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5 Valuable Lessons Event Professionals Learned in 2019

Maritz Global Events

Meeting and event professionals gained a ton of insights in 2019. We countdown the favorites over the past year and how they can help your event move forward. From examining different options to spatial design, from social media to the over-50 crowd, there was a lot of accessible content that event professionals found helpful.

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First Business Events Industry Week Celebrated Power of Meeting

Smart Meetings

More than 2,000 meetings industry folks gathered at Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center for the launch of Business Events Industry Week , a concentration of events designed to illustrate the Power of Purpose exercised when people come together. global account executive with Marriott International.

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Transforming a Biennial Congress Into an Annual Global Event

PCMA Convene

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 Foundation honours business events leaders at Visionary Awards

Event Industry News

PCMA Foundation celebrated the business events industry and honored 21 outstanding professionals for their dedication, innovation and passion at the 2019 Visionary Awards in Washington, D.C. The 2019 event was held in partnership with Visit Austin and Austin Convention Centre. Finalists for the award: Heather M.

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The Road to IMEX: 3 Months to Go, and an Outpouring of Interest

Smart Meetings

“The past 18 months have been a period of tumultuous change, and the current business landscape looks very different to 2019. With fewer than 11 weeks to go and counting, 3,000 hosted buyers have registered for the return of the largest annual industry event—outpacing projections. 8 before the official conference begins. “It

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Can One Virtual Meeting Platform Rule Them All?

Smart Meetings

Vice President and General Manager Eric Spadafora said he is seeing requests for conferences for 100,000 or more people. These are not just big video conferences, but actual events,” he said. Or will a lack of choice force event designers to compromise to fit into the box? Is Bigger Better?

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Designing for Belonging

MeetingsNet

While conference teams often have diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in their sights, belonging is the next step forward. A telling statistic from a 2019 workplace study by BetterUp reveals that employees who feel a sense of belonging are 167 percent more likely to recommend their company to others as a great place to work.

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