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PCMA EduCon 2019: Can the Meetings Industry Hack Homelessness?

PCMA Convene

William Thomson (center) will take part in PCMA’s hackathon on homelessness in June during EduCon 2019. The average person in 2009,” reports the science magazine Nautilus , “was less empathetic than 75 percent of the people in 1979.”.

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COVID 19 Business Impact Study – Global Perspective

Event Industry News

As a service-based industry that relies on networks of people meeting in a live environment, the report suggests that the events industry is not well positioned to see demand returning to the levels experienced in 2019, with one third of respondents suggesting that demand will significantly decrease due to the pandemic.

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How to implement participant-driven breakouts in Zoom — Part 2

Conferences that Work

You can find the most detailed implementation in Chapter 18 of my 2019 book, Event Crowdsourcing. First, read the detailed instructions on how to run The Three Questions which you’ll find in my books : Event Crowdsourcing [2019] (Chapter 18) [recommended: most comprehensive and recent information].

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Participant experience design — moving from the old to new event world

The MICE

One of the presentations that highly inspired me to think differently about event design took place in 2019 at the MICE Forum at ITB Berlin (Organised by VDVO ). In 2019 the ITB MICE Forum theme was ‘The Human Factor’. That knowledge helps the organisers to define the purpose of the conference.

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Q&A: Inside Google’s New ‘Inclusive Event Design Guide’ for the Industry

Event Marketer

“Google wants to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible—that is the mission of the company—and I think if you follow that sentiment to its logical conclusion, accessibility and making things accessible to all of our users can only happen if we understand what our users need, and that goes for live events, as well.”

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How The Economy Is Affecting B2B Exhibitions in 2017

PCMA Convene

By 2019, the news will be even better, with a projected growth rate of 3 percent. The Great Recession may be in the rearview mirror, but business-events professionals remember suffering through poor attendance and a string of cancellations; in 2009, the CEIR Index reported a 10-percent decline for trade shows. While the 1.1-percent

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An Ode to 40 Women Influencers In the Events Industry

Hubilo Blog

county finalist in 2019. Carina Bauer : Her entry into the events industry was in the year 2002. Following the expansion of the IMEX into America in 2009, she was appointed CEO of the IMEX Group wherein Carina was responsible to manage all aspects of the business. Since then she’s been the face of IMEX as we know it to date.