Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board announced a partnership with Clear Health Pass and Co.Protect branded protective equipment to help meeting professionals create frictionless solutions for establishing and executing protocols. “We and water withdrawal by 33% since 2011. Reduced greenhouse emissions by 36.1%

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 22, 2019

Related posts: Participation techniques you can use in conference sessions Here’s the summary handout for my workshop on participation techniques you can use in conference sessions that I’ll be leading at MPI’s World Education Congress 2011. The notes at the.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 21, 2023

So busy, in fact, that they’re registering later than ever for events. How do you make your events more engaging? To maximize your event ROI and deliver great results for your sponsors. Successful events are adapting to the needs of busy attendees. So your audience can’t afford to miss them?

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Smart Meetings

MAY 23, 2022

We’ve all made the shift to virtual meetings—because we had to. Now we’re onto the next challenge: making the virtual event a great online experience. How can your digital meeting beat a Netflix binge or mindless scrolling? Here are five tech tips to make your virtual event engaging. Meet the Demand With On-demand.

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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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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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Conferences that Work

JULY 29, 2019

The speaker said, this will be interactive because no one wants to listen to me talk for four hours. Speakers (and the folks that concoct conference programs) decide to jazz up the description of a broadcast-style session by calling it a workshop. This did not happen at Traci’s event! ” Workshops that are.

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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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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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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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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Smart Meetings debriefed with Tahira Endean, head of program with IMEX Group, about what worked and what will be changed for next year. The author of “Intentional Event Design” joined the IMEX team in June after leaving SITE Global where she was head of events for more than three years, to pursue a. million sq.

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The MICE

MARCH 1, 2022

I interviewed the event organiser, Dr. Carlos R. Wyss, Project Manager at Wasser-Agenda 21, who gave insights into the event design process. Wasser-Agenda 21 provides a platform for the stakeholders to meet and exchange about current and future water management challenges, aiming to provide solutions. Event objectives.

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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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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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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Most people won’t ask questions at meetings. So how can you get authentic audience engagement at your events? 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 ” I disagree.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 10, 2020

For event industry professionals, networking is of particular importance. After all, it’s one of the main drivers for attendance at events around the world, Still, many participants either don’t love it, or just aren’t very skilled at it. . What is worth remembering is that the event you’re planning is a break from everyday life.

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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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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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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. As the shutdown continued into early 2019, PAG leaders began hearing from registered attendees and speakers who would no longer be able to attend the meeting.

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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. Originally, each of CBA’s eight member sectors — from mortgage banking to auto-loan financing — had its own meeting. LIVE FROM PHOENIX.

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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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Hubilo Blog

APRIL 7, 2020

However, not everyone can work around with only what Zoom has to offer, especially conferences & events. What about audience engagement before, during & after the event? Solution: Alternative to Zoom for Virtual Conferences What is different about virtual event platforms for Organizers? What’s in there for Sponsors?

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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

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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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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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? Let’s jump in.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 24, 2016

” But it pays to listen to your exhibitors, said ECEF’s opening keynote speaker, Karen Chupka. CTA provides companies with a cost-effective package (they can get space for $1,000) and a presence at the event. At next year’s CES, more than 600 companies will inhabit Eureka Park.

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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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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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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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Skiddle

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Charity events also come under for-profit events. You won’t need a licence if your event is not for profit. The Licencing Act of 2003 defines not-for-profit events as events that charge for tickets to cover their costs and are held between 8 am and 11 pm. Often, these places charge by the hour.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 9, 2017

Austin has become a premier destination for meeting, conventions and leisure business and we are confident that we will see return business from the PCMA attendees.”. Among the keynote speakers taking the stage during this annual convention are Issac Lidsky, Jeremy Rifkin and Rachel Bostman. Marin Bright (@marinbright) January 9, 2017.

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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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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2016

When Johnny Earle, aka Johnny Cupcakes , opened a retail shop (his fourth) on London’s Regent Street in 2011, hundreds of fans waited on line for hours — some of them camping overnight — to be among the first to visit the store. Understand why people should attend your meeting. Productions.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Change is imminent — and in the meetings industry, it’s upon us. 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. Millennials are the decision makers now.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Meetings don’t look how they used to. Today, planners are racing to adapt to trends that make conferences and events more engaging and dynamic than ever before. But when it comes to trends, where should meeting industry professionals put their focus? Here are five meeting industry trends that are changing the game.

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