Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 6, 2020

Date: Thursday, May 7, 2020. Jonathan Singer , PhD, AAS Board President and 2020 Program Chair. Join VCC’s free webinar and take away lessons you can apply immediately to your event strategy. Time: 12 noon – 1 p.m. Conference Architects and Speakers: Colleen Creighton , CEO, AAS. Register Now.

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Maritz Global Events

JANUARY 3, 2020

As PCMA Convening Leaders 2020 kicks off in San Francisco, we got a behind-the-scenes look at the insights they are using to transform their conference. The post 6 Valuable Insights That Helped Shape PCMA Convening Leaders 2020 appeared first on Experient: Event Industry Blog. Related Links. .

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GEVME

JANUARY 21, 2020

Some Thoughts on the State of Business Events 2020. It’s a series of blog posts written by our CEO Veemal Gungadin, where he shared some thoughts about the State of Business Events in 2020. Top Events for Event Planners to Look Forward to in 2020. Event Trends for 2019–2020. Read on to have a glance at each one of them.

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GEVME

JANUARY 21, 2020

Some Thoughts on the State of Business Events 2020. It’s a series of blog posts written by our CEO Veemal Gungadin, where he shared some thoughts about the State of Business Events in 2020. Top Events for Event Planners to Look Forward to in 2020. Event Trends for 2019–2020. Read on to have a glance at each one of them.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 5, 2021

With over 25 years of experience in meeting planning as well as public safety, Alan Kleinfeld from Arrive Management Group is the perfect person to talk to about the vast world of event safety. A Marriage Of Meeting Planning & Law Enforcement. Let’s meet today’s guest!

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 24, 2020

Having been used at various music festivals over the last 11 years including the Gay and Lesbian Association (GALA) Choruses Festival for over 10,000 people in Denver 2012 and 2016 and Minneapolis, USA, July 2020, Integra Planner has been revamped using the latest Angular technology and relaunched for 2020 with a new user interface.

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EventMB

JUNE 22, 2022

With many meeting planners and event organizers doubling up their bookings to compensate for postponed events from 2021 (and even 2020), it’s getting harder and harder to find hotel rooms and meeting spaces for groups both large and small. The New Marketplace Philosophy for Meeting Bookings.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Ford at 2020 Essence Festival; Photo credit: Bluewater Tech. The tech company developed and built an entirely new, fully virtual booth for Ford Motor Company to attend the 2020 Essence Festival. Ford at 2020 Essence Festival; Photo credit: Bluewater Tech. The result was a company able to deliver unique, fulfilling experiences.

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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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Event Leadership Institute

AUGUST 7, 2020

And with all of the changes the meeting and event industry has faced this year, ongoing professional education is vital to stay abreast of the new challenges associated with planning and producing virtual, hybrid, and safe in-person events when they resume. Use 2020 Budgets. New Opportunities for Personalized Learning.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Early in 2020, I expressed some concern about “brain drain” in our industry. Even those who woke up in late summer and fall 2020 and started to do the same caught up fast, and one of the guys I knew who could sling truss and road crates around with the best of them can now swap out an SDI card and run a show off vMix. Brandt Krueger.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In the history of event planning, 2020 will be the year that brought the most cataclysmic changes. Examine crowd-source best practices for approaching COVID-era meeting planning. Learn how to critically evaluate what options are best for your meeting. Until 2021! Brought to you by:

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PCMA Convene

MAY 8, 2020

Those are among the requirements attendees must agree to for Metrock’s Voice of Healthcare Summit 2020 , scheduled for early August in Boston. He’s been speaking with four potential sites about hosting the two-day event, including the Dana Farber Center, another health-care facility, a hospital, and a small meeting venue.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 25, 2023

Read More : New and Renovated: Austin Exploration and Sunny Shores Cvent Top Meeting Hotels | North America Many hoteliers leveraged the downtime in 2020 and 2021 to invest in upgrades and renovations to prepare their properties for the post-pandemic travel boom. For example, Grand Hyatt Nashville (No.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The old meeting industry normal is long over, and many event professionals are still hoping and waiting for a new normal. In October 2020 I wrote two posts [1 , 2 ] about what a meeting industry new normal might look like. Plan for future COVID-19 variants (and new pandemics). It’s time to take another look.

