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Catch Feelings, Not COVID-19: Virtual Valentine’s Day Events Keep Your Love Life Sweet and Safe

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This Valentine’s Day (like every holiday since COVID-19 hit) is going to look a bit different this year. It may mean digital hugs and kisses for your family and friends, or even time alone to practice self-love. It’s been quite a year and whatever your ultimate expression of Valentine’s Day love is this year – […].

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How to Throw a Virtual Birthday Party in 9 Steps

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Your Seminar Planning Checklist: 16 Steps to Success

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Planning a seminar? Use this list of 16 seminar planning tips to reduce stress, put on a successful event, and make sure no detail is forgotten!

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What the vaccine means for event access in 2021: is hybrid here to stay?

Event Industry News

By Vanessa Lovatt, Chief Evangelist at Glisser , the virtual and hybrid event platform that makes every event count. . Hope is tentatively mounting in countries around the world as the vaccination numbers climb daily. This hope is greatly needed in our hard-hit event sector, but how hopeful can we really be right now? Vaccination programmes may be aggressive and well communicated, but they still pose a very real fly in the ointment for the return of events as we knew them.

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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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How to spark real conversation at your next virtual or hybrid event.

Expo Pass

We know we can meet, network, and get things done virtually, but creating real, organic conversations, like we have walking around an event space — that’s a challenge. Not only that, with hybrid events just around the corner, organizers will have to find new ways for live audiences to chat with virtual audiences, and for virtual audiences to want to chat back (and not just lounge around on the couch).

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Top Webinar Software Providers for Your Virtual or Hybrid Events

b2match

One of the biggest challenges event organizers have concerning virtual and hybrid events is setting up webinar sessions. The webinar provider selection is huge and it can be daunting to start the research to make a best decision. b2match, an all-in-one event management software , has done the homework for you.

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Live Panel: Making Sustainability No.1 in the U.S. Music Industry

Event Industry News

A Greener Festival present an insightful Live Panel discussion on Friday, February 12 at 14:30 EST / 20:30 CET for a conversation on creating demand for sustainability in the U.S. live music industry! As we prepare to restart events, how can we better integrate sustainability into our operations and make it a priority? Our panelists will share their experience in developing a green culture and initiating equity and climate action through engagement, and their insight on the future of this cultur

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7 Ways to Make your First Married Valentine’s Day Extra Special

EventSource

If you try hard enough, your first year of marriage can be like one long honeymoon, all it takes is a little planning! So, if you are recently married (or hey, even engaged), why not amp up the romance on the most romantic of all holidays – Valentine’s Day! Even though this year is a little more locked down than we would like, that doesn’t mean that you can’t make the most of your first Valentine’s as a married couple!

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The world’s first commerce-driven, hybrid, 3D event platform launches

Event Industry News

Combining their wealth of exhibition, event, TV, technical and creative expertise, The Assembly and Engage Works have launched enso, the world’s first experience-led virtual event ecosystem. Created to encapsulate the best of physical events, broadcast, and digital experiences, enso delivers the ultimate sustainable and future-proof hybrid 3D platform for networking, collaboration, commercialisation, and analytics.

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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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Virtual Events are Here to Stay. Are You Prepared? An eMarketer Webinar

Hubb

When we look back on this past year, it's amazing how far we have come. We started 2020 treating virtual events as the red-headed step child—something that was an add-on for attendees that couldn't attend in-person. They were limited in content and were often no more than a glorified live-stream of the keynotes. As an industry we learned how to make virtual events rock through an education in the trenches, hosting thousands of virtual events where brands and companies staked their entire futures

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One year to go until UK National Day at Expo 2020 Dubai

Event Industry News

Announced today is the UK National Day at Expo 2020 Dubai that will be celebrated on 10 February 2022, as activity taking place on the day is revealed to mark one year to go. One of the key moments in any nations programme of activity during the six-month event is their National Day. The UKs National Day will Celebrate Extraordinary, recognising the UKs contribution to the world and the exceptional British people, places, businesses and innovations that inspire new thinking and solve shared prob

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The virtual AGM is now a reality, but where do we go from here?

Lumi Global

Great change is a profound accelerator of innovation; before coronavirus, how many of us have heard bosses say ‘No, you can’t possibly work from home- the work won’t get done’. In 2020 they were proved wrong- resoundingly wrong! Because 2020, for all its claustrophobia and seclusion, has provided the space needed to usher in new modes of doing business.

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All Party Parliamentary Group for Events extends collaboration across Westminster

Event Industry News

The All Party Parliamentary Group for Events (APPG) has made contact with several other official APPG’s in Westminster as it looks to expand its work in support of the UK events sector. Chair of the APPG, the Rt Hon Theresa Villiers MP, (pictured,) has written to a number of colleagues in Parliament who have been identified as having mutual issues of interest, and where further collaboration could be useful.

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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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How To Improve Your Conference Planning Process With Tech

InitLive

With an excellent event team and a good strategy, you can plan and organize a successful conference for your organization. However, approaching conference planning with outdated methods can lead to a slow and exhausting planning process. Conversely, using the right event technology tools can lead to more effective and efficient planning. Technology helps to streamline the planning process and free up time and resources which can be allocated to other event needs.

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InEvent raises USD 2M to keep accelerating the event-tech market

Event Industry News

InEvent just received USD 2 million in seed investment from Storm Ventures, a VC company 100% focused on early-stage enterprise investments. “COVID has changed the way events are being held beyond what we imagined a year ago. There is no going back to traditional events, with or without a vaccine. At Storm Ventures, we believe the team at InEvent will shape the future of events to come.” says Pascale Diaine, Principal at Storm Ventures.

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Bristol Craft Beer Festival organisers launch buy now, pay later

Event Industry News

Organisers of the Bristol Craft Beer Festival have announced a new flexible ticketing policy, designed to give festival goers something to look forward to on 11 – 12 June 2021. In November 2020, We Are Beer, Bristol Craft Beer Festival organisers, announced that the event would return to Lloyds Amphitheatre in June. Now, to help beer fans make plans for the summer the team have designed a 2021 ticketing innovation, with a buy now pay later scheme.

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Bath Half Marathon crowned first recipient of A Greener Run Award

Event Industry News

Bath Half Marathon have become the first run in the world to receive the AGF Run Award for their actions towards creating greener mass participation events. Bath Half Marathon Race Director, Andrew Taylor of Running High Events Ltd said “We are delighted to receive this award as a recognition of our work to minimise the impact of our event on the environment.

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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!