Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 17, 2017

I’ll admit that in 2011, when the Virtual Edge Institute (now called the Digital Experience Institute) first co-located its conference with the Professional Convention Management Association’s Convening Leaders, the experience fell flat for me. and encouraged and vetted questions to ask of the speaker at the appropriate times.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 29, 2019

“You’ll love this…I went to a 4 hour morning workshop at this digital conference. The speaker said, this will be interactive because no one wants to listen to me talk for four hours. This did not happen at Traci’s event! Last week, my friend Traci Browne wrote to me about a workshop that wasn’t.

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Attendease

MAY 27, 2021

Caitlin has been with PCMA for nearly six years and has created and managed the digital event experiences for PCMA flagship events, and has also been planning and producing some of PCMA virtual and hybrid experiences pre-pandemic and throughout the pandemic. This is something that we are continuing on for this event for Educon in 2021.

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Hubilo Blog

APRIL 7, 2020

Enterprises are habitual to conduct their communication online and virtually via video conference solutions like “Zoom”. However, not everyone can work around with only what Zoom has to offer, especially conferences & events. This made us study about, what are the best alternatives to Zoom for virtual conferences ?

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Jamie Leonard and his wife Lois Holland Leonard founded Recruitment Events determined to do better in an industry Jamie describes as ‘notorious for very bad events’. And, crucially, how the escapism, the no judgement of festivals, creates stronger relationships at the largest event in the world for talent acquisition.

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Endless Events

JUNE 6, 2018

Conference event apps are a must for any conference in today’s world. Adding conference event apps to your next event will create accessibility with content, notifications, feedback, and everything else you will need to communicate with your attendees. But how do you incorporate a conference event app?

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Gallus Events

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

November is always a busy month for event organisers in the event industry. Whether we are trying to shoe horn in a few events before peoples minds start to wonder to the festive period or maybe we are upping the marketing for our events in the first quarter of the following year, November can be a car crash of a month!

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Bizzabo

AUGUST 30, 2018

Each month we interview an events professional who is breaking the mold. This month we spoke with Stephanie Hannah, the Director of Strategic Marketing at Trace3, about growing an event, running an awards show, and delivering a blockbuster conference experience. Bringing an event vision to life.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

So how can you get authentic audience engagement at your events? While the speaker can be to blame for lack of audience engagement, in my experience, it’s usually the fault of the audience! When I facilitate longer conferences I can assure you that almost everyone will ask questions in public at some point during the event.

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Bizzabo

MAY 10, 2019

Searching for the best customer success conferences to attend in 2019? We've compiled the most comprehensive list of customer success events on the internet. Whether you're looking to turn casual customers into lifelong fans or improve your company's NPS score, the 40 conferences listed below will help you achieve your goals.

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Gallus Events

JULY 19, 2018

I had a brilliant day at the Event Strategy Conference in London on the 16th July. It was great to see almost sixty association event professionals taking the time out of their busy schedule to think strategically about their events and about benchmarking association events. Benchmarking your association events.

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TicketBud

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Events reflect the reputation of the organizers. Their experienced staff can bring a wealth of knowledge to developing the intricacies of your event, and their communication and reliability is crucial for ensuring that all aspects of your event run smoothly.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 23, 2022

The 1,700 attendees checking in live at Meeting Professionals International’s World Education Conference ( WEC ) at Moscone Center in San Francisco this week were treated to a performance in three acts designed to provide “perspective,” “approach” and “action,” according to Paul Van Deventer, MPI president and CEO.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 29, 2019

A public speaker and author, Renaud earned a master’s degree in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and serves as an adviser to the Harvard Innovation Lab. In other words, when people attend events, they have already made the decision to use that time for networking and learning. (All photos courtesy C2 Montréal).

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Bizzabo

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Learn all about Bon Appetit's unique approach to event marketing and how you can adopt their philosophies to improve your own conferences, seminars, and expos. Bon Appetit has also begun investing in live events and creative marketing activations to help promote its brand. Sound good? Then let's get started! What's not to love?

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EventBank Insights

OCTOBER 13, 2017

In 2011, not many people knew who Jason Lemkin was. Yet somehow, just four years later, he got a whopping 5,000 attendees to show up to his first ever SaaStr Annual Conference. So when he used content to promote his first event, attending felt like a no-brainer for those thousands of attendees. Build the Event its Own Microsite.

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Bizzabo

AUGUST 1, 2019

There's a lot to learn from these 12 highly influential IBM events! But did you know it's also an events powerhouse? In this article, we'll look at a collection of 12 events, brand activations, and experiential marketing campaigns from IBM. Maybe you need to bring in edgy speakers or partner with progressive companies.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 18, 2019

The government shutdown is causing headaches in the business events industry at conferences where government employees who were set to attend or speak are no longer allowed to do so. A month before the 27th annual International Plant & Animal Genome (PAG) conference, which took place Jan. Domino Effect.

