Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 10, 2018

.” —Sarah Kendzior, The View From Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America The meeting industry is no exception. The meeting industry has redefined novelty as creativity. Though millions of meetings take place every year, thousands of meeting organizers know how to create truly create conference designs.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Why have a keynote speaker at your event? The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference.

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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. If a presenter (like me) is actually running a workshop, please don’t insist on calling them a speaker ! Customizing a workshop.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 19, 2016

“Intel’s annual meeting was entirely virtual. ” — Steven Davidoff Solomon , New York Times, Online Shareholders’ Meetings Lower Costs, but Also Interaction. Forty years later, “group telemedia”, now known as virtual meetings, are firmly established and increasingly popular.

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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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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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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 24, 2022

They went out to market with a series of small buyer/seller speed meeting shows in 2011 creating the brand and launched RecFest three years later – a festival-style event in a conference room, AstroTurf on the floor, attended by some 100 people.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 30, 2018

Afterwards, we saw many people swapping business cards and making arrangements to meet up again. Such workshops routinely meet the outcomes they’re designed to achieve: creating useful and memorable learning experiences and connections. Many organizations focus on getting the “best” experts to speak at their meetings.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 2, 2022

Some 30 miles away, meeting professionals at the ubiquitous customer relationship software company Salesforce have taken a net-zero pledge and are brainstorming ways to keep business moving forward while prioritizing sustainability as a core value in everything from partnerships to customer data tracking and at its annual Dreamforce citywide event.

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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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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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Smart Meetings

APRIL 13, 2022

Some 30 miles away, meeting professionals at the ubiquitous customer relationship software company Salesforce have taken a net-zero pledge and are brainstorming ways to keep business moving forward while prioritizing sustainability as a core value in everything from partnerships to customer data tracking and at its annual Dreamforce citywide event.

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Attendease

MAY 27, 2021

We know digital attendees register later, maybe the week of or day of a conference. We would offer two sessions per time period, usually one more general and one more specialized so that every group felt like they had their own specialized session that they could go to throughout the conference while also attending the more general sessions.

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Bizzabo

MAY 10, 2019

Searching for the best customer success conferences to attend in 2019? 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. Customer Success Conferences. Customer Success Summit Conference. Look no further.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Most people won’t ask questions at meetings. In a thoughtful article “ Audience Engagement – at the Heart of Meetings “, Pádraic Gilligan writes: “…We all want audience engagement so why doesn’t it take place?…While Read the full article at Conferences That Work. ” I disagree. A different workshop.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 14, 2019

SaaStock boasts Europe’s biggest SaaS conference which takes place in Dublin every October with 4,000 attendees from 50+ countries in addition to a calendar of global conferences. Alison is an experienced exhibition and conference marketing professional with 18 years’ experience encompassing conferences, exhibitions, marketing and PR.

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Bizzabo

AUGUST 30, 2018

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. Trace3 , a leading provider of IT solutions, developed their Evolve conference in response to this trend.

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Event Industry News

MAY 21, 2020

The world is thick with virtual meetings be it family, friends or firms. 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. Founded in 2011, it has continually proven to be an industry leader for high-quality mobile apps.

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Gallus Events

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

IBTM session was all about Meeting Design and the venue is about 5 miles from my office, so attending that one was much easier! I put the association programme together for IBTM in 2011 (it was called EIBTM then, so something has changed) and I wrote my first review of the exhibition in 2013. Details of my session at IBTM World.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Conference variation allows for concurrent tracks, reception area, and exhibitor booths. Attendees can personalize their agenda, meet in the app with video meetings, and even save the video files for review. This is ideal for boosting connections and widening the meeting pool for your participants. Albert’s Aha!

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Bizzabo

MAY 14, 2018

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. In this Event Heroes spotlight we discuss: Growing an annual conference. But back in 2011, it started off as something lot smaller.

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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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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 30, 2016

The effort started with the consolidation of CBA’s eight annual conferences into one — a gambit that was controversial within the organization at the time, according to President and CEO Richard Hunt. Originally, each of CBA’s eight member sectors — from mortgage banking to auto-loan financing — had its own meeting. TOO SMALL TO FAIL.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

Walkability, value, and friendliness can be strong drivers for why planners choose certain destinations over others for meetings. If a city can hit on all of those cylinders, it can emerge as a meetings-business champion. In 2011, The Next Web called Big Omaha “the most important conference you’ve never attended.”

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When we invited event professionals to participate in this Annual Meetings Market Survey in November, the U.S. Only 34 percent of respondents (down from 43 percent in the 2016 survey and 50 percent in the 2015 survey) indicated that they will be holding meetings outside the United States in the future. percent in the 2016 survey.

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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. Based on C2’s success and our new vision, we relaunched Braindate for event audiences, designed to foster collaborative learning during conferences around the world.

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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. However, attending a conference like this allows organisers to do exactly that. It’s not just the content and the speakers, it’s also about having time and a space to think about things differently, and perhaps see challenges in a different light.

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TicketBud

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The company has served the DFW metroplex for more than 20 years, earning the title of Best in Irving Caterer every year since 2011. The nationwide talent search database will help identify an extensive list of potential musicians, DJs, speakers and entertainers to suit your event needs and budget.

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Bizzabo

DECEMBER 17, 2018

We have compiled a list of event marketing statistics—covering topics such as event budgets, event technology and event promotion—that you can use in your next event marketing presentation, conference, or call. 10% of event planners spend most of their budget on speakers. 54% of event planners attend conferences to keep up with trends.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 2, 2018

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. People wanted to go there and they want to meet. What Happens at the Global Summit ?

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 7, 2018

We didn’t want to have just another sustainability conference,” Armon said. “We We decided we would make our conference about that.”. the 2018 forum drew more than 300 attendees and 70 speakers. How did they squeeze that many speakers into that tight of a schedule frame? A ‘High-Octane’ Event. They keep it flowing.

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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. Here are their stories.

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Bizzabo

MARCH 20, 2019

And do they talk about the conference for months after it's concluded or do they do their best to forget about it as soon as possible? If your attendees love the time they spend at your expo, seminar, or conference, they'll be much more inclined to keep purchasing your products and services and telling their colleagues about your brand.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Connect are dedicated to providing content that helps you reimagine today’s meetings and look into the future. There are plenty of insights into venues and how to improve meetings, but we want to give a shout-out to Connect for their continued insights into the ever-important topic of event safety. The Meeting Pool. Techsytalk.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

“Organisms such as yeast, bacteria, fungi, algae, and mammalian cells are fermented, cultured, and engineered to synthesize nature’s materials,” according to the website for the Biofabricate 2016 conference, “but with new functional and aesthetic properties.”. So we only grow what we need. There’s no waste.”. SPLICED TOGETHER.

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Eventory

JUNE 28, 2018

The Yacht Racing Forum is the leading conference for the business of sailing and yacht racing. Bernard Schopfer: The Yacht Racing Forum is the annual conference for the business of sailing and yacht racing. Our conference is targeted to the business side of the sport. That helps them find people they are interested in meeting.

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Event Industry News

JULY 8, 2021

Hopin also announced today several impactful company updates as part of Illuminate, a first-of-its-kind hybrid series bringing together thousands of professionals to highlight innovation in the events industry featuring guest speaker, Malala Yousafzai 1 , Nobel Laureate and Co-Founder of Malala Fund.

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