Smart Meetings

JANUARY 6, 2019

Citywide meetings may be a challenge to plan, but they also represent an opportunity for meeting planners to spread their wings and take advantage of all the great resources that a destination has to offer. Local tourism officials can be helpful resources for helping drum up excitement about your event.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 9, 2023

BPA iCompli Sustainability, a division of global assurance provider BPA Worldwide, announced it served as technical writer to Singapore’s national standards and accreditation body, Enterprise Singapore, which created a set of Waste Management guidelines and best practices for Singapore’s MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) and (..)

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Smart Meetings

MAY 24, 2021

Meeting profs across the United States are being tasked with increasingly difficult decisions about requiring and enforcing mask wearing after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suddenly updated guidance for face coverings and physical distancing in Mid-May. Some already did away with public mask requirements months ago.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 14, 2023

April is Autism Awareness Month, the perfect time for meeting professionals to commit to learning more about how a few simple changes can improve the meeting experience for neurodiverse attendees. However, neuro inclusion remains a gap in the industry, particularly in corporate events.” Ambiguity can cause unnecessary stress.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 26, 2023

Is the events industry more prepared for a future emergency? Sheridan President and CEO of Meet Boston and co-chair, Meetings Mean Business Coalition What does the official end of Covid mean for the meetings industry? I expected the media to play it down as a non-event, but I did not expect the industry to do the same.

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Skift

JUNE 15, 2021

Travel Association's calls for consistent hotel reopening guidelines. Travel Association campaign could sway straggling states to relax their restrictions on business meetings, but nothing moves fast in a pandemic. Hilton's CEO Chris Nassetta is backing the U.S. Matthew Parsons Read the Complete Story On Skift.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 16, 2020

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series reporting on FICP Chats about the future of meetings. For the short-term, request for proposals ( RFPs ) do not look dramatically different, if they’re being submitted at all, but there is great optimism that event disruptions and “new normal” considerations will not persist into future-year events.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

HBAA is spearheading a new campaign with a supporting member action group to rectify misperceptions of government rules and build confidence to kick-start the meetings and events sector. Some 65% stated they will only run online meetings and events in the foreseeable future.

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Attendease

APRIL 16, 2024

Fundraising events are mutually beneficial for all. Not only do these events provide nonprofits with funds to power their mission, but they also offer a meaningful experience for donors, allowing you to steward stronger relationships. One of the best events to raise serious funds and engage donors is a charity auction.

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Connect Your Meetings

DECEMBER 12, 2016

A five-page memo from the Office of Management and Budget released in late November should mean a growth spurt for government meetings. Jodi Collen, immediate past president of International Live Events Association , is thrilled with the news.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

There are many tips to keep in mind to safely return to in-person meetings and events. Seasoned event industry professionals are constantly educating themselves on the matter and closely watching and adapting based on CDC recommendations. Expert Tips for a Transition Back to In-Person Meetings and Events.

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Galvanizing the salesforce is a top priority for vision technology manufacturer Zeiss, so it’s pivotal that the brand’s National Sales Meeting (NSM) not only serve as a celebration of those teams, but as a pep rally of sorts that fires them up for the new fiscal year. But the event wasn’t held in the bustling center of the city.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 31, 2021

The Meetings Industry Association has updated its contract and cancellation guidance to help mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on future bookings and ensure all parties are protected. To download the latest contract guideline visit [link].

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 14, 2020

American Express’s 10th annual Global Meetings and Events Forecast offers insights into what the industry can expect in 2021. When will live events ramp up again? Most respondents reported that they expect to hold their next in-person event in the second half of 2021. Courtesy AMEX). Probably in late 2021.

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Expo Pass

MARCH 1, 2022

Virtual meetings make it incredibly easy to meet and connect with your co-workers, clients, business partners, and anyone we work with, day-to-day. . Or that meetings aren’t always productive? We’ll give you a hint – it’s our meeting habits. Plan meetings away from deadlines.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 12, 2020

While everyone else is talking about the pros and cons of different virtual meeting streaming platforms, Imagine, Create & Celebrate (MC&A) Destination Management Company hosted a social spacing soiree July 8 for 75 guests to honor the Hawaiian island of Maui ’s first responders. Read about an in-person event in Florida in July.

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Management Events

MARCH 27, 2024

At Management Events, we recognize the importance of conveying professionalism and clarity in every virtual meeting. Adhering to a set of established guidelines can help ensure that your virtual meetings are both effective and respectful. Moreover, it’s important to be mindful of the mute button.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In a study by Freeman, in collaboration with Epistemix, it was found that settings such as this, where individuals’ paths are crossed in an unprotected nature, are riskier than business events. A B2B event in New York in August, for instance, was shown to have less than a 0.1 There is a way to have these events safely.

