Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 22, 2022

While travel numbers continue to grow, the events industry has been forever changed since Covid stopped the world in 2019 and giving back to the community is a priority for the travel, hospitality and event professionals as we enter the new year. Team-building activities can go deeper than your standard trust fall exercises or rock climbing.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 15, 2020

For example, Jenny was excited to introduce a new conference app to help attendees navigate the conference. But this year, the conference center was woefully overbooked, with several meetings happening at once, and a harried staff late in setting up for dinner and no one to fix the AV system. The hitches piled up fast.

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Event Industry News

JULY 17, 2019

Global creative communications group, DRPG, held their annual summer conference at Wyboston Lakes in Bedford, on Monday 15 th July. The conference was attended by almost all 320 members of the DRPG team including the wider group. . Conferences. The hands will all be shipped to India and will be with recipients within 2 weeks.

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Event Farm

JUNE 9, 2021

Marcella Farman-Dietz, executive event consultant for Medialink, joined Ryan Costello, co-founder of Event Farm, to discuss a sample event budget for a one-day business summit and reception for 400 attendees at a hotel conference center in NYC. Missed Part IV of the Pandemic Compliance and Safety at Live Events panel?

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CadmiumCD

MARCH 26, 2020

A city-wide conference entails a great deal of planning, guiding, and creating. A strong and reliable website is an excellent tool for facilitating a great attendee experience for your conference. Attendees must know how to get to the conference, what to do during the conference, and after the conference convenes.

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Eventory

DECEMBER 4, 2018

What are the ten hottest event trends for 2019? Let’s check what will be new in 2019 to join proven trends. 2019 Trends in event management. However, if you hold an international conference for thousands of attendees, it might be a good call. In 2019, we will emphasize the safety issues of events.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Whittlebury Park luxury hotel, conference centre and golf course in Northamptonshire, experienced a robust growth in enquiries and bookings for corporate meetings and events in August and September this year, 95 per cent more than in May and June. This figure is just two per cent less than enquiries from the same period in 2019, pre-pandemic.

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EventUp

JULY 10, 2019

Lately, more and more companies are choosing to skip the hotel ballrooms and conference centers in lieu of nontraditional venues like theme parks, indoor karting tracks, and even escape rooms. With corporate team events, however, you have room to mix things up a bit. Live-Streaming and Virtual Participation.

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Event Industry News

JULY 20, 2022

Founder & Director, Abbi Jeffery, rebranded in 2019 to create abbi&me, and has continued to be a well-respected boutique event agency helping to fulfil the event needs of its clients. Leadership: Abbi Jeffery, founder of abbi&me events, started her career as a media executive, responsible for strategic planning and implementation.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 26, 2022

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. Stuff doesn’t get done unless people talk to each other, he said.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Interprefy has been shortlisted for three Event Technology Awards: Best use of Technology for Engagement & Interaction, Best Conference Technology and Best Event App. This achievement comes as no surprise when taken into account the sheer volume of hard work and dedication the company exercises to finetune its products and services.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Author Ritu Bhasin presents a session at PCMA EduCon 2019. What would you do differently if your job performance and compensation were evaluated based on overall session attendance and industry presenter ratings at your annual conference? Schedule at least two presenter webinars four to six weeks pre-conference.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 29, 2019

Tackling the mental health issue is a key HBAA campaign theme for 2019, supporting the next generation objectives. 4) Exercise – while some may not have the desire to go the gym, there are plenty of small opportunities for exercise, such as walks during lunch breaks, that can make a huge difference to overall health and wellbeing.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Social responsibility and relationships must be central to incentive travel planning, according to a document crafted at SITE’s Global Conference in Bangkok in January. The final 10 statements of The Bangkok Manifesto were then crowdsourced with the full conference assembly using Slido, the online, audience engagement platform.

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zkipster

MARCH 14, 2022

The British Council ‘s London-based events team took advantage of zkipster’s premium, modular, customizable Enterprise plan when they first came on board in 2019. “Having zkipster on board has been life-changing – we wouldn’t be able to do the Venice Biennale without it.”

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Back when I ran my first conference, I never had to think about someone attacking [the speaker] or jumping on stage,” Parr said. “I “The pandemic — combined with plenty of other cultural forces — has shaken up the way we live, increased stress and some bad behavior along with it,” according to a recent article in Axios. “I Samuel Thomas Jr.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 6, 2022

You’ll likely have loud critics weighing in on all your decisions — from exercising (or abandoning) COVID-19 safety regulations to holding an event in (or moving an event from) a state that’s instituted controversial legislation, to the way you are assigning priority to exhibitors who pulled out of your last show. Filter out the noise.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 17, 2020

Attendees at the 2019 annual conference of American Academy of Physician Assistants take advantage of one of the offerings: a workout class. Our attendees are cancer nurses,” said Jen Krause, the Oncology Nursing Society’s (ONS) director of national conferences and meetings. “Our Photos courtesy AAPA). Exhaustion.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 19, 2019

As the sun rose in Los Angeles on April 9, the second day of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries 2019 Convention & Exposition, a group of 140 attendees laced up their running shoes for a common convention morning activity: a fun run. You can register for the conference here. Mark Hayes/Skid Row Marathon).

