Fri.Aug 09, 2019

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How Your Attendee Experience Can be Enhanced With the EventMobi Attendee Dashboard

Eventmobi

Events may happen for a variety of reasons, but the planning process is often heavily rooted in establishing an amazing attendee experience. Our customers often reach out to us, looking for ways on how they can use their event app to maximize the overall experience they want to offer to their attendees. We wanted to share some insights with you related to the main features of our Attendee Dashboard and how they can help to add a personal touch that will give your attendees the best experience in

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What do #eventprofs keep in their event survival kit?

Event Industry News

Because it’s Friday and we wanted to finish the week off on a light note, we pulled together a list of the top items event professionals cannot go without during an event. Approaching the Delegate Wranglers Facebook group , Event Industry News asked, what’s in your event survival kit, to gauge what items event professionals deemed as essential for successfully making it through an event. .

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Not Your Average Survey: The UN Wants to Hear from Meetings Industry

PCMA Convene

The United Nations want to know how it can help the meetings industry better reach its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. (Courtesy UN). For the first time since the member states of the United Nations adopted a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 and created a 2030 Agenda toward Sustainable Development, the international body will hold a summit to assess the initiative’s progress.

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10 Daily Habits to Increase Productivity

SmartMeetings

Is your daily routine leaving you tired and burnt out? Do you find it hard to build up the energy to get even the smallest tasks done? You’re not alone. The job of event professional is consistently rated one of the most stressful—a condition that can lead to stagnation. But even the most junior meeting manager knows that nothing gets the blood flowing like crossing things off a checklist.

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Unlock the Secrets of Event Marketing Masters

The greats learn from the greats. Set yourself and your team up for success with tried and tested strategies and insights from event marketing geniuses at Vanta, Partnership Leaders, Quantum Metric, Rocketlane, and Explori.

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Science Museum London shortlisted in 2 categories for the London Venue Awards

Event Industry News

Illuminate is a new two-level space boasting unrivalled panoramic views across London, situated on levels four and five of the Science Museum in South Kensington. The venue has been shortlisted for two categories in the London Venue Awards; ‘Best New or Refurbished Venue’ and ‘Best Venue with a View’. Responding to the ever-increasing demand for a dedicated, high capacity daytime space, Illuminate is a multi-functional events and conference venue accommodating almost any type of event including

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ETL replay: Gamification to engage attendees & increase mobile adoption

Event Industry News

This footage has been kindly captured by our friends at First Sight Media – firstsight.media. At last year’s Event Tech Live, Nick Tinker, business development manager at CrowdCrompass by Cvent, addressed the audience at the Conference and Creativity Stage. He used his talk to discuss gamification and how it can be used to engage attendees and increase mobile adoption.

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Climate Debate: Caring for the Planet vs. Flying to Conferences

PCMA Convene

Condé Nast contributing editor Mark Ellwood tells attendees at the Destinations International Annual Convention that $1.1 trillion is earmarked for airport construction worldwide. The doesn’t excite climate activists. (Nathan Weber). When Condé Nast contributing editor Mark Ellwood kicked off the second day of the Destinations International Annual Convention in St.

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Canon’s Nav Moulavi explains benefits of visitor-tracking at events

Event Industry News

Nav Moulavi, an event and technologies professional at Canon, discussed the uses of visitor-monitoring technology at events. Exposure Analytics invited Nav to speak at a conference at BAFTA 195, Piccadilly, to review its award-winning technology. Drawing from his own experience showcasing at exhibitions, such as Photokina, Nav described why visitor-tracking at live events is beneficial to organisers and exhibitors.

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eCommerce Events 2019: 5 Top Options to Boost Business

Tito Blog | An Event Blog for Organisers

Even glancing at them, the numbers associated with the ecommerce industry are truly astounding. eCommerce sales are expected to account for 13.7% of global retail sales this year. Furthermore, the industry is worth just short of $3.5 billion. It can be easy to think of eCommerce as an area that makes it difficult to connect with peers because of how distributed its enthusiasts are by nature of the job.

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How to Get Speakers, Exhibitors, and Attendees to Promote Your Event With Video

In this best practices guide, you’ll learn how to tap into the cost-efficiencies of advocacy and word-of-mouth marketing with video. Examples include speakers providing a preview of their upcoming sessions, exhibitors creating “please stop by” invitations and attendees creating “looking forward to seeing you” introduction videos. Learn about best practices and programs created by leading companies and associations including ASIS, AUVSI, SuperZoo, National Restaurant Association, World of Concret

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ANOTHER festival cancelled over weather fears

Event Industry News

Houghton Festival organisers have decided to cancel the event that was due to take place at Houghton Hall this weekend. The decision came after Boardmasters was cancelled due to similar concerns and makes Houghton the second major music festival to be cancelled this week due to bad weather. In a statement published on the festival’s website, organisers said “weather conditions on-site at Houghton Festival have dramatically worsened and are set to deteriorate further into the weekend.

