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Sherpa: developing and deploying innovative and robust solutions to support the most complex events since 2009

Event Industry News

Sherpa has been at the forefront of event technology since 2009; developing and deploying innovative and robust solutions to support the most complex events. Our online and hybrid event solutions were designed to help events increase profitability like never before. Hybrid event platform: Unify.

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Humanity’s problem is a meeting problem

Conferences that Work

In 2009, the biologist E.O. 9 September 2009. 9 September 2009. Wilson described what he saw as humanity’s real problem. I think it’s also a meeting problem: “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.” ” — E.

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mustard jobs appoint three new Directors

Event Industry News

Since 2009, the Bristol based creative recruitment agency mustard jobs has grown exponentially. As a result the business requires a fresh perspective to enable success during this time as they grow and scale the business.

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Volunteer Week: Joe Marcy, CMP, CITP, CMM

MPI

I became a member of Meeting Professionals International (MPI) in 2009. I had just been promoted and my boss strongly encouraged my involvement.

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Event innovation, Disney, and souvenirs

Conferences that Work

The JKWeddingDance , invented in 2009, became a fun and novel format for Western weddings, but such innovations are rare. It’s hard to create genuinely new experiences for special events like galas, life celebrations, and incentive programs. Hey, if it were easy, everyone would be doing it.)

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The creative event design tool that all #eventprofs should use

Conferences that Work

With this tool, you can generate something truly original — like in 2009, when Jill and Kevin Heinz invented a brand new trope: the wedding entrance dance. Rarely, however, is this tool used to design events that creatively incorporate, illuminate, and support core desires and outcomes for the meeting. What’s the tool?

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Monetizing Your Virtual Conference When Competing with Free

Velvet Chainsaw

The dynamics that we’re seeing impact conferences and their business models are very similar to the Freemium movement we experienced way back in 2009. We’re on content overload and it’s only going to get noisier as the pandemic lingers.