Event Industry News

JUNE 21, 2022

Following recent contract wins at three of the UK’s leading event venues, audio-visual and entertainment technology company Anna Valley has promoted Dan Orchard to the role of venue director. Over the last eighteen months, Anna Valley has established itself as a significant service provider to the UK’s venue sector.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

As it turned out, before our clients could move forward with their virtual events, contracts with the hotels, the convention center, and the other contractors had to be resolved.” Andrea Berry, director of membership and conferences for the aviation non-profit RTCA, discovered “how vulnerable our event sponsorships were.” Getting by.

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Planning Pod

JULY 7, 2020

and are still booking up venue spaces for late 2020 and beyond. So let’s not tarry and get your wedding venue, convention center, conference venue or event facility back on track with these seven venue management tips: #1 – Ditch the time-wasting paperwork. Contracts and other agreements can be sent and signed digitally.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Before 2020, I was designing and facilitating around a dozen in-person meetings and conferences a year. The design I designed and facilitated a classic peer conference. 2 • Philadelphia, May: One-day association conference The majority of my clients are formal communities of practice, aka associations. Thank you, David!

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Endless Events

MARCH 6, 2020

?? The Best of the Best: Saving Money: 6 Best Ways To Save On An Event AV Contract. Need to figure out how much your conference AV might cost? Check out our Conference AV Cost Calculator! I can’t believe we are almost done with the first quarter of 2020!But There are ways to save money on your AV contract! (15-minute

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Bray Leino Events has been awarded the Event Management Services contract for the UK Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, now set to take place in October 2021. The UK Pavilion virtual tour is the first of its kind so far created for Expo 2020 Dubai.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 16, 2017

SWIFT (The Society of Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) has appointed Grass Roots to provide a range of delegate management services for Sibos, its annual conference and exhibition for the financial industry, until 2021. The post Grass Roots awarded three-year Sibos contract appeared first on Event Industry News.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

IBTM today announced that it has signed a new three-year contract with Barcelona Convention Bureau and Fira de Barcelona that will see IBTM World take place in the city up to and including the 2022 edition. December 2020. Conferences. Areas of interest. Brand Events. Concerts & Tours. Exhibitions. Event Tech.

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Floktu

AUGUST 31, 2020

Ashton Media is back this September with a revised version of The Agency Leaders Symposium 2020. As agency leaders juggle doing more with less time and resources, the 2020 Symposium comes to The Hyatt Regency in Sydney’s CBD in a reformatted high value, one-day event on September 10th. When: Thursday, 10 September 2020.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 19, 2022

Initial discussions for the project were held in 2019 with the 2020 event postponed due to Covid and rescheduled for November 2021. The event commenced with a week of pre-sessional meetings, followed by a further two weeks of the main conference, that also included the three-day world leaders’ summit.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The wait is over… the 2020 edition of Event Buyers Live (EBL) will take place from November 23-25 at a location to be revealed next month. The change of date will allow event organisers to contract their suppliers more immediately and get their infrastructure in place at a time of year that’s better suited to their event planning.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

After two years of not meeting, companies and audiences may have different goals and expectations so conferences that were previously produced as simple iterations on the previous years’ event must now be reinvented whole cloth. Once the contract has been signed, the tough talk doesn’t stop. By the Numbers. Jeff Calmus. Tell a Story.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

“They gave us three options: Terminate our original contract and they would return our deposit with no penalty, Reschedule the event in 2020 with new contract terms; or. Postpone to 2021 with the same contract terms.”. FAMP opted to renegotiate its contract terms and host an in-person event in 2020.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Granted full accreditation by the CPD Standards Office ahead of the 2019 show, virtual Event Tech Live 2020 maintains the same status. Continued Professional Development (CPD) encompasses educational content relating to an industry that many employers require their staff to complete as part of their contract.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 3, 2021

Prospero House has been operating as a Court since August 2020 and Maple House opened on 3 March 2021. During a period when its core conference, events and training business has been suppressed, etc.venues has taken a 360 degree look at how its portfolio of 400,000 square feet of space could be temporarily repurposed.

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The city’s challenges related to homelessness, crime and drugs are part of a combination of factors that are impacting the city’s event business, with a number of big tech conferences announcing historic moves out of the city and to Las Vegas. Finally, we have great deals for those that are signing multiyear contracts at one time.

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Planning Pod

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

However, before you jump on the mobile conference app bandwagon, think about what you really need. 26 Best Mobile Event Apps of 2020. Here’s a quick rundown on 26 of the most popular and best mobile conference apps, in alphabetical order. Comprehensive event app builder for larger conferences and meetings.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Members of PCMA’s Catalyst community discuss when they might be able to invoke the force majeure clause in contracts for 2021 meetings. We have a 2021 contract in late April in Chicago for which we updated the force majeure clause to include COVID-19 as a specific situation that would allow us to cancel.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Adrian Ott (from left), Clare Melton, and Ori Lahav discuss the rising costs associated with planning conferences and events at Convening EMEA 2023. The suggestion to co-locate smaller and larger events in the same location and negotiate venue and hotel contracts together came from an audience member.

