Bizzabo

AUGUST 28, 2020

From Microsoft to HPE, Gainsight, and more, leading tech brands are going virtual. Luckily, nearly every industry has embraced virtual events , including tech companies. Here are 10 well-executed virtual event ideas from tech companies and what you can learn from them. 10 Well-Executed Virtual Events From Tech Companies.

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Unique Venues

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In search of a great large or small office space to host an off-site meeting for your company? From college campuses and universities to business centers, camps, and retreat centers, there is surely the perfect space for your professional meeting. How about some great coworking space near you for you or your employees to utilize?

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

In search of a great large or small office space to host an off-site meeting for your company? From college campuses and universities to business centers, camps, and retreat centers, there is surely the perfect space for your professional meeting. How about some great coworking space near you for you or your employees to utilize?

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Bizzabo

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Over eight years ago, the video platform-provider Brightcove staged their first PLAY event in Boston. Since then, PLAY has become a powerful event brand that exemplifies how tech companies can leverage in-person experiences to achieve business goals and establish themselves as industry thought leaders. But it's for local events.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 26, 2021

The original 1915 hotel opens early August after extensive renovations to its 372 guest rooms, public spaces, common areas and meeting space with more use of natural light, modern neutral color palettes and tech upgrades from guest rooms to event spaces. The Langham Boston. The Clift Royal Sonesta , San Francisco.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 18, 2021

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? See Defining the Future of Meetings below for more on Intrado’s approach to hybrid.).

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 26, 2023

Smart Meetings asked Dr. Arun Upneja, Dean of the School of Hospitality Administration (SHA) at Boston University, if the push toward more extreme experiences is being felt in incentive travel , where the goal is to provide singular and high-end experiences for corporate stakeholders and sales staff. represents 1.2 million of the 1.4

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Conferences that Work

JULY 17, 2023

I am resigned to the fact that OpenAI ‘s Large Language Model ChatGPT has scraped every blog post I’ve written here (over 750 posts in the last 13 years—around half a million words) so it can parrot my thoughts about meeting design, facilitation, and other topics. Recommend John G commented July 13 Boston @AJS i agree with you.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

What better way to learn more about the exciting world of event technology than listening to an awesome product spotlight episode of the Event Tech Podcast? But before the Event Tech Podcast squad analyzes the platform itself, they explain what a simulive is. ” And then, she found her happily ever after: Accelevents.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 26, 2018

New York-based Convene is quickly taking over the United States with a database of tech-enabled meeting spaces in major cities across the country. Billed as a flexible way for companies to meet their growing need for workspace solutions, founders Ryan Simonetti and Chris Kelley offer properties with all the bells and whistles built in.

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Unique Venues

JULY 25, 2019

And though it was challenging for us to choose, here are a few of our top picks for venues for business meetings in large cities: The National Museum of American Jewish History is located in one of the most historic square miles in the country in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The museum can comfortably accommodate 500 guests in 7 meeting rooms.

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Bizzabo

AUGUST 28, 2020

From Microsoft to HPE, Gainsight, and more, leading tech brands are going virtual. Luckily, nearly every industry has embraced virtual events , including tech companies. Here are 10 well-executed virtual event ideas from tech companies and what you can learn from them. 10 Well-Executed Virtual Events From Tech Companies.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 5, 2020

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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Attendease

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

You’d think that, given that the Oxford Economics and Events Industry Council reports that “meetings generated $1,294 of spending per participant,” event and meeting planners would be given budgetary free rein to produce the kinds of events needed to generate these economic returns. Shrinking Budgets. Event Personalization.

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Attendease

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

SXSW is a major film, music and tech event held every year in downtown Austin, Texas for the last 34 years. Collision is a three-day tech conference that has been running for the past five years, attracting top tier speakers and well-known vendors to its stages and exhibit hall. INBOUND (Boston, MA - September 22-23).

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

With over 3,000 global buyers and 3,000+ exhibiting companies already confirmed, IMEX America 2022 is set to be one of its largest editions since its launch in 2011, suggesting a confidence-boosting bounce-back for the global meetings, incentive travel and business events industry.

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Connect Your Meetings

JANUARY 26, 2017

Similarly, the 242-room Godfrey Hotel in Boston introduced InnSpire , a sophisticated guest media-streaming technology, upon opening last year. Our guests are tech-driven, travel with three to five devices and want high-speed Wi-Fi in all public spaces,” says Kristi Taglauer, general manager of the 188-room hotel.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 6, 2020

The editors of Convene looked back over 2019, asking this question: What’s one meeting and event trend on my radar in 2020? At CES in early January, Centerplate is joining forces with Picnic , a food production technology company, to use its robot to produce pizza for hungry tech enthusiasts. Why I Have My Eye on AI. David McMillin.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Host Events is a Boston-based company that focuses on building community through top-notch virtual experiences. “We connected certified and insured bartenders to corporate clients that were hosting happy hours throughout the country, not just here in Boston. And then, everyone else got savvy about tech.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The evolution of the meetings landscape continued today with the announcement that Convene, which targets the small-meetings market by offering full-service facilities in five major American cities, has made a strategic investment in Bizly, an end-to-end software solution for meetings management.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Combining a world-renowned destination and laidback lifestyle with a strong tech sector, business-friendly climate, and vibrant creative culture, the city has created an open and inspiring environment where anything feels possible and all are free to shine. . . NATURAL MEETING PLACE . That could soon change to number one.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2016

