PCMA Convene

JUNE 6, 2017

Last Friday, Event Leadership Institute Executive Director Howard Givner took the stage at techsytalk LIVE 2017 , a two-day event tech conference in the heart of Midtown, New York. 75% of attendees say networking is their primary reason to attend an event. etouches (@etouches) June 2, 2017. techsytalk.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

Event Details. Startup Grind 2017 Global Conference. 21–22, 2017 Fox Theatre Redwood City, California. Sometimes called “the United Nations for startups,” the Startup Grind Global Conference is an annual event designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 7, 2017

In addition to data about quantifiable things like the size, frequency, costs, and types of meetings, our Annual Meetings Market Survey also captures a wealth of data in the form of comments in response to a series of open-ended questions. Last week we published comments about the meeting industry’s biggest challenges.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 22, 2017

According to the 2017 Disability Equality Index (DEI), a survey conducted by the U.S. Can the same be said about business events? Convene asked Joan Eisenstodt, who as chief strategist for her firm Eisenstodt Associates consults on event design. . How do you know —or that you won’t by the time of the meeting?

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 13, 2017

is gearing up to host a slew of citywide conventions and meetings in 2018 that are coming to the capital for the first time. Each event will host 2,500 attendees or more next year. will welcome 21 citywide conventions and special events in 2018, with 422,434 total room nights and an economic impact of $361 million,” said Elliott L. “Our

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2018

2017 GameStop Conference and WB Injustice eSports Tournament. Dynamic use of stage design and lighting bring events to life, GameStop’s Samantha Vogel pointed out in her nomination of the 2017 GameStop Conference and WB Injustice eSports Tournament for this category. Insanely Innovative Meeting Space.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The last time NSBE held its convention in Pittsburgh in 2012, the event left behind more than $15 million dollars in direct spending. “I “This is precisely the kind of meeting group that we want to attract in Pittsburgh. — GM Diversity (@GM_Diversity) April 12, 2017. The Annual Convention — themed “Ignite.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 24, 2017

When we receive the results to our annual Meetings Market Survey every year, we turn first to the responses to open-ended questions. Often, the comments give us as much or more insight than other metrics in terms of what’s on event organizers’ minds. Recruiting speakers. For example, when asked to identify their No.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

Convene has written a lot about groups that are consolidating their meeting portfolios—the American Society for Microbiology combining two annual conferences into one, the Consumer Bankers Association going from eight down to one—but the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) is going in the other direction.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Her latest work focuses on trust as the next big disrupter — a topic she’ll explore in depth at PCMA Convening Leaders 2017 next month. . How is the collaborative economy affecting the meetings and events industry? How is the concept of trust evolving in concert with the collaborative economy?

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Her latest work focuses on trust as the next big disrupter — a topic she’ll explore in depth at PCMA Convening Leaders 2017 next month. . How is the collaborative economy affecting the meetings and events industry? How is the concept of trust evolving in concert with the collaborative economy?

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zkipster

APRIL 28, 2017

Successful events have a powerful impact on people, reshaping the way they view themselves and others. Most of us think that flawless logistics, powerful communication, and good content (or impressive speakers) are enough to run high-quality events. Now choose three of these activities, and incorporate them in the event design.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 28, 2016

In one of Convene ‘s surveys last year , more than half of the event organizer participants told us that they do not intentionally choose a lineup of presenters from a diversity perspective, nor is it important to their organization and/or their audience that male and female speakers are equally represented on their conference stage.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2017

If you were to only go by its promise — “No egos, no agendas, no b t.” — you could mistake the Fifteen Seconds Festival for a no-frills, cut-to-the-chase kind of meeting for entrepreneurs. What we do,” Thiemo Gillissen, the event’s co-founder and partner, told Convene, “is a business conference done differently.”. 100+ SPEAKERS. “We

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2018

After wrapping up what he felt was another successful Risk Management Society (RIMS) conference in 2017, RIMS vice president of events and education, Stuart Ruff-Lyon, CMP, DES, got some disturbing feedback: Multiple women said they had felt out of place at the event. Stuart Ruff-Lyon, CMP, DES. RIMS18 Diversity Meetup.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Meetings don’t look how they used to. Today, planners are racing to adapt to trends that make conferences and events more engaging and dynamic than ever before. But when it comes to trends, where should meeting industry professionals put their focus? Here are five meeting industry trends that are changing the game.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Change is imminent — and in the meetings industry, it’s upon us. From more engaging, holistic experiences to the the bold new expectations of “bleisure,” event planners and suppliers are racing to adapt in an industry that’s as dynamic as it’s ever been. C2 is pushing the envelope for event experiences.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When we invited event professionals to participate in this Annual Meetings Market Survey in November, the U.S. Similarly, the chief indicators of the business-events industry continued to reflect a healthy economic environment, with mostly positive increases. 2017 attendance vs. 2016 attendance — +3.6 percent vs. +4.6