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 15, 2019

With the countdown to Event Tech Live 2019 now firmly underway, we’ve noted an absence of discussion around a subject that unites so many facets of the exhibiting floor. . Conferences. Our most recent contribution at Event Industry News focused on the rising threat of cyber criminals to the industry at large. Areas of interest.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I used to be a spin instructor; I think group exercise is an interesting microcosm of what an event can be,” says Arianna. “I Originally, I started as a physical conference producer, and then 2020 happened. In 2019, we had an event app,” she says. “A In 2019, Arianna found that attendees will ask questions everywhere.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In 2019, the international conference that regularly attracts attendees from more than 50 countries was set to take place in Hong Kong. Participants chose how they wanted to experience sessions — while exercising or sitting. “We Changing plans on short notice is nothing new to organizers of the Global Wellness Summit.

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Bizzabo

JUNE 19, 2019

Apple’s event marketing team also plays host to a few famous gatherings, including the highly anticipated annual WWDC conference (mentioned below). Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is the company's biggest event of the year. First, build excitement for your conference or expo. Let's dive in! Source: YouTube.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 17, 2019

Participants at the 2017 Global Professionals Conference APAC in Bangkok, Thailand, got a bit of nature when they did a team-building exercise that involved planting rice. Pink’s insights inspired Kara Brockman, CAE, DES, education manager at PCMA, to schedule three outdoor sessions at the 2019 Education Conference in Los Angeles. “I

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Slido

MARCH 28, 2019

They used Slido to crowdsource the first-ever mission statement for the incentive travel industry at the Global Conference of the Society for Incentive Travel Excellence ( SITE ) in Bangkok. The final document would become the core reference point for all incentive travel professionals in 2019.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Antonio Codinach, PCMA’s regional business director for APAC, meets two of the dogs from Guide Dogs VIctoria during the recent AIME conference in Melbourne. This is how the sessions started, setting the stage for a series of challenges and team-building exercises that groups needed to do together — sans sight.

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Bizzabo

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The Visual Cloud Conference. The Visual Cloud Conference is a joint effort between IBC (the world’s most influential media, entertainment, and technology show) and Intel. Artificial Intelligence Conference. But there’s another, even easier way to get similar results: speak at conferences hosted entirely by other brands.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Convene spoke with Sykes, who presented a session at PCMA Convening Leaders 2019 last month in Pittsburgh, about how to embrace self-care — in our own workplaces and in the ways we design business event environments. What you care about in your conference is people attend a great keynote and remember it and do something with the material.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2019

Here are four resolutions that we recommend for 2019. Consider integrating radio-frequency identification (RFID) into your next event or incorporating artificial reality and/or virtual reality into your booth at the next conference. Not sure where to start? Create a Healthy Work/Life Balance. People are drawn to what’s new.

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Social Tables

APRIL 23, 2019

Try any combination of the following exercises and event name ideas to come up with something both you and your audience will love. For example, if your event is a tech conference for copywriters, you can follow the thought pattern, “copywriters (A) make me think of B. LavaCon 2019 LavaCon is a conference all about content strategy.

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Bizzabo

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

In this article, we'll look at 12 of its best conferences, virtual gatherings, and corporate event ideas and tease out the things that make them so great. Key Takeaway: At the end of the day, most people attend business conferences because they want to propel their careers forward. Oracle does directly support the conference, though.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The first wave of sustainability — including the adoption of LEED and other green building standards — “was the focus on planetary health,” said Fedrizzi, over a glass of sparkling water in the Institute’s conference room. The second wave of sustainability is focused on human health, because those two are intrinsically linked.

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Bizzabo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

97% of them said they walked away from past conferences with insights they could immediately put into action and 98% claimed that attending the conference has enabled them to run their businesses better. One of the things that Quickbooks Connect does better than most conferences is secure amazing, high-caliber speakers.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 17, 2019

On tap for the following morning: some welcome exercise after the previous day of indulging our appetites. The New World Center has been such a pioneer in pushing the boundaries of technology that it helped launch the Network Performing Arts Production Workshop, an annual conference that explores emerging technologies.

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Plan Your Meetings

APRIL 1, 2019

One recommended exercise for understanding a potential customer’s profile is to complete a SWOT analysis. If you already know some details about the customer (do they like to golf, their alma mater, major industry conferences they’ve recently attended, etc.) Yes, just like in your college marketing class. Sentiment should lead the way.

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Bizzabo

JANUARY 29, 2019

Add workshops to any conference. Unlike galas or conferences, workshops are often simpler to recreate. Attendees receive real-world examples, templates, and hands-on exercises to round out their experience. Add workshops to any conference. Offer workshops more than once. Provide professional networking opportunities.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Accordingly, at PCMA EduCon in Los Angeles in 2019, organizers staged a “hackathon” focused on how the events industry can help the unsheltered. Better yet, host a panel with voices advocating different approaches as an interactive solution-finding exercise. We have no agenda other than to support the city’s top industry.

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