PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In the history of event planning, 2020 will be the year that brought the most cataclysmic changes. Events are going to look vastly different next year when we are all able to return to face-to-face. Examine crowd-source best practices for approaching COVID-era meeting planning. Until 2021!

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 20, 2023

Following the events of George Floyd’s tragic death in 2020, meetings industry organizations have been actively seeking to engage in the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) discussion. In doing so many businesses seek outside help to create an inclusive and diverse work environment.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Now, seeing live events slowly come back into the tentative planning phases, we anticipate the in-person and online formats may converge into hybrid events. It’s not an administrative role; it’s a leadership role, and one that the program fine-tunes in a personalized leadership development plan for each student.

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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. As we move into May, the immediate future of live events remains uncertain. What is the plan: Hit pause? You have these rock-star meeting planning employees.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

a digital agency that developed its own streaming platform, BeSpeake, from the ground up in 2020 to serve clients who were scrambling to achieve their goals. “We We learned a lot about how to do in-person and virtual meetings better during the last two years,” she said. “We Then omicron and the culture wars hit. “We

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Smart Meetings

JULY 6, 2022

How Covid-19 Impacted Large-Scale Meetings and Conventions. The coronavirus pandemic had a widespread impact on just about every industry you can think of, and meetings and conventions were no exception. Now that we’re halfway through 2022, it’s becoming clear that in-person events are ramping back up.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 13, 2022

Given that its third event will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 2023 and its fourth in Andermatt, Switzerland, the reception must have been phenomenal. SITE’s Global Conference also took place in Europe, at Convention Centre Dublin, the first time the organization gathered since January 2020.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

“It should be really obvious that we aren’t just order takers,” she said, putting the enhanced role of the corporate meeting professional in perspective. “We 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.”. Choices, Choices.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 8, 2022

Pair this with a short turnaround time for healthcare meetings (back to the lack of predictability), plus the surge in live meetings put on pause from 2020 and 2021. The result is a massive wave of events cascading down on the events industry. Read More : Smart Tech: The Great Resignation.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 2, 2022

Interpretation through both Interprefy and KUDO is about making a way for information where it really counts, making meetings more accessible for everyone by having a deep reservoir of experienced interpreters in hundreds of languages. “If

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

“I’m a big believer in continuing planner education as a vehicle to improve the value proposition of their events and their careers,” he says. “In In many organizations, the meeting planning function is viewed as administrative. So, there’s very little event planning in our program. Up, Up and Away with MPI.

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