TicketBud

JANUARY 17, 2014

Tons of companies trying to promote their brand or latest product will host free brunches, lunches and other events with delicious food and, once you're in, you're good to grub. You might just meet your VIP connection. The post Ticketbud's SXSW 2014 Survival Guide appeared first on Ticketbud Blog. Seriously, we've done it.

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2014 Venues Hotels Meetings 60

Velvet Chainsaw

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In addition, with food waste such a significant issue — studies show that as much as 40 percent of the global food supply is wasted — inquire with your host hotels and convention centers on what food banks or groups are most in need, and work with them on making excess food donations from your events. Louis as meeting destinations.

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2012 2014 Banking Conference 364

Conferences that Work

JULY 2, 2018

Thirty minutes of discussion with three stakeholders revealed they hadn’t yet settled on the event’s specific purpose, scope, and format. hoping that in the process the event’s purpose and desired outcomes will become clearer. Great — a client who doesn’t know what they want!

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Meeting Design 2012 2014 Meetings 192

Quickmobile

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

How Mobile Impacted Meetings & Events. Thanks to the unprecedented growth of mobile devices, event apps hit the mainstream and continue to grow in popularity. Today, event apps have not only become the norm at events, but a necessity. Today, event apps have not only become the norm at events, but a necessity.

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Meetings Event Apps 2014 Social Media 122

Conferences that Work

JULY 8, 2019

Meeting planners typically default to squaring the circle when specifying room sets. They persist in seating attendees in long straight lines whenever possible, ignoring the benefits of curved and circular seating at their events. Even though many of the rounds used at meetings are far too large.)

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2011 2014 Conference Education 276

Event Industry News

MAY 1, 2020

The Sustainable Event Awards Celebrate Excellence in Event Sustainability. The judging panel for the inaugural awards is a stellar line-up of experts and we’d like to introduce them to you in our Meet the Judges series, kicking things off is Rick Stainton, Founder & Group Executive Director at Smyle Group. Best (and worst?)

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Sustainability Meetings 2010 2012 70

Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

And yes, I admit it, during the second day of my vacation while enjoying the harmonies I hear, I’m jolted to think about religious meeting design…. Religious services are thought to be around 300,000 years old — by far the oldest form of organized meeting that humans have created. Don’t let any one person talk too long.

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Meeting Design Meetings 2014 Speakers 154

TicketBud

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Imagine purchasing tickets to a highly-anticipated event promising exclusive talks with podcast celebrities and a panel with the actors from Supernatural and Harry Potter. According to a recent Maritz Industry Trends Report , most meeting expenses are up over 20 percent since before the pandemic. But, most budgets haven’t budged.

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Negotiating Financial Food and Beverage Sponsorships 113

Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Healthy Meeting Resources Help Planners Start Meaningful Discussions Looking for an easy way to keep everyone healthy when putting together an agenda? A History of Meeting Well The current focus on healthy meeting spaces is not the first time brands have gone beyond accommodating “dates and rates” to differentiate their spaces.

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Food and Beverage 2030 2023 2014 105

Event Industry News

JUNE 7, 2022

PCMA and CEMA President and CEO Sherrif Karamat celebrated the achievements of Patrizia Semprebene Buongiorno with the Global Meetings Executive of the Year award. Buongiorno is Vice President, AIM Group International, a company that for over sixty years has been one of the international leaders in events and conferences.

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2022 Meetings 2013 2012 52

Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Training associations how to create powerful and effective participant-driven and participation-rich conferences is one of the most rewarding aspects of my work: I love facilitating the learning that occurs, and the organization is then equipped with the process tools needed to transform their events.

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2013 2014 Education Conference 219

Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2019

This (slightly edited) interview by JT Long appeared in the March 2019 issue of Smart Meetings Magazine. I was an amateur in the meeting industry, and that led to some mistakes, but it also gave me a fresh perspective at a time when meeting design wasn’t really a “thing.” What led to writing the book, Conferences that Work ?

