Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Traveling for a conference is no longer an excuse to abandon your mental health and physical well-being goals. In fact, according to a trio of meeting professional experts, taking care of yourself is even more important when you are the one charged with caring for your attendees. The same thing should be true for a meeting.”

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

When 684 meetings industry leaders met in Boston this week for Financial & Insurance Conference Professionals’ (FICP) 2022 Annual Conference, the theme at Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport was “Creating Our New History” and set milestones—they did. Loneliness is causing massive health and productivity problems. Jennifer C.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 12, 2024

On April 11, Global Meetings Industry Day was marked by in-person educational sessions and meet-ups, a 12-hour virtual event, hundreds of social-media posts—and even an original poem. Image Alt Text: Poet.png Gallery Slide Headline: The Poetry of Meetings Published: Vegas 1.jpg Watch the video here.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Before 2020, I was designing and facilitating around a dozen in-person meetings and conferences a year. After COVID decimated the meeting industry, I focused on the design and facilitation of online meetings. He has stayed on top of new meeting trends and technologies for decades. In 2023, in-person is back!

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

International Convention Centre Wales ( ICC Wales ) has won a prestigious international award for its work in educating the global events sector on the incoming Protect Duty (Martyn’s Law). It’s not just about marketing a destination, but about improving security in convention centres.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 13, 2024

The Meetings Show 2024 has opened registration for its Hosted Buyer Programme and is inviting event planners from the UK and Europe to apply.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Three corporate-planning leaders weigh in on how to create an internal “center of event excellence” that draws interest from other departments and captures a critical mass of meetings. What does it take to build a dedicated meetings team that can be both cost-efficient and ROI-driven?

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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? Our goal is to empower event managers to succeed with any event format,” the company said in a post.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

International Convention Centre Wales ( ICC Wales ) has won a prestigious international award for its work in educating the global events sector on the incoming Protect Duty (Martyn’s Law). It’s not just about marketing a destination, but about improving security in convention centres.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Nevertheless, attending relevant industry events is crucial; they’re how you stay ahead of the curve and they provide the unique opportunity for you to grow in multiple ways all at once, including: . keep up with the lightning speed of change in the events industry. meet other event professionals and grow your network .

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Even for planners at the top of their game, the current meeting climate has created new levels of stress—the result of severe hotel booking compression, high turnover in supplier staff, and short meeting lead times. Post pandemic, a lot of faces have changed; a lot of meetings have changed. We have new internal stakeholders.

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Eventscase Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) play a pivotal role in shaping the meetings and events industry. This blog explores the significance of ethics and CSR in events, highlighting their impact on event planning and the overall event experience.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 27, 2021

Even companies that canceled key conferences altogether in the chaos of 2020 have announced they are bringing back at least the virtual component. Facebook’s F8 developer conference will be a one-day streaming event in June “to celebrate, inspire and help developers grow.” The Day the Meetings Stopped.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 7, 2022

PCMA and CEMA President and CEO Sherrif Karamat celebrated the achievements of Patrizia Semprebene Buongiorno with the Global Meetings Executive of the Year award. Buongiorno is Vice President, AIM Group International, a company that for over sixty years has been one of the international leaders in events and conferences.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 17, 2021

The announcement yesterday that London-based virtual streaming giant Hopin was purchasing the physical event services company Boomset was another step in the direction of an end-to-end hybrid meeting solution. Our goal is to empower event managers to succeed with any event format,” the company said in a post.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

So, when Megan Finnell, director of meetings and conferences with MGMA, pinged me with an invitation to join Clubhouse , I jumped on it. It has become her sole avenue for research, sales, marketing and networking. “It The post Why Meeting Planners are Jumping on Clubhouse appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Eventinterface

JULY 11, 2017

As we speak with meeting and event professionals for our Interviews with Planners series, we continue to be amazed by the variety of books that help these talented professionals in their jobs as planners. See what other meeting planners read to help them excel in their careers.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Chilling tales from the front and how meeting profs saved the day. Do you ever feel like an icy snowball the size of a ballroom has fallen on your perfectly planned event, forcing you to scramble to protect everyone while making everything look perfectly natural? When a Deluge Almost Drowned Out an Operatic Event.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The good news for event marketers, however: Despite the year’s travel speed bumps and forecasts, many events and trade shows (CES 2024, included) are reporting they are back to pre-pandemic attendance levels. Idea: Brands like Zeiss are building more leisure time into their annual conferences.

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Unique Venues

JANUARY 6, 2022

Five Associations Professional Meeting Planners Need to Know. Have you recently entered the events industry and are looking for associations to join that will help you learn the tricks of the trade? Are you an experienced event planning professional and searching for new associations to become a member of?

