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PSAV Acquires Encore Event Technologies: What It Could Mean for Event and Meeting Planners

Endless Events

October 2012. This will greatly impact the event and meeting planning industry because planners will now only have 1 technology option at hotels, limiting options for flexibility in their venue selection process. The acquisition could turn out to be really good for meeting planners and hotels. Kelso & Co.

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Get Smart! There Was Never a Better Time to Up Your Game

SmartMeetings

In many organizations, the meeting planning function is viewed as administrative. ELI has many offerings, including certificates in Fundraising Event Management, Event Entrepreneurship: Growth Strategies, and Pandemic Meeting & Event Design. Currently, it is given twice a year, with the next offering in January.

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Convene’s 27th Annual Meetings Market Survey

PCMA Convene

Spending less — Despite the continued improved economy, most meeting organizers are still being asked to cut back on meeting expenses, and the majority (63 percent) have been asked to focus on reducing F&B expenses, followed by AV costs (54 percent). NUMBER OF MEETINGS PLANNED. 2012 Registration.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

Another big, ongoing story has been the transformation of the image that meeting professionals hold of themselves. Meeting planning, which used to be described as an ‘Old Boys’’ network, may soon be a ‘Young Women’s’ network. Are there reams of meeting resumes and contracts stacked on your desk?

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