Eventory

JANUARY 10, 2019

However, it’s easy to forget about the importance of audience analysis and checking on the target audience’s needs before every edition. The very first step, of the event planning process, after defining its goal, is the analysis of the dream audience. Target analysis is crucial in every step of an event’s evolution.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 23, 2019

The number of events being held in the UK is falling, while continued scrutiny on meeting spend and return on investment (ROI) is driving a shift towards a more strategic meeting management approach. Our analysis ensures that we are best placed to support event planners maximise their ROI in 2019 and beyond.”.

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Event Industry News

MAY 4, 2022

CLIPr, a Video Analysis and Management (VAM) platform using AI and machine learning to make recorded videos searchable by transcription, topics and subtopics, yesterday announced a new livestream feature that leverages the Vonage Video API. CLIPr’s new livestream capability works seamlessly with a customer’s hosting platform (i.e.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

With major airlines’ daily flight volumes shifting to better accommodate leisure travelers, some meetings might benefit from a change in schedule. This keeps the Sunday-to-Wednesday pattern attractive—but also brings into play a Monday-to-Friday or Wednesday-to-Friday meeting pattern that could make attendees’ travel easier on both ends.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Meeting professionals who have succeeded in the event businesses know they have to be both visionary and realistic. Any event can benefit from a powerful tool known as SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis. A SWOT analysis assesses the chances of success or failure for your event. Define SWOT?

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The official conference and meetings bureau for Cambridge and the surrounding area is welcoming new members to its Board, as it concludes its 25 th anniversary year. Together with Judith Sloane, Managing Director, their wise counsel and sound judgement will ensure we continue to meet the changing needs of our 50-plus venues.”

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Eved

JULY 3, 2017

Following are seven spend analysis reports you need to successfully analyze and act on your meeting and event spend. contributes the most to your total meeting and event spend. This report will support an analysis of costs and revenue and identify any outlying issues or red flags. Pareto Analysis. Maverick Spend.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 28, 2023

What does that mean for the meetings industry? Tools enable us to come together and work on something greater than ourselves, as do meetings. Time and Resources I see the tools of AI giving the meeting planner something they’ve never had in any real abundance before, time and resources. It might be our salvation.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 15, 2024

Should the event industry embrace facial analysis — a technology that promises to offer new analytic data to event stakeholders? An introduction to facial analysis and facial recognition You might be wondering what facial analysis is, and how it differs from facial recognition.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The new meetings-industry A.I. That’s the small print on the legal prompts in Spark, the meetings-specific generative-A.I. That’s the small print on the legal prompts in Spark, the meetings-specific generative-A.I. According to one meetings-industry attorney, that’s a warning well worth heeding.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 23, 2023

New figures show that the meetings market is hot. In both November and December 2022, the number of business meetings and events in the U.S. was about three percent higher than during those same months in 2019, according to the most recent industry analysis from Knowland. And education and meetings are just that.”

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Eventory

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Why is it worth running a negative target group analysis and what information to pay attention to? Target customer analysis is an important part of the event organization process. You carry out the analysis at the very beginning of the journey (Read more at The very first step of event planning process: understanding target audience ).

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 2, 2023

To help planners avoid the inevitable headache, Smart Meetings sat down with Huong Nguyen, CEO and founder of Shiloh Events , to find the best path forward for meeting planners looking for the right event tech for their needs. Consider doing a comparative analysis between the vendors with your team.

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Event Industry News

JULY 19, 2022

The Report provides two views of a sector continuing to face multiple challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic: data for meetings in the year 2019 are presented in-full, the “last good year” before the crisis, in addition to an analysis of what took place in 2021. Number of international association meetings.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 30, 2021

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. Bottom line: Having an emcee allows you, the meeting owner, to sleep better at night. Having an emcee at your event was a nice-to-have prior to 2020. Now it’s a must-have.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 9, 2023

Sustainability is now required at meetings as attendees are demanding an environmentally conscious event. Curbing pollutants has become part of the meeting professional job description, but how does one to do so at in-person and virtual events in a meaningful and cost-effective way? Tips and methods for producing greener events.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 28, 2023

With incentive and meeting teams continuing to experience post-pandemic staff shortages, the Incentive Research Foundation went to work to find out more about the challenges of hiring and retaining talent. Meetings and events careers are slightly better recognized: Just 30 percent answered “none” and 27 percent said “low.”

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Event planning apps and platforms will use AI and its advanced data collection abilities to make events more engaging and secure , as well as improve post-event analysis. Event personalization is likely to continue impacting meetings and events in 2024. We’ll see more and more event professionals use AI in a number of ways.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 2, 2023

In seconds it will provide unbiased analysis and potentially uncover hidden insights. ” When prompted to be more concise and empathetic, it produced this revision: “At your annual meeting, volunteers generate hundreds of content ideas for free. of hours of content ideas that volunteers willingly create for you for free.

