Event Leadership Institute

AUGUST 26, 2020

You may have seen the news headlines or social media clips of a ten thousand plus crowd watching Eric Chou, a Taiwanese singer-songwriter, perform in Taiwan – the first event of its kind since the pandemic began. The online certificate course is designed to provide planners with the resources to implement safer event design.

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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.

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Event Leadership Institute

AUGUST 28, 2020

This is just one of several key findings from the ELI research report released today, “Attendee Preferences for Live Events in the COVID-19 Era.”. A total of 764 event and meeting planners, agencies, and other industry vendors and suppliers completed the online survey, conducted July 7 – 31, 2020. 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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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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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. Look for my article about that in our September issue.). That’s been interesting.”

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 7, 2017

In addition to data about quantifiable things like the size, frequency, costs, and types of meetings, our Annual Meetings Market Survey also captures a wealth of data in the form of comments in response to a series of open-ended questions. Last week we published comments about the meeting industry’s biggest challenges.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 26, 2020

APEX COVID-19 Business Recovery Taskforce leaders share insights on planning meetings during a pandemic. Drowning in a sea of protocols and guidance documents released daily by government agencies, venues and organizations? Preparing for a Return to Meeting. For highlights, read on. Michael Dominguez.

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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. Gathering Limits By State.

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Plan Your Meetings

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

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. Our staffs met with the management of the Henry B.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If you’re interested in scheduling Bob to speak at your company meeting, conference or convention, please contact Kathy Tagenel at (775) 220-6995 or click here to email her. Christy Lamagna is the founder of and Master Strategist at Strategic Meetings & Events. Where to find him? Brian Tracy Who is he? Where to find him?

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 27, 2016

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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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If you’re interested in scheduling Bob to speak at your company meeting, conference or convention, please contact Kathy Tagenel at (775) 220-6995 or click here to email her. Christy Lamagna is the founder of and Master Strategist at Strategic Meetings & Events. Where to find him? Brian Tracy Who is he? Where to find him?

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 12, 2019

And if technology is the disruptor that is focusing these things” “I think the biggest burden on event designers, strategists, planners, and even implementers has been these huge leaps in technology”, he continues. But I think those two would be best friends” Risk Manager & Crisis Team Leader.

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Plan Your Meetings

JANUARY 28, 2019

After biting my nails and laughing for three hours watching the pair of Fyre docs, I thought more about the representation of meeting/event planning in film. There’s no shortage of feature films that prominently (if not always accurately) depict the chaotic life of meeting and event planners. meetings & events.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In Convene ’s survey, only 11 percent of respondents said they’ve used metal detectors or bag searchers at their meetings, but 77 percent said they would consider it. It is not a concern based on the attendees and the city where we hold meetings,” one respondent wrote. Security has been reinforced at Viparis venues.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In Convene ’s survey, only 11 percent of respondents said they’ve used metal detectors or bag searchers at their meetings, but 77 percent said they would consider it. It is not a concern based on the attendees and the city where we hold meetings,” one respondent wrote. Security has been reinforced at Viparis venues.

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Bizzabo

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

This event invites the best and brightest hackers in the ever-expanding Swift community to explore new horizons. DGI has military, civilian and industry geospatial intelligence leaders at this year's meeting in London to discuss new policy developments and the latest in technology. East Meets West. San Francisco, CA.

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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

That may not be the greeting many meeting attendees expect to hear. Meeting professionals should recognize that guns at meetings are not a problem for everyone. The increasing presence of firearms is also an area of concern for many meeting planners. “Welcome to the convention! Please check your firearms.”

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PCMA Convene

JULY 18, 2016

In the months leading up to the convention, locals were briefed on security measures at several town-hall-style meetings. The Atlantic ’s City Lab has reported that law-enforcement officials have even reached out to Cleveland’s homeless community to ask them to be on the lookout for suspicious people or activity.

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