Event Industry News
OCTOBER 8, 2020
The global exhibitions market is set to contract by c.70% 70% in 2020, according to the latest Globex updated 2020 forecast released today by strategy consultancy, AMR International. This forecast is the only analysis that measures the direct impact of Covid-19 on the global exhibitions organising market.
Smart Meetings
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Predictions of a mass consolidation of the meetings industry have been swirling since the World Health Organization started advising lockdowns in early 2020 to “smooth the curve” of what was then known as novel coronavirus. Newest Acquisition. Read More : Acquisition to Enhance Breakout Rooms Could be First Step Toward Zoomiverse.
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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. ” — Jessica Connolly , Head of Global Events, Meltwater The above program was interspersed with interesting visits to venues and fun activities (e.g. I’m looking back on 2023. 2023 in review I slowed down in 2023.
Smart Meetings
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
“We are basically project managers, but unlike technology projects, you can’t move the deadline and unlike before 2020, you can’t let contracts sit.”. Meetings consultant Jeff Calmus, a former vice president of global event management for MetLife, agreed about the importance of managing up. Choices, Choices.
SmartMeetings
AUGUST 31, 2020
I lived through contracting it and it sucked. After all, this is the year 2020, the same numbers used to benchmark ideal eyesight. COVID-19 is real and it is devastating. A lot of talented people are losing their jobs because of the need to pause meetings to slow the spread of the virus.
SmartMeetings
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Almost three out of four (72 percent) had produced at least one in-person meeting between March 2020 and August 2021. Snapshot from a People-first Event in Seattle. While scrambling to cover those already identified missing bases, we also discovered that somehow a valet parking service had never even been contracted.
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.”
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