Event Leadership Institute

AUGUST 28, 2020

August 28, 2020 – As planning for modified in-person events for 2021 begins, planners are left wondering how attendees feel about attending on-site events – including the health protocols and procedures that will make them feel safe. Pandemic Meeting & Event Design Certificate. Start Date: November 10, 2020.

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Decibel Management

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

A venue is in order. Again, in normal times, getting a decent holiday party venue in November would be out of the question. But… you know the drill, not normal times, embracing madness, yadda, yadda… so there is still available venue space out there. Contrary to what you might think in this COVID era, venues are filling up fast.

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Event Leadership Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

What can event and meeting pros do to keep their skills relevant and up-to-date? With many event agency owners and other event professionals facing challenges like those never seen before, we’ve announced a new Business Owner Mentorship Program. Event & Meeting Management Fundamentals. Duration: 10 weeks.

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Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 27, 2016

If you’re like many corporate meeting planners, planning meetings and events may only be part of your job and you learn as you go, without formal training. But if planning meetings and events are a passion of yours and you want to become a meeting professional, there are 33 skills you need to master. B: Project management.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 30, 2020

Drowning in a sea of protocols and guidance documents released daily by government agencies, venues and organizations? Events Industry Council (EIC)’s Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX) COVID-19 Business Recovery Taskforce has been navigating all the turbulence by collecting best practices.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Every conference comes with its own unique set of risks. The historic December 2015 event, in the Le Bourget district outside of Paris, drew 50,000 attendees from 196 countries — as well as 125 world leaders, including the presidents of France, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and the United States. Want to earn CEUs?

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 7, 2017

. • For our largest event in 2016 we had to turn away more than 150 people. We are moving to a larger venue for 2017. This event originally was just for our state but now is becoming a regional event. •We Have had to cut special events (receptions, keynote, concert) budgets. Lowered meeting costs. More outreach.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 26, 2020

Drowning in a sea of protocols and guidance documents released daily by government agencies, venues and organizations? Events Industry Council (EIC)’s Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX) COVID-19 Business Recovery Taskforce is navigating the turbulence by collecting accepted practices in one place. Kristin Horstman.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 29, 2020

Meetings and events are going to look very different when the industry returns to face-to-face in light of COVID-19. The business events community has been working to find the best practices and create standards to ensure the safety of all when we do. Resources: CDC Contact Tracing Resources. COVID-19 State and Local Policy Dashboard.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The first step is to secure the registration areas at your venue: – Keep all registration desks staffed and monitored – All devices used to check in attendees should be password-protected and then locked away when not in use.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Why have a keynote speaker at your event? The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Why have a keynote speaker at your event? The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference.

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Plan Your Meetings

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

That all adds up to attendees potentially showing up armed at your event. Throughout this year, Andy Johnston, president of the Atlanta-based Idea Group, has published an informative series of posts regarding event emergencies. Until recently, he says, the topic of guns at meetings and events simply hasn’t received much attention.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 12, 2019

There’s no time like the present to reflect on the future of events. Because what we really mean is – what will define the event team members of the next decade? With yet another decade coming to an end soon, the team behind Event Brew decided to put their heads together. The Future Of Events: Looking Back First.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 27, 2016

It’s a familiar worry for anyone planning an outdoor event: Will it rain? For Michael Massari, senior vice president of meetings and events at Caesars Entertainment, creating a backup plan became increasingly tricky in the days leading up to MPI’s World Education Congress in Atlantic City on June 11–14.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 20, 2016

The first-ever ASM Microbe program — the American Society for Microbiology’s grand experiment in combining its General Meeting and Interscience Conference on Antimicrobrial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) into one new annual conference — wraps today.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Depending on the destina-tion, the venue, the topic of the meeting, the speakers, and the audience, attendees will be reassured to know you’re being realistic about potential threats. Security has been reinforced at Viparis venues. First, what do you tell attendees about your event security? A BASIC LEVEL OF SECURITY.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Depending on the destina-tion, the venue, the topic of the meeting, the speakers, and the audience, attendees will be reassured to know you’re being realistic about potential threats. Security has been reinforced at Viparis venues. First, what do you tell attendees about your event security? A BASIC LEVEL OF SECURITY.

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Plan Your Meetings

JANUARY 28, 2019

With so many outlets for fresh streaming content, we’re blessed with two documentaries chronicling the disaster that was the Fyre Festival, which was more of a Ponzi scheme than an actual event. Check out the Reddit thread, “ Watching the Fyre Festival doc as a former event planer feeling TRIGGERED.”. “I Weddings & parties.

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Bizzabo

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Searching for top technology events to attend in 2019? Scouring the internet for event information could be an overwhelming task. Tech Events featured in in this list take place all throughout the year, all around the globe. Tech Events featured in in this list take place all throughout the year, all around the globe.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

The original venue for its 2016 World Education Congress (WEC), the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, was now unavailable because the Democratic National Convention would be held there in summer 2016. And the alternative venues offered by the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau didn’t meet MPI’s needs.

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Plan Your Meetings

APRIL 10, 2017

For these people, laws that affirm their right to bring weapons to public places may encourage their attendance at events. And some events that seek to attract attendees who endorse “gun rights” will now have more freedom to cater to that market segment when they meet in states that have adopted pro-gun laws.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 18, 2016

Cleveland Chief of Police Calvin Williams shared details of how many officers will be deployed to various zones around the convention center, and stressed that they had “drilled and drilled” ahead of the event. We may never know where he stays. PREPARING FOR PROTESTERS.

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