Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 30, 2021

Having an emcee at your event was a nice-to-have prior to 2020. Talk to any meeting owner who has managed a large virtual event this past year using a skilled emcee and he or she will tell you it made all the difference. The right content weaver can contribute to the meeting’s design and help prepare speakers and formulate agendas.

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e2m.live

MARCH 2, 2021

e2m OnAir turned UAKON 2020, their 34th annual conference into a virtual event. e2m OnAir Meeting module was used during these sessions helping the attendees to schedule 1:1 meetings with one another or with one of the speakers. The post Case Study – UAKON 2020 appeared first on e2m.live blog. The Solution.

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Marketo Events

JUNE 2, 2020

Do: Be an advocate for your speakers. Don’t let your speakers be the low man on the totem pole of priorities. Overcommunication with speakers is the number one rule. If things are still in flux, your speaker should know that. If things are still in flux, your speaker should know that.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

We asked Kailash Nagdev, senior vice president of sales and analytics for EXPO 2020 Dubai , to shine a light on the seven years of work required to coordinate input from 200 stakeholders in 191 countries with the goal of “driving innovation and inspiring action to deliver real-life solutions to real-world problems.” Pandemic Impacts.

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Eventmobi

DECEMBER 9, 2020

With their first hybrid event MEET THE CHANGE, the German meetings industry association MEET GERMANY needed to deliver an innovative event format. With this one-day event, which took place on August 27, 2020 in Berlin and online, the organizers proved that courage pays off. MEET THE CHANGE in Numbers.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The Meetings Show has announced the UK’s leading exhibition for event, meeting and conference professionals will now be a fully virtual event this October. The Meetings Show will run virtually from 19-21 October. The show will run virtually from 19-21 October. For more information and to register to attend visit [link].

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Visit ExpoPlatform’s virtual exhibitor stand at Event Tech Live to learn more about ExpoPlatform’s solutions, book a one-on-one discussion, and get a free consultation for your upcoming events: [link] Haven’t got time to meet the ExpoPlatform team at ETL 2020? Contact here ! Sponsored Content.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

So, how are speakers preparing for the future of meetings and events ? A beast that made the meetings and events industry obsolete overnight. Then, I wondered, what my speaker friends were doing in quarantine. But the meetings and events profession will be back. However, this is a different animal.

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Bizzabo

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

We encourage every event planner to mark their calendars for the following 35 events and conferences in 2020. Attending these conferences will allow you to learn more about the events industry and meet other event professionals. Learn from top speakers and network with your peers. International Confex 2020. Event Name.

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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. If a client has strong feelings about DEI, meetings planners should too. “If The onus is somewhat on my shoulders to start learning more.”

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Research professor and author Brené Brown is one of the most-searched TED Talk speakers of all time, according to VBQ Speakers. One way of determining the speakers who have the broadest and most enduring appeal comes from a U.K.-based Why do viewers continue searching for these particular speakers? Randal Ford photo).

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Even as in-person meetings continue to reemerge with a vengeance, virtual meetings have taken a primary position in the event professional toolbox. When a speaker can hear the basic human gesture of clapping at the push of a button, it is beautiful to see,” he said. A More Customer-focused Virtual Environment. “We

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Eventsforce

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The sudden shift to virtual events has created many challenges for planners – especially when it comes to managing remote speakers. In fact, the virtual event environment has made the whole process of speaker presentation and management more difficult, both in terms of providing value to attendees and meeting speaker expectations.

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e2m.live

MARCH 2, 2021

e2m OnAir turned UAKON 2020, their 34th annual conference into a virtual event. e2m OnAir Meeting module was used during these sessions helping the attendees to schedule 1:1 meetings with one another or with one of the speakers. The post Case Study – UAKON 2020 appeared first on e2m.live blog. The Solution.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 5, 2022

Before March of 2020, pacing data was a useful tool for predicting final attendance and revenue. It’s expected that meetings in Q3 or Q4 will outperform those held in the first half of this year. A lot of meetings operating in Q1 and Q2 ended up extending their early-bird deadlines multiple times. Adjust your date fees.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 8, 2020

What if three months from now you could look back and know that you didn’t just survive 2020—you finished it on a high note and came out stronger than ever? If 2020 is a story, then make right now a turning point where you get the treasure and find out the hard lessons led you to pure gold. Easier said than done, right?

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 18, 2020

At VCC, we were tracking to have a banner year in 2020. Lisa Block, Sarah Michel, Bill MacDonald, Betsy Bair and I have all spent most of our professional lives in the meetings industry. Speaker coaching for virtual engagement. Professional speaker recommendations. Micro-Consulting Bandwidth. Conference P&L analysis.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The third annual corporate-events research report from Germany-based meetings organization In-House Corporate Events (ICE) in conjunction with Cvent revealed several interesting trends as corporate-meeting departments coordinate events for 2022. engagement with touchpoints (69 percent versus 38 percent in 2020).

