Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The New Year is upon us and as we look at 2022 for our meetings and group gatherings, we gaze into the future with bright eyes and positive grins and think, what the heck is going on? It’s not just Covid-19 (C19) and it’s much more than F&B , room blocks and hotel contracts. Meeting planners don’t need to be IT gurus.

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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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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As if the job of meeting professional weren’t difficult enough, many have had to take on the role of Chief Difficult Conversation Starter. In fact, if approached with thoughtfulness and preparation, those interactions could lead to the meeting professionals taking a rightful place as strategic advisors. By the Numbers. Jeff Calmus.

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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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SmartMeetings

MAY 27, 2021

Even companies that canceled key conferences altogether in the chaos of 2020 have announced they are bringing back at least the virtual component. Facebook’s F8 developer conference will be a one-day streaming event in June “to celebrate, inspire and help developers grow.” The Day the Meetings Stopped.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 2, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic forced the the American Society of Neuroradiology to recreate its already reimagined 2020 Annual Meeting as a digital event. Despite these realities, we still hoped that #ASNR20 could still be a live meeting. Putting the conference on pause and starting over again in 2021 was not an option. “We

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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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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 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. Many organizations use their annual meeting as a fundraiser also.

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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

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 Industry News

JANUARY 31, 2020

has acquired London-based coworking and small meetings start-up, ?Bold?. By adding Bold to its portfolio, Newable will be able to offer bespoke, high-design workspaces that focus on work-life blend, with a design that expresses this focus explicitly through innovative solutions for free-flowing social areas and meeting spaces.

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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

MARCH 20, 2023

A surge in violent crime has event professionals making safety and security in meeting destinations a priority. cities in 2020-21, by 20 percent in suburban communities, and, in 2021, increased by 25 percent in rural America. After falling for decades, the rate of violent crime in the United States rose sharply during the pandemic.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 7, 2020

Two bodies of research highlight planners’ challenges and potential attendees’ preferences when it comes to meetings. In a late June webinar that drew more than 700 corporate and association meeting planners, 64 percent of attendees responded that they expect their organizations to return to holding in-person events by January 2021.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 17, 2020

Mutual support and optimism was trending during a joint #MeetingsChat Twitter Chat discussion on Thursday moderated by Smart Meetings and Meetings Mean Business. MeetingsMeanBiz (@meetingsmeanbiz) April 16, 2020. Conference Care Package (@Confcarepackage) April 16, 2020. Here are the highlights. MeetingsChat.

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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 Marketer

JULY 12, 2021

The following insights were derived from the Event Marketer x Mosaic EventTrack 2021 industry forecast, AnyRoad’s Experiential Trends 2021 report, Northstar Meetings Group’s May 2021 Pulse Survey and Bizzabo’s Q2 2021 Virtual Events Benchmark Report. 68% of experiences in May 2021 were held in person, up from 4% in May 2020.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 26, 2022

However, in a press conference via phone on May 26, CDC’s Deputy Director, Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, Capt. Bottom line for meeting planners: As Covid-19 rates increase around the country, plan for potentially masking in group settings, especially in the winter months. Mishandled Bag Rates Spike.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 10, 2020

More : What Does a COVID Vaccine Really Mean for Travel and Meetings? For additional key findings from the 2020 ITII survey or previous-year data, visit [link]. The forecast for incentive travel over the next two years is mostly sunny with a chance of tighter budgets and an abundance of hand sanitizer. Soft Power, Security Rising.

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Attendease

JANUARY 21, 2021

When we emerge from our government-imposed cocoons, we are less likely to find participants content with trends that meet pop culture standards but rather will shift and seek those that tie into the deeper values they have put to the test over this past year. This eloquently sums up what 2021 will need as we return to live events.

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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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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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Coterie Spark

DECEMBER 1, 2019

We can’t wait for all of you to meet Hannah Laser and Kristin Blanchard. . 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.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Meeting professionals have always shouldered a hefty bag of tricks to fix the jagged edges that emerge at even the most meticulously polished events. Today, though, even veteran meeting organizers face Code Red calamities previously unimaginable. More than seven percent had produced more than 10 face-to-face meetings during that time.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2023

With over 25 years of experience in travel, tourism and business events, and in leadership roles with Starwood Hotels and Resorts and Destination Toronto, he brings extensive experience to oversee BestCities operations, focusing on their values of legacy, sustainability and advancement of the global impact of meeting events.

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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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PCMA Convene

JULY 20, 2020

One of the 9,000 tweets during the Allied Genetics Conference included art created by the attendees. For meeting organizers facing decisions about canceling meetings this year, one of the most painful aspects is the prospect of watching months of work go to waste. Most of the tweets, organizers say, were positive.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Highlights included experiential activations designed to inspire what comes next in designing better meetings. Download “Pathways to Clarity” a joint IMEX, Smart Meetings White Paper outlining the state of the meetings industry. The Smart Meetings team was on the expo floor getting updates and sharing snapshots of the action.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 27, 2020

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has thrown meeting professionals in an unprecedented position with cancellations, postponements and venue closures affecting the course of the next few months, at least. COVID-19 Considerations for Meetings Contracts. Coronavirus Fears Force Go/No-Go Decisions for Meetings.

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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.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 28, 2020

Standups — or short meetings — can be a great tool for teams who are having to shift skills in order to meet the needs of digital event planning. If they have a live meeting planned in 2020, Colangelo said, they see that they must take it down — like a house, brick by brick. What is the plan: Hit pause? Punt to fall?

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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

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 6, 2022

Although the new Covid wave is seen as less serious for most who contract it, especially if they are vaccinated and boosted, the threat of spreading the disease has affected some high-profile gatherings, including postponement of the Grammy Awards, previously scheduled for Jan. 31 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. 18-20 this year.

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Cvent: Event Marketing

JULY 21, 2019

It’s GO time, Detroit — time to book your event in the city that Meetings Today says “pulsates with positive energy.” From the suburbs to downtown, meet in The D to earn up to $15,000 in available incentives. . $5 5 per actualized room night in January, February, November, and December in 2020-2022. $3

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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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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As MPI celebrates its 50th anniversary, it is looking forward to 2027 with a new contract for CEO and president Paul Van Deventer with a focus on advocacy, innovation and education to expand and engage a diverse community. Since April 2020, MPI Foundation has given back more than $1.1 ” Plus, more updates from Smart Meetings TV!

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