Smart Meetings

MARCH 2, 2022

And specific to the trends that were emerging in 2016, we are now wading waist-deep in most of them. People are rejecting the old social contract, reevaluating their personal hierarchy of needs, and exploring a new path to happiness. One that jumped out at me was a trend labeled “intelligent reduction.”

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Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 6, 2016

The Senior Planners Industry Network is doing something unprecedented this fall: it is waiving the typical registration fees for SPINCon, its 7 th annual conference taking place November 13-15 in Ft. The Call for Speakers for the annual conference generated three times the normal amount of session submissions.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

It’s not just Covid-19 (C19) and it’s much more than F&B , room blocks and hotel contracts. However, the FBI reports active shooter events increased 33 percent in 2020 compared to 2019 and 100 percent compared to 2016. We’re moving into year three of what will most likely be a continuation of the dreaded ‘P’ word: pivoting.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Paje Consultancy Ltd are delighted to announce they have been awarded the contract to provide a full marketing, membership and enquiry service to the prestigious Westminster Venue Collection (WVC) from 1 st November 2021.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 5, 2018

As it turns out, the notion of an inclusion rider — a clause that an actor can insist be inserted in his or her contract requiring that the cast and crew on a film meet a certain level of diversity — was first floated at a conference. the presenters and speakers) engage audiences with captivating stories.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 9, 2018

For every dollar spent on face-to-face meetings and business events in 2016, it generated an additional $1.60 In 2016, six million international attendees came to the U.S. for events and conferences. The 2016 numbers look even more dramatic when the industry looks in the rearview mirror. in benefits to the U.S.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 3, 2020

Karishma Vaswani, Asia business correspondent of BBC World News, chairs the session Asian Capital Going Global during the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference (BFA) in Boao, south China’s Hainan Province, March 24, 2016. Credit: Yang Guanyu/Xinhua/Alamy Live News. How else can your speaker add value during the event?

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

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. Here are some highlights of the results: Size of 2017 convention/meeting budget vs. 2016 convention/meeting budget — -1 percent compared to +1.7

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 9, 2019

I also manage the pre-show selection process, including contracting, site selection and visitation. Impressive stats: Since the implementation of both events in 2016, our Training@HQ program has brought in more than $50,000 per year. What I am working on now: I’m gearing up for our annual WASTECON conference in Phoenix, Arizona.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 20, 2020

One of the 9,000 tweets during the Allied Genetics Conference included art created by the attendees. For the Genetics Society of America (GSA), the stakes were even higher: The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC) , which was scheduled for April 22-26, 2020, in Washington, D.C., Most of the tweets, organizers say, were positive.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Out and about in Dublin at LavaCon 2016. Jack Molisani has produced an annual event for senior-level content managers, LavaCon Content Strategy Conference, in cities throughout the United States for the past 15 years. So Molisani organized LavaCon in Dublin in 2016. So I signed the contract with Croke Park, yay.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 31, 2020

Founded in 2016 by former MeetingRooms.com CEO, ?Caleb As with other Newable workplaces, Bold will be offered to hotel investors and asset owners through franchise and contract agreements. Caleb Parker?,

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 30, 2022

The campaign to eliminate single-use plastic from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which hosts corporate and group events, began with a conversation in its gift shop in 2016. The initiative, however, spread from Monterey throughout SSA, which has contracts with more than 75 cultural attractions across the U.S.,

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Eventinterface

AUGUST 15, 2016

Mia Monroe is an award-winning certified special event, meeting and government meeting professional, speaker, author of trade articles and the conference and event manager for NASA Johnson Space Center’s Human Health and Institutional Management contract for Florida-based AllPoints, LLC. Conference and Event Manager.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 9, 2019

I have a combined deep industry knowledge with experience design and project management, while maintaining excellent stakeholder relationships to elevate customer engagement in my company’s annual conference. When I moved to the Washington D.C.

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The Planner's Lounge

MARCH 21, 2024

Veronica, Association of Bridal Consultants [00:05:43] Our World of Weddings conference is the top thing that brings people in. Love that I have been to so many conferences. I was cleaning my office and found notebooks full of conference notes that I was like, oh yeah, that was a good idea. I don’t even have a contract.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 8, 2020

Martin Conference Center. Metrock has hosted a series of meetings on voice activation in different industry sectors since 2016, around the time of the launch of Amazon’s “Alexa” device. Because Score Publishing’s events are geared to audiences of 100 to 800, Metrock doesn’t contract for room blocks. Registration Cycles.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 28, 2016

But neither brother showed any early promise as a high achiever, they told the audience at the opening keynote at ASAE’s 2016 Annual Meeting & Exposition , held at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City on Aug. Participants created their own sessions using Open Space techniques. Zero Tolerance’.

