MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Your executive is a commitment-phobe but the hotel won’t hold your space. Even for planners at the top of their game, the current meeting climate has created new levels of stress—the result of severe hotel booking compression, high turnover in supplier staff, and short meeting lead times. What’s a planner to do?

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 5, 2023

Technology: Removing Friction from the Hotel Stay Marriott has been investing in the Marriott Bonvoy app since it was created as part of the Starwood merger in 2019. It now allows members to book hotel rooms, check-in, access mobile keys, “unlock experiences” and “have the world in the palm of your hand.”

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Event Industry News

APRIL 8, 2022

The ambitious Economic Significance Study comprises four insight streams to examine the global events industry’s economic impact and, for the first time, quantify the cumulative losses experienced in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For more information on the Events Industry Council, visit: [link].

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Hotels have executed multiple rounds of layoffs and attendees are settling in for an extended case of Zoom fatigue. Hotels and venues, too, are stepping up with protocols and GBAC STAR certifications , but, in many cases, no one is there to answer the meeting planner’s call. What if someone gets sick at the event? Kevin Edmunds.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 17, 2021

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. Lawrence Coburn, CEO and co-founder of twine , compares the intricacies of designing an engaging event to construction in the real world.

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Event Marketer

MAY 17, 2023

The festivities continued into the evenings with an Opening Reception and Happy Hour sponsored by Ev&Ex Agency, the Ex Awards Gala presented by Freeman, inaugural inductions into the Hall of Fame, Sparks’ Women in Events Ladies Night at AREA 15, and The EMS Networking Dinner at Mott 32.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The ceremony follows the Green Events & Innovations Conference on Tuesday 3 rd March at the Royal Garden Hotel, London, and forms part of the opening celebrations of this year’s International Live Music Conference (ILMC). Tickets are now sold out for Green Events & Innovations Conference.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

When Xiaoyin Qu dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business last year to start an event tech company, her inspiration was the “life-changing” experience her mother, a pediatric neurologist in China, had when she traveled to the U.S. for her first international medical conference, Qu told Convene in a phone interview.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 14, 2019

A newly released Incentive Research Foundation 2019 Trends Study showed that incentive travel is an increasing priority in a world where acquisitions are creating bigger companies, and getting teams producing together quickly is essential to making the deal pencil out. It is not just the hotels that are joining forces. Bigger Budgets.

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Bizzabo

MARCH 7, 2019

Looking to attend an AI event or two this year? Below, we've listed 20 of the top machine learning conferences in 2019. So without further ado, here are the top 20 machine learning conferences in 2019: 1. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). Artificial Intelligence Conference.

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Bizzabo

AUGUST 16, 2019

Cisco is a leader in the event space. Check out 12 of their best event examples and learn how to host better conferences, trainings, and seminars for your own company. Cisco is also a leader in the events space. The company hosts many highly regarded conferences, trainings, and experiential marketing events each year.

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Bizzabo

AUGUST 1, 2019

In this article, we'll look at a collection of 12 events, brand activations, and experiential marketing campaigns from IBM. Think is IBM's biggest conference of the year and features well-known speakers like Joe Montana and Tony Hawk; dozens of workshop sessions on various technology subjects; and plenty of networking opportunities.

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Maritz Global Events

JANUARY 3, 2020

As PCMA Convening Leaders 2020 kicks off in San Francisco, we got a behind-the-scenes look at the insights they are using to transform their conference. “Sometimes, you lose perspective on what’s really happening at your event,” said Kim.

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Maritz Global Events

AUGUST 6, 2019

2019 has been a transformational year for Karla: she made the difficult decision to leave her role as Director of Event Management after four years. to fuel up with coffee, she starts checking email around 6 and gets going on whatever project, activity or conference calls are scheduled for the day.

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Bizzabo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

We've compiled the most comprehensive list of UK event agencies on the internet for 2019. From experiential to event marketing to event production to event planning, this agency list will have everything you're looking for. Conference Care. Perception is an event production agency based in London.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 25, 2019

Experient EnVision attendees participate in a guided meditation session at a Mindfulness Centre created for the conference. You want to find an area that isn’t in a noisy part of the venue but still easily accessible to attendees, said Karen Watson, senior director of strategic events at Maritz Global Events. “We

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Bizzabo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Looking for an event or experiential marketing agency? We've compiled the most comprehensive list of US event agencies on the internet for 2019. According to the Event Marketing 2019 Report , events are the single-most effective marketing channel. EVENT STRATEGY GROUP. Kennedy Creative Events.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It’s hard to think of a conference with higher stakes than COP26, which took place Oct. COP26 is shorthand for the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, a summit which brought leaders from more than 130 nations together to negotiate a global plan to address climate change. Dean Calma/IAEA).

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Social Tables

DECEMBER 27, 2018

What does it mean to be a part of the events industry in 2019? For venues and planners, that means looking into the crystal ball to get ahead of event trends and expectations. Here, we cover the top 19 trends which promise to shake up event planning and hospitality in 2019 and beyond. So will live events.).

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 6, 2020

The editors of Convene looked back over 2019, asking this question: What’s one meeting and event trend on my radar in 2020? The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) — a set of 17 wide-ranging goals and 169 targets addressing critical global problems — aren’t exactly household words. Why I Have My Eye on AI.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The editors of Convene looked back over 2019, asking this question: What’s one meeting and event trend on my radar in 2020? The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) — a set of 17 wide-ranging goals and 169 targets addressing critical global problems — aren’t exactly household words. Why I Have My Eye on AI.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

UBQ Materials, developer of the world’s first bio-based thermoplastic, is helping create the first global event built from landfill waste. Mercedes-Benz began its collaboration with the company in 2019 and features UBQ’s materials in its all-electric VISION EQXX , which, while fully functional, is still just a prototype.

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Bizzabo

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

National Parks Turned Conference. Photo source: WM Events. A corporate hotel management company threw an intergalactic party for guests in a glass-ceilinged atrium to set the mood. social media impressions—this event theme was a raging-success ( source ). Photo source: Eventive Marketing. A Kid Party for Adults.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For the first time in AGF’s history, the not for profit organisation are hosting and presenting the International AGF Awards, a new awards night which aims to highlight a single best-in-class event for its sustainability across 11 categories. AGF Pied Piper Award (Greener Communications).

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Social Tables

APRIL 16, 2019

Think about how the meetings & events industry has evolved in just the past ten years. Could you have navigated it all without conferences, blog posts, presentations, surveys, or your peers? After all, being an events professional requires as much continued education as any other gig out there. We know we couldn’t have!

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