SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

We are reaching the point where this technology is becoming more affordable and attainable, which means that meetings and conferences could see practical applications in educational programs, product demos and speeches. Study after study has shown that millennials want more experiences and less stuff. Meeting planners do, too.

Trade Shows 76

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Event Industry News

MAY 9, 2018

The results of the “Meeting- & EventBarometer 2017/2018” reveal the importance of digitisation and internationalisation for the German meetings, conference and events sector. Based on the just-released 2017 ICCA statistics, 682 international association meetings took place in Germany in 2017. Strong supply of venues.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

“The environmental impact of an event is often hiding in plain sight,” according to a recent Association Meetings International (AMI) post. Which is why the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Union of European Football Associations co-commissioned a technical study to find more sustainable solutions.

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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. One year I decided the kid camps were no longer of interest, so I began helping their director of meetings onsite. Early Start Derrick Johnson planned events before he graduated high school. Education.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 28, 2016

A recent GBTA Foundation study finds that, while the technology exists to help meeting professionals throughout the site-sourcing process, just over half—57 percent—say they currently use meeting management technology to plan their events. read more.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Conference centers are going cozy, creative, and high tech, according to IACC’s Meeting Room of the Future study. read more.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 3, 2021

What would you say is the biggest challenge for a traditional association meeting planner? We have the FreightWaves case study in the book and FreightWaves [an information provider in the freight industry] is so interesting because these guys were not in the events industry. So we will get to that point — the sooner the better.

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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. Then, they need to rebuild it, but it won’t look like the same house, and they don’t know what it will look like. And so Bear Analytics also finds itself in a rare situation. What is the plan: Hit pause?

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 20, 2016

John Graham, FASAE, CAE, president and CEO of ASAE, introduced a packed afternoon of sessions focusing on different aspects of leadership, designed to help association CEOs and senior executives to empower and motivate their boards, volunteers and staff to achieve growth and to achieve their strategic mission.

2016 40

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webMOBI

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Virtual Event Virtual event is an online based event that allows you to hold an organised meet-up from one location to many viewers. This event can range from hosting global conference, trade shows, product launch, recruitment fair to small question and answer session.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2016

What those results may indicate — keeping in mind that our salary survey is not a controlled group study where all the respondents are the same every year — is a return to normal. Moreover, the average salary increase of 4.35 percent was significantly lower than the average raise of 7.03 percent reported in our 2015 survey.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Of course, we’re careful not to make sweeping generalizations or grand pronouncements about our results each year — or over the past 10 years — because we recognize that this is not a control-group study.

2015 40

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 31, 2017

Mutz, director of the Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics at the University of Pennsylvania, writing in a paper for The Journal of Politics. At more and more conferences, especially those produced by associations and other nonprofit organizations, community-service projects are as expected as exhibit halls and award ceremonies.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

The circle got considerably bigger in 1987, with a vote to open up membership to professionals in the fields of science, education, and engineering, and bigger still in 1990, when all nonprofit association meeting professionals and CEOs were invited to join. “We A Meeting Runs on Its Stomach. “As The rest is history.” (See

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