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Life on Cruz Control: A Meeting Veteran’s Hope for the Future

Smart Meetings

Editor’s Note: As we celebrate the 2023 Meeting Professionals of the Year , we thought it fitting to go back to a 2020 Meeting Professionals of the Year winner, John Cruz, senior corporate meeting planner with BlueCross of North Carolina , for some perspective. Experience your journey in the moment.

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Top 10 Cities for Curating Efflorescent Events in 2022

Smart Meetings

Researchers at Lawn Love also consulted market findings from the international Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers in developing the list. Read More : Urban Venues Seeing Return of Group Business. cities in flower access, delivery access, vendor quality and local demand. Finding the Freshest Flowers.

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Have Event Profs Learned From the Las Vegas Tragedy?

Connect Your Meetings

The active-shooter world is one of the most difficult to deal with,” says Harold Hansen, CFE, principal and managing partner of Venue Management Consultants Group in Chicago. Active shooters generally have been at ground level, not shooting from an elevated platform down into a crowd of people,” he says.

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Progress Report: Global Convention Center Outlook

Smart Meetings

Reno loses an average of 31 events due to hotel size or because of the venue each year,” says Charlies Johnson, president of Johnson Consulting, the Chicago-based firm involved in investigating the issue. “[The North Carolina. The equates to] 263 event days and over 90,000 room nights.”

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Guns, Mass Shootings & The Events Industry: Our Missing Voice

Event Leadership Institute

Insurance for venues, hosts and vendors would increase. . When North Carolina passed a bathroom bill requiring transgender people to use the rest room of their birth certificate gender, numerous organizations pulled their events. 70% of Americans support this (source: POLITICO/Morning Consult poll ). Open Carry Laws.

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And Then There Were 20

PCMA Convene

My ultimate career goal is to become an events designer: a professional consultant for companies and associations who can help improve their meetings strategy and offer fresh new ideas for increased engagement and interaction. Our team uncovered a distinctively unique venue. Where would you like your career to go?

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What the ‘Sense of Place’ Travel Trend Means for Event Design

PCMA Convene

This won’t be news to anyone, but millennials don’t really care about material things,” said Amy Blackman, a strategy consultant for Fruition in Los Angeles, at a Convening Leaders 2019 session in Pittsburgh last month, where the research was released. At each stop, I’m also talking about the spirit of collaboration,” Morgan said. “We

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