MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

After one big effort in August, nearly six times as many Maritz Global Events employees are certified in event sustainability. Over the past year, a handful of employees at Maritz Global Events, Fenton, Mo., However, during the company’s Activate conference in August, participation went to a whole new level.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 7, 2022

Buongiorno is Vice President, AIM Group International, a company that for over sixty years has been one of the international leaders in events and conferences. The award recognizes a business events strategist who has demonstrated a vision, commitment and passion for the advancement and education of the global meetings industry.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The good news for event marketers, however: Despite the year’s travel speed bumps and forecasts, many events and trade shows (CES 2024, included) are reporting they are back to pre-pandemic attendance levels. Bleisure’ is influencing how your event attendees are booking travel. percent increase in hotel rates.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

Meet Blackpool has announced it has become a member of three key industry associations: the Association of British Professional Conference Organisers (ABPCO), beam and the Tourism Management Institute (TMI), further cementing the town’s dedication to the global events and tourism sectors.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 26, 2022

More than 2,000 meetings industry folks gathered at Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center for the launch of Business Events Industry Week , a concentration of events designed to illustrate the Power of Purpose exercised when people come together. — SmartMeetings (@SmartMeetings) March 25, 2022.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

But with news of the Omicron variant changing day-to-day, conference organizers and sponsors are using the skills they’ve acquired in Covid times: flexibility and leveraging virtual options to replace some face-to-face experiences. These are challenging times for large, in-person events, and companies are aware of participants’ concerns.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Now that compression is making available space an endangered resource and inflation is pushing up prices for even the most basic items while companies are hesitant to make binding decisions, the responsibility for explaining the realities of what is possible on both sides of the balance sheet falls to the event planner. By the Numbers.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Heike Mahmoud , CMP, was one of the first European meeting professionals to earn the Certified Meting Professional (CMP) designation through the Events Industry Council (EIC) in 2006. Now, she feels inspired as she sees the certification’s global spread. “It

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Event Industry News

MARCH 29, 2022

Birmingham and the West Midlands Conference Ambassador Network unites region’s academic and private sectors to win new business tourism events Programme launched at exclusive event at Birmingham’s Millennium Point Region’s conference and events sector worth £2.3bn to Birmingham and the West Midlands.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 8, 2022

Today (7 th April 2022) the Events Industry Council (EIC), the global voice of the business events industry, has launched the data collection phase of its landmark Economic Significance Study , in collaboration with Oxford Economics. The survey will close on 25 June 2022. To take part click here.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 27, 2022

Europe’s largest SaaS focused conference, SaaStock, has announced it is extending its partnership with Irish creative events agency Catapult for a further three years. The extension follows SaaStock announcement that its flagship event “SaaStock 2022” will return as an in-person event to Dublin’s RDS on October 18-19th.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The South Wales venue has been announced as a finalist for the ICCA Best Marketing Award and in the Best Legacy category at the ABPCO Excellence Awards for its work educating the global events sector on the upcoming Protect Duty (Martyn’s Law).

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This is expected to continue well into 2023, according to a new report, “ 2023 Global Meetings and Events Forecast ,” by American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT). Global in-person attendance is predicted to rise 3.3% for conferences and tradeshows and 4.2% Sustainability Concentration.

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Event Industry News

MAY 31, 2022

Royal Docks venue reveals construction works well underway on major 25,000sqm expansion programme High-speed Elizabeth line will help drive capital’s economic recovery Rajesh Agrawal states there has “never been better time to host events in London”. James Rees, Executive Director for Conference & Events at ExCeL London.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 31, 2022

Europe’s largest SaaS focused conference, SaaStock, has announced it is extending its partnership with Irish creative events agency Catapult for a further three years. The extension follows SaaStock announcement that its flagship event “SaaStock 2022” will return as an in-person event to Dublin’s RDS on October 18-19th.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 31, 2022

Event Tech Live (ETL) Las Vegas will take place next spring rather than this summer. Adam Parry, co-founder of Event Tech Live, comments: “The appetite for ETL Vegas is there, no question, and the dice may have fallen for us. Event Tech Live Summit: June 8, 2022. Event Tech live London: November 15-17, 2022.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 1, 2022

Cvent (Nasdaq: CVT), a market-leading meetings, events, travel and hospitality technology provider, is one of several key industry leaders supporting and helping fund the beta version of the sustainability web app: SAM , which was recently launched by In-House Corporate Events (ICE). SAM is in beta testing mode until September 2022.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Leadership with Financial & Insurance Conference Professionals (FICP) wanted to set an example. For the group’s 2021 FICP Annual Conference in Arizona, they put a stake in the desert early on that they would hold an in-person event at JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa for 500 fully vaccinated people Nov.

