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A Real Cliffhanger: Making the Numbers at the 2017 Brazilian Spine Society Congress

PCMA Convene

What do you do when you’ve booked your ambitious biennial conference just as your country’s economy slips into a serious recession? Soon after congress planning began, the country was rocked by two political scandals, and skyrocketing unemployment threatened to put Brazil back on the UN hunger-crisis map it had just vacated in 2014.

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Is the Party Over?

Smart Meetings

Returning to F2F, do alcohol and meetings still mix? It happened in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2009,” Juliane Farinazzo, co-founder and events director of Bijou Events, remembers as if it were yesterday. Faceplanted on the table during a global investigator meeting, causing four glass bottles to topple to the floor.”. Yes, they did.

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Ticketbud Tidbits Podcast Episode 1 - Deidra Sibila

TicketBud

It’s in Chile, Argentina and Brazil and Chicago, now they have a couple other markets: Austin City Limits, the NFL draft, partnering with the NFL. and so I recently left C3 to do some freelance independant contract work with landed me this opportunity with 3Can Events and the Austin Trail of Lights. Kayhan: Very cool, very cool.

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Omicron Event Cancellations Abroad, Travel Bans and Returning Resident Restrictions

Smart Meetings

Yet in just two weeks, the variant is known to have spread to 17 countries: South Africa, Botswana, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, as well as Hong Kong and Reunion, a French island. Is it time to “lift and shift” events again?

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Event Heroes: How to Build a Successful Event Brand from Scratch

Bizzabo

This month we spoke with Vasil Azarov, Co-founder of Growth Marketing Conference, about starting a career in events, building an event brand from scratch, and how to be smart with event partnerships. At the core of Growth Marketing Conference’s success is its event community. How did your career lead you to Growth Marketing Conference?