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Event Tech Awards 2021: Meet the Judges – Heidi Legein

Event Industry News

As Chief Executive Guru at The MICE Guru, I have in the past year taken a deep dive into event tech; taken virtual certification, learned, tested, demoed, tried, implemented event tech all around, attended all major virtual events and discussed findings within our communities. Best (and worst?)

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Digitell, Inc. named finalist at the Event Tech Awards 2021

Event Industry News

Years of experience and countless highly satisfied Digitell clients demonstrate just how important that relationship is to the success of a virtual or hybrid event. While others were touting all the bells and whistles, they demonstrated knowledge about who our members are and their degree of tech savvy.

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Feast It raises €5m to continue disruption of €900bn global events industry

Event Industry News

Feast It, a marketplace enabling people to discover and book the dream suppliers for their events, has raised €5m in an oversubscribed venture-led round to continue its modernisation of the €900bn global events industry. The round follows a quarter that saw 2300% growth and over a million people attending its events.

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Tech Meets the Future

SmartMeetings

From around the world, announcements of dates and places for bringing tech minds together F2F have started to trickle in. All three meeting professionals saw 2021 as a chance to build their programs back almost from scratch to better serve an audience that will have to be convinced of the need to leave home and family to achieve any goal.

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Hamilton Event Agency Awarded for “Pivot” to Help Save Lives

Smart Meetings

The global event marketing agency Hamilton has been recognized with an EDDIE award for an exceptionally smart move in February. The company transitioned from immersive brand events to vaccination events. Event on Ivy Tech Community College campus in Sellersburg; Photo credit: Courtney Cantor.

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IBTM World set for a more successful show than 2019 

Event Industry News

In addition, there are 91% of the number of destinations that attended in 2019, making the IBTM World a truly global event experience. IBTM World will welcome back Brazil, alongside its 20 stand partners, and Malaysia is returning after attending in 2021. and CWT Meetings & Events. and CWT Meetings & Events.

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Eventscase celebrates its tenth anniversary by closing a new round of investment

Event Industry News

million round, which allowed the company to invest in product improvements and win the Eventex award for the best solution for virtual events in 2021. In September 2020, it managed to close a £3.5