up Paddle Board.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The professionals who market Barcelona as a tourist and events destination demonstrated that they want to carry out that commitment in other places around the world — including 5,600 miles away, in Utah. Sustainable Tourism.

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Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 5, 2019

So, let’s get this post-conference or post-business meeting party started. In fact, over the last decade or so, Salt Lake has grown and evolved into a vibrant, urban, energetic city full of great breweries, distilleries and more than 200 bars. Getting here is easy.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 5, 2023

That brings into focus the whole issue of having insurance on your conferences. We don’t like them as much, but we also know we can do successful virtual conferences. There are ethical issues. With a natural disaster, there’s sometimes a call by attendees to support the destination. It depends on how far out you are in planning.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 17, 2022

That decrease in daily face-to-face interactions could result in increased demand for team and company gatherings that previously happened informally or in the conference room. Many say they eventually plan to evolve to some form of hybrid work situation, but are not planning on a full return to 100% in-person for the foreseeable future.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

of meeting space, including the Executive Conference Center, which is housed in a separate building for privacy. Park City Canyons Golf Course in Utah is celebrating Yoga Month with sunrise yoga on its signature No. This beachfront resort features a get-away-from-it-all nuance that fosters brainstorming and outside-the-box thinking.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The University of Utah professor and author of Suddenly Virtual: Making Remote Meetings Work is also director of the Center for Meeting Effectiveness. As a conference organizer you may want to be more proactive than that. Allen is a meeting scientist. Chock it up to higher costs, to supply chain problems, whatever.”.

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Bizzabo

JUNE 28, 2019

Salt Lake City (also known as the City of the Saints due to its ties to the LDS religion) is the largest metropolitan area in the state of Utah, boasting approximately 1.3 In the past, the venue has hosted successful conferences like Con-Tech and Techstars, as well as smaller gatherings like company client meetings and business brainstorms.

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Bizzabo

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Learn how the PTC events team implements its winning event strategy through these top 12 conferences, trainings, and experiential marketing initiatives. What started as a relatively small user conference for PTC customers has exploded into a one-of-a-kind event for 7,000+ attendees. Source: PTC. The best part? PTC/USER Benelux Event.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Attendees at the UN Civil Society Conference get breakfast at the Salt Palace Convention Center, which hosted the August event. Despite its long history, the United Nations Civil Society Conference — in its 68th edition — was held for the first time in the U.S. Why was Salt Lake a desirable location for the UN Civil Society Conference?

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 17, 2020

Sustainability is a guiding principle at the convention center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Chance Thompson, senior manager, sustainability and public relations and Green Team Committee chairperson for Utah’s Calvin L. Also, in the short term, while live events are at a standstill, virtual conferences will take over.

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Tito Blog | An Event Blog for Organisers

DECEMBER 13, 2019

This two-day conference has a thriving community and is one of the mainstays on the calendar of events for software engineers in South America. People select the conferences they want to attend for different reasons. Indie Web Camp Summit is one such conference. Tickets : Early birds are available now for $85.

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