Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Feast It, a marketplace enabling people to discover and book the dream suppliers for their events, has raised €5m in an oversubscribed venture-led round to continue its modernisation of the €900bn global events industry. The round follows a quarter that saw 2300% growth and over a million people attending its events.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 8, 2022

The Sustainable UK Events Industry 2050 – A reality or just a dream? The global events industry was valued at USD 886.99 Well, of course, no one REALLY knows, but that is where scenario planning comes in. Billion in 2020, and the industry is expected to double in value by 2028 (Verified Market Research 2020).

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Bizzabo

JANUARY 7, 2019

Each month we interview an events professional who is breaking the mold. This month we spoke with Aleksandra Panyukhina—Head of Event Marketing at SEMrush—about unifying a global events brand, leveraging events for every step of the funnel and tracking event ROI. Tailoring events to the buyer's journey.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 18, 2024

In 2011, she began working as director of Climate Business, where she led a growth strategy that increased climate-related business by 50% over the course of three years, and mobilized a team with which she developed the EDGE green buildings brand and platform, now a $5 billion IFC business.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Participants learn about the business value of sustainability, effective methods to achieve social impact goals and how they can improve the environmental impacts of their meetings and events. The SEPC began as a fully online course of 16 modules. Maritz is a leader in the events industry’s sustainability efforts.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

As the global events industry seeks to become sustainable, with government bodies such as DCMS in the UK calling for environmental standards for festivals, what better place to turn than the founders of the world’s first green certification for festivals and events. Em Weirdigan, Green Gathering.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 16, 2024

Stacey Gromlich, Senior Director-Audience Engagement and Global Events, Siemens Designing a brand experience that influences and inspires has always been a passion for Stacey Gromlich, senior director-audience engagement and global events at Siemens Digital Industries Software. How is that evolving?

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Glow Global Events

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

As we head into this final stretch of 2021, Glow Global Events has several incredible achievements and exciting new developments to celebrate. Hats off to Founder Cheryl Gentry, who just made the BizBash 500, a list of 2021’s most influential event professionals.

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Canadian Special Events

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Eventex Awards , the global events and experiential marketing awards, recently unveiled the highly anticipated Eventex index covering the top 100 event organizers and agencies for 2023. The total number of represented countries meanwhile stands at 34.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This is my passion—and being part of the global events industry is my second passion.” Digitization had not yet reached the point where you could watch webinars or videos with the course content,” she says. Looking Forward The global events industry, especially following the Covid-19 pandemic, has taken a new direction.

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Glow Global Events

MAY 16, 2022

Additionally, Glow Global CEO Cheryl Gentry will return to NYU for the Summer 2022 semester as Adjunct Professor of the course, “Virtual Events: Best Practices for Effective Digital Fundraising”. The course counts towards the completion of a Certificate in Digital Fundraising and takes place over 6 sessions.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

You can also sell products or services during your virtual event, including e-books, online courses, memberships, physical merchandise, affiliate offers, and early previews of forthcoming releases. As an example of virtual events’ financial potential, look to Travis Scott. Mini case study.

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SevenEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

in huge news for the world of global events this week, tokyo 2020 president seiko hashimoto is “100%” certain the olympics will go ahead but warned the games “must be prepared” to proceed without spectators in the event of a coronavirus outbreak.

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Event Leadership Institute

APRIL 30, 2021

The Event Leadership Institute’s Business, Design & Strategy Summit , held virtually on June 3, invites meeting and event professionals to chart their course for the future. So where does that leave you? Another common challenge is creating sponsorship models that work in a virtual or hybrid environment.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Meeting professionals are not just in the events business, we are in the business of helping people define who they are. That was a reminder from Greg Bogue, chief experience architect at Maritz Global Events and keynote speaker last week at Smart Meetings Incentive Experience in Riviera Maya at the all-inclusive Hotel Xcaret Arte.

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Glow Global Events

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Over the course of a multi-decade career as a writer and poet, her words captured – and continue to capture – the complexity of the lived experiences of Black Americans, of women, of marginalized people living in an ever-changing country.

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SevenEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

in huge news for the world of global events this week, tokyo 2020 president seiko hashimoto is “100%” certain the olympics will go ahead but warned the games “must be prepared” to proceed without spectators in the event of a coronavirus outbreak.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Adam Parry, Co-Founder at Event Tech Live, says: “ILEA and ETL have great synergy in our missions to educate, inspire and evoke idea sharing and networking within the global event community.