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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. BlueJeans , a Verizon-owned software company, is sunsetting this year. Are you a BlueJeans customer looking for an alternative solution? Learn More!

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 18, 2020

Lisa Block, Sarah Michel, Bill MacDonald, Betsy Bair and I have all spent most of our professional lives in the meetings industry. For interested associations and suppliers that support the meeting industry, and are in need of help, we are offering consulting and coaching calls without the expectation of compensation.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 27, 2022

based attendee-feedback platform provider Explori launched the VSef initiative to create a standard format for transferring data between the many virtual-event platforms, sales and marketing systems, and business-analysis tools on the market. In early 2021, U.K-based

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Are your meetings attendees deterred by the hassles of air travel? Travel is working with Euromonitor, a London-based market research company, “on a global competitive analysis, benchmarking the U.S. A new survey says yes. In fact, they find it as annoying as a trip to the DMV. To the latter point, Freeman announced that U.S.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

This strategy has been effective in meeting the specific needs of retailers and forecourt operators, helping them to find better supplier solutions for their businesses. This positive reception is a testament to the event’s ongoing commitment to research and analysis, aiming to continually enhance the value provided to its clients.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Meeting automation is potentially positioning itself as the next technology to shake up the planning game. While apps and meeting management systems have been grabbing headline and topping lists of “tech to watch,” more complete meeting automation could take those principles another step forward.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Small meetings accounted for 82 per cent of bookings going through the venuedirectory.com in the last 12 months, a year when volumes have exceeded 2019 levels,” reports Michael Begley, managing director of venuedirectory.com. It’s further proof that people still want to meet in person.”.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 22, 2021

The Report provides two views of a sector now facing multiple challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic: data for meetings in the year 2019 are presented in-full, the “last good year” before the crisis, in addition to an analysis of what took place in 2020. . Number of international association meetings.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Representatives of the Let’s Meet There Coalition , the U.S. Tourism Economics shared a new analysis identifying the relationship between business travel and corporate performance for 14 industries over the past 26 years. A data fact sheet to support the safety of travel for professional meetings and events is available here.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 28, 2024

With a reorganization at Informa, MeetingsNet is now aligned with Connect Meetings, a portfolio of events and media outlets serving the global business-events industry.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 23, 2020

The push by meeting and event facilities to be known for implementing “the industry’s highest standards for cleaning and disinfecting” is in full swing. The program is open not only to convention centers but also stadiums and arenas, hotels, airports, and other facilities that are part of meeting and trade-show experiences.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 1, 2019

I expect the industry to improve again this year,” one respondent wrote, “as meetings become more innovative.”. “I I expect the industry to improve again this year,” one respondent wrote, “as meetings become more innovative.”. 33 percent expect to plan more meetings in 2019; only 4 percent expect to plan fewer meetings.

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Attendease

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

However, if you planned for 500 attendees and only 200 showed up, you likely will want to seek areas of improvement for the next time around so you can meet your targets and “wow” a larger crowd. Don’t limit your analysis to the event day alone. Getting people in the door is only the first step.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Planning at least three months ahead could save as much as 10 percent on the bottom line, according to a new 2019 Meetings & Events Future Trends study from Carlson Wagonlit Travel Meetings and Events (CWT M&E). Related : MPI Report: Shorter, More Frequent Meetings. Power of Strategy. Did employee performance improve?

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Eventscase Blog

APRIL 5, 2024

In today’s digital age, audiovisual event production has become a fundamental component for the success of any meeting, conference or celebration. Emily Lewis for Unsplash Provides Valuable Data for Post-Event Analysis Audiovisual event production also plays a crucial role in gathering data for post-event analysis.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It can also be effectively used by meeting and event teams of all sized to deliver better end products. Step 1: Risk Matrix and Analysis By establishing a systematic risk matrix and analysis, you gain the ability to foresee potential pitfalls and proactively address them.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 22, 2020

Tech companies tested virtual meetings before they were cool. Smart Meetings talked to the planners behind the alt-launch and a bevy of other experts in streaming meetings and found out the answer is: “A lot.”. Most face-to-face meetings embody three major components: education, networking and commerce. The solution?

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Many companies are relying on inefficient meetings and events practices rather than embracing the newest tools available, according to a new report released by a management software company. The post Report: Meeting and Events Companies Not Embracing Newest Tools appeared first on Smart Meetings. Key Findings.

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