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

Endless Events

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 2015. So why should event and meeting planners care?What It could also mean a lack of choice for event and meeting planners and more. Kelso & Co.

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Smart Meetings Celebrates 4 Folio Eddie/Ozzie Wins

SmartMeetings

November 11, 2016 – Smart Meetings, the leading media company and most trusted resource for meeting professionals, was awarded two Eddie Awards and two Ozzie Awards at the 2016 Eddie & Ozzie Awards by Folio in New York City. 1 resource for meeting planners,” says Marin Bright, CEO and founder of Smart Meetings.

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Convene’s 27th Annual Meetings Market Survey

PCMA Convene

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 compared to +4.9

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PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2017

PCMA Convene

Because the meeting and event professionals who are honored are rather young and already quite accomplished. As a “government” meeting planner, I am con-stantly challenged with limited budgets, outdated technology, and long-lasting traditions. What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far?

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

I n a real sense, Convene , which was launched in 1986, grew up alongside the meetings profession. As late as 1980, there was no textbook on meeting or exposition management and only one accredited college program devoted to its practice, former Convene editor Peter Shure pointed out in a 2003 story in the magazine.

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