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. There are high-tech (high-cost) and low-tech (low-cost) ways to amplify your content.

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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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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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Stova

JUNE 2, 2023

Databrick's 2022 Company Kickoff connected onsite attendees with virtual guests through hybrid technology, while also keeping a highly-tech savvy audience engaged throughout the onsite environment. The event's mobile app was implemented during the onsite event, with the core objective to keep attendees engaged and informed.

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Stova

JUNE 2, 2023

Databricks CKO 2022 Case Study Success Story C Databrick's 2022 Company Kickoff connected onsite attendees with virtual guests through hybrid technology, while also keeping a highly-tech savvy audience engaged throughout the onsite environment.  Ready to walk through Stova's event technology solutions?

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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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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

JULY 14, 2022

In early July, financial technology company nCino made an explosive return to in-person events in collaboration with The Special Event Company (TSEC). To pull off the biggest nSight event to date, TSEC worked closely with nCino to turn their vision into a reality. The younger nCino started in 2011 and started nSight in 2013.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

So how can you get authentic audience engagement at your events? Pádraic suggests that hi-tech polling methods can be used to increase engagement. No high tech was needed with one optional exception — we projected a Google Doc at the end, to capture and display all the group feedback during the closing public workshop evaluation.

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Attendify

AUGUST 7, 2019

The term “Martech”—which stands for Marketing Technology—came to define the tech solutions and software marketers leverage daily to streamline processes, collect and analyze data, and enhance the customer experience. In 2011, Brinker began producing a yearly map of the global marketing technology landscape. About Guru.

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Event Industry News

MAY 18, 2020

Conference Compass develops powerful association and event apps that serve events building and engaging their community. Whether you are adapting your event to virtual or planning a virtual or hybrid event from scratch, at Conference Compass you will find the solution that suits you best.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Acquisition delivers unique diagramming, seating, and venue sales solutions that help event planners and venues create exceptional events. million events. million events. One in three full-service hotels in North America uses Social Tables to work with planners to deliver 100,000 meetings and events each month.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 7, 2019

It has won the UK Event Agency of the Year award a record 5 times in last 11 years – in 2008, 2011, 2013, 2016 and 2018. Rick has delivered numerous key-note speeches at industry events and has been voted into Event magazine’s Event 100 club every year since its inauguration. CDJ2000 Nexus decks.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) announced that Hong Kong has been chosen as the host for four international MICE events, including the city’s first-ever events of high strategic value, and two repeated events amidst the COVID-19 challenges. Hong Kong’s unrivalled core strengths also attracted the return of past events.

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Social Tables

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Have you been tasked with planning team building events this year? Here are five team building events that you can plan for your clients. Team building activities have to be impactful in the moment and after the event is over. Hosting a day of community services is by far by my number one team building event. Hackathons.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 13, 2016

Why mention this on an event design blog? Tech In Asia explains: “Imagine being near a steep cliff. ” — The cleverest thing about China’s internet censorship , Tech In Asia. The Chinese government runs a massive online censorship program. So instead of pushing the envelope, many people choose to censor themselves.”

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Swapcard, a leading event app and matchmaking platform powered by AI, announced that it has secured a three-year agreement with Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), three months after opening its office in Dubai. For Swapcard CEO, Baptiste Boulard, entering the UAE event market has always been on the company’s radar and a long-anticipated goal.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

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. I have been to every IMEX America since it began in 2011,” she recalled. Her role varied, however, including exhibitor, tech provider, speaker and tour guide.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 8, 2021

Actavo Events is a global events company specialising in the supply of Event Infrastructure including staging, grandstand seating, fencing, crowd control, drape and bespoke scaffolding structures, in addition to offering Project Management expertise for special projects. One of Actavo’s core values is to ‘operate sustainably’.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 2, 2019

A new economic impact report that has been jointly published by the Association of Event Organisers (AEO), Association of Event Venues (AEV), and the Event Supplier and Services Association (ESSA) defines and measures the significance of exhibitions to the UK economy. Brand Events. Event Tech. Conferences.

