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CELTIC MANOR RESORT RENAMES CONFERENCE CENTRE IN MEMORY OF IAN EDWARDS

Prestige Events Magazine

The meetings and events facilities at the Celtic Manor Resort have been renamed the Ian Edwards Conference Centre to celebrate the memory of the venue’s long-serving Chief Executive Officer, who sadly passed away last month.

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Two novel hybrid meeting formats

Conferences that Work

I’ve been writing about hybrid meetings for a long time; my first post was in February 2010. The COVID19 pandemic created an explosion of interest in hybrid meetings, and the marketplace and event professionals are still defining what “hybrid” means. (No, Sounds crazy, yes, but stay with me! The online portion.

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Patch Marketing launches Octoplus channel management solution for venues

Prestige Events Magazine

Jackson Clark, Managing Director at Patch explains: “When Patch formed in 2010 there were just seven venue directory websites for clients to be featured on. Our latest audit identified there are now at least 75, making it near impossible for venues to regularly track where they are listed and when their content was last updated.”

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Control versus freedom at meetings

Conferences that Work

How can we design the optimum balance between control versus freedom at meetings? As I wrote in 2010: The reality is that you never had control to begin with, just the myth of control. Note that I’m not suggesting meeting professionals give up any attempt to control what happens at their events. The myth of control.

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Design your meeting BEFORE choosing the venue!

Conferences that Work

I love my meeting design clients, but there is one mistake I see them making over and over again. Clients invariably ask me to help design their meeting after they’ve chosen a venue! given at EventCamp Twin Cities on September 9, 2010? Here’s why they do it, and why it’s a mistake. If so, download.

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Mistakes Associations Make — Part 2

Conferences that Work

After four decades of founding associations, serving on non-profit boards, and designing and facilitating countless association meetings, Ive seen a lot. More often than not, clients ask me to help design a meeting after they’ve already signed a venue contract. Enough, in fact, to spot patternsespecially when things go wrong.

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Aye, robot: Birmingham chosen to host 2027 European Robotics Forum

Prestige Events Magazine

The conference is the most influential meeting of the robotics community in Europe, with more than 1,500 international engineers, researchers, investors, entrepreneurs and policy makers expected to attend. The event started in San Sebastin, Spain in 2010, and was established by the euRobotics association.

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