Smart Meetings

APRIL 6, 2022

Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID), a celebration of everything wonderful about the meetings industry, is kicking off its seventh year with the theme “Meet Safe,” a redux of GMID 2021’s theme. While most events across the globe took place virtually last year, more events are now meeting in person. Advocating Voices.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 14, 2022

In her prior career, she was executive director for Meet, a South Carolina company, director of sales at Visit Myrtle Beach and convention sales manager for Kingston Plantation Resort. Gibson is now director of resort experience at Hawks Cay Resort in the Florida Keys. Daniel Gibson. Kimberly McCarden Foster, CTE.

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Connect Your Meetings

JANUARY 30, 2019

When old man winter rears his ugly head, the best thing you can do to boost your conference attendance is to head to Florida—right? We recently had our regular business—conventions, meetings and overall leisure—analyzed, and surprisingly even to us, business is basically at the same percentage for each of the four quarters,” says Bloemendaal.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2018

I received my bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida in music education where I studied flute and percussion. I interned with the National Medical Association in their meetings department from age 15 to 22 years old. I also define meeting portfolio holistic strategy, combining objectives and technology opportunities.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 3, 2021

based strategy consulting firm for the events industry, Rankine said that he and coauthor Giberti — founder and CEO of Miami, Florida–based consulting company Vesuvio Ventures — were “freaked out” about the timing. What would you say is the biggest challenge for a traditional association meeting planner? It comes from Star Wars.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

I n a real sense, Convene , which was launched in 1986, grew up alongside the meetings profession. As late as 1980, there was no textbook on meeting or exposition management and only one accredited college program devoted to its practice, former Convene editor Peter Shure pointed out in a 2003 story in the magazine.

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