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Bizzabo

MAY 8, 2019

Held in Las Vega, NV, the conference is a massive collection of keynote speakers, technical presentations, and fun. Do what you can to bring in top-tier keynote speakers. And don't forget to add play into your event agenda. Corporate event management doesn’t have to be boring. Source: Network World. but that's not all.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

Because the meeting and event professionals who are honored are rather young and already quite accomplished. This is our fourth class,” said PCMA President and CEO Deborah Sexton, “and with each one, we are struck by the passion and insights these individuals bring to the business-events community.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 3, 2017

As a result, 2017 convention attendees from across the country were given the opportunity to engage with their government representatives during a business session, via a simple text. For those who did not participate in the event, video displays throughout the course of the meeting provided instructions on how to take action.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 25, 2019

The appetite for experiential tours among those who come to Portland for meetings and conventions has grown noticeably in the last two years, Morgan said. Morgan plans her tours using some of the same skills and insights that event designers employ — her events just happen to be mobile. No, Don’t Give Them the Generic.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2017

When he takes the Main Stage at PCMA Education Conference 2017 in New York City this month, Wallaert plans to discuss how behavioral psychology can help meeting organizers and attendees alike purposefully achieve their goals at an event. How do you think event organizers can plan an unhurried meeting?

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 4, 2019

The appetite for experiential tours among those who come to Portland for meetings and conventions has grown noticeably in the last two years, Morgan said. Morgan plans her tours using some of the same skills and insights that event designers employ — her events just happen to be mobile. No, Don’t Give Them the Generic.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 15, 2024

Here’s a short introduction to these technologies, and how the meeting industry is starting to use them. In 2017, Apple introduced Face ID to unlock its phones and authenticate payments. In 2017, Apple introduced Face ID to unlock its phones and authenticate payments. They have been available since the 1960s.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 2, 2018

Lisa VanRosendale, senior vice president of client development for the brand experience agency FreemanXP, was one of PCMA’s Event Designer of the Year finalists. After the 2017 meeting, 100 percent of attendees said they would attend another Siebel conference. Lisa VanRosendale. on March 3. We never let up the whole time.”

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2018

The new event — orchestrated by Hope, senior vice president, meetings and expositions, for association-management firm Kellen Company — was several years in the making, and part of GSUSA’s strategy to “retool how they position themselves,” Hope said, “with members of the future.”. The GSUSA Council Meeting. CHOP IT IN HALF’.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2017

At Convene , we’ve made it a year-end tradition to ask ourselves this question: What’s the one meeting trend we’ll be keeping an eye on next year? . In 2018, I expect to see speaker lineups at conferences and conventions feature a range of voices outside the old-school white male CEO mold.

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Bizzabo

AUGUST 22, 2018

Six Last Minute Event Promotion Strategies : Six ways to promote your event effectively when you’re on a tight deadline. Five Trends Event Planners Should Know Before Booking A Keynote Speaker: Key trends organizers should be paying attention to this year to book the right speaker. The Ultimate Design Handbook.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Hundreds of startup founders met face-to-face with potential investors during prescheduled “investor office hours” or met more casually in “investor lounges” or at networking events. MoneyConf’s organizers describe the conference as “a space where technology meets money, money meets people, people meet ideas, and ideas become reality.”.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 3, 2017

On May 18, the tour stopped in London, taking over approximately one-third of the 1 million square feet of meeting and exhibit space at ExCeL (Exhibition Centre London). The framework for each World Tour event is the same, but the session content varies depending on the market,” Roques said. “We BLAZING A TRAIL. GIVING AWAY EDUCATION.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 9, 2018

PCMA Convening Leaders 2018 Keynote Speaker Neri Oxman, professor at the MIT Media Lab. It’s going to get out there, so it might as well be out there in a good way.” — Darlene Somers, senior meetings manager, Association Management Center. “The hotel room is the enemy of the meeting planner. Photo Credit Jacob Slaton.

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Plan Your Meetings

JANUARY 28, 2019

Remember that glorious 2017 music festival in the Bahamas that garnered headlines for its excellent planning, exceptional execution and gorgeous attendees? After biting my nails and laughing for three hours watching the pair of Fyre docs, I thought more about the representation of meeting/event planning in film.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Every year, when we compile the latest Meetings Market Survey results, we compare them to the previous year’s survey. Other key benchmarks, like room-block size, reflect greater fluctuations, indicating that there are other factors at work besides the economy that affect the way event organizers do business. In last year’s survey: +2.9

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 28, 2018

GA also has created a pledge: “I will not serve as a panelist at a public conference when there are no women on the panel,” with the definition of a panel as three or more speakers. In 2017, Gender Avenger began organizing face-to-face meetings on Meetup, and plans to expand the scope of the GA Tally.

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