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Planning Pod

JANUARY 17, 2017

That was a period when conferences were being cancelled, meetings dramatically cut back and weddings put on hold, and since then clients and promoters have generally taken a more judicious and measured approach to event budgeting and spending. Negotiate contracts with ferocity. Here’s a great post on writing headlines and names.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

At your next conference, your Millennial, Gen-X, and Boomer attendees will get to choose the sessions that best suit them — but they’ll all be together for the opening reception and closing party. ” Rorman and Owen both urge planners to pay close attention to contracts. ” What is important to look for in a contract?

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

And then 2016 they acquire Southern Audio Visual. 2016, one year later. We were just talking with a bunch of those guys up in Edmonton for the Go West Conference. You can negotiate these contracts. But it’s in the contract is exclusive provider and that was non-negotiable. They’re just in Arizona.

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Connect Your Meetings

MAY 4, 2017

What I do: I started my business, Z—Factor, two years ago with the goal of providing tools to help hotels and conference centers increase their revenues. Demandoutlook.com, our conference benchmarking tool, is one of our most successful. About two years later, I’m hiring around 60 people on contracts.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

am, walking 25,000 steps at conference and rated by Forbes as the fifth most stressful job. It’s no secret that there are examples where the agency which has submitted the most “competitive” bid has had to walk away from the contract in less than a year, as they have been unable to deliver on the work.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2017

And their searches are taking them to many digital destinations outside the “Hotel & Travel” section of the typical conference website. A 2015 Tourism Economics study of 170-plus events revealed that more than 34 percent of rooms are being booked outside the contracted room block. EMBRACING ALTERNATIVES.

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Bizzabo

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

This is a great resource packed with tips and tricks for event organizers on topics anywhere from gender inclusion and experiential design to negotiating contracts and live streaming your first event. Outside of the podcast series, EventLAB hosts a number of in-person events and a flagship two-day conference.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 25, 2019

December 2016. Usually when hotels bring AV companies to bid on for the exclusive in-house AV contract hotels typically will go with the company that gives them the biggest kickback and the best incentives. It Could Bring New and Fresh Opportunities. The acquisition could turn out to be really good for meeting planners and hotels.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 31, 2016

“We’re walking the talk,” said Julie Tonroy, CMP, ILFI’s director of conferences and events. Living Future 2016 , which was held at the Westin Seattle on May 11–13, brought together more than 1,000 architects, engineers, city planners, contractors, and others in the building and construction trades.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 24, 2018

When Marriott acquired Starwood in September 2016, it added 11 new brands—including Sheraton and Westin—that contained some of the leading hotels in the world. The Westin Copley Place, Boston. The purchase strengthened Marriott’s presence in many locations, and has been a total game-changer in some places, such as Boston.

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Capterra Event Management

JULY 19, 2017

There are many event types , big and small, such as conferences, seminars, meetings, team building events, trade shows, business dinners, networking events, product launches, and award ceremonies. Will you provide in-house catering services or contract out for catering? Not every event planning business is the same.

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Plan Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Be candid with the venue and build the option to scale down to a smaller room into your contract. Build the option to move to a more affordable sister property into your contract. In fact, build this into your contracts. When the event was cancelled, Aaron Kaufman, Liz King and Dahlia El Gazzar conferred online.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 30, 2019

In an opinion piece for The Dallas Morning News, Sam Merten, a member of the Opportunity Dallas board of directors and the City of Dallas Citizens Homelessness Commission, took issue with Jones’ salary, calling it “a staggering compensation of $670, 317” in 2016. billion budget and 13,000 employees, earns $395,000 annually.”.

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Social Tables

DECEMBER 13, 2016

So, let’s say you are tasked with planning a small conference in a foreign country perhaps on another continent. APEX may also be a good reference point when it comes to contracts, however, the quality and availability of equivalent resources for other regions is inconsistent. Where do you start? Research the Culture. Click To Tweet.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 8, 2021

As a conference organizer you may want to be more proactive than that. Hotels understand this, but what planners need to have is language in their contracts that the facilities will hold harmless and will defend the planner in any suits resulting from the service of alcohol,” he says. A Tipsy ‘New Normal’?

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 30, 2016

Every few years the question comes up as to whether or not [procurement] should be handling our contracts,” she said. “We We had one client whose procurement department planned a conference, and we handled everything for them,” Owen said. “I A detailed scope of work may be the best weapon in the quiver.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

Over the 24 days she was on site for the 2016 LA Auto Show, Toennies — executive vice president and general manager of ANSA Productions, which owns and operates the show — logged 160 miles on her FitBit as she regularly walked the perimeter to verify that security personnel were in their proper positions. This is always evolving.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Cleveland Rocks  The city welcomed the 2016 Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena on July 18–21. When I visited Cleveland just 12 days ahead of the 2016 Republican National Convention (RNC), held at Quicken Loans Arena on July 18–21, preparations were in full swing. Back to the Big Leagues. They work in theater.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Winners received complimentary PCMA membership along with registration to both PCMA Convening Leaders 2018 this month and the 2018 PCMA Education Conference in June. All of the project management and multitasking required to balance projects and budgets, contracts, and details keeps me engaged and looking forward to coming to work.

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