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Online Events Grow in Wake of Coronavirus

PCMA Convene

The ability to bring meeting participants together online across geography and time zones, once was “complicated, risky, and expensive,” Maarten Vanneste, the founder of Belgium-based ABBIT Meeting Innovators , told Convene. I do believe that this is going to be part of the toolbox for meeting designers or meeting professionals.”

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A Meeting Format that Unleashes Attendee Brainpower

MeetingsNet

It is likely to improve the perceived quality of your event's presentations, and you will see that in attendees' post-meeting evaluations. Maarten Vanneste is President of the Meeting Design Institute in Belgium.

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C&I Is the New Q&A

PCMA Convene

The European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) Congress had been held annually for more than three decades when the organization reached out in 2015 to Maarten Vanneste, president of the Meeting Design Institute, based in Turnhout, Belgium. And it’s lots more fun.”.

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An Ode to 40 Women Influencers In the Events Industry

Hubilo Blog

Mariska Kesteloo is a renowned public speaker, President of MPI in Belgium. MPI has a global community of 60,000 meetings and event professionals including more than 17,000 engaged members worldwide. Previously, she used to work as a freelancer in the MICE industry and came up with the ideas of Word of MICE.

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Professor Bart Baesens is a professor of Big Data & Analytics at KU Leuven (Belgium), and a lecturer at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom). Areas of expertise include conference business models, strategy, attendance marketing, sponsorship programs, and meeting technology. Bart Baesens Who is he? Where to find him?

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Top 98 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Professor Bart Baesens is a professor of Big Data & Analytics at KU Leuven (Belgium), and a lecturer at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom). Areas of expertise include conference business models, strategy, attendance marketing, sponsorship programs, and meeting technology. Bart Baesens Who is he? Where to find him?

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What Meeting Trends We’ll Be Watching in 2020

PCMA Convene

I learned about this new and improved form of the Q&A during a chat I had earlier in the year with Maarten Vanneste , president of the Belgium-based Meeting Design Institute. One way to keep participants involved in the conversation is called C&I — short for “Conversations and Input.”

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