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Maritz Global Events

APRIL 14, 2021

With the sudden lockdown of the world due to Covid-19 in 2020, we needed to quickly develop a new plan for the upcoming International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) 59th Annual Congress later that year — a virtual + F2F experience that would enable us to bring people together all across the globe.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

You Have the Power—and a Profound Turning Point—to Shape the Future of Meetings and Events. Live meetings and events will return—it’s already starting to happen. The year 2020 was a difficult time to be in this business. Learn more about the Master’s in Meeting and Event Management at SDSU.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

consumers report wellness as a top priority, an 8% increase from 2020, a study by McKinsey & Company found. For meeting professionals who have first-timers in the group, Matsumoto has recommendations. Read More : Simple Wellness Activities Can Go a Long Way at Your Next Meeting. How Groups Can Incorporate Wellness.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 28, 2020

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. In fact, the biggest hindrance to association meeting planning right now is that “time is ticking away,” Colangelo said. What is the plan: Hit pause? Punt to fall?

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 26, 2018

Not only are we in a seller’s market, but planners will also face tighter budgets, higher meeting costs, and less bandwidth. So, what happens when an unstoppable force (supplier price increases) meets an immovable object (meeting planning budgets)? . And 2019 and 2020 don’t look much better. .

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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. These days, however, meetings are far from going back to the pre-2020 status quo.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 13, 2022

SITE’s Global Conference also took place in Europe, at Convention Centre Dublin, the first time the organization gathered since January 2020. The post The International Expansion of Industry Associations appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 22, 2020

We would have had 400 people” at the in-person meeting planned for Auckland, she said, “and we had more than 1,300 people watching on day one.” Gita Sukthankar. The content can live there for as long as organizers want, and if they choose, bring in revenues from viewers who continue to access it.

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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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Smart Meetings

APRIL 27, 2022

We were in the build-up for 2020 when coronavirus emerged and had to cancel the show 10 weeks prior,” she recalled. “It enhances the attendee experience and allows associations to have a more meaningful presence,” she said. On Feeling Normal.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 3, 2019

Let’s not forget the state-of-the-art Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park, opening in 2020, which will deliver premier fan experiences of the future. How do private events at your venues give people a feel for the team(s) that use the venue? Staples Center. Read more about U.S.

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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. Now, business units have a much harder time looking ahead, because some are growing like wildfire while others are being cut.

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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

JULY 15, 2020

The industry we knew in the beginning of 2020 is not coming back in many ways, and that is more than OK. Meeting planning is expanding to media planning and project management. That said, opportunities are either seized or missed.

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Event Leadership Institute

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Categories: Planning & Logistics , CMP Credit , Courses. Course Domains: G: Meeting or Event Design. Event & Meeting Management Fundamentals Certificate. Start Date: January 14, 2020. CMP Credit Hours: 1.0. Length: 10 Weeks Online. Instructor: Kevin White, CSEP. CMP Clock Hours: 36. LEARN MORE.

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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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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Meet the new boss. As we see it, the meeting planning role itself hasn’t changed—the venue has. Virtual event planners are still project managers and logistics experts, but now they’ll treat the platform the way meeting planners would treat a venue. Same as the old boss. Think of the virtual event platform as the hotel.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 17, 2018

It could close next summer, reopen by late 2020 and be completed in March 2021. When it re-opens in 2020, it’ll have more than 258,000 sq. of function space, 12,000 seats and about 50 meeting rooms. The building is expected to receive LEED Silver rating and is on par to open in 2020. Congress Center Hamburg.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 29, 2019

West Elm, founded in Brooklyn in 2002, plans to open a line of hotels in 2020. It does not plan on a subtle transition into the industry, as it has already scheduled six openings, with the first planned for late this year.

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Maritz Global Events

AUGUST 8, 2019

Looking Ahead to 2020. It sounded like a lofty aspiration, but less than a week after e4, those guests received a Johnny Cupcakes t-shirt set in custom packaging signed by Johnny himself! Next year, we are taking e4 to Portland, Oregon. The destination and our event team have some pretty big shoes to fill.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Most host cities plan growth projects because of the Games, but Los Angeles is a unique scenario in that all these projects were in the works regardless of the Olympics coming to town. added 3,000 new hotel rooms and has a total of 9,200 new rooms scheduled to open by 2020 in Downtown L.A., In 2017 alone, L.A.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 29, 2017

From the remains of the former Stardust, Malaysia-based Genting Group is investing $4 billion in Resorts World Las Vegas to create a 3,000-room, modern Chinese-style tower complex that will open in 2020. of meeting space in November. Celebrity Beginnings.

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