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How Four Major Global Events Pivoted from In-Person to Virtual

Attendease

SXSW is a major film, music and tech event held every year in downtown Austin, Texas for the last 34 years. Offering brand new speaker content to anyone who might want to watch, and showing leniency to 2020 badge holders is a great way for the event organizers to build goodwill while they rebuild the event for next year.

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What Hybrid Platform Consolidation Means for Meeting Profs

SmartMeetings

Virtual meeting platforms are buying, acquiring, partnering and otherwise conjoining with in-person meeting producers to offer full-service, integrated hybrid capabilities. What will that mean for meeting professionals? It will also accelerate the development of Intrado’s self-service virtual event offering.” (See

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3 Lessons on Pivoting to COVID-Era Virtual Meetings

SmartMeetings

Meeting planners also learn by watching others doing. That is why, in this time of repackaging grand destination programs to fit onto confined computer screens, a great way to avoid mistakes is to study how our peers are shape-shifting to meet COVID-era standards. That left Artura no choice but to reinvent her plan.

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Smart Moves in San Diego, Chicago and More

Smart Meetings

Hilton Boston Logan Airport welcomed Kunkel as its new general manager. The global event tech and production company Encore welcomed Duffy as director of external communications. The post Smart Moves in San Diego, Chicago and More appeared first on Smart Meetings. Florian Kunkel. Jennifer Duffy. Jeremy Sadler.

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Hybrid Events: A Short-Term Solution or Long-Term Strategy?

Eventmobi

The ability to bring multiple attendees from across the world together virtually and still achieve the goal of the event is one that we as event professionals cannot deny. It also means adding the tech team to the space and incorporating and embracing the online event timeline. Melissa Park, Global Event Producer.

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Jack Morton launches global innovation practice: Genuine X

Event Industry News

Global brand experience agency, Jack Morton, today announces the launch of Genuine X, the agency’s innovation practice, The initiative is designed to support clients’ business needs at a time of increasingly rapid change, often driven by technology.

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3 Lessons from Virtual Shifts

SmartMeetings

Smart Meetings asked three meeting planners how they kept everyone tuned in. Some 250 leaders from Veritas Technologies meet yearly to coalesce around a plan for the upcoming 12 months. The 2020 Sales Leadership Summit was planned for April at Encore Boston Harbor Resort. Meeting Expectations.