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2019 15 Over 50:  Andy L. Longo

Connect Your Meetings

How I got here: After graduate school, I worked for the University of Oklahoma serving the fraternal community and student activities eventually moving to Indianapolis to work for Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. Today, all conference contracts are sourced through Experient.

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Unique Experiences - Volume 4

Unique Venues

Their certified One Stop service assures that you have one contract and one invoice to keep things simple. Just outside of Oklahoma City you will find the state’s oldest institute of higher learning in Edmond at the University of Central Oklahoma where an experienced Conference Services team is eager to host your next event.

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The Road Ahead: What’s In Store for the Event Industry In 2021 & Beyond – Part Two In-Person Events

Event Leadership Institute

So if a convention hotel says they had a great June, that means they had a lot of events occur in June, all of which were likely booked months or years prior. Leisure travel will return first, and when air and hotel numbers start going up in decent numbers, that’s a strong indicator. Hotels will be converted to apartments.

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PSAV acquires Encore – Event Tech Podcast Episode 2

Endless Events

Let’s see that was mainly luxury hotels, key markets. Unrelated to this news I was already starting to see people saying, “Wow, it just feels like hotels and venues and in-house AVs are bending a lot less. You can negotiate these contracts. Well the hotel says I have to use the in-house. Walk away then.