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Attendease

JANUARY 23, 2024

Preparing for an upcoming event is one of the busiest times in an association professional’s career. After all, there are so many tasks to take care of, from determining event ticket prices to setting up your venue. But your most crucial tasks are promoting your event and encouraging your audience to register. High relevance.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The Meetings Industry Association can confirm that business events can still take place where they follow the pre-existing COVID-Secure guidelines, following clarification on last week’s ‘Rule of 6’ announcement from Prime Minister Boris Johnson. In the four days that have passed since the Prime Minister’s announcement, 76.5%

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Master the Event

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

There’s no doubt that green meetings and events are becoming mainstream. As proof of that pretty much all of the major meetings and events associations have adopted green meeting guidelines. I’m also very happy that the meetings and events industry is taking the lead in this area.

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Event Farm

MAY 5, 2021

As pandemic conditions continue to change, do you feel that you must wade through wave after wave of information to seek answers and solutions to plan safe live events? Ryan Costello, co-founder of Event Farm, unveiled and walked us through the Playbook during the third event in our series on Pandemic Compliance and Safety at Live Events.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 9, 2020

Many meeting planners and are looking to someone else to tell them the right way to plan a successful and safe event. First responders don’t arrive at chaotic scenes and traumatic events hoping someone knows how to treat patients, secure the area and deliver the most positive outcome among a challenging circumstance.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 10, 2020

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series reporting on FICP Chats about the future of meetings. In early May, 82 percent of meetings professionals and hospitality partners within Financial & Insurance Professionals (FICP) had one or more in-person event scheduled for the remainder of 2020. Lead by Example. Seeing is Believing.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 22, 2021

Do capacity limits for indoor meetings include event staff? A handful of event professionals recently shared their knowledge on PCMA’s Catalyst forum. For in-person events with a specific capacity number, does the capacity include the company’s event staff working the event?” Here in D.C.,

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Destinations International Large Market Roundtable outlined initiatives to establish Destination Booking Agreement Guidelines to create certainty for all parties. Caesars and Meet AC announced sustainability highlights from its newly released 2021 CSR Report —in a Leed-certified Augustus Tower villa suite—and the news (and views) are great.

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GEVME

APRIL 12, 2021

With all physical events coming to a stand-still, the year 2020 was all about survival or nothing. All these years, we have been so used to having physical events, and the success it brought with it every time, hosting Virtual Events , keeping aside virtual one was out of the question. We have come on a long journey since then.

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Expo Pass

JANUARY 26, 2022

This year is looking to be jam-packed with live events, all-new event technologies, and more ways to meet and connect than ever before. We’re talking about anything from technology woes to keeping up with health and safety guidelines to maybe even not knowing which direction to go in for your event.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 20, 2020

“There are so many new, more time-consuming considerations that event planners will have to face in arranging meetings under the new guidelines, though this shouldn’t be a deterrent from organising live meetings and events.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

HBAA has relaunched its ‘Meet Safe, Meet Smart’ (#MSMS) campaign with a supporting member action group to install consumer confidence to kick-start the meetings and events sector. There are many reasons why meeting in person is absolutely essential, from productivity to creativity, to positive mental health.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 13, 2021

Over the next year or so, conference organizers will need to define their responsibilities for duty of care when it comes to their events. If a person’s actions do not meet this standard of care, then the acts are considered negligent…”. 4 Risk Management Questions for Meeting Hosts. Others may see them as an inconvenience.

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Arlo Training & Events Software

APRIL 23, 2024

It’s very simple to get started: all you need to do is paste your website URL into the ‘Web page address’ field, press the arrow, and WAVE will highlight areas of your site that don’t meet WCAG standards. The specific WCAG guidelines around this principle are: – Provide text alternatives for non-text content.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Every event professional understands that events are a form of marketing – especially in a B2B and B2C world. Like any other marketing effort, events need a comprehensive event marketing strategy to get the best results. There is no one-size-all approach in a world of diverse and versatile events.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 12, 2021

Those stressful last-minute gyrations were just one of the issues addressed in Smart Meetings ’ latest webinar, “ Vital Lessons from Covid-era Medical Meetings ,” led by Kara Ferguson, meeting planner for American Society of Anesthesiologists , and Katie Bohrer, CEO of event design company Onwardly. Katie Bohrer. “I’m

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Event Industry News

JUNE 4, 2021

Performedia is a leader in providing hybrid events services, as well as complete virtual capability – and is expert at accommodating the need to mix the two. Congratulations on figuring out the whole virtual event thing. And now that it’s time for meeting in person again – how are you fixed for getting THAT done?

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 16, 2022

If the way you handle attendees’ information doesn’t meet the EU’s GDPR standards, it may not meet some U.S. meeting professionals changed their data practices if there was any chance an EU citizen would be among their attendees. RELATED: The Meeting Professional’s Guide to GDPR. state’s standards being enacted in 2023.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Five months following the announcement of the Vienna Meeting Fund which welcomed €4 million to support national and international organisers host meetings in the city, it has become clear that the Vienna Tourist Board’s scheme is a huge success to date, with overwhelming demand. PROMOTED EVENTS AT VARIOUS VIENNA LOCATIONS.

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