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Q&A with Tori Barnes on Advocating for Bold Action

SmartMeetings

Travel Association. Tori Emerson Barnes understood earlier than many in the North American meetings industry that the coronavirus was going to have a devastating impact on the economy. It was an almost surgical process requiring significant collaboration from all sectors of the travel industry. Name : Tori Emerson Barnes.

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Bizzabo’s List of ‘Top Event Profs to Follow’ IDs Who’s Who in Industry

SmartMeetings

With an astounding 85,300 Twitter followers, Issa shares tourism, events/meetings industry, and American Express Meetings & Events updates. Jouaneh, is a meetings expert who regularly contributes to Smart Meetings news. She’s constantly traveling and speaking just about everywhere. Dan Berger. Coming in at No.

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American Institute of Architects Convention Becomes Better by Design

PCMA Convene

The annual conference was a good solid performer, but a pretty conventional show — mostly male, mostly white, mostly older, with many exclusive events,” said Kathron Compton, AIA’s senior vice president for brand and engagement. “It It felt typical of every conference I’d ever attended.”. Architects are a unique breed.

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5 Trends We’ll Be Watching in 2018

PCMA Convene

In 2018, I expect to see speaker lineups at conferences and conventions feature a range of voices outside the old-school white male CEO mold. Consider CES — one of the best-recognized names in trade shows — where the main stage has been dominated by men. Travel Association’s Secure Tourism Summit.

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Modest and Reasonable with a Twist

SmartMeetings

Rules, regulations and innovations in the design of medical meetings In 2019, Radiological Society of North America drew 51,800 people to McCormick Place in Chicago. An estimated 25,000 were medical professional attendees from 116 countries. Costs for everything else must fall under the category of “fair and reasonable.” “You

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The Future Will See You Now

PCMA Convene

and a specialist in the future of medicine, Bertalan Meskó has attended hundreds of conferences and events devoted to medicine and health care. But if medical conferences have tended to stay the same, the ground around them is beginning to shake. in genomics and writes and speaks as “The Medical Futurist.” . &