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Unique Venues

JANUARY 23, 2023

Event venue marketing can be tough. Hollywood has a habit of portraying marketing, advertising, and lead generation as a glamorous lifestyle and profession that comes with ease and inevitably ends in success. In 2023 there are plenty of options for marketing your event venue, so what sets Unique Venues apart?

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Hubilo Blog

JUNE 16, 2020

Event planners and managers have been left with no choice. Scheduled events and conferences have been cancelled/postponed. Virtual conferences – COVID19 impact and disruption. Virtual conferences – COVID19 impact and disruption. – Quoted by Will Curran, Endless Events. And when? .

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As if the job of meeting professional weren’t difficult enough, many have had to take on the role of Chief Difficult Conversation Starter. In fact, if approached with thoughtfulness and preparation, those interactions could lead to the meeting professionals taking a rightful place as strategic advisors. By the Numbers. Jeff Calmus.

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Event Marketer

JULY 26, 2021

Storytelling has always been the beating heart of experiential marketing. The most memorable events immerse attendees into a story, make them part of the story and send attendees home feeling like they have a better understanding of the story the brand is trying to tell. Mark Henneberger , Vice President of Events Solutions at Walmart.

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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. Good Event Design Still Matters.

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Hubilo Blog

JANUARY 22, 2019

A global event accompanied with a tradeshow and exhibition. Using the latest tech inventions to upgrade the global event management and organization. Glimpses of the session, #Canada : Your #Startup Gateway organized during Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2019. Glimpses of VGGS 2019.

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TicketBud

JANUARY 11, 2024

“As AI leaps forwards, it has the potential to transform the meetings and events sector through its capacity to instantly crunch data,” states Accor’s Meeting Expectations: The Future of Meetings & Events report. “ of attendees consider mobile event apps to be vital, and 62.9%

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 14, 2019

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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Event Industry News

JUNE 1, 2022

Cvent (Nasdaq: CVT), a market-leading meetings, events, travel and hospitality technology provider, is one of several key industry leaders supporting and helping fund the beta version of the sustainability web app: SAM , which was recently launched by In-House Corporate Events (ICE).

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The biggest events conference in the world is a marathon in itself with participants reporting that they recorded 10,000, 20,000 or more steps walking the floor and hoofing it to after-parties. Another meetings veteran who took healthy IMEX seriously is David T. Plan Ahead. He made a point of being back in his room by 10 p.m.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 5, 2020

The Event Technology Awards celebrate the successful development and implimentation of technology in the events industry. The judging panel for the awards is a stellar line-up of experts and we’d like to introduce them to you in our Meet the Judges series, this week we present Aleksandra Panyukhina, head of event marketing at Userlane.

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Eventmobi

AUGUST 19, 2022

These all describe Mambu’s market-leading banking and financial services platform. Virtual Event Technology. Mambu used EventMobi’s: Event Space Full-Service Registration. Meet The Person Behind The Magic. Event Objectives. Planning The Event. About Mambu. Cloud-native. Participants.

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Event Marketer

JUNE 20, 2023

CORE CAPABILITIES: ProGlobalEvents is a full-service experiential marketing agency providing live, hybrid and digital experiences to leading brands. Highlights included dozens of training videos, meetings and special guests such as Magic Johnson and DJ Jazzy Jeff.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 14, 2022

Lilly has been in hospitality, tourism, event management and sales for 15 years. Lilly was previously owner of End-N-Mind Destination and Event Management in South Carolina. Dallas hospitality management company Makeready added Hafer to the team as director of global group sales. Daniel Gibson. Tiffany Alves Hafer.

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Event Marketer

MAY 24, 2023

The flagship experience, launched in 2018 as part of a portfolio consolidation, marked a new chapter this month as it reconvened May 9-11 in Orlando as a smaller, targeted in-person conference designed to serve up content and networking experiences “that matter most to you.” Emphasis on the you. It’s a curated experience unique to ‘me.’

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 23, 2022

The 1,700 attendees checking in live at Meeting Professionals International’s World Education Conference ( WEC ) at Moscone Center in San Francisco this week were treated to a performance in three acts designed to provide “perspective,” “approach” and “action,” according to Paul Van Deventer, MPI president and CEO.

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Bizzabo

JULY 11, 2018

GetResponse has hosted global conferences across the world. In this post, the GetResponse events team shares some of their biggest event management takeaways. In 2017 our experience led us to the idea of ResponseCon —a series of worldwide events focused on the ins and outs of integrated online marketing for SMBs.

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