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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Event Leadership Institute

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Suzanne Neve, CEO of FFEA, put the promotions she began in January 2020 on pause and set out to determine a new plan. As representatives of the event industry, we recognized the importance of showing how we could move our event to virtual – and proceed safely with an in-person event too.”. Agenda & Scheduling. Exhibit Hall.

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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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PCMA Convene

MAY 30, 2016

NAAA reasoned that the new door not only would benefit NAAA, which promised to commit to future conventions in Savannah, it also would enable SITCC to host other groups that exhibit aircraft as part of their trade shows. Considering that NAAA’s two follow-on bookings each had an economic impact of $1.8

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Event Birdie

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Guest Blog by Russell McIntosh | Trade Show Training. A 2020 for me that looked like a very promising year quickly became a cocktail of cancelling trips, home-schooling and waiting for the monthly JobKeeper hit! Once you meet this minimum, you are entitled to put in a claim for a grant of 50% of your expenditure.

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Endless Events

MAY 12, 2022

“I planned a conference in 2020 that got canceled. It was very similar to the pre-COVID event, but tons of people came because that crowd simply wanted to meet in person. I was in a role where I had a planner title, but 50% of what I did was related to trade shows. “And 75% of their role overlaps.

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Planning Pod

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

For example, event apps are a great for larger meetings and conferences or multi-day, multi-location events that have many moving parts (think lots of sessions, tracks, keynotes, networking, expo halls, dining options and the like) and lots of attendees looking at their smartphones constantly. 26 Best Mobile Event Apps of 2020.

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Event Leadership Institute

AUGUST 13, 2020

“Until we meet again.”. But event and meetings pros have been saying this since the pandemic began – longing for the days to be back together, doing what they love. And it isn’t just event and meeting pros who feel this way – eight in ten who are working from home miss in-person events.

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Event Marketer

MAY 17, 2021

Shelley Hodgkinson, senior director-event solutions at Walmart, described the “new budget” her team is preparing to build in EM’s webinar, Mastering Event Contracts in the Post-COVID Era. “As This article was originally published in 2020 and is updated periodically. HEALTH SCREENING. Because these days we all want to breathe easier.

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Eventsforce

MARCH 11, 2020

Having said that, the SaaStr Annual 2020 is doing precisely that. trillion trade show industry. For years now and due to the ongoing advances in technology, virtual meetings and webcasting events have been successfully delivered across the globe. MPI: Corona virus resources for meeting professionals.

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The MICE

MARCH 11, 2021

Christel Sieling, Director of Operations at Odyssey, shared how they’ve pivoted their live hackathon, called Momentum, into a virtual format in 2020. We used meeting design to do that, which already had some gamification elements to it. The idea: One trade fair, unfair rules, one contract, one winner takes all.

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Eventmobi

MAY 17, 2023

Can you meet your event’s needs without sponsorship levels? Every event is different, but make sure you’re meeting industry standards! That could mean they receive more benefits for more money; they could be themed for different types of sponsors (eg. media, venue); or they could be off-the-wall creative.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 3, 2021

What would you say is the biggest challenge for a traditional association meeting planner? 1 skillset is no longer your food and beverage and your contracting of the venue and so on. We’ll find that we don’t just necessarily have annual meetings. So we will get to that point — the sooner the better.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Allseated Vision enhances client experience and allows venues the opportunity to sell their event space and work with clients virtually, with virtual tours accessible across multiple platforms (mobile, desktop, and VR headset), eliminating the need for on-site meetings — which is more critical than ever before!

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In September 2020, for example, we had the opportunity to learn more about virtual engagement strategies with Sketch Effect. ” “In the events industry, we frequently get wrapped up in large meetings: the conferences and the expos,” he adds. As you lead up to your big annual trade show, you can send us a template.

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Bizzabo

MARCH 4, 2020

HIMSS20 will be a handshake-free meeting. Reach out to all meeting spaces, hotels, and venues. February 25, 2020 Today, the City of San Francisco declared a State of Emergency to begin preparations around any future coronavirus outbreaks. March 3, 2020. Below is an example from the PDAC 2020. SaaStrAnnual.com?

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2020

The pandemic-related postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Games has given a George Washington University professor the opportunity to teach students who had planned to attend about crisis management for events. Her course will include guest speakers from the International Olympic Committee, Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee, U.S.

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QC Event School

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Throughout 2020, we experienced what felt like endless lockdowns. The fact is, there’s a LOT more to professional event planning than meets the eye. The do’s and don’ts of writing airtight client and vendor contracts; And MUCH more! .; It’ll be up to you to make sure everyone’s meeting their deadlines.

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Event Leadership Institute

MARCH 17, 2021

In Part Two of this series where I focused on in-person events, I talked about the difficult—but necessary—contraction on the supply side (at venues, hotels, and other suppliers) to deal with the dramatic drop in demand. 2020 was a free-for-all in hiring virtual event providers. Increased Competition Brings Lower Prices.

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Event Leadership Institute

APRIL 10, 2020

For a huge number of people, experiencing this baptism-by-fire of virtual interaction has shown them that while it may not be a true substitute to meeting in-person, it’s a lot closer than people thought. For theater or classroom style meetings it may be easy to lower density without drastically reducing the impact.

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