Smart Meetings
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Formula 1’s first year shook things up on the Las Vegas Strip In a weekend filled with more drama than your mom’s favorite soap opera, Las Vegas’ inaugural Formula 1 race ended with practice race mishaps , record-level betting numbers and a more than $1 billion economic impact to the city. Big Numbers Las Vegas Grand Prix reported a 315,000-person attendance number over the course of the event.
EventMB
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Skift Take: Convention centers may already be the top venue choice for many events, but they can be so much more than just the practical default option. Discover three ways to leverage your venue partnership for an unforgettable event experience.
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TicketBud
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
The end of the year is a natural time to reflect on achievements and failures as you prepare to adapt and refine in the year ahead. Evaluating your year of event programming in order to prepare for the next one is no different. Event evaluation is an ongoing process throughout the year. But understanding the value of your event programming more broadly, and how it advances or hinders your organization’s overall strategy and values, requires a holistic review.
Conferences that Work
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
48 years ago this week I met Celia at the wedding of mutual friends in the heart of the English New Forest. I moved in with her ten days later and we’ve been together ever since. We married in 1977… …and moved to the U.S. the same year. We have been through so much together. Wonderful times and hard times. Along the way our family grew; we now have three (adult) children and three grandkids.
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Planning Pod
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Many restaurant owners today are struggling to avoid rising food costs eating into profits and hindering their overall growth. At Planning Pod, we’ve noticed an uptick in business owners asking for tips on lowering food costs while maximizing profits. Previous to writing for our blog, I worked with hundreds of restaurant owners to stay on top of their budgets and reduce food costs while increasing restaurant profits on our Customer Success Team.
Event Pro Update brings together the best content for event, conference, and meeting planning professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Event Industry News
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
The Event Technology Awards (ETA) 2023 wrapped the first day of Event Tech Live (ETL) London in raucous fashion. With thirty-six winners crowned overall and vFairs being this year’s stand out tech, bagging four awards including Best Hybrid Event Platform or Production, Best Event Networking Technology, Best Virtual Event Platform and Best Sustainable Tech Solution.
EventMB
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Skift Take: Tech industry insiders say fake female speakers were featured in the DevTernity conference lineup to create the illusion of diversity.
TicketBud
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
The holidays are the perfect opportunity to tie your organization to a special celebration or tradition, but there’s a lot of competition in getting your audiences to commit their time, money and energy to your event. The end of the year brings on a frenzy of work parties, friend and family get-togethers, school events, holiday shopping and more. Creating an event that breaks through all the noise takes careful planning and execution, with great consideration about your audiences’ time, preferen
Conferences that Work
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
I joined the social media platform Mastodon a year ago. Given recent turbulent social media trends, I’m glad I took the plunge. Having been on Twitter (yes, I know it’s been renamed “X”, sue me) since 2009, I’d describe Mastodon as the old Twitter. What do I mean by that? What Twitter is now Ever since Twitter’s creation in 2006, people have used it in different ways.
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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.
EventSource
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
The Pop-Up Chapel Co. returned to the beloved Koerner Gardens event space at Evergreen Brick Works to marry 18 couples over two days. A vibrant, groovy, and iridescent design created an unforgettable wedding experience! Vendors Featured in this Article 7 Reviews Evergreen Brick Work. Venue 46 Reviews The Pop-Up Chapel Co. Event Planner 4 Reviews Event Rental Group Décor & Rentals 38 Reviews EPiQVision Audio / Visual Alicia Thurston Phot.
MeetingsNet
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Three industry veterans share their advice on crafting contract terms and clauses that meet the needs of host groups, not just host venues. Right now, the meetings industry’s landscape features high demand, rising prices, and hotel reps’ relative inexperience with meetings, all of which make planners’ jobs more difficult than ever. To help cut through the thicket of contractual issues within this landscape, three longtime meeting negotiators—Tyra Warner, Lauren Andrews, and Jeff Duncan—held a di
Event Industry News
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
With a big background in tech-world, marketing director Felicia Asiedu has been at Cvent for five years. This episode is a deep dive into the brand, with a particular focus on Cvent Connect Europe, the company runs a similar event in North America, and how event tech fits into event design.
EventMB
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Skift Take: Gary LaBranche, the CEO of the Risk and Insurance Management Society, shares what it was like to have to cancel the last day of its conference where close to 10,000 were gathered due to a nearby shooting.
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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
Event Marketer
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
“We believe that if your well-being is intact, everything else will fall into place. Someone once told me this: ‘If you allow for your suitcase to always be full, then you can’t unpack to put new stuff in.’ So we wanted to allow our attendees to unpack their suitcases, their baggage so that they could be filled with new inspiration, new ideas and new opportunities over the weekend.
