All Seated

OCTOBER 4, 2022

“In New York, we have seen clients spend double what they spent for the exact same event pre-pandemic, and that would be inclusive of venue, food, AV, and other expenses,” says Liz King Caruso, CEO at techsytalk. Inflation has been dominating the news headlines not just in New York but all over the globe.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Neptunus has secured a new contract to continue to supply temporary structures to the Affordable Art Fair held each May on London’s Hampstead Heath. Following next year’s fair, organisers have agreed a new contract with Neptunus through to 2023. Areas of interest. Brand Events. Concerts & Tours. Conferences.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 9, 2021

But the multi-million-dollar question is this: Can meetings-focused hotels hold on that long? As a result, the next three months will be a time for meeting planners to pay close attention to the financial situations of prospective host properties for events they’re planning in the second half of 2021.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 10, 2021

After a year spent moving in-person events to digital platforms and monitoring the shifts in the feasibility of meeting in person, the timelines for holding safe in-person meetings in the future are slowly coming into focus. The video below is part of the Hotel Effie’s virtual tour.). Virtual Site Visits. Leslie Zeck.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

One planning veteran says the new laws could help the meetings industry push for similar action nationwide. On the heels of her re-election as governor of New York, Kathy Hochul signed eight bills into law in mid-November that focus on combatting human trafficking across the hospitality and travel industries.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 18, 2024

The New York-based meeting-management platform now makes it simpler for attendees to book rooms and for organizers to track pickup.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 14, 2023

billion, it will be acquired by a New York-based private equity fund managed by Blackstone for $4.6 31, 2022, on the Cvent Supplier Network, an online platform with tools to search, negotiate and contract with hotels and venues for event space. Sale to Blackstone appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 5, 2022

A new report from AHLA shows that staffing challenges are nearly universal, affecting hotels in all price tiers. Planners: Are you sure that your next in-person meeting will have enough service staff on property to deliver the quality of experience your audience expects? At the moment, that doesn’t seem likely.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Unionized hotels provide the stability and training that hospitality workers are seeking—they could be part of the solution to the shortage that meeting planners are waiting for. In 1882, the first Labor Day parade was held on September 5 in the streets of New York City. The Beginnings of Labor Day. What’s in it for Planners?

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Event Planning BluePrint

JUNE 1, 2016

Question: Have you ever run up against a client who suddenly stopped paying for your event services, which left you wondered what to include in your event legal contracts to protect you and your event business? Your Event Legal Contracts. At what point do you sue over breach of contract? (16:29). Geneen via @eventblueprint.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 8, 2019

How safe are your meetings and events? New disruptions seem to be invented every week: food terrorism means planners need to think about kitchen security and new camera and drone technologies mean proprietary knowledge can be stolen and outdoor spaces can be accessed from the air. Risk-reduction actions for safer events in 2019.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Before 2020, I was designing and facilitating around a dozen in-person meetings and conferences a year. After COVID decimated the meeting industry, I focused on the design and facilitation of online meetings. He has stayed on top of new meeting trends and technologies for decades. In 2023, in-person is back!

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Smart Meetings

MAY 6, 2022

Flexible Contract Language. Now more than ever, clients are looking to work with facilities on their contract language and overall flexibility so that there is a partnership with the agreement and a clear understanding on cancellation fees, etc. Shannon Licygiewicz is general manager of the Albany Capital Center in New York.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

The evolution of the meetings landscape continued today with the announcement that Convene, which targets the small-meetings market by offering full-service facilities in five major American cities, has made a strategic investment in Bizly, an end-to-end software solution for meetings management.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 22, 2020

VenueBook is the only end-to-end solution available today for booking non-hotel meeting and event space directly, across multiple brands. The comprehensive solution will enable planners to manage the entire procurement process – from sourcing and negotiating to contracting, paying and reporting – through a single, secure platform.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2023

With over 25 years of experience in travel, tourism and business events, and in leadership roles with Starwood Hotels and Resorts and Destination Toronto, he brings extensive experience to oversee BestCities operations, focusing on their values of legacy, sustainability and advancement of the global impact of meeting events.

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Coterie Spark

AUGUST 3, 2023

Get to know Alex Gordon, Producer Fascinated with industry trends and finding the hottest new spots for venues, Alex is poised to bring exciting opportunities to future conferences and meetings. She joins the team as a Producer.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 25, 2019

That changed when, as a graduate student earning a master’s degree in social work at Columbia University, Guelbart encountered ECPAT-USA, an anti-child-trafficking nonprofit based in New York City and the first U.S.-based meeting planners was initiated, not by ECPAT-USA, but by Nix Conference & Meeting Management, a St.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2022

A lot has changed in two years since the actors Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson announced they had contracted what was then known as novel coronavirus on a film set in Australia. Meetings are similarly crucial north of the California border. We have to be ready for whatever happens and meet consumers wherever they are,” Beteta said.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 2, 2018

billion for all manner of fees and surcharges, according to Bjorn Hanson of New York University Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality and Tourism. In New York City, it’s often known as an “amenity fee” or “facilities fee.”. Does this mean meeting planners, or their attendees, are stuck paying them?

