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Smart Tech: The 20% Difference

SmartMeetings

Private communication with speakers and exhibitors can be enabled as well, and many platforms offered the built-in ability to (either randomly or by criteria defined by the organizers) put attendees into small group discussions or breakouts. This hybrid approach didn’t really satisfy anybody, including myself.

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[Webinar] Everyday Meeting Disasters: Creative Work Arounds—and Smart Planning Strategies to Save Your Event

MeetingsNet

Tested strategies to avoid common meeting disasters. Speakers: Betsy Bondurant, CMM, CTE , is president of Bondurant Consulting. She brings more than 30 years of experience in the meeting, trade show, and hotel industries to the table, with expertise in strategic meetings management and the healthcare sector.

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26 Best Mobile Conference and Event Apps + 14 Must-Have Features

Planning Pod

Event app and event management platform for larger meetings and trade shows. Perfect for: Elevating the attendee experience at large meetings and managing lots of event details during the planning stages. Includes tools for managing event ticketing/ and registration, talent/speakers and agendas. Quickmobile.

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A Quantum Leap with Freeman’s Quant Data Tool

PCMA Convene

It offered a real-time glimpse of a number of pieces of data about the audience, including how they rated the content and speakers, whether it was their first time at the convention, and other information about the name-badge-wearing colleagues next to them in session rooms. The easiest group to benchmark is medical,” Holsinger said.

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Pumping New Life Into Associations’ Online Revenue Streams

PCMA Convene

Convene spoke with Reed in late February to learn how he and his team reengineered the annual meeting not as a short-term strategy but to make it a sustainable enterprise — and a more valuable experience for all participants — for the coming years. It’s been a big challenge to make physical trade shows succeed on online platforms.

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Bizzabo’s List of ‘Top Event Profs to Follow’ IDs Who’s Who in Industry

SmartMeetings

With an astounding 85,300 Twitter followers, Issa shares tourism, events/meetings industry, and American Express Meetings & Events updates. Jouaneh, is a meetings expert who regularly contributes to Smart Meetings news. More resources on Suckow: MPI Recap: Engaging Every Type of Meeting Attendee. Dahlia Gazzar.

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5 Trends We’ll Be Watching in 2018

PCMA Convene

At Convene , we’ve made it a year-end tradition to ask ourselves this question: What’s the one meeting trend we’ll be keeping an eye on next year? . In 2018, I expect to see speaker lineups at conferences and conventions feature a range of voices outside the old-school white male CEO mold.

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