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Top Tips for Preparing Your Presenters

Velvet Chainsaw

Make the Most of Your Speaker Prep Calls. Let’s focus on the third bullet point above, speaker prep. Other than one-on-one coaching (which we’ll delve into in an upcoming blog), session-planning calls can be the most effective way to prepare speakers. Improving Your Speaker Portal.

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Prepping Industry Speakers Using Video Conferencing

PCMA Convene

Author Ritu Bhasin presents a session at PCMA EduCon 2019. Let’s focus on speaker prep. Other than one-on-one coaching, session-planning calls can be the most effective way to prepare speakers. Yet all of these details can be provided on a speaker portal, via FAQs, emails, or instructional video. Rookie — first timer.

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Event Check-in app: How to Elevate Your Guest Arrival Experience

Eventmobi

This mental exercise is foundational to creating a great guest experience. Over 20% of visitors cited queuing times as their primary frustration when attending events ( UFI , 2019). First, we welcomed the VVIPs, who were incentivized to come early with a free breakfast program including keynote speaker to kick off the day.

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8 Event Budget Adjustments Needed to Host Safe Events in 2021

Event Farm

We looked at the cost differential between today and 2019 when the actual summit took place to get a sense of the expense increases you can expect when planning your events. But, as Marcella said, this was an incredibly useful exercise to start getting a handle on the new reality. Rapid tests are coming down in pricing.

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Events and Venues Face New Challenges to Safety, Security

PCMA Convene

Parr, AGU’s senior vice president, meetings and learning, told Convene that her first thought was that they were out to harm the speaker. Back when I ran my first conference, I never had to think about someone attacking [the speaker] or jumping on stage,” Parr said. “I Samuel Thomas Jr. I never, ever, considered those things.”

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ETL replay: New and emerging trends for conferences

Event Industry News

Our speakers were Jim Young, the head of creative technology at Sparq, and Mark Jones, founder and CEO at Giant iTab. It’s not enough to simply have a speaker at a stand and expect your audience to engage with your content. Do we have a responsibility to provide unfaltering Internet connections?

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The Risk and Reward of Upending Traditional Meeting Formats

MeetingsNet

She took on the vice president–Americas role in the fall of 2019, charged with making structural changes throughout her business unit. During the pandemic, a motivational speaker had contacted her via LinkedIn. “We It was easy enough to change the room design at their West Palm Beach venue and to create discussion points, says McNairy.