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2014 2019 Conference Meeting Design 244

Event Industry News

JUNE 7, 2019

The Events Industry Council recently announced 214 individuals passed the latest Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) examination. This distinguished credential, recognised throughout the events industry, demonstrates an individual’s comprehensive knowledge of meeting management as well as a commitment to the profession. .

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Healthcare Meetings 2014 Education 60

Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The Croke Park team are delighted to be shortlisted for the Event Technology Awards 2018 recognising the critical role technology plays at venues and events. Recently awarded Best Inhouse Events Team for the third consecutive year at the Event Industry Awards in Dublin, this team knows the importance of industry recognition.

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Meetings Wireless 2014 2015 67

Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 24, 2018

The five day event is being held by Federation EIL, the worldwide network of The Experiment in International. The Solution Room—a powerful conference session There’s been a lot of interest in The Solution Room, a session that I co-facilitated last July at Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress in Orlando, Florida.

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Conference 2014 2018 Speakers 215

Unique Venues

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Canada is an amazing country with so much to offer including beautiful landscapes, incredible wildlife, delicious maple syrup, friendly people and of course, amazing places to host your next event. After an expansion that doubled the event space size in 2014, the Aquarium can now host up to 2,000 guests across seven different meeting spaces.

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Venues Meetings 2014 Sports 69

Endless Events

JANUARY 25, 2019

You’ve probably seen the headlines “PSAV Acquires Encore Event Technologies” but don’t know how it affects you. If you are an event or meeting planner you’ve heard of PSAV. The news makes for shaky ground and uncertainty for meeting and event planners nationwide. January 2014.

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Event Technology Technology Meetings Hotels 110

zkipster

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

David Beinhauer is a backend developer and one of the founding members of our engineering team, having joined the company in 2014 after working on an early iteration of the zkipster app. We quickly set up a Zoom integration and began supporting virtual and hybrid events. He is based in Ostrava in the Czech Republic.

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Meetings 2014 Tech Technology 62

PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2018

In 2014, venture capitalist Ron Shah was deep into a month of internal meetings when the pipes burst in. He worked the phones in a rush, trying to clinch local hotel meeting rooms on short notice. Surely, he thought, there must be a less aggravating way to book small meetings. Bizly in action. his building.

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Meetings 2014 Food and Beverage Contracts 97

Endless Events

MAY 13, 2022

The events industry is exciting, ever-changing, and sociable. Being an event planner, event manager, or event marketer is a difficult job that demands a lot of energy and knowledge, but many of us are drawn to it because it is – above all else – rewarding. Event planning is an umbrella term.

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Event Planning Government Event Management 2014 133

Conferences that Work

MARCH 26, 2018

Being Schooled: Inside a Conference That Works “Mad blogger” Sue Pelletier of MeetingsNet has written an excellent article on her experiences at the four-day Conferences That Work format edACCESS 2014 annual meeting I convened in June.

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Conference 2014 2012 Technology 149

Prestige Events Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As well as a luxurious restaurant, tea lounges and a rooftop spa, The Parkgate Hotel benefits from two event spaces, The Postmaster Suite and The Telegraph Room. Holding up to 432 delegates, The Postmaster Suite is suitable for hosting larger meetings and dinners and benefits from its own private pre-event bar area.

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Hotels 2010 Meetings 2014 52

Connect Your Meetings

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Others like it, designed as special events during conventions and meetings, are happening throughout Colorado , Nevada and California. And as recreational marijuana achieves greater acceptance, cannabis events could become a regular part of many mainstream meetings, conventions and incentive programs. Joint Ventures.

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Meetings Food and Beverage Trade Shows 2014 81

SpotMe Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Our virtual event platform comparison helps you pick your next virtual event solution. There has never been a wider selection of tools to create virtual events. Be strategic before starting your virtual event platform comparison. The type of event or conference, and the goals you have are critical factors.