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Event Industry News

MAY 15, 2020

… (with a few observations and comments from the Venue Search London team below each): The above data shows any months in which the buyers currently had contracted events, with some buyers having multiple events booked across these months (NB. And so to the results. We only asked about these four months).

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The two-part CEMA webinar series, “Planning an Annual Conference in 2021, The Before & After,” reviewed what worked and what didn’t at Workiva’s Amplify virtual events. In that same spirit, I tuned in to the two-part CEMA webinar series , “Planning an Annual Conference in 2021, The Before & After.”

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 17, 2020

MeetingsMeanBiz (@meetingsmeanbiz) April 16, 2020. Some are putting their diverse skills to use, such as those at Conference Care Package, who have been planting tomatoes to give to those in need. Conference Care Package (@Confcarepackage) April 16, 2020. NYC & Company (@nycgo_press) April 16, 2020. GivingBack.

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Event Marketer

JULY 12, 2021

33% of consumers say their top life priorities and values have changed as a result of the challenges and opportunities faced in 2020. Brands have made significant business shifts and developed new products and services as a direct result of challenges faced in 2020. Conferences remain the most popular virtual event type.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In October 2020 I wrote two posts [1 , 2 ] about what a meeting industry new normal might look like. We may eventually tame the pandemic by developing effective and inexpensive antivirals and making them widely available to those contracting COVID-19. “ —Quote from a meeting planner’s January 2022 conference report.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 7, 2020

Global DMC’s survey found that 60 percent of 2020 incentive-travel programs are still expected to happen but with later dates in 2020 or even early next year, while 75 percent said that 2021 incentive-travel programs are moving forward in planning. 25 percent said lack of airlift will be a major concern once in-person meetings return.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 20, 2023

cities in 2020-21, by 20 percent in suburban communities, and, in 2021, increased by 25 percent in rural America. During the pandemic lockdowns of 2020, crime increased the most in poor communities where gun violence was already high. We thought, ‘Let’s make it feel good when you walk outside.’”

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 10, 2020

For additional key findings from the 2020 ITII survey or previous-year data, visit [link]. While meeting professionals on both sides of the contract were optimistic about incentive travel returning even faster than the rest of the industry, the return to activity was seen as more robust than the full budget return. “We

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Coterie Spark

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Hannah has worked with Coterie Spark the last two years as part of our contract production team. She has supported our events all over the US and has been an asset to the day to day planning, management, and logistics of some of our major conferences. Hannah Laser joined our full time Event Production team.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 2, 2022

As of January of 2020, we were right on track and building momentum. At Freeman, this insight validated our decision to invest in the data analysis and digital event technology that would allow more people to attend our clients’ trade shows and conferences on their own terms, including virtually, through livestreaming or on-demand video.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 18, 2020

There appears to be broad agreement that venues need to be flexible on their pricing, offering discounts and incentives to encourage event buyers to buy as early as possible and with the necessary Covid postponement clauses in place to reassure clients and get contracts signed for the Autumn. Christmas 2020.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 21, 2020

In order to increase the added value we offer our clients, we are enlarging our service offering in 2020 which will make our integrated offering even more complete,” commented Gianluca Buongiorno, president, AIM Group International.

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Endless Events

MAY 12, 2022

“I planned a conference in 2020 that got canceled. This year, they’re using 75% of the agenda I made for that very same conference. They typically like to get out of the office and use the conference as an excuse to have an expense-paid trip with their boss. . “And 75% of their role overlaps.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 8, 2020

In her new role, Louise will be responsible for setting and executing the growth strategy; through contracted wins in the private sector, enhancing the existing customer experience, supplier engagement, driving business profitability and raising UK awareness for the company.

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Event Leadership Institute

DECEMBER 3, 2020

For the past 31 years, KPMG has hosted its Annual Insurance Industry Conference in New York. KPMG Events & Meetings Manager Shannon Angelakis explained how the company re-imagined the annual in-person conference to a virtual event to deliver much-needed updates around these topics. Developing the Event Plan. “As Speaker Prep.

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Event Leadership Institute

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Each year the association hosts an annual conference for members featuring three full days of in-person networking and education. Suzanne Neve, CEO of FFEA, put the promotions she began in January 2020 on pause and set out to determine a new plan. For the 2020 event, Suzanne adjusted the pricing model. Results + ROI.

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Attendease

JANUARY 21, 2021

Next is the Social Contract, the new Code of Conduct with the event where we agree to maintain safe distancing, wear masks and to not participate if we are feeling unwell. The ultimate reward of incentive travel has been mainly on hold through 2020 and stalled for much of 2021. Micro-Trend: Ultra Personalization.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Contracts have included Bristol Fashion Week Festival (pictured), Annual Air Finance Exhibition, National Grid’s leadership conference, as well as numerous tours for the likes of Nuffield Health and J P Morgan. Conferences. Now operating in four countries, Evolution Dome offers a global reach to clients. Areas of interest.

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