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 27, 2022

Chan School of Public Health, Mina is now the chief science officer for diagnostic testing company eMed and has penned numerous passionate op-eds for TIME and The New York Times about the benefits of rapid testing to curb COVID’s spread. Do LFTs *just* before meeting up. Formerly a professor at Harvard T.H. Logistical Hurdles.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 9, 2019

Natasha Stamper Pedigo, CMP, 38, works in Lexington, Kentucky, as a meeting planner and event manager at The Asphalt Institute. What I do: I plan and execute three large member meetings a year across the U.S. What I do: I plan and execute three large member meetings a year across the U.S. Connect with Pedigo on Instagram. .

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Owen Sullivan, formerly Gordon Ramsay’s executive chef at Maze, the Maze Grills, and the Savoy Grill, has taken over the kitchen at luxury event and bespoke contract caterer, Noble House Events and Kitchen. The company has been delivering exquisite food, events and contract catering to high profile and industry leading companies ever since.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

And almost a third were new since 2021. Highlights included experiential activations designed to inspire what comes next in designing better meetings. Download “Pathways to Clarity” a joint IMEX, Smart Meetings White Paper outlining the state of the meetings industry. pic.twitter.com/Xx7wPBDdFR. —

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Eventmobi

MAY 18, 2020

Andrea Adelstein, NYLUX Events , New York City, NY. We have to be smart and protect both ourselves and our clients, while we move forward into the ‘New Normal.’ Evaluating Social Media: Making a new plan overall – evaluating what has worked and what has not What do we want to say to clients in the new normal?

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Smart Meetings

MAY 26, 2022

On monkeypox, Jha said: “Let’s talk about what we know right now, this is not a new virus to us. We have a case in Massachusetts, at Mass General, we have at least one confirmed case in New York, tracking others. The post TWT: Monkeypox May Be a Red Herring, Bleisure Booms appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 20, 2023

A surge in violent crime has event professionals making safety and security in meeting destinations a priority. According to a report released last summer by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, the murder rate increased by more than 30 percent in U.S. We wanted to help with that,” she said.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 20, 2021

The most successful event to date was Studio Giggle’s collaboration with their client CVC Capital Partners for their annual investor meeting in September. Studio Giggle was then able to ‘beam in’ the US CEO from New York live to interact with the speaker on stage.

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Event Leadership Institute

DECEMBER 3, 2020

For the past 31 years, KPMG has hosted its Annual Insurance Industry Conference in New York. KPMG Events & Meetings Manager Shannon Angelakis explained how the company re-imagined the annual in-person conference to a virtual event to deliver much-needed updates around these topics. Share your story with us.

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Event Marketer

AUGUST 8, 2022

The marketplace, for instance, included representatives from Women Impacting Public Policy, whose ChallengeHER initiative is aimed at boosting government contracting opportunities for women-owned small businesses; Accion Opportunity Fund, a nonprofit lender that provides loans and resources to historically underfunded small business owners; and U.S.

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Planning Pod

JANUARY 17, 2017

In fact, this is such a consistently recurring challenge and issue for meeting and event planners that many of us simply expect to do more with less at the onset of planning any event, and we’re almost astonished when someone says “Go for broke.” ” The Great Recession is at least partially to blame for this new norm.

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EncoreAPAC

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Did you know that according to V-EX’s latest sustainability report, a three-day conference with 800 attendees carries the equivalent of 455 tonnes of CO2 – which is the same as 455 return flights from Paris to New York ? But our plan is to go fully electric.

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Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 3, 2018

Jim Clapes, 37, works in New York City as conference and events manager at the Drug Policy Alliance. Green Building Council, I pursued my life long dream of living in New York City and accepted a position with the Drug Policy Alliance. Connect with Clapes on Instagram.

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Social Tables

AUGUST 10, 2023

Event planners are responsible for creating and executing events that meet the goals and vision of their clients. This involves working closely with the client to determine their needs, preferences, and budget, and then designing a plan to meet those requirements. First, exactly what does an event planner get paid to do?

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Event Leadership Institute

APRIL 8, 2021

Here’s what you need to know now about health passes at meetings and events. Instead, it will advise on what criteria the new solutions will have to meet. At the state level, New York was the first to debut a health app. Any business that asks for proof would not be eligible for state grants or contracts.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Mexico remains the meetings powerhouse of Latin America, but its vibrant capital city may have to do with runway additions at a nearby air base instead of heralding a shiny new airport. Lopez Obrador, who takes office in January, had repeatedly questioned the project’s cost and whether construction contracts were awarded fairly.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

November 11, 2016 – Smart Meetings, the leading media company and most trusted resource for meeting professionals, was awarded two Eddie Awards and two Ozzie Awards at the 2016 Eddie & Ozzie Awards by Folio in New York City. 1 resource for meeting planners,” says Marin Bright, CEO and founder of Smart Meetings.

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