Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Major Events International (MEI) has announced that its 2023 Hosts and Federations Summit, to be held at the Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland, will be the largest to date, expanding from one to four days, between the 12th and 15th of June, and with a full conference programme.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Garden Overlook at Emory Conference Center Hotel. The Emory Conference Center Hotel, Atlanta’s first LEED-certified conference center has completed a multimillion-dollar renovation and re-imagination with a focus on new technology throughout the property. Tech-tonic. Faern-tastic. Crans South Room.

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Bizzabo

MARCH 30, 2018

One of the best ways to network and learn about the latest trends in education is to attend an educational conference. Conferences - Conferences are large events that bring together education professionals in the field. However, some summits function just like conferences. 2018 Education Conferences. Start Date.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 15, 2024

She is a French and European-trained culinary expert, and earned her hospitality degree in Switzerland. Wells serves as senior catering sales manager, bringing extensive experience in catering, conference services and wedding planning. Throughout her career, she has worked alongside renowned chefs and at esteemed luxury brands.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JULY 17, 2023

Interprefy Aivia completes Interprefy’s end-to-end remote simultaneous and sign language interpretation offering by providing a cost-effective AI-powered real-time translation solution for scenarios like webinars, training, town halls, or conferences.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 21, 2017

The Hotel in question is the Garden Inn Hotel in Davos, Switzerland. As any Conference Architect, Meeting Designer or experienced planner will tell you: put any meeting in a boring room and you will have a boring meeting. Why do so many hotels make the ultimate mistake? You have a hotel with this view. Really, what were you thinking?

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MeetingsNet

MAY 23, 2022

While it could be a mostly symbolic gesture from top business leaders, news from the Davos conference might represent something truly meaningful in the realm of sustainable events—especially given the results of a recent business-traveler survey.

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SpotMe Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Partnering with top medical communications companies is an important step toward ensuring that your next medical conference or event is a success. Looking for the best platforms to help you with HCP event management and keeping HCPs engaged at events? Get our ultimate list.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 15, 2024

TACO BELL IS COOKING UP A PRE-SUPER BOWL ‘CONFERENCE’ You never know what Taco Bell will pull from its experiential marketing playbook next. 9 that will mimic standard b-to-b conferences and feature announcements about product launches and innovations rolling out over the next year. Case in point: A pre-Super Bowl event on Feb.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Winners of the prestigious 2018 Crystal Awards were honored at the SITE 2019 Global Conference in Bangkok in January. Program: Michelin Premium Driving Experience-Grand Tour of Switzerland. Awarded to: Ovation Global DMN -Ovation Switzerland. Below are the award winners and their contributions to the industry.

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Master the Event

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

From Hotel and/or F&B Management to travel and tourism to event and conference planning. The Fitzwilliam Institute offers postgraduate diplomas in conference planning, exhibition management, corporate event planning and festival event management.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 4, 2023

As Next-Gen attendees become more important to the success of conferences, associations are focusing on engaging with them both during and in between events. Elevate the contribution of young professionals by providing specific opportunities to contribute or provide their perspectives.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Tools like the Clear Health app, used to verify vaccine status, and the experience of pioneers like the Global Health Conference & Exhibition have paved the way for fully-vaccinated in-person events. Running events where all attendees must be vaccinated is no longer an abstract idea. Venue standards have been established.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2022

At Outlook Forum, Visit California’s recent conference for travel industry professionals, research showed that the Golden State continues to appeal to attendees. Martin Walter, managing director with Visit California Germany, Austria & Switzerland, said California was seen as role model for following rules.

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EventMB

JANUARY 20, 2017

The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland has long been one of the top economic conferences in the world. This year, however, the talk may be more political than economic. Here are 10 things we learned from this top political event. The World Economic Forum 2017, commonly referred to as Davos, is held in January […].

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 13, 2021

To date, 242 congresses and corporate conferences (both national and international) have already received preliminary funding approval from the Vienna Convention Bureau (VCB), amounting to nearly €2.5 VIENNA ON THE WAY TO BECOMING A WORLD-CLASS CONFERENCE METROPOLIS AGAIN. RESULTS TO DATE. million promised in aid.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

That was nearly identical to the percentage — 93 percent — who chose that response when Kenes Group, a Geneva, Switzerland–based professional conference organizer, surveyed HCP virtual-event attendees in 2020. See our Kenes Group 2020 survey story here.).

