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Paje Consultancy launch Learning and Development partnership with beam

Prestige Events Magazine

Paje are specialists in the meetings, events, and conference market, who offer bespoke training for venues, hotels, and agencies. Mandy has been a keen beam supporter and was on the events and training committees for over 12 years, involved in the first Code of Conduct and was herself the HBAA Venue Chair in 2007.

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What Does Frances McDormand’s Acceptance Speech Have to Do With Events?

PCMA Convene

As it turns out, the notion of an inclusion rider — a clause that an actor can insist be inserted in his or her contract requiring that the cast and crew on a film meet a certain level of diversity — was first floated at a conference. From 2007 to 2015, Smith’s research team had viewed the top 800 grossing films in the U.S.

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2019 40 Under 40: Heather Wakefield, Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society

Connect Your Meetings

How I got here: I graduated with an architecture degree and was introduced to association meetings early in my career while working in an academic setting. metro area in 2007, I had the opportunity to start working in a medical specialty association on educational programming. When I moved to the Washington D.C.

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The Next Big Thing in Conference and Corporate Event Technology

Coterie Spark

What if bringing the next big thing in conference and corporate meeting technology to your event wouldn’t add to your budget? No need to find a vendor or even sign a contract. The next change on the horizon for conference and meeting technology, isn’t actually technological at all.

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Events industry post coronavirus crisis: ‘We need to have the confidence now to ensure that everyone knows what part events play in so many businesses.’ Interview with Kevin Jackson, Founder of The Experience is the Marketing

The MICE

He was working in the advertising industry during the 1987 crash and in the events industry during the financial crisis of 2007. I was around in 2007, which was the beginning of the financial crisis. And as has been said a number of times, and we said it back in 2007/8, there’s going to be a new normal—we’re not going to go back.

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Rethinking How You Work With Procurement

PCMA Convene

Tell that to meeting professionals, however, and they might grumble. Every few years the question comes up as to whether or not [procurement] should be handling our contracts,” she said. “We Are events and procurement seeing eye to eye in a way that wasn’t possible in, say, 2007?

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Convene’s 27th Annual Meetings Market Survey

PCMA Convene

When we invited event professionals to participate in this Annual Meetings Market Survey in November, the U.S. In November, the economic recovery since the 2007–2009 recession was in its eighth year, and “showing little signs of fatigue,” according to Reuters. Thinking ahead — The average booking window for large meetings is 2.2