Expo Pass

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

And which ones will really show the future of how we meet and connect? A literal combination of our online existences and meeting in-person again, or “IRL”. We expect the event to be a good litmus test for how all kinds of meetings can look in 2022. The organizers are committed to keeping people updated if guidelines change.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 6, 2019

Seven teams pitched their solutions to a business industry challenge during a hackathon at Convening Leaders 2019 in Pittsburgh. Seven teams went head to head in Sunday’s hackathon at PCMA Convening Leaders 2019 , where they worked to solve a business events industry challenge and then pitch their solution to a panel of judges. “How

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 3, 2020

Meetings in the financial and insurance sector require outside-the-box thinking. The economy was humming along before the coronavirus hit, but even then the majority of meeting planners in the financial and insurance industries were keeping their budgets in neutral. Financial and insurance meetings in the U.S.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Day two of IMEX22 at Mandalay Bay Convention Center Las Vegas kicked off with a keynote address by Shane Feldman, founder of Count Me In , who stressed the importance of creating an inclusive experience at meetings. Download “Pathways to Clarity” a joint IMEX, Smart Meetings White Paper outlining the state of the meetings industry.

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Endless Events

JULY 18, 2020

People are growing tired of Zoom meetings, and the thought of being together in-person is getting and more and more exciting after such a long break from social gatherings. Even tech companies are acknowledging that the typical way we meet virtually isn’t working. CDC Guidelines For Events. More examples of hybrid events!

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The most coveted amenity in the meetings and hospitality world right now is…confidence. Confidence is turning out to be a scarce commodity as the weeks have dragged into months and meeting professionals are rebooking the rebookings. The meetings landscape is uneven. Meetings are so missed,” he reported. Exactly,” he said.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Day two of IMEX22 at Mandalay Bay Convention Center Las Vegas kicked off with a keynote address by Shane Feldman, founder of Count Me In , who stressed the importance of creating an inclusive experience at meetings. Download “Pathways to Clarity” a joint IMEX, Smart Meetings White Paper outlining the state of the meetings industry.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 9, 2021

“We’re honored to have played a role in the success of these show, and we will continue to lead our industry to recovery by supporting healthy, safe environments that allow groups to meet with confidence.”. According to Go LIVE Together’s research, in Orlando alone, 2019 business events brought in more than $9.9

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 17, 2021

After a postponed 2020 annual event for more than 700 people, Meeting Professionals International (MPI) brought its World Education Congress (WEC) back to Las Vegas this week with more than 1,200 people live for a series of firsts. See also : Tales from Las Vegas: Jewelry Trade Shows and LVCC’s Comeback Convention. We couldn’t agree more.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In 2019, FAMP drew 1,500 attendees and 140 booths. FAMP followed state and local health guidelines and “worked closely with hotel staff and our exhibition company” on safety protocols, said FAMP President Linda Knowlton. Here’s how they did it. New Health and Safety Protocols. “We New protocols included: Face masks.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

With a majority (52%) of planners expecting their in-person event spend to be higher in 2021 than it was in 2019, these results put a spotlight on the opportunity for MICE business recovery among those hotels that meet high health and safety standards. The pandemic forced a nearly complete pivot to virtual meetings in 2020.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Instead of advertising its own products, Amazon is using the naming rights it secured for the stadium to honor a pledge it made in 2019 to reach net-zero carbon emissions as a company by 2040. Taking a pass on thinking about sustainability isn’t really an option anymore for meeting professionals who organize events, Arell said.

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Event Leadership Institute

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“Very simply, our goal was to meet safely in person and celebrate the successes of 2019 while recognizing the challenges of 2020,” said Leigh Bentley, Meeting Services Division Manager at SERVPRO. Attendees qualified for the 2020 incentive trip based on their 2019 volume.). Developing the Event Plan.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 6, 2023

That brutal attack was fresh on Lauren Parr’s mind as two protesters from the audience rushed and jumped on the stage as a plenary session was about to get underway at last year’s Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for Earth and planetary scientists at Chicago’s McCormick Place. Samuel Thomas Jr.

