Smart Meetings

APRIL 7, 2023

Scott Cochran and Kitty Chau Scott Cochran (left) and Kitty Chau (right) Cochran is complex general manager and Chau is complex director of sales and marketing for dual-property Le Meridien and Element Salt Lake City Downtown. Anya Buitrago Hotel La Compania in Casco Antiguo, Panama, named Buitrago director of sales and marketing.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2023

With over 25 years of experience in travel, tourism and business events, and in leadership roles with Starwood Hotels and Resorts and Destination Toronto, he brings extensive experience to oversee BestCities operations, focusing on their values of legacy, sustainability and advancement of the global impact of meeting events.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

He has also worked in management for Krisam Group & Global Event Partners and Saddlebrook Resort in Tampa, Florida, and has held the position of regional director of sales at Associated Luxury Hotels International. Sandpiper Hospitality , headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, has promoted Grisko to vice president of sales and marketing.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

By having a meal at FareStart Restaurant in downtown Seattle, “just in that act alone, you are part of the solution,” says Stephanie Schoo, marketing and communications director. In 1992, Lee reorganized the operation as a nonprofit, teaching those he was serving how to prepare food in order to equip them with job skills.

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Bizzabo

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Discover must-attend cannabis events that are shaping a fast-developing industry. Thanks to increasing legalization of recreatio nal marijuana use in many parts of the world, an entirely new category of events is fast emerging. Event marketers of cannabis events are undeterred by regional restrictions.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 31, 2017

It was crazy,” said Kristen Adamo, PWCVB’s vice president of marketing and communications, “because having worked in the culinary field here, I knew we had a lot of great talent.” So how could scrappy Providence claim its rightful place among America’s great food cities? “No Food is something we do very, very well.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 3, 2023

You can’t do anything you want when you plan medical meetings or medical events,” says Valerie Bihet, CEO of VIBE Agency, a veteran planner who has planned events such as Merck, Thea Pharmaceuticals. Producing events internationally can affect your budget in many different ways. Don’t allow them to just be passive bystanders.

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