SmartMeetings

MAY 27, 2021

Even companies that canceled key conferences altogether in the chaos of 2020 have announced they are bringing back at least the virtual component. Facebook’s F8 developer conference will be a one-day streaming event in June “to celebrate, inspire and help developers grow.” The Day the Meetings Stopped. Returning with Intention.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 31, 2021

Scotland’s only trade show for business events, meetings, incentives and hospitality professionals will return next month. I will show how business events can be best designed to appeal to this particular demographic with their unique needs and expectations.”. billion business events and meetings industry.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Almost three out of four (72 percent) had produced at least one in-person meeting between March 2020 and August 2021. Meeting professionals are finding they need a cordless adjustable driver with laser light and all-day battery pack to tackle the variety of scenarios in a typical 2021 day. We got lucky,” said Graziano.

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Endless Events

MAY 12, 2022

“I planned a conference in 2020 that got canceled. This year, they’re using 75% of the agenda I made for that very same conference. They typically like to get out of the office and use the conference as an excuse to have an expense-paid trip with their boss. . “And 75% of their role overlaps.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Hybrid events, like the recent Convening Leaders 2021 which help a live event at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore (above), are the next iteration of events during the pandemic. Jerry Lewis, president, Show Management Solutions, Inc. Andrea Berry, director of membership and conferences for the aviation non-profit RTCA.

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The MICE

MARCH 11, 2021

Gamifying a conference – ShipCon case study. Anne Geelhoed, Vice-Chair at YoungShip Rotterdam, shared how they pivoted their bi-annual conference—ShipCon—into a virtual format. According to Anne, ‘Taking a conference online brings its own challenges (e.g., The concept was created by Robert Dunsmore, Gwen and Deidrick.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I am not keen to restart show-floor happy hours where too many people crowd into the booth,” adds Lisa Grogan, who manages events, meetings and trade shows at Canadian tech company Matrox. As a conference organizer you may want to be more proactive than that. A Tipsy ‘New Normal’?

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Bizzabo

MARCH 26, 2020

The GSMA and the Host City Parties will continue to be working in unison and supporting each other for MWC Barcelona 2021 and future editions. Our WiCyS hearts couldn't be more full due to the outpouring of support from our incredible WiCyS members and conference sponsors. We want to do a special shout out to our conference sponsors.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 3, 2021

Did you anticipate that we would be at this stage in terms of vaccination distribution, variants, and other COVID-related impacts in the first quarter of 2021? That’s just going to be a “conference” and no one’s going to call it a “hybrid conference.” With very broad brushes, yes. ” It’s just there.

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Planning Pod

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

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Bizzabo

MARCH 4, 2020

Should screening reveal an elevated risk for an attendee, the person will be isolated immediately to prevent exposure to conference participants. The RSA Conference—a gathering of thousands of cybersecurity professionals that wrapped up at the end of February—kept a running list of updates leading up to and after the event.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

.” “In the events industry, we frequently get wrapped up in large meetings: the conferences and the expos,” he adds. So for example, this is the sales deck that we’re going to use for 2021 that you need to roll it out to all 7,000 of our salespeople and make sure that it’s consistent across all of them.

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QC Event School

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The do’s and don’ts of writing airtight client and vendor contracts; And MUCH more! But if you don’t know how to conduct yourself professionally, properly build your brand, develop contracts, and successfully attract (and retain) clients, your skill-set alone won’t be enough to cultivate a long-term career. 24,297 per year.

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Planning Pod

JANUARY 28, 2021

Coming from a background doing major event and trade show management, I am accustomed to running three main systems and several other smaller ones — my floorplanning module, my event management module, and my CRM and business system for managing customers,” said Dianne. We had a separate venue CRM system. We had an accounting system.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2020

We evaluate the event planner — did the organization work with speakers to adjust,” Delpy Neirotti said, “or did they really try to just translate what a normal conference would look like and put it online?”. A Virtual Conference Evaluation Checklist. Trade show: How are exhibitors displayed and found? Was it relevant?

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Event Leadership Institute

MARCH 17, 2021

Until then, let us get back to work on shows with lots of booths and conferences with tons of breakouts, like we’re all used to.”. 2021: The Year of the UX. If 2020 was about functionality—making the virtual event operationally sound—then 2021 will be about user experience. Increased Competition Brings Lower Prices.

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Planning Pod

AUGUST 24, 2019

Examples of this type of event or experiential marketing can include anything from handing out samples on the street to a booth at trade show to a built-in display or exhibit at a shopping center to a stand-alone event that immerses customers in a product or service. I have seen event marketing budgets as low as 0.5%

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Planning Pod

AUGUST 24, 2019

Examples of this type of event or experiential marketing can include anything from handing out samples on the street to a booth at trade show to a built-in display or exhibit at a shopping center to a stand-alone event that immerses customers in a product or service. I have seen event marketing budgets as low as 0.5%

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