Event Tech 130

Event Tech Tech 2022 Trade Shows 130

Conferences that Work

MAY 21, 2018

The Solution Room is rapidly becoming a popular meeting plenary. Invented at MPI’s 2011 European Meetings and Events Conference, the session fosters active meaningful connections between attendees, and provides peer support and solutions to the real professional challenges currently faced by participants.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 29, 2019

Company name: Mixtroz Founded: 9 th November 2014 Web address: www.mixtroz.com. About: Mixtroz is the one of the only ways to increase attendee engagement and collect custom data in real time at events. Mixtroz services events, meetings, trainings, orientations, weddings, you name it—anywhere 50 or more are gathered.

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Event Tech Tech 2014 Sports 94

Conferences that Work

MAY 14, 2018

Mythodology: Event socials are a good way to meet people. Reality : People tend to stay with people they already know at event socials. Participant-driven and participation-rich events provide far more opportunities to meet people you actually want to meet. Mythodology: Learning occurs through events.

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Conference 2011 2014 Contracts 205

Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Chris Achacoso Chris Achacoso Achacoso rejoins Tourism Australia as business development manager in their special business unit Business Events Australia. His most recent role was associate director, Americas, at Business Events Sydney. He earlier served as Business Event Specialist at Tourism Australia.

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Tourism Hospitality Hotels 2014 105

Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

I’ve been promoting the Conferences That Work meeting format for so long, that some people assume I think it’s the right choice for every meeting. two meeting types and three situations when you should NOT use a Conferences That Work design: — Most corporate events. Many corporate events have a tight focus.

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Meeting Design Conference Meetings Conference Design 120

Conferences that Work

JUNE 3, 2019

At the time, I had no idea that what I instinctively put together for a gathering of people who barely knew each other would lead to: a global design and facilitation consulting practice; over 500 posts on this blog, which has now become, to the best of my knowledge, the most-visited website on meeting design and facilitation; three books (almost!)

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Conference 2014 Consulting Meeting Design 170

Event Industry News

AUGUST 25, 2021

Interactio is a leading remote solutions platform providing real-time multilingual interpretation services for remote or hybrid meetings. Interactio has been used to interpret and stream over 26,000 events since its launch in 2014. Our vision. We believe that every person should be able to converse in their preferred language.

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Meetings 2014 Social Media Speakers 52

Conferences that Work

JUNE 11, 2018

The professional meeting industry largely believes that: Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: Being Schooled: Inside a Conference That Works “Mad blogger” Sue Pelletier of MeetingsNet has written an excellent article on her experiences at the four-day Conferences That Work format edACCESS 2014 annual meeting I convened (..)

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Conference 2011 2014 Education 120

Smart Meetings

JULY 7, 2022

Gun violence in the United States is, unfortunately, a reality every event planner must confront. The number of people killed in mass shootings has risen from 272 in 2014 to 692 in 2021. With the recent Highland Park mass shooting , people are anxious about event safety. Not every event is created equal.

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2014 Venues Financial 2022 116

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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Event Technology Technology 2019 Meetings 64

PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 8, 2017

During a livestream hosted by PCMA back in 2013, Marie Lou Coupal, CMP, struck up a conversation with other meeting professionals in the group chat. “I Coupal and event-marketing strategist Rachel Stephan, whom she also met during the livestream, chartered a bus to Boston for 25 meeting professionals. Branding the experience.

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Meetings 2013 2014 Travel 74

Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Read More : Marriott’s ‘Meet with Momentum’ Creates Community Like None Other Andrew Casperson Promoted from executive vice president of operations, Casperson now holds the chief operating officer position for Coury Hospitality. Sweeney joined ECE as an agent in 2014 and became manager of the agency’s Philadelphia location in 2017.

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Hospitality 2008 Hotels 2014 59

Event Smart

JANUARY 2, 2020

Meet the Northwest Berry Foundation The Northwest Berry Foundation exists to strengthen the NW berry industry through on-farm research, grower education and information sharing, and reducing food waste.

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Conference 2014 Education Events 64