Conferences that Work
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
I’m indebted to Martin Sirk for sharing remarkable information about an 1828 conference designed by the German geographer, naturalist, and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Read what follows to discover that Humboldt was also a meeting designer way ahead of his time! Martin Sirk Modern meeting design! Cross-disciplinary. New insights-oriented. Participant-centred.
Smart Meetings
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Captivating Designs Make Memorable Debuts From the sunny coastline of SoCal to the fog-draped Golden Gate, new and renovated hotels across the charming state of California make for compelling options to host your next meetings, event or retreat. A variety of different spaces, from size to design, are constant across all these properties. But that’s where the similarities end—each offers its own distinct character and captures the essential flavor of whichever destination it calls home.
MeetingsNet
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
About half of respondents know how A.I. can assist with event planning, but only a small percentage have incorporated it “extensively” into their processes while some others have dabbled. Information on how artificial intelligence can help build, market, and analyze business events has been a popular offering at industry events and in the trade media this year.
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Event Industry News
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
INCA Productions are a strategic creative agency who connect brands and audiences through live digital experiences. With offices in London and New York, their clients include Netflix, Meta, Moet and Chandon, Apple and Sky.
EventMB
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Skift Take: Despite the decline in numbers compared to the pre-Covid era, a recent study on the value of the exhibitions industry in the UK presents encouraging figures for 2022, suggesting a complete recovery is not far out.
Event Marketer
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
“It’s always critical to give an opportunity for interaction—however that comes across in the way that’s most authentic to the program or the show that we’re promoting and is of most interest to the audience that we’re connecting with.” –Sloan Carroll, Senior Director-Multiplatform Marketing, PBS Promoting its new show “Spy in the Ocean, A Nature Miniseries,” PBS transported VidCon Baltimore attendees to the ocean floor to explore the setting of the four-part documentary that premiered last mont
Conferences that Work
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Join me in Rome next week (November 21 – 26)! On November 24 I’m leading a Masterclass at the 2023 Best Event Awards Festival. The topic? Creating and supporting meaningful participation at events. Here’s the entire program for November 24. There’s also an opportunity to meet with me in Studio Room 2 from 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CET to explore questions and issues arising from the session or that weren’t addressed and tackle questions on how to solve your top-of-m
Speaker: Adam Dorfman, Lindsay Harrison, and Erin O'Brien
Did you know that 4 out of 5 consumers use local search and 88% use smartphones for those searches? With that in mind, I think it's safe to say your online presence is the silver bullet of your business. Think about the revenue you could be missing by not prioritizing local search optimization. Fortunately, there are a handful of steps you can take right now that will immediately impact your business's pace in local search, and we're happy to share them.
Smart Meetings
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
Jaye Moreau and Beth Haddock Jaye Moreau (left) and Beth Haddock (right), Kōloa Landing Resort Luxury Kaua’i resort, K ōloa Landing Resort , has appointed Moreau as destination weddings and sales manager. She brings over 10 years of experience in hospitality sales and marketing and a specialty in weddings, milestone anniversary celebrations, reunions and more special events.
MeetingsNet
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Airlines are ramping up their carbon-reducing measures—but ever so slightly—while more attendees face internal carbon budgets and taxes to come to events. What can planners do? Virgin Atlantic Airlines announced in late November that it will be the first carrier to operate a trans-Atlantic jumbo-jet flight powered entirely by sustainable aviation fuel—a mix of used cooking oil, animal fat, and agricultural waste.
Event Industry News
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
In the dynamic world of event production, the ability to captivate and engage audiences is paramount. Since 1997, Lightmedia Displays has been at the forefront of this industry, providing state-of-the-art LED screens and production services that have revolutionised the way events are experienced.
EventMB
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Skift Take: Four out of five event professionals report that their roles have become more stressful today than before the pandemic. Plus, they are not being supported.
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Event Marketer
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
“We took the particle theme of movement, moving forward. Each section of the experience tells a story of how Mastercard drives innovation, connects people to people, businesses to consumers, and how we partner together in the ecosystem to deliver actual real-world results.” –Amy Hills, VP-Product Marketing, Mastercard To connect with the demanding fintech audience at the recent Money 20/20, Mastercard had to capture attention in a space filled with highly engaging activations.
Socio Events
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
The world of event planning is fast-paced, and we know that every moment counts. Coordinating and managing content from speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors can be a tedious and time-consuming task. The current manual process of collecting and integrating this content into your event app can take up valuable resources. That’s why we’re thrilled to introduce a game-changing feature that will revolutionize how you manage event content: speaker and sponsor collaboration.
Smart Meetings
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
On this episode of What One Thing? Smart Meeting’s Vice President JT Long chats with The Party Scientist Jacques Martiquet to explore the concept of bringing joy to events, turning attendees from spectators into connectors and the impact of movement and music on attendees. Read more about how to create engaging events from Martiquet here. Don’t Miss a Podcast Drop.
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