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Concerns about using facial analysis at events: part two

Conferences that Work

“ This, of course, is exactly what Moutafis admits happens if clients use Zenus technology with any other tech that identifies individuals. Badge scanning tech is common at meetings. But we still think it is morally a good idea to do so in the spirit of transparency and education.

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Sign of the Times? GE Sells its Famed Training Facility

MeetingsNet

A private group of investors has purchased Crotonville, General Electric’s management-training facility for nearly 70 years, for $22 million and will operate the suburban New York venue as a conference center—which means that business groups can meet in the same spaces that legendary GE CEO Jack Welch educated his management teams.

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How Planners Are Celebrating GMID 2022

Smart Meetings

MPI Minneapolis will be meeting in person at Delta Hotels Minneapolis from 1-5p.m. to cover the state of the meetings industry and post-Covid experiences, featuring experts from Meet Minneapolis, Experience Rochester, and local and regional meetings industry associations.

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Why You Need to Be All In on These 4 Vital Event Tech Tools

MeetingsNet

Are you optimizing the technologies that can help make your events more appealing, engaging, and educational? By Liz Burton, High Speed Training. read more.

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Hybrid Venues: The Best of Both Worlds

Event Industry News

Venues have been equally quick to react, providing designer studios as restrictions lifted last summer, along with tech, atmosphere and identity in equal measure. As lockdown lifts and events begin to return, organisers who are practiced in the virtual world can expect bigger audiences. That’s the spoils of hybrid thinking.

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10 Things to Do While in Sacramento for CalSAE

SmartMeetings

Are you one of the more than 1,000 association meeting professionals attending the California Society of Association Executives (CalSAE) Holiday Spectacular at Sacramento Convention Center this week? If so, you are in for a treat. The conference is a once-a-year chance to see all of your friends and find new solutions.

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Highlights from IMEX America 2016

SmartMeetings

There were more reasons than ever to attend IMEX America 2016, the biggest three-day exposition for incentive travel, meetings and events, which concluded yesterday at Sands Expo and Convention Center at The Venetian | The Palazzo Las Vegas. IMEX America also features the TECHknowledge Area, powered by The Meeting Pool.

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