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Webinar: The Return to Face-to-Face: What Will You Do?

PCMA Convene

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

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Language Interpretation Is the Next Wave in Virtual Meetings

Smart Meetings

Named one of the best inventions of 2021 by Time Magazine, KUDO is a real-time interpretation software company and virtual platform focused on providing language support for multilingual meetings. The software creates a platform from which real-time multilingual speakers interpret what’s being said at the event, for attendees.

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What It Takes to Host a Face-to-Face Event During the Pandemic

PCMA Convene

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. Each of those venues, he said, has told him they are “fine” with the meeting’s stipulations. Registration Rates and Deadlines.

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State of Virtual Meeting Tools

Smart Meetings

When a speaker can hear the basic human gesture of clapping at the push of a button, it is beautiful to see,” he said. After a slowdown from 2021, the use of streaming technology is steadily growing again, Alroy reported, citing a survey that found 68% of organizers plan to have a virtual component at their next in-person event.

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Back Light: Top 5 Talent Tips for Virtual and Hybrid Events

SmartMeetings

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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ELI Virtual Event Profile: RE:VISION 2020 by Pathable

Event Leadership Institute

As Christina and Amanda White, Marketing Specialist for Pathable, started planning for the event, they acknowledged that virtual event management was ever-evolving, remaining virtual during 2020 but potentially shifting to a live/virtual hybrid approach in 2021. Speaker Preparation. “We Target Audience.

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SF and NYC Challenge Planners to Lose Fear, Find Authentic Voices

Smart Meetings

of meeting and exhibit space, including a more than 500,000-square-foot contiguous area that spans the two sides of the street. That was when she started exploring her voice on the page and transformed herself into an author and “keynote speaker who sings,” even if there wasn’t such a thing before she tried it. million sq.

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