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Your Conference Needs a Hub To Entice Customers and Prospects

Velvet Chainsaw

At a recent conference consultation with a client, a millennial made me think that I wasn’t keeping up with the times. I voiced my strong opinion that conference organizers should embrace inbound marketing (pull) over traditional outbound marketing (push). I reiterated that their conference needed a home base to optimize.

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New Study: Almost 70% of Professional Event Speakers are Male

Bizzabo

We recently released the results of our first ever “Gender Diversity & Inclusion in Events Report.” The report analyzed the gender diversity of more than 60,000 event speakers over a five-year period, from 2013 to 2018. Almost 70% of All Event Speakers are Male. US Beats UK & Canada on Gender Diversity.

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7 Tips to Keep Your Event Speakers Coming Back

Eventmobi

G2 Crowd is the leading website for online business software and service reviews, where Event Mobi ranks as a High Performer on the Summer 2018 Mobile Event Apps Report. Event speakers are essential to a successful event marketing strategy. And, for attendees to learn, they need someone to learn from, aka — your speaker!

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Five New Event Planning Trends to Watch in 2019

Attendease

You’d think that, given that the Oxford Economics and Events Industry Council reports that “meetings generated $1,294 of spending per participant,” event and meeting planners would be given budgetary free rein to produce the kinds of events needed to generate these economic returns. Here are the five I’m paying attention to this year: 1.

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The Business of Events: First speakers and contributors confirmed for UK Policy Forum

Prestige Events Magazine

The Business of Events is pleased to announce its first confirmed speakers and contributors ahead of its UK Policy Forum , which takes place on 8 th November at IET London: Savoy Place. In 2018 He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Hull and made CBE in The Queen’s New Year Honours List.

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Lessons learned from online meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic

Conferences that Work

All quotes are from the article “ Virtual Growing Pains: Initial Lessons Learned from Organizing Virtual Workshops, Summits, Conferences, and Networking Events during a Global Pandemic “ in the Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin. Conferences are an important learning and support resource for early career scientists.

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Why have a keynote speaker at your event? The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference.

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