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How Global Event Planners Need to Think About China’s Secondary Cities

Skift

The W Xi'an in northwest China is shown here. Marriott International Skift Take: China has become a hot spot for global business travel and its secondary cities are evolving to accommodate larger conferences and conventions. What should event planners know? Marriott has a joint venture with Alibaba.

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35 Must Attend Events For Event Planners in 2020

Bizzabo

We encourage every event planner to mark their calendars for the following 35 events and conferences in 2020. We know how hard it can be to find great events to attend, so we’ve made it easier for you. Attending these conferences will allow you to learn more about the events industry and meet other event professionals.

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Events Industry Experts Weigh in on the Coronavirus

PCMA Convene

The Events Industry Council (EIC) held a webinar on Feb. If possible, Cooper advised, wait another 10 days or two weeks before deciding whether to postpone or cancel your event (unless, of course, it is planned to take place in China in the very near term). This is a global event impacting events worldwide,” she said.

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Event Technology Awards 2019 – Meet the Judges

Event Industry News

Alex is an Events Manager at SaaStock, a global community of SaaS (software as a service) founders, executives and investors. SaaStock boasts Europe’s biggest SaaS conference which takes place in Dublin every October with 4,000 attendees from 50+ countries in addition to a calendar of global conferences.

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eventscase

Event Industry News

1-2-1 Meetings. Support the networking process with this meeting scheduler tool that may increase ticket sales and the show-up ratio. When we talk about events we are talking about any type of meeting, from big conferences and expos but also internal meetings, training courses, product launches, and incentives.

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Westminster academic celebrates fifth anniversary of Event Tech Lab.

Event Industry News

In July 2014, Dr James Morgan, Principal Lecturer at the University of Westminster set up the Event Tech Lab. The idea in setting up the virtual incubator, was to help and mentor start up event technology companies wanting to get into the event space, globally. Brand Events. Conferences. Event Tech.

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Is Online Events Platform Run the World the Right Tool for the Times?

PCMA Convene

When Xiaoyin Qu dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business last year to start an event tech company, her inspiration was the “life-changing” experience her mother, a pediatric neurologist in China, had when she traveled to the U.S. for her first international medical conference, Qu told Convene in a phone interview.

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