Along with social-tech companies Hootsuite and Tickr, Crimson Hexagon created a “Social Tech Cabana” just outside the Palais where they entertained customers with social-tech case studies, accompanied by a Bloody Mary hangover-cure happy hour every morning. based marketing manager for Crimson Hexagon. “We

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The editors of Convene looked back over 2019, asking this question: What’s one meeting and event trend on my radar in 2020? At CES in early January, Centerplate is joining forces with Picnic , a food production technology company, to use its robot to produce pizza for hungry tech enthusiasts. Why I Have My Eye on AI. David McMillin.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Most people won’t ask questions at meetings. In a thoughtful article “ Audience Engagement – at the Heart of Meetings “, Pádraic Gilligan writes: “…We all want audience engagement so why doesn’t it take place?…While Pádraic suggests that hi-tech polling methods can be used to increase engagement.

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SpotMe Blog

APRIL 28, 2022

Meetings & Incentives . The team of over 300 specializes in end-to-end event management of all types including meetings, conferences, incentive, as well as other strategic business operations. When it comes to hybrid events, a dedicated meeting manager will: Source, vet, and manage streaming platforms. Boston, MA.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 28, 2022

Mandarin Oriental, Boston promoted Lindner to general manager. Over the last 20 years, Perry has become experienced in catering, meetings, events and hospitality sales and marketing. Garcia was previously director of development at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, also in El Paso, Texas. Markus Lindner.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 29, 2022

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. Nicholson was most recently director of business development and banking at Conferma Pay, a virtual payment tech company based in the United Kingdom.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

airline to begin flying the Airbus A220-100, a new airplane that is described as very high-tech and quieter in the cabin. Delta has also been adding flights to Europe from nonhub cities, with transatlantic runs from Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Raleigh, Orlando and Boston. That’s exactly what Delta Airlines has done.

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Unique Venues

JULY 19, 2022

The Center features over 38,000 square feet of meeting and exhibit space to suit all your event’s needs. You and your conference attendees can meet in one of the 25 various meeting rooms, host seminars and lectures in the auditorium, and stay in one of the 200 hotel rooms available. Boston University. Boston, MA.

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Event Industry News

JULY 14, 2022

Customers including Cisco, SAP and Adobe hosted large scale events this spring, as did South by Southwest (SXSW), the massive tech/music/film conference and festival. This year our team members have traveled to cities including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Austin, Houston, Boston, Orlando, Seattle, San Diego and Aspen.

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Event Industry News

JULY 14, 2022

Customers including Cisco, SAP and Adobe hosted large scale events this spring, as did South by Southwest (SXSW), the massive tech/music/film conference and festival. This year our team members have traveled to cities including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Austin, Houston, Boston, Orlando, Seattle, San Diego and Aspen.

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Bizzabo

DECEMBER 5, 2019

PTC is a Boston-based software and services company that was originally founded in 1985. Since that time, the tech organization has amassed an impressive resume that includes over 6,000 employees, 1,150 technology partners, and more than $1 billion in revenue. Boston New Technology Augmented & Virtual Reality Startup Showcase.

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Bizzabo

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Boston, MA. Boston, MA. Collision is “America’s fastest growing tech conference” created by the team behind Web Summit, gathering CEOs of top startups and enterprises. Europe's leading tech conference for inspirational learnings and quality networking. SearchLove: Boston. Boston, MA. Boston, MA.

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Event Leadership Institute

JANUARY 21, 2021

Lance Wieland of Boston Consulting Group shares tips on how to be more entrepreneurial, what to look for in new hires, how to provide value, and investing in your team’s skills. Lance Wieland, BCG’s global meeting services director, leads a team of 35 people around the world who support about 500 meetings a year. That’s changed.

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Click & Pledge

AUGUST 9, 2021

Ferrante received a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Cornell, then proceeded to earn her PhD in animal science from Virginia Tech. After watching a few close friends serve the Blacksburg and Virginia Tech communities with the Blacksburg Volunteer Rescue Squad , Pam expanded her resume to include EMT.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

It’s less expected, perhaps, to find startups on the agenda at the annual meeting of the 124-year-old Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM), a trade association for manufacturers of heavy equipment used in industries known more for gravel, corn, and coal than computer code. Photo/Arthur Kostadinoff). New Capital, News Ideas.

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Management Events

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The adoption of retail tech has also increased among brands to not only survive but thrive during these uncertain times. A study by Boston Consulting Group found that customers who experienced high personalization were 110% more likely to add more items to their carts and gave higher net promoter scores. . Customer personalization

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