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Glow Global Events

JULY 27, 2021

That’s why it’s more important than ever for event planners to protect their mental health. When there are so many moving parts, of course there’s going to be tension and discomfort. There’s nothing like the feeling of executing the perfect event, but you need to prioritize your well-being so you can enjoy it.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 13, 2021

Depending on the limitations, you may want to consider hosting multiple international live satellite events or even a hybrid event. I recently completed the Pandemic Compliance Advisor for Meetings Professionals training course produced by Health Education Services. The post When Is the Right Time to Host Your Event Live?

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SpotMe Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

After 20+ years of helping top life science and professional services companies to deliver outstanding events, we’ve seen the huge benefits that having the same event request form template (and process) throughout a global group can bring. But structured well enough that the approval process doesn’t take too long.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 31, 2021

2Heads partnership with WBCSD will include developing a refreshed event communications and content strategy, and delivering a bespoke virtual experience platform built upon its EventHive VX framework. We are very excited to open this new chapter with 2Heads as we work together to turbo charge our event agenda. SPONSORED CONTENT.

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TicketBud

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This holds true for event management, which when done sustainably can help the environment, as well as improve an organization’s reputation, cost efficiency and long-term success. According to a study published in Nature Communications, the global events industry accounts for more than 10% of global CO2 emissions annually.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Tarsus, the global B2B media group, has announced that it has successfully delivered six exhibitions over the course of just five weeks in China – a key territory for the business where it is one of the largest exhibition organisers in operation.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 14, 2020

There’s a reason why the global events industry was valued at $1,100 billion in 2018 with the expectation of reaching $2,330 billion by 2026 (Allied Market Research, 2019), but its influence goes way beyond a monetary value and into the very fabric of who we are as people.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Global events company Terrapinn has selected the influential e-commerce podcast Commerce Talks as its official podcast partner at Seamless Saudi Arabia. Commerce Talks is also linked to Alex’s other blog, www.kassenzone.de , the most popular German-language e-commerce blog. Click here to register for Seamless Saudi Arabia.

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EventMB

JUNE 21, 2022

Renee Radabaugh, president of Paragon Events, was recently in the midst of a high-end incentive program at an island resort where the highlight would be a gala tasting dinner for 150 featuring cocktails and mocktails paired with each course.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

” She added: “The football teams bring a huge amount into the city, Aintree is a truly global event, so whatever we can do to get those up and running in whatever format we can, of course we will do.

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Endless Events

MAY 14, 2021

The past year was a challenging one, sure, but it was also one that allowed us to understand the raw and unrealized potential of events as a whole. Global Events & International Event Planning. Not to mention, of course, the revenue potential of this bright new future. Planning Global Events.

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Glow Global Events

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Just like in-person events, virtual events offer plenty of ways to engage and extract long-term value. The biggest differences between virtual and in-person events. Of course, the downside of virtual events is that you aren’t physically present in the room, so there’s less opportunity for spontaneous networking (e.g.,

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The conversation centered on how, in a time of uncertainty about the coronavirus, organizers should approach decisions about whether or not to postpone or cancel an event — keeping your participants’ health and well-being top of mind and also not forgetting “the pain your industry partners are going through,” Cooper said.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 26, 2021

The sector faced great hardship with the global events industry crumbling beneath the weight of unprecedented circumstances. Perhaps one of the key differences in Eventcube’s ticketing model from its competitors is in the fact that as a business it doesn’t withhold income from ticket sales until post event.

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Event Leadership Institute

JULY 7, 2021

Industry leaders will have to address its workforce needs as well those of meeting and event clients who are also confronting changes in how their employees want to meet and travel, according to experts in two panels at Event Leaders Live: Business, Design & Strategy Summit on June 3.

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Event Industry News

JULY 4, 2018

The partnership formed part of the bid process, and underlines a growing trend for production contractors to support positive impacts from events in the local community. GL events is providing further support to the students by offering behind the scenes tours of the event infrastructure.

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Alex Sapiz, VP-Global Events, Cisco. Alex Sapiz, vp-global events at Cisco, opened the Experiential Marketing Summit on day two. The future of events is a future built on choice.”. Alex Sapiz, VP-Global Events, Cisco. Sean Curtis, Director-Technology Experiences, Global Events, Cisco.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 30, 2023

“We’ve always been seen as an industrial, manufacturing, engineering company, but over the years, we have really developed into a technology company that transforms everyday lives, so that human or personal perspective has been missing for a long time,” says Stacey Gromlich, director-audience engagement and global events at Siemens.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 5, 2018

When we talk about events we are talking about any type of meeting, from big conferences and expos but also internal meetings, training courses, product launches, and incentives.

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