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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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Bizzabo

APRIL 21, 2020

Rakuten Dealmaker is an event series with planned stops in cities such as Scottsdale, New York, London, and Sydney in 2020 (pending federal and state public health and safety guidelines). In fact, over 4,000 one-on-one meetings were scheduled in 2019 alone! For marketers, this is a must-attend conference. Source: PI Live.

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Maritz Global Events

MARCH 3, 2020

Consent and legal interests set the guidelines for interaction with these groups. What is the travel carbon footprint of a big scientific conference like #EGU19 ? Milan Klöwer (@milankloewer) November 5, 2019. Rachel helps meeting planners grow their event attendance with results-driven event marketing strategies.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 19, 2021

Right now, obviously we’re still in that mode of mostly everything has to be virtual for safety guideline purposes. With the rentals you refer to, are those very small in-person meetings that are then broadcast or maybe there’s a broadcast studio at convention centers? We’ve done that ourselves here.

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Hubilo Blog

JULY 14, 2020

However, they are hybrid events: Hybrid conferences, summits, trade shows, meetings, etc. In the simplest terms – hybrid events are conferences, summits, trade shows and seminars that use the combination of a live in-person event and virtual space component. Clear guidelines for interacting with sponsors and exhibitors.

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Social Tables

APRIL 23, 2019

But when you boil them all down, these are the three main guidelines for any good event name: It explains what it is. Or, if you’re throwing a corporate event, you can follow in the footsteps of the live digital presentation titled, “ Business Meeting? LavaCon 2019 LavaCon is a conference all about content strategy.

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Bizzabo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Mobile event and conference apps have now become a pillar of the event experience. In this guide, we will explore event app best practices for 2019 and beyond. Given an event app’s versatility, it’s no wonder that 91% of event organizers stated that adopting a conference app resulted in positive event ROI. What is an Event App?

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Event Birdie

JANUARY 26, 2021

How could anyone in early January have predicted that by mid-March all live events around the entire world would grind to a halt and that Zoom meetings, virtual, and eventually, hybrid events would be all the rage in 2020? Even at larger events, people will meet within smaller groups. 2/ Company Retreats in regional areas.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Is there a solution for putting an end to fake and predatory conferences? Sounds like traditional association conferences’ calls for subject matter experts. Fake meetings are not fake news,” he writes. That is to say, fraudulent conferences exist, and they are becoming a real problem for the meetings industry.”.

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Social Tables

DECEMBER 27, 2018

What does it mean to be a part of the events industry in 2019? Meetings are growing and evolving rapidly, and each is an experiment in applying new methods to find a perfect formula. Here, we cover the top 19 trends which promise to shake up event planning and hospitality in 2019 and beyond. Well for starters, don’t blink.

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Social Tables

APRIL 20, 2022

Until now, event organizers had to rely on third-party interpreters to host their meetings and events. If you’d asked me in 2019 the value of QR codes, I probably would have thought that they were on the way out as a failed fad,” said Select Software Reviews CEO Phil Strazzulla in an interview with Social Tables. . QR codes. “If

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Grant Guidelines. NEXT DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS – 1 ST NOVEMBER 2019. Applications for grants will be considered at a meeting of the EIF Directors twice a year and applicants will be notified of the outcome at least two weeks after each meeting together, where possible, with their reasoning. Conferences.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Flexibility of the planner to reimagine 2019 ways of designing events as we head back into IRL experiences. For example, we learned that digital events democratize reach, but we also learned that to reach a wider swath and number of your audiences, you have to meet them where they are at. Finding our way in the new (or ‘next’) normal.

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The MICE

OCTOBER 27, 2021

From March 2020, the guidelines regarding hosting events were constantly changing and challenging the live events industry, but with reliable partners and a ‘make it happen’ attitude, the venue and the host city of Rotterdam worked on scenario planning that allowed them to safely host the ESC in May the following year. We had several plans.

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