SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Andrew Friedman, founder and partner at af&co, delivered a well-received, engaging Smart Meetings webinar on Dec. 5, “2018 Industry Forecast: Strategies & Tips for the Year Ahead.”. Smart Meetings followed up with Friedman after the webinar to glean some additional insights into his annual forecasts.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 2, 2019

Today we are reflecting on 2018 and discussing our hosts favorite tools for event profs from the past year. Brandt Krueger of Event Technology Consulting ( @BrandtKrueger ). Klik – Plan for the unplannable with the world’s most collaborative events platform. Alex Plaxen of Little Bird Told Media ( @APlaxen ).

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MeetingPool

JANUARY 16, 2018

While most events feature numerous breakout sessions, speakers, and floor demos, ensuring attendees have the ability to connect with other professionals and suppliers for one-to-one meetings is becoming a must.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Nir Eyal is an expert on “behavioral design”, a field Nir discovered out his passion for psychology, technology, and business. After a successful career as an entrepreneur and tech executive, Pizzaro took to writing about the impact of technology on business, society, and the greater world. You can connect with him on LinkedIn.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Nir Eyal is an expert on “behavioral design”, a field Nir discovered out his passion for psychology, technology, and business. After a successful career as an entrepreneur and tech executive, Pizzaro took to writing about the impact of technology on business, society, and the greater world. You can connect with him on LinkedIn.

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Hubilo Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Event technology has a great impact on its users as well as the readers. September month has seen a great contribution of technology in the event sector and various issues and aspects being addressed of the event and meeting industry. Velvet Chainsaw — Time Capsules, Time Machines And Evolution Of Traditional Meeting Planners

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 26, 2018

Not only are we in a seller’s market, but planners will also face tighter budgets, higher meeting costs, and less bandwidth. So, what happens when an unstoppable force (supplier price increases) meets an immovable object (meeting planning budgets)? . The best rates, dates, and space in 2018 have already been booked.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

5000 (Greenleaf, 2018) , is president of PRA New Orleans, a business event management firm creating unique experiences for corporate groups. Formerly an angel investor, Jeff has backed several startups in the fields of technology, biotech, consumer staples and alternative energy.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Contrary to the claims that modern technology is the reason we’re all so disconnected (which have some basis) when used properly, it can connect attendees through heavy engagement and collaboration. Related: 11 Event Tech Trends That Shaped 2018. When planning your event next time, go outside of the box.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 23, 2018

Brennan also plans to discuss motivators for driving emotional engagement and how those relate to the business of conventions and meeting planning. To win, businesses must take the best of the visceral connections made in a human-to-human environment but power them with the convenience that today’s technology provides.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 9, 2018

A popular Future of Face2Face area at Music City Center offered up event technology that is reinventing the meeting for 2018. She advised focusing on how audiences consume information, rather than how groups want to deliver it. The Future is Now.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 29, 2017

By late 2018, Monte Carlo Resort and Casino will rebrand as two hotels, NoMad Las Vegas and Park MGM. When it opens in 2018, rumors are that the Manhattan glitterati haunt Cipriani and L.A. of new, technologically advanced, flexible meeting space across four stories. They should all be “soup-ed up” by 2018.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Hilton has also been focused on streamlining services through applying current technologies. Our plan is to have all three hotels open and operational by the winter season of 2017–2018,” Davis said. The Hilton Honors logo will change from HHonors to Honors, removing one H, and will no longer use “Worldwide” in its title.

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Planner WIre

JUNE 6, 2019

Yes, it is not lost on me that this is weird considering that most of our meeting planning stress comes through the information superhighway straight to the thing in our pocket that goes beep-boop all day long. We travel the globe educating conference attendees about technology and productivity. per month.

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Planner WIre

JUNE 6, 2019

Yes, it is not lost on me that this is weird considering that most of our meeting planning stress comes through the information superhighway straight to the thing in our pocket that goes beep-boop all day long. We travel the globe educating conference attendees about technology and productivity. per month.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Close to Smart Meetings’ home office in Sausalito, California, Moscone Center in San Francisco is undergoing major modifications. Started in 2015, this convention center project will be complete by the end of 2018. The expansion will increase Moscone’s size from 614,839 to 772,179 sq. ”… More.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Here are some highlights of the results: Size of 2017 convention/meeting budget vs. 2016 convention/meeting budget — -1 percent compared to +1.7 2018 attendance vs. 2017 attendance (projected) — +3.2 Number of 2018 exhibitors vs. 2017 exhibitors (projected) — +1.4 Of course, technology continues to reshape events.

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Event Leadership Institute

JULY 16, 2020

Below are several tech tools to help pivot your event and meeting planning in the COVID-19 era. This list isn’t comprehensive—just a small sampling of all the available event management and planning technology!). Planners create a seating chart of accepted guests using the platform’s Drag-and-Drop Seating Chart feature.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

A slew of emerging companies is now allowing planners to book hotel-alternative spaces using search technology that has already transformed how people buy cars and set up dates. She describes the technology platform as a concierge connecting meeting organizers to space owners in undiscovered places. View this post on Instagram.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Standing out in a trade show means getting lots of different factors right, and one of them is the technology. So if you want to be the first adopter of future trends, start checking out facial recognition technology and machine learning. Standing Out in E3 2018. Also, VR technology is always something people are curious to try.

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Endless Events

MAY 10, 2019

The proportion increased 17 percent between 2017 and 2018. That said, you might find yourself needing to balance planning a massive convention with smaller events. Planning a franchise convention, or even just a corporate meeting for your franchise, is no easy feat.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Vice President of Global Business Development and Strategy Milton Rivera described the data about the pressure planners face to deliver more meaningful experiences with measurable results using advanced technology as “an epiphany” about the elevation of professionalism now in the industry.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 2, 2017

Meeting planners are increasingly forced to compete with smartphones and tablets for attention, so impressive and innovative A/V setups are crucial. Event professionals can play with out-of-the-box ideas such as interactive displays and virtual reality setups, but taking on the latest technology will cost a pretty penny.

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