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Marc Simon Sets the Standard for the PGA Merchandise Show

Connect Your Meetings

To help remind his team of the high expectations he has for the planning and execution of the annual U.S. PGA Merchandise Show, Marc Simon draws a parallel between the show and professional golf’s four signature major events. Just as the PGA calendar includes many tournaments, but only four that get the white-hot spotlight, Simon has endeavored to make his show, held each January in Orlando, into the flagship event in the flourishing world of golf-related merchandise.

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Robe jazzes it up in Ghent

Event Industry News

Bart Weyts from L&L Stage Services created a brand-new lighting design using 86 Robe moving lights, including 35 new T1s, for the Ghent Festival 2019. . L&L provided technical production for the 10-day festival and has been involved in the main stage technical production over the last few years, working directly for the organisers. This year, L&L purchased T1s with this and other projects in mind from Robe’s Benelux distributor, Controllux, adding to its rental inventory of Robe movi

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20 Jacksonville, Florida Event Venues That Your Attendees Will Love

Bizzabo

Discover the top 20 event venues for public and corporate events in Jacksonville, Florida! Here's a surprising stat for you: Jacksonville, Florida is the most populous city in the Southeastern United States. Not Miami, or Atlanta, or Washington D.C. but Jacksonville. It also happens to be the largest city by area in the entire U.S. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised, though.

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B2B Events in 2023 - What You Need to Know

Get ahead of the curve and stay informed with Zuddl's industry report on the future of B2B events in 2023. Stay up-to-date on the latest trends and insights from leading experts in the field. Make informed decisions and stay ahead of the competition.

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Don’t rain on my parade! List of cancelled events grows due to weather warnings

Event Industry News

Risky weather conditions have forced the hand of event organisers throughout the south of the UK as Britain braces for a weekend of gale-force winds and rainy conditions. Events include: Boardmasters, Cornwall Cornwood Show, Devon Plymouth Pride, Devon Day one of Ocean City Blues’n’Jazz Festival, Plymouth Honiton Gate to Plate, Devon Race across Torbay, Devon Houghton Festival, Norfolk Jungle Fever, Isle of Wight Day one of Blackpool Air Show.

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Bizzabo Named Best Overall Event Management Platform for 2019

Bizzabo

We're thrilled to announce Bizzabo has won the MarTech Breakthrough Award for "Best Overall Event Management Platform." Here’s the full story. Bizzabo , the world's leading end-to-end Event Success Platform, has been named the best overall event management platform of 2019 as part of the annual MarTech Breakthrough Awards. The prestigious Breakthrough Awards recognize the companies producing the most innovative technology products across the country and around the world.

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Imperial Venues

Event Industry News

Imperial Venues offer flexible venue hire in Central London. With over 100 venues on our university campus ranging from meeting rooms and banqueting halls to an elegant Grade II listed Victorian townhouse, we can host events for up to 740 guests. Our excellent catering and great on-site facilities, including accommodation, makes us an ideal choice when hiring venues in London for a whole range of events including conferences, exhibitions, product launches, awards nights and private parties.

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Understanding Strategic Meetings Management

Cvent: Event Marketing

According to the GBTA groups and meetings committee, Strategic Meeting Management (SMM) is the management of enterprise-wide meeting-related processes, spend, volume, standards, suppliers and data in order to achieve measurable business objectives that align with the organization’s strategic goals/vision, and deliver value in the form of quantitative savings, risk mitigation and service quality.

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Download Now: 2022 Virtual + Hybrid Event Platform RFP Template - Enterprise Edition

Download 200+ new RFP questions for hybrid and virtual event technology success. After 10,000 downloads, the SpotMe Virtual + Hybrid Event Platform RFP Template is the ultimate procurement tool for event technology. This template is ideal for companies looking for a vendor to fulfill their specific virtual + hybrid event platform needs and requirements!

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The AV Audit 3.0: Breaking Down AV Quotes

Endless Events

Another month, another AV audit. Here at Endless, we’re all about helping you get better at event planning. So we’ve come up with the AV audit, where we dissect bids live, on air, and inspect every single aspect of each individual quote. Even though you’re in the industry, that doesn’t mean you’ll be familiar with everything that’s on the technology side.

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Automating Event Management Tasks: A to Z

Cvent: Event Marketing

Maybe more than any profession, events professionals are faced with a unique challenge: it’s called the “Invisible Workload.” The cure to this dilemma? Automating event management tasks. If you’re reading this blog post, then you likely know exactly what we’re talking about. The Invisible Workload is the work you do for your organization that goes completely unnoticed.