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CreativeMornings: A Global Community Built on Connection

PCMA Convene

It was a little breakfast, a 20-minute talk, and then you go off to work,” Eisenberg said in a talk she delivered at the 99U conference in New York City five years ago. “It But the way that they interpret it through their speaker in their city, it can be very different.”. I eventually realized there was me.”.

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Hybrid events at Pentahotel Leipzig: Stay Local Go Global

The MICE

The hotel is part of the Penta Group , which has 27 hotels in Europe and Asia (Germany, Belgium, France, Austria, Czech Republic, United Kingdom and Russia), with further expansions planned in the next 2–3 years. In Leipzig, we are a big conference hotel; not all other hotels in the group have this capacity.’.

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Temporary Fix or Permanent Change? An AV Perspective on the Evolution of Trade Shows

PCMA Convene

Convene sat down with Wargo to hear how AVIXA has retooled its own trade shows — international versions of InfoComm, and Integrated Systems trade shows in Europe and Russia — and its organizational model in the wake of the pandemic. I would say venues, even corporate enterprises — in a lot of cases, they have empty office space.

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Event Heroes: How ShowPad is Driving Sales Enablement with Events

Bizzabo

Recently, Showpad rebranded its user conference Showtime to TRANSFORM with the goal of building an industry-leading event for sales and marketing professionals. For instance, Showpad’s flagship conference, TRANSFORM, is staged both in London and Chicago. I was born in Russia. I don't remember right now, frankly.

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Confident planning strategies for the return of incentive travel 

The MICE

Incentives are the most exciting part of the MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, Exhibition) business. As COVID has not completely gone away, what is your contingency plan if one of your team members, an employee or a speaker contracts the virus? You always need a backup. We negotiate exit windows with the suppliers.

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Inside the Bid Process for a Citywide Conference

PCMA Convene

Everyone seemed excited to see us there, because the conference hadn’t been to the United States since 1967,” said Nathan Hermiston, director of destination sales for Meet Minneapolis, whose colorful booth at Apimondia 2015 was the culmination of an 18-month-long bid for Apimondia 2019. You have to eat the elephant in small bites.

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Face-to-Face Meetings: An Antidote for Loneliness

PCMA Convene

The feeling that you’re not alone changes how you process the whole world,” said speaker and researcher Michelle Gielan, a former broadcast journalist who has a master’s degree in applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and is a founder and researcher at the Institute of Applied Positive Research.

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