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New Realms, New Ideas: Virtual Reality Tech Is Transforming Events, Experiences

Smart Meetings

The evolving VR technology supports experiences that teach and connect people—a practice at the heart of event planning. Parallel , a partner platform that works in tandem with Bluewater as one, unified support for entirely virtual events, says it isn’t about “[replacing] real-world events,” but extending them.

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Insights from Meetings and Event Technology Expert: QnA with Corbin Ball

Hubilo Blog

With approximate 20 years of experience in event technology, his work has been recognized and appreciated plenty of times. . Corbin started off his career as the Meetings Manager and Head of Conference Operations for SPIE? Back then, the state of the art of event technology was an overhead projector.

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

Endless Events

January 2015. 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. Kelso & Co. January 2014. Olympus Partners, Goldman Sachs acquire PSAV . major markets.

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3 Ways to Engage Your Audience at Your Event

Social Tables

If you tie the event hashtag into more common hashtags that would be used by your attendees, in this case, #meetingprofs and #eventprofs, it increases engagement rates two times higher than tweets without hashtags. In January 2015, 3,700 #meetingprofs & #eventprofs will attend Convening Leaders in #Chicago ! Register now: #pcmaCL.

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

The class was the first Deep Learning course offering at Stanford and has grown from 150 enrolled in 2015 to 330 students in 2016, and 750 students in 2017. Now producing events across the country for clients like Emerald City Comicon, Anheuser-Busch, Warner Brothers, Morton Salt & Uber. Check out the new age event software.

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Top 98 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

The class was the first Deep Learning course offering at Stanford and has grown from 150 enrolled in 2015 to 330 students in 2016, and 750 students in 2017. Now producing events across the country for clients like Emerald City Comicon, Anheuser-Busch, Warner Brothers, Morton Salt & Uber. Check out the new age event software.

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PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2017

PCMA Convene

It was this moment where I realized that experiences in meetings can have an impact on attendees, and reshaped how I viewed my career. At some point, I would like to branch out in my career and experience what meeting planning is like in the private sector. What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far?

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