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Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 9, 2020

Let’s take a hard look at the meeting and event industry. I addressed this glaring omission four years ago in “ The Invisible Minorities of the Meeting and Event Industry.” These lists are important because out of sight is out of mind when it’s time to hire speakers, breakout session facilitators and planners.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Could businesspeople be persuaded to stop traveling to meetings, to sit instead in comfortable local studios hundreds of miles apart, handsomely equipped with cameras, microphones, screens, and speakers that magically allowed them to meet as well as if they were all in the same room? Read the full article at Conferences That Work.

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Event Industry News

JULY 8, 2021

On the heels ofits second anniversary in June, Hopin, the leading all-in-one event management platform that enables immersive and interactive experiences from anywhere, announced today it is enhancing and expanding its event marketing suite with the acquisition of Attendify.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Alex Balding, Events Manager at SaaStock. Alex is an Events Manager at SaaStock, a global community of SaaS (software as a service) founders, executives and investors. Read the Event Tech Q&A here. Read the Event Tech Q&A here. Aleksandra Panyukhina, Head of Event Marketing at SEMrush.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 2, 2018

Event Details. The Hello Tomorrow Global Summit is the flagship event for the French nonprofit organization, Hello Tomorrow, which was founded in 2011 by two French science-entrepreneurs — Xavier Duportet and Arnaud de la Tour — to help other science-entrepreneurs. ‘We wanted to bring a magic kind of feeling to the event.’

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Eventory

JUNE 28, 2018

Reading Time: 9 minutes It is a struggle of many event organizers to help attendees in effective networking at events. One of the common goals at events is to make new business connections and event organizers do their best to make this goal easily achievable for their attendees.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 30, 2016

But six years ago, the Consumer Bankers Association (CBA) decided to completely revamp the organization’s annual events and find a way to make banking more dynamic. That meant that CBA was in “conference mode” for nearly the entire year, Hunt said, sapping staff bandwidth and creating redundancies around everything from travel to F&B.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 9, 2017

Among the keynote speakers taking the stage during this annual convention are Issac Lidsky, Jeremy Rifkin and Rachel Bostman. His most recent books include The Zero Marginal Cost Society (2014), The Third Industrial Revolution (2011) and The Empathic Civilization (2010). – 300 meeting planners participating in sight tours. .

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Fork in the Road

DECEMBER 10, 2012

As EIBTM, the Global Meetings & Events Exhibition, celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary two weeks ago in Barcelona, it honored the winners—an overall winner and several finalists—of the EIBTM Technology Watch Competition. and ITN’s development of an NFC ecosystem around the event.

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Fork in the Road

DECEMBER 10, 2012

As EIBTM, the Global Meetings & Events Exhibition, celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary two weeks ago in Barcelona, it honored the winners—an overall winner and several finalists—of the EIBTM Technology Watch Competition. and ITN’s development of an NFC ecosystem around the event.

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Technology 2011 Social Media 2012 40

PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

“It’s true of Omaha, but also the rest of the Midwest, that we tend to get really heads-down and focused on our work, so we’re not as PR- or marketing-driven as some of the other areas around the country,” said Caleb Ulffers, who joined SPN as a speaker manager in 2013. This year’s conference was held at KANEKO on May 4–6.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 22, 2018

Three events — a brutal storm, a dozen tractor-trailers filled with conference waste, and an awareness of a crime taking place under the meetings industry’s radar — brought this year’s PCMA Community Advocate of the Year finalists to causes that fired their passion, and clinched their company’s commitment.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

We asked readers to nominate exemplary meeting professionals who usually operate out of the spotlight, behind the scenes, working in areas such as convention services, audiovisual, event technology, and catering. He is always available, organized, and reliable in handling whatever needs to be done to help his clients have a successful event.

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Bizzabo

MAY 14, 2018

Each month we interview an events professional that is doing something amazing. This month we spoke with Cathy McPhillips, VP of Marketing for Content Marketing Institute, about growing an annual conference, making data-driven decision, building an engaged community and more. Letting data drive the event marketing process.

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Marketing Conference Speakers Social Media 50

Endless Events

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

2022 is going to be our best year yet; we’ve embraced exciting new event technology and hybrid events as the way of the future! If 2020 was a year of pivoting and learning about virtual events, 2021 was a year of putting that knowledge to the test. Which virtual event platform features to look for? The result?

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Event Industry News

MAY 21, 2020

Mobile Event Apps to help move your event online. Apps, from the likes of Eventmobi, Conference Compass, SpotMe and Cube-i, are much more than simply a facility that splits the screens according to participants. Even held at a safe distance from audiences, event industry creativity is unstoppable.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Today, planners are racing to adapt to trends that make conferences and events more engaging and dynamic than ever before. While the shifts are plentiful, there are five that stand out from the fold when it comes to modern event design. Events became the professional development pipeline for that generation.”

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

From more engaging, holistic experiences to the the bold new expectations of “bleisure,” event planners and suppliers are racing to adapt in an industry that’s as dynamic as it’s ever been. While the shifts are plentiful, there are five that stand out from the fold when it comes to modern event design.

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Bizzabo

MARCH 20, 2019

If your goal is to create incredible events that dazzle attendees, look no further. This list of 15 real life events from leading brands like MozCon, Adobe, and SXSW are all prime examples of how to plan a great attendee experience. Creating an amazing attendee experience should be priority number one for any company hosting events.

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