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

He earlier served as vice president of global accounts with Conference Direct. He began his career in the hospitality industry in France and has worked in numerous international locations, including Four Seasons Hotel Montreal, Hotel President Wilson in Geneva, Switzerland and InterContinental Abu Dhabi, in the UAE.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 12, 2020

When Kenes Group , a Geneva, Switzerland–based professional conference organizer, shifted to hosting virtual events for its medical and science groups this past April, company leaders knew they needed more insight into the minds of their health-care practitioner (HCP) attendees. A variety of learning formats and activities.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This is the first time the conference has been held in the UK for over a decade, and the last host – Australia’s Gold Coast – secured the 2032 Olympic Games. “If we want to keep hosting the world’s biggest sporting events then showcasing our region to sport’s global decision makers is mission critical.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Sharp has 25 years’ experience in the hospitality sector, his most recent role being UK operations director for a major hotel facilities management company, anheld positions with Virgin Active, De Vere Hotels, and Whitbread brands in the UK, Fairmont hotels in Switzerland and Langham Hotel & Resorts in Hong Kong.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Founded in 2012 by Simon Ackermann, CEO of Habegger AG in Switzerland, the AV Alliance has grown into a sought-after collection of privately owned audio visual companies offering quality and reliability for nearly one million successful projects and events around the globe.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 11, 2019

Whether you are at the airport with a long layover, or on a business trip in Switzerland or Las Vegas staggering from one conference session to another, many properties offer you creative ways to relax and recharge. The Dolder Grand, Zurich, Switzerland. View this post on Instagram.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Location: Davos, Switzerland Dates: Jan. Photo: Courtesy of Nvidia) Locations: San Jose, CA; Virtual Dates: March 18-21 Artificial intelligence has already begun dominating business conversations across industries this year, making Nvidia’s annual GTC conference for AI developers more relevant than ever.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 13, 2022

Launched last year in Lausanne, Switzerland, PCMA watched over 350 business event professionals from 29 countries reunite, rebuild, and restart the industry. Austria has been a sought-after location for meetings or conferences for years. It is one of Europe’s most versatile event, conference and exhibition facilities.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 2, 2022

The PCMA Convening Leaders conference this January offered something no other annual mega-gathering of the association has: virtual interpreters. Based in Zurich, Switzerland, Interprefy is another successful interpretation software company and virtual platform. Read More : 4 Tips to Make Your Online Event a Success.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Since April 2020, hundreds of global associations and corporations have chosen EventMobi to deliver their online conferences as the flexible platform allows them to curate totally unique, branded online attendee experiences. With event marketing and registration, the Virtual Space, and GoLive!

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Matching 24 of Scotland’s large and small suppliers of event services with the same number of event planners from the UK, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria, “Meet in Scotland” will feature nearly […]. The post Scotland aims to boost European events business with 500 meetings in one day appeared first on Event Industry News.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 15, 2022

Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Center in Iceland. Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Center is a world-renowned meeting place for art, music, cultural and corporate events. The Leaders in Safety, Health and Peace. Iceland ranks first, four paces ahead of where it fell on the list for 2021. Its 21,600-plus sq.

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Eventinterface

OCTOBER 20, 2016

He has worked as a Marketing and Public Relations Representative working concert tours in the United States, Switzerland, Canada, Germany, Belgium and the United Kingdom. At the same time, all conference rooms and indoor pool had been transformed into unique event spaces honoring the best film nominations. Prefer conferences?

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The MICE

MARCH 31, 2022

Bern’s positioning as a leader in the energy and environmental sector, and its easy accessibility within Switzerland and from neighbouring countries, make it the most suitable city to host the Swiss Sustainability Forum. Conference organiser, NZZ Connect, is a branch of the leading Swiss publication Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ).

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 16, 2018

Photo Credit: The FRESH Conference. When FRESH18 — which bills itself as the first annual conference focused exclusively on meeting design — gets underway Feb. 27-28, it will be showcasing its own solution to a common event-design problem: getting the audience to participate.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 24, 2018

The theme of the 48th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting , which took place in Davos, Switzerland Jan. ” We wrote about the IPA’s recent Triennial World Conference in Calgary this past September. 23–26, was “Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World.” Mobile playground in Calgary.

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SpotMe Blog

APRIL 28, 2022

The team of over 300 specializes in end-to-end event management of all types including meetings, conferences, incentive, as well as other strategic business operations. Geneva, Switzerland. This award winning, women-owned organization operates around the globe with offices in the U.S, and Brazil. Delegate management. Accommodation.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 1, 2018

But the area of study is picking up steam, with the International Conference for Carceral Geography — organized by CGWG and held at the University of Birmingham in Birmingham, England — recently celebrating its second year. chair of the CGWG and University of Birmingham professor.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

They include Abu Dhabi, Australia, Bahamas, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Dubai, Greece, Hawaii, Ireland, Switzerland, Turkey and New Zealand. Global destinations from across Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East make a significant return to the show, many having been unable to attend in 2021.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 31, 2016

The answer describes your personal interaction style, in a model that Opening General Session speaker Erin Meyer shared yesterday at PCMA’s Global Professionals Conference – Europe, held at the Palais des Congres de Paris. It takes a while to get to know coconut people, but as you do, they become friendlier and open up.

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