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GEVME

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The IAEE, along with Marina Bay Sands and their online technology partner GEVME came together at the IAEE Asia Hybrid Forum 2020 to discuss the future of hybrid technologies. Meet with the exhibitors, download the relevant collaterals. During the pandemic, many companies resorted to platforms like Zoom to conduct their events.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 6, 2020

The American Association of Suicidology’s annual meeting had been growing steadily in recent years. in late April, staff and volunteers went into overdrive to transition the physical meeting to a virtual one in a matter of days.They knew how critical it was to deliver much-needed content to their global community. Register Now.

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Hubilo Blog

APRIL 17, 2020

What is the next big thing in 2020? . The biggest thing that can happen in the world in 2020 is Virtual Conferences – Online Events. As you can’t afford the no show-no gain state for your events, meetings ane conferences, you need to step up on the gas and help your events by pivoting them to virtual conferences and events.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Up until six months ago the team were busy preparing to head to the ‘Rome Cavalieri’ in Italy to deliver the 2020 event, but due to current challenges and restrictions, this year’s delivery will mean a slightly different format and venue. Ermin’s has allowed key speakers to be filmed in a safe and inspiring central London location. ‘We

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Event Leadership Institute

JANUARY 12, 2021

After COVID-19 disrupted the events industry and forced numerous in-person meetings and events to go virtual, one event technology company decided to host its first-ever virtual event, on its platform, in November of 2020. With the major shift in our industry during 2020, we knew people were feeling disconnected and a bit lost.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 2, 2022

Planning an event in multiple languages can be a challenge for meeting planners. Innovative virtual language interpretation software is making attendee accessibility a reality for everyone involved in creating inclusive meetings. The program makes its virtual services impartial to any particular meeting platform.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board announced a partnership with Clear Health Pass and Co.Protect branded protective equipment to help meeting professionals create frictionless solutions for establishing and executing protocols. “We Diverted 45% of all waste from landfill in 2020. Reduced greenhouse emissions by 36.1%

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Guidebook

MARCH 12, 2020

Encourage attendees to tweet out their takeaways or snap selfies of themselves enjoying speaker sessions. Choose Engaging Speakers. This is why it’s so important to choose speakers you can captivate an audience online. Social Media can also be valuable during virtual events. Optimize Your Content for Virtual.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Vilnius is abuzz with meetings and events professionals networking at the LITEXPO Exhibition and Congress Centre for the eighth edition of CONVENE. These numbers are part of a much bigger picture that has CONVENE 2020 aiming to highlight the characteristics that differentiate the Baltic Sea Region from other parts of Europe.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 6, 2021

The Italian Society of Anaesthesia, Analgesia, Intensive Care, and Resuscitation (SIAARTI) turned its annual meeting into a traveling event that included educational content and meetings with experts, health managers, local administrators, and sponsors in socially distanced settings. Courtesy of Progressive IMS Outdoors).

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

NSA President & CEO Mary Lue Peck (clockwise from top right), NSA Board of Directors President Anna Liotta, and Sylvie di Guisto, who served as co-chair of NSA’s conference program for INFLUENCE 2020, participated. Participants in a Sept. 1-4, to an all-digital event. Our industry needed us,” Peck said.

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Hubilo Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2020

RAISE 2020 (Responsible AI for Social Empowerment 2020), a mega virtual summit on Artificial Intelligence was held on Hubilo’s Virtual Event Platform from October 5 – 9, 2020. If you want to receive a personal demo of Hubilo’ virtual conference platform for your next event, do send in your request here.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 30, 2023

But the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (AMDA) may have set a record: In 2020, organizers moved its annual conference, PALTC , scheduled for the first week of April, from an in-person to virtual event in just three weeks. “We They were better at it; the speakers were better at it.

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Velvet Chainsaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

We fantasize about crowded exhibit halls, packed hotels, and chummy, in-person board meetings. I get a million emails a day with some variation of “Here’s when I think we can hold big meetings again.” I’m not sure my association will hold a big, in-person meeting in 2021. I delete them all. What if that’s not what happens?

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The New Year is upon us and as we look at 2022 for our meetings and group gatherings, we gaze into the future with bright eyes and positive grins and think, what the heck is going on? Event safety has become a priority, if not for meeting planners, then for attendees. Meeting planners don’t need to be IT gurus.

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Eventmobi

AUGUST 12, 2022

Meet The Person Behind The Magic. FMX had two primary objectives for their May 2020 conference “Reimagine Tomorrow”: To promote exchange within the industry To offer a high-quality program with prominent speakers. FMX used EventMobi’s: Event Space Full Data Management GoLive! Production Services. Participants.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Now, customers who have been using the video conferencing platform to host online events, conferences, meetings, or live streams, have to find a new way of connecting with virtual audiences. Later, in May 2020, BlueJeans was acquired by Verizon for about $400 million. Are you a BlueJeans customer looking for an alternative solution?

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Where better to celebrate the resiliency of the meetings industry than in Las Vegas , where 2 million sq. of meeting space was added since the beginning of 2020? Smart Meetings had its own bubble in the meeting center amid a whopping 250,000 sq. public pool deck, the largest in Las Vegas.

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Hubilo Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

With the new year approaching, it’s the time to ensure you are up to date with all the important business events taking place around you in 2020. Here are the 2020 Australia business events that you must keep on your radar to enhance your experience and explore much better opportunities in your field of interest. . 28th May 2020.

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