GEVME

JULY 28, 2021

With the advent of the pandemic, virtual conferences became a popular go-to option for many event organisers. Even while at the time of writing, some parts of the world are returning to normalcy, virtual events , particularly virtual conferences, are here to stay. What You Need to Know About Virtual Conferences.

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Coterie Spark

APRIL 3, 2024

Why should you hire conference and meeting planners? Experienced conference and meeting planners, however, allow you to focus on the important stuff: VIPs, attendees, speakers. We produced a conference for 250 guests where a famous singer was set to perform in the evening. What kind of business do we handle, you ask?

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Kennedy

APRIL 4, 2024

In August 2023, the Ambition 2023 Be Bold Conference gathered 300 consultants at the Omni Hotel for a transformative event. From August 31st to September 2nd, attendees came together to chart an ambitious course for personal and company growth through networking, training, recognition, and enjoyment.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 7, 2022

The Complete Sustainable Events Course, The Meetings Show’ s online course for the events industry created in partnership with isla , is back for its second year. Following on from the success of the inaugural course in November 2021, this year’s course will start on 26 September 2022.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 9, 2019

Do your conference learning opportunities—from the general session to networking to breakouts to deep dive workshops—empower registrants to participate in their own learning journey? Or do your conference education sessions motivate participants to see the finish line? So exactly how do conferences promote learning as a finish line?

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 4, 2018

As conference organizers, why can’t we also have a fun, fulfilling, and collaborative experience planning and designing the conference? Here are six ways to focus on designing your team’s experience during your next conference planning process. Read more about embracing your conference as a giving field here. Turn Inward.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 18, 2021

Why people continue to speak for free at meeting industry conferences : Another issue of an occasional series— Dear Adrian — in which I answer questions about event design, elementary particle physics , solar hot water systems, and anything else I might conceivably know something about. My post Why don’t meeting conferences pay speakers?

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 31, 2019

However, a conference at rest, tends to die. The enemy of most conferences is the way it’s always been. When inertia influences your conference, it’s planned by the way you’ve always done it, programmed full of (past) best practices and destined to become average, slowly suffocating on its own status quo.

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ePly

MARCH 22, 2024

A great conference agenda defines the event’s purpose, who will speak and when, and the conference location and activity. It is the most important tool available for encouraging attendee engagement , establishing expectations for their experience, and guiding them to the right locations at the right times during the conference.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It didn’t always go by the name Leaders Conference. Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) is hosting its annual 2023 conference at Nashville’s Music City Center with a change in how it approaches the in-person event. What about that line staff who are no longer in the Leaders Conference?

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Master the Event

APRIL 6, 2022

Well without any scientific backup my pulse tells me that it is due to the younger generation and their interest in conference and event management. Event Planner Courses Are on the Rise. Event and venue management diploma courses. The diploma courses for event and venue management have a duration of 48 weeks, full-time.

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Nunify

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We have put together a list of some of the best courses in “Event Management” that you could consider. Online Event Management Courses. Course:- The Ultimate Guide To Event Planning Success. How to apply:- The course can be applied for through the Udemy website. Course:- Online diploma in Event Management.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 5, 2019

EventWell has announced that it will be launching its new mental health first aid training courses during this year’s Event Wellbeing Week, #EventWell19, taking place Monday 16th to Friday 20th September. Gavin Percy of Winning Edges, who has also run MHFA courses for the Hotel Booking Agents Association (HBAA), will deliver the course.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 13, 2018

Now imagine someone asking your conference participants that question. I suspect they would say “ Yes, of course it has a purpose!” Then they would launch into a passionate description of your event’s annual Party with a Purpose, its pre-conference feel-good community service projects and its ongoing student scholarship fundraisers.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 8, 2022

The Belfry Hotel & Resort is one of the UK’s leading meeting, conference, and event venues situated in the Midlands, close to Birmingham city centre. For those looking to host a large event or conference, the Woodlands Suite has a capacity of 418. Contact Details. SPONSORED CONTENT.

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Conference organizers know that the “main course” of their education offering and value proposition is in the concurrent education sessions. Don’t Leave Education to Chance Imagine what could happen if you invested in developing your conference committee members and speakers to increase the quality of their delivery and session design?

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Coterie Spark

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

As we move into the fall conference season, the weather can become increasingly unpredictable. This is especially the case along the Gulf Coast, but even if you’re not hosting there you should still keep an eye on weather reports to better prepare your conference for weather-related disturbances. Always be marketing.

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EventMB

APRIL 22, 2017

Here are a selection of conference sets and backdrops, to suit all event budgets. If your conference sets and backdrops have been looking a little samey or jaded recently you may need some new inspiration. Of course you want to add cool interest and prime branding opportunities […].

