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What Meeting Trends We’ll Be Watching in 2020

PCMA Convene

The editors of Convene looked back over 2019, asking this question: What’s one meeting and event trend on my radar in 2020? The United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. In 2020, we’ll see another kind of evolution in the catering world with some new — non-human — faces in the kitchen. Michelle Russell.

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New Service for Sourcing Emcees

MeetingsNet

Emcee and meeting designer Samme Allen says she founded the company in response to a growing need for experienced emcees, hosts, and moderators who “can be delivered cost effectively, flexibly, and in the most sustainable way.”.

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Conferenceemcees.com launches with host of international clients

Prestige Events Magazine

The launch follows a hugely successful period of activity following its October 2020 ‘soft launch’ with a series of virtual, hybrid, studio and in-person events being held on behalf of clients in London, Zurich, Lausanne, Barcelona, Frankfurt, Brussels and San Francisco.

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Why Digital Events Are in ‘an Awkward Phase’

PCMA Convene

A visiting professor at Pratt Institute in New York and the founder of a startup that uses AI as a tool to measure emotions online, Pavliscak speaks frequently about tech design and emotions. The same week she appeared at Collision@Home, she spoke at Primer 2020 , an annual conference produced by the Design Futures Initiative, both via Zoom.

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The Meetings Show to reunite the sector

Event Industry News

The programme has been separated into five learning streams – Innovation and Industry Trends, My Career and Personal Development, Event Marketing, Event Technology and Meetings Design – to make it easy to identify the sessions most suited to individual needs. Spotlighting sustainability.

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Why Air Quality Must Be Part of Venues’ Hygiene Protocol

PCMA Convene

She isn’t alone — many scientists, researchers, and public-health experts have been voicing similar concerns since early- to mid-2020. Meeting designer and author Adrian Segar also has sounded an alarm over the lack of attention to venue ventilation and what he called a “misdirected” focus on surface cleaning. Adrian Segar.

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#RotterdamExperiment 2 – The best gamification is gamification that is unnoticed

The MICE

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. A hackathon is an excellent example of purpose-driven collaboration.