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Global Meeting Planner – Good Meetings, Great Meeting Planners!

Master the Event

Founded over ten years ago, BestCities Global Alliance is made up of convention bureaus that pride themselves on providing the world’s finest service experience for meeting planners planning international meetings. And in October 2011 Houston and Berlin joined as preliminary members and in June of this year they will become full members.

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How IMEX Frankfurt Answered Critical Questions for a Sustainable Event

Smart Meetings

IMEX began here and many teams are surprised to learn that IMEX America has been measuring its carbon footprint all the way back to 2011. Eric Wallinger is director of sustainability at MeetGreen where his focus on resources and the environment is complemented by 20 years of experience in event and conference planning and delivery.

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Are City Planning Conferences the Next Big Thing?

Master the Event

City Planning Conferences – The Numbers are a Little Surprising. On conferencealerts.com there were over 100 meetings, conferences and events scheduled in “Urban studies, architecture and related fields”. And that was just for 2011; there are already 15 planned events on the schedule for 2012.

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Stay Connected: A Complete Guide to Conference Event Apps

Endless Events

adults (77%) say they own a smartphone, up from 35% in 2011, making the smartphone one of the most quickly adopted consumer technologies in recent history. ” 97% of millennials own a smartphone leverage this to your benefit by creating a conference event app. What does everyone always have on them nowadays?

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Beyond his proper books, he served as editor for the 2011 book 101 Lightbulb Moments in Data Management: Tales from the Data Roundtable. Prior to RPL, he led engineering for BackType which was acquired by Twitter in 2011. After two more years as an application consultant for Lawson Software, he started his own consulting firm.

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Top 98 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Beyond his proper books, he served as editor for the 2011 book 101 Lightbulb Moments in Data Management: Tales from the Data Roundtable. Prior to RPL, he led engineering for BackType which was acquired by Twitter in 2011. After two more years as an application consultant for Lawson Software, he started his own consulting firm.

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40 Outstanding Event Industry Blogs to Follow

Endless Events

Since 2011, influential event planner, Liz King, has been using Techsytalk as her platform to help event profs integrate technology into their events for even better attendee engagement. Penned mostly by Jeff Hurt, their in-house expert in Conference Experience Design, you know you’re going to get insightful tips. Plan Your Meetings.