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 10, 2023

You don’t have to look very far to find a conference planning checklist. And when you Google the term, there certainly is no shortages of websites where you can get conference planning checklist ideas. Well, of course the answer is yes (with some caution). So they must be important then, right? 4) Registration.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 4, 2023

OK, so some intrepid journalists took the time to discover that a few women speakers featured on a conference website don’t exist. Unless of course you, dear reader, are fake too. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Fake women event speakers? appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 15, 2018

As you know, conferences are the bread and butter of event planners. You plan so many conferences of a similar nature each year that it can be easy to get stale. But, just because conferences have a heavy business-focus, doesn’t mean they need to be (or should be) lifeless! Using projection for conference staging.

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Coterie Spark

MAY 17, 2023

Over the past few years, there have been dramatic shifts in the way conferences are planned. Below are a few ways we like to go the extra mile to ensure that your attendees feel personally connected to the conference. There’s nothing like a good sweat to shake the nerves associated with attending a big conference.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 18, 2017

There is no such thing as the “perfect” conference programme. However, there are a few key areas that a modern conference programme should contain. So in this spirit, I have uploaded a link to a conference programme template for a one day conference. Conference Programme Template.

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Today there always seems to be someone stating that they have they latest and greatest conference planning guide to help you do your meeting planning job. Of course, many of the larger conferences have planners that know their way around a convention center – or at least they had better know their way around. Are they free?

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Gallus Events

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Those events have ranged from half day seminars to three day conferences. Contracting conference speakers just wasn’t something I did. Contracting Conference Speakers is now a priority and here is why. This of course remains a hurdle, but this time, it’s been put up deliberately.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Guide to Implementing Virtual Events , by Attendease Having the right technology stack is essential to run a successful virtual conference. 2024 Convening Leaders Conference by PCMA Last, but not least, one more event to attend and hear from industry experts as we enter the new year.

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Coterie Spark

AUGUST 19, 2022

Catch-22: Your conference ticket sales depend on the quality of your event, yet the quality of your event depends on what you can afford through your ticket sales! You might also allow them to pick which elements of the conference they want to sponsor. This year’s conference can directly impact next year’s in more ways than you think.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 5, 2023

For the International Conference for Software Craft and Testing held annually in Germany—known as SoCraTes—event coordinator Tobias Goeschel has a notably less-complicated job than most other business-event planners have. For the SoCraTes conference, “the format works because we have only a limited set of rules,” Goeschel notes. “We

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A luxury hotel in the heart of the New Forest has announced its first conference & events showcase, bringing together businesses, professionals, and industry enthusiasts across the region. Taking place on Thursday 2nd of November, the 4* Balmer Lawn Hotel and Spa is hosting a free corporate events and conference showcase.

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Gallus Events

MARCH 22, 2016

At the end of February we supported Practically Perfect PA to run their second “Assist Conference” They reached their target of 100 PAs just a few days before the date of the conference, and everyone was delighted to have sold out the event. Now you will of course have all heard this line numerous times before.

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Eventinterface

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Many businesses thrive when it comes to events and conferences, whether it be attending them or hosting one themselves. For the latter, however, you need to market your event or conference and then also have high attendee engagement. Are you wondering how to get people through the door for your next conference?

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Eventinterface

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Many businesses thrive when it comes to events and conferences, whether it be attending them or hosting one themselves. For the latter, however, you need to market your event or conference and then also have high attendee engagement. Are you wondering how to get people through the door for your next conference?

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Have you ever gone to a conference meeting where the room set up didn’t really match the format of the meeting? How to plan a conference meeting room set up basically depends on what’s going to happen during the conference meeting itself. This set up is perfectly fine for a keynote or presentation style of conference meeting.

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Arlo Training & Events Software

AUGUST 1, 2021

If you’re looking for ways to market and sell training courses then you’ve come to the right place. They’re looking for innovative ways to market their courses that won’t blow the bank. Ways to market training courses. These could be teasers about your upcoming courses, or short snippets of existing courses.

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Quickmobile

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

When hosting conferences on cruise ships or other unique venues , one has to bear in mind that the daily things we take for granted are likely not going to be available to you. The planner/conference host needs to be sure that they have covered all their bases and prepared for any and all situations. What does this mean? Temptations.

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Regpack

OCTOBER 10, 2023

With this spirit in mind, let’s explore the concept of early bird registration, particularly how it applies to courses. This type of registration is usually available for a range of events and activities, from academic courses to annual meetings and conferences, extending its benefits to a broad spectrum of event types.

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Eventinterface

APRIL 24, 2017

Traditionally, measuring the success of a conference was pretty simple. In order to get a more global assessment, truly reflecting the impact of a conference on all stakeholders, other quantitative measures should be included. These include, but are not limited to: What were the objectives of the conference?

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