Smart Meetings

JUNE 7, 2022

Editor’s Note : As part of Back Light, an ongoing series of looks behind the scenes at how events are being produced today, we asked Paula Mettler Marketing and communications manager with Leo Events to share a look at a recent production for a major retailer. Associates Meeting, and the legendary Associates Celebration to wrap up the week.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 25, 2020

BMA House has created a range of hybrid and digital event packages that reflect the ongoing changes in the corporate and association meeting industry. Kat Winfield, venue manager of BMA House comments: “We recognise that events are changing. Created using professional camera and sound suite managed by two technicians.

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Eventmobi

DECEMBER 9, 2020

With their first hybrid event MEET THE CHANGE, the German meetings industry association MEET GERMANY needed to deliver an innovative event format. Michael Hapka, Managing Director, Mercedes Benz Arena Berlin. At first glance – business as usual!

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

As conference education trumps the exhibit hall experience at many association meetings, or creeps into your trade show experience to create a solutions-driven, holistic experience for your attendees, upping your game with session titles, descriptions, and learning objectives has become more important than ever. You should too!

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 11, 2024

A Robust Agenda The week starts with Certified Destination Management Executive certification April 6-9 and Convention Sales & Services Summit, which has expanded to two days. Then Global Leadership Conference, which brings together PCMA Advisory Boards, partners and chapter leaders from around the world.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 23, 2023

Based on several hundred planner responses, MPI’s latest industry outlook finds that rising prices have strained meeting budgets, and will likely continue to do so into 2024. They are trying to make up for lost revenue and profit” from the Covid pandemic.

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Prestige Events Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

As part of ongoing investment in the services most needed by clients, BMA’s expert technicians have created a range of hybrid and digital event packages that reflect ongoing changes in the corporate and association meeting industry. Created using professional cameras and sound suite managed by two technicians.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

Paul Nunesdea : And hello, hello, dear viewers, this is a soft start of our third episode in 2024 of Talk to Your Meeting Doctors. As you probably know by now, we are pleased to entertain today our guest speaker Adrian Segar. Lovely to meet you, Adrian. Is that what happens or is it more structured and more managed?

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The holiday spirit took over Sacramento’s renovated SAFE Credit Union Convention Center last week as 400 association meeting professionals came together during the return of CalSAE ’s Seasonal Spectacular event Dec. Associations pivoted faster than they ever have before,” said Jim Anderson, CalSAE president and CEO.

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StraussCA

APRIL 21, 2022

Not only can you videoconference for meetings, which has been utilized to see each other “face-to-face” for years, I have learned to use it for so much more. The AGM is the gathering of members of an association to carry out such transactions as presenting financial statements and appointing new directors to the board.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 13, 2021

As part of ongoing investment in the services most needed by clients, BMA House’s expert technicians have created a range of hybrid and digital event packages that reflect ongoing changes in the corporate and association meeting industry. Created using professional cameras and sound suite managed by two technicians.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 25, 2021

As part of ongoing investment in the services most needed by clients, BMA’s expert technicians have created a range of hybrid and digital event packages that reflect ongoing changes in the corporate and association meeting industry. Created using professional cameras and sound suite managed by two technicians.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

ABPCO is the UK’s leading organisation for professional conference and event organisers, industry associates and those studying for, or seeking a career in the conference and meetings industry. For more information about ABPCO visit www.abpco.org.

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StraussCA

DECEMBER 9, 2021

When was the last time you got together with colleagues for an in-person association meeting or event? We had a three-day meeting with a board of directors – a group which hasn’t gotten together in the flesh since before the pandemic. Some association board members hadn’t even met each other yet.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 9, 2019

Heather Wakefield, 39, works remotely in Nashville, Tennessee, as a s enior manager of education and events at Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society. What I do: I am a results-oriented, event and education professional with more than 10 years of experience in healthcare nonprofit associations. When I moved to the Washington D.C.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 28, 2020

In fact, the biggest hindrance to association meeting planning right now is that “time is ticking away,” Colangelo said. Meaning there is excess capacity here, or cases where a whole new set of skills are required. … [Is] someone who is great at managing hotel contracts or setting the perfect food menu, etc., [in Punt to fall?

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 5, 2016

How staff, attendees, speakers, and vendors can make an association vulnerable to a cyber attack. read more.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 29, 2017

All of the project management and multitasking required to balance projects and budgets, contracts, and details keeps me engaged and looking forward to coming to work. What’s the best day you’ve had in the meetings industry so far? Events Manager, International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA). Sina Bünte.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 28, 2016

Jim Gurowka, CAE, senior vice president of global business development for the Montvale, New Jersey–based Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), responded to our questions via email. My current understanding is that foreign associations that have no presence in China will need to find a local partner.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 20, 2016

For the first time this year, IMEX America, in conjunction with American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), hosted a dedicated leadership stream for senior management to address the challenges facing association leaders including governance, volunteer management, cyber security, membership engagement and growth.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Corporate planners indicated that, on average, the largest chunk of their income comes from conventions/exhibits/meetings (39 percent); for association professionals, it’s 36 percent. Respondents worked for associations that were mostly international (53 percent) and national (40 percent) in scope. OFFERING CITYWIDE HOUSING .

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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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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The average revenue for respondents’ largest meeting with an exhibition in 2016 was $1.5 More respondents this year indicate that they manage that process themselves (47 percent compared to 44 percent in the 2015 survey). Corporate planners report that their meetings in total benefit host destinations the most — an average of $8.5

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2016

So it wasn’t just our presentation that was important, it was the whole week there,” said Jocelyne Perron, CMP, manager of business development for the international market for the Palais des congrès de Montréal. “We the Nova Scotia Beekeepers’ Association wrote on its website. destinations, as well as the backstory of U.S.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

SharedXP is designed to tap into the collective intelligence of peer groups to co-create event content. read more.

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