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Eventbase

MARCH 21, 2018

The ten day event has been known around the world for being a leading innovator in tech, and became one of the earliest adopters of event technology launching the mobile app SXSW GO with Eventbase in 2011. Back in 2011 when we were still known as Xomo, we launched the first SXSW GO.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 16, 2019

Post events degree at university, Laura cut her teeth at Ultra Violet Inc Event Management where she was a wedding coordinator at the wedding of Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall in 2011. Brand Events. Event Tech. Sporting Events. Areas of interest. Concerts & Tours. Conferences. Exhibitions.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 31, 2016

In the first two parts of this series on participatory voting at events, I introduced the concept and compared low-tech and high-tech approaches. High-tech methods typically default to anonymous voting: i.e. we have no information on anyone’s individual vote. Sources for additional information.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Using Marks and Spencer as an example (which was fined £1m as well as £600,000 court costs in 2011 when it disregarded health and safety), Richard stated that companies, especially large firms, may try to cut corners to ensure minimum loss of profits. Brand Events. Event Tech. Sporting Events. Areas of interest.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

With over 3,000 global buyers and 3,000+ exhibiting companies already confirmed, IMEX America 2022 is set to be one of its largest editions since its launch in 2011, suggesting a confidence-boosting bounce-back for the global meetings, incentive travel and business events industry.

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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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Expo Logic

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Over 180 clients have benefited from our badge printing solution, badge[on]demand™, by directly printing badges from their database of choice at events. Since badge[on]demand™ launched in 2011, we’ve helped our clients with over 2,300 events to provide seamless badge printing on-site. Track attendance with live reporting.

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zkipster

DECEMBER 28, 2022

I started an IT apprenticeship at Reuters at the age of 16, which gave me a useful grounding in tech and the power of data, whilst simultaneously studying for my International Baccalaureate. I’ve managed to build a global network of friends, connections and collaborators over the years, many of whom I met via the event industry.

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Boomset

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Boomset was founded in 2011 by two friends who were tired of waiting in long registration lines at events. Since then, Boomset’s solution has expanded beyond mobile check-in and on-demand badging to include event registration, facial recognition check-in, and gamification features to name a few.

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Endless Events

JUNE 8, 2018

Top-level corporate event planning requires a certain skill set to pull off. You need to get sponsors to foot part of the bill for the event. You also need to do enterprise event marketing and take your management, analytics, and execution to a higher level. As a bonus, here’s our free event planning checklist.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Cvent, a market leader in meetings, events, and hospitality technology, today announced that it has acquired Social Tables, the leading event diagramming, seating, and collaboration platform. million events. million events. As a fellow DC-area software company, this is even more special for the DC tech community.

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Venues 2011 Hospitality Technology 66

The Modern Event

JUNE 1, 2016

In This Episode: Today’s guest is Liz King, NYC-Based Forward-thinking Event Planning, Queen of Details, Blogger & Speaker. She was named Top 25 Most Influential Event Planners in 2013, also was named 40 Under 40 Up-and-Coming Event Planners in 2011, the #Eventprofs Most Thought Provoking Blog and People’s Choice Award.

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Certain

MAY 9, 2018

With the Spring event season upon us, news affecting marketers on technology and trends is even more abundant. This year’s list was expansive to say the least, spanning 49 unique categories and showcasing 6,829 solutions (which is more than all of the solutions listed from 2011-2016 combined). The Right Tech AND The Right Team.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

9, the 2017 IMEX America event will bring more than 12,000 attendees and 3,200 exhibitors from more than 130 countries to Sands Expo and The Venetian/The Palazzo for education, networking and inspiration. New this year will be an expanded Technology Pavilion to facilitate Tech Tours. Starting Oct.

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Capterra Event Management

JUNE 21, 2017

What does facial recognition tech mean for event planners? I’ve compiled the three major benefits of facial recognition technology for event managers. These benefits range from research to security, both of which will leave event planners safer and far more knowledgeable. Event Feedback Research. In order to.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 2, 2018

Event Details. First, What Is Deep Tech? 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. Hello Tomorrow Global Summit.

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Python Events

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Now, obviously, we’re biased, but… Seatedly stands out for offering an affordable yet powerful event ticketing platform that boasts a wide range of features. Seatedly allows you to sell tickets for both physical or online events. Being a nimble tech startup means we have the flexibility to adapt faster than our competitors.

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