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Event Marketer

JULY 25, 2023

Figma’s community of users helps guide the content strategy for the annual Config conference. And their eagerness to independently organize all over the world around the event has helped the brand execute on a hybrid strategy. The team wants the event to feel like a music festival. And it’s paying off.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

She is co-chair of Events Industry Council’s Meeting and Event Design Group Covid-19 Business Recovery Task Force and now consults leading companies on their return to events approach. Any interruption to pre-planning or on-site execution that disrupts an event is a risk,” Warwick said. Defining Risk.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 23, 2022

The 1,700 attendees checking in live at Meeting Professionals International’s World Education Conference ( WEC ) at Moscone Center in San Francisco this week were treated to a performance in three acts designed to provide “perspective,” “approach” and “action,” according to Paul Van Deventer, MPI president and CEO.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 1, 2022

Global Events, Strategic Solutions Lead, Google. 2022 Smart Women in Meetings Visionary Award Winner. Some work has been done at gaming conferences and a few sports arena, but there is a lot of room to improve. Read More : Tips on Catering to All Types of Event Attendees. How do you define neurodiversity?

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 6, 2022

A group of major event brands, led by ICE (In-house Corporate Events), is calling for event industry input into the continued development of an event sustainability measurement tool that will be free of charge and applicable for every event. The data will also be attributed on an event-by-event basis.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2023

Learning tracks cover challenges that keep meeting professionals up at night When what is expected to be the largest crowd ever for an events industry trade show arrives at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas in October for IMEX America 2023 , the focus will squarely be on connecting people in new, effective ways.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 15, 2021

The first Event Tech Live (ETL) US & Canada wrapped on Thursday 10th June, content keeping to the high mark set on days one and two, Top Tech to Embrace to Achieve Effective Gamification and Back to the Future, Perhaps among the sessions and Canapii winning gold in the coveted Start-Up Competition. Event Tech Live was a blast!

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Event Industry News

MARCH 9, 2021

The ‘Design & Build Division’ within global events company, Montgomery Group, has announced a key appointment to its marketing team. Wooster joins from Futurebuild where she spent three years as marketing manager and played an integral role in taking the sustainable built environment event independent.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 1, 2022

Global Events, Strategic Solutions Lead, Google. 2022 Smart Women in Meetings Visionary Award Winner. Some work has been done at gaming conferences and a few sports arena, but there is a lot of room to improve. Read More : Tips on Catering to All Types of Event Attendees. How do you define neurodiversity?

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 11, 2021

We still believe wholeheartedly that a resurgence will come, but sadly we do not believe it will happen in time for us to deliver a strong and successful event in May. In the meantime, we remain committed to value creation. You can count on IMEX.

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Unique Venues

JANUARY 23, 2023

Event venue marketing can be tough. The event industry is roaring back to life thanks to attendee confidence in public safety measures and risk mitigation efforts established by venues. In 2023 there are plenty of options for marketing your event venue, so what sets Unique Venues apart? I’m glad that you asked!

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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.” Kristin Horstman. The Day the Meetings Stopped.

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Event Leadership Institute

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For the last several years, CloudBees has hosted DevOps World – a combo industry, user conference, and open source community event. Traditionally, the highly-produced, multi-day event with keynote stage shows and interactive sessions is held in-person twice a year, in North America and in Europe. Developing the Event Plan.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 19, 2021

When Maritz Global Events decided it was finally time to get back to face-to-face, the experience-design company brought 500 people who represented the entire meetings ecosystem to Seattle—clients, employees, team members and partners—and focused on talking openly and solving shared challenges. Seattle is a resilient place.”.

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Nunify

MARCH 16, 2022

Planning an event requires attention to detail in every aspect, be it the organization, execution, or follow-up. But thanks to the modern, tech-driven world that we live in, tools, software, and technologically advanced platforms have made event management a breeze. What are No-code Event Planning tools ? billion by 2026.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 22, 2020

PCMA today released an update to Business Events Compass , an actionable framework of insights and strategies for business event professionals and their business partners during the pandemic and beyond. 45% of APAC survey respondents expect to attend local events in 2021 and 20% expect to attend regional or national events.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 5, 2023

Marriott International President and CEO Tony Capuano kicked off the event by thanking the 314 association planner customers for sticking with the company and helping the hospitality industry recover so quickly. Marriott stepped into the role his father vacated in February 2022. At the same meeting, Isabella “Bella” D.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 21, 2023

While conference teams often have diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in their sights, belonging is the next step forward. Reflecting on the APA 2023 event, which took place from August 3 to 5 in Washington, D.C., She and her team amped up the amount of information about the conference in pre-con communications. “As

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 8, 2020

From the front lines in Reno, Nevada, Mark McMinn, vice president of meeting and event sales with Grand Sierra Resort , sees pent-up demand on the leisure side, but he is restricted when it comes to bringing attendees back to the ballroom. He is also global president for IACC, an association of independent venues all over the world. “We

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