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Ray Ezelle Lays Out Vision for Virginia’s Blue Ridge

Connect Your Meetings

Ray Ezelle, vice president of sales and services at Visit Virginia’s Blue Ridge, has seen it all from all angles of the events industry. He spent nearly two decades as a hotelier before bringing that perspective to Connect (then Collinson Media & Events). Where do you see meetings coming from?

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A Higher Meetings Education: Future-Proof Your Career

SmartMeetings

Today’s intense focus on key performance indicators, event-tech stacks and designing brilliant experiences has made the need for advanced education—from a university, association or DIY commitment—almost a requisite for getting hired…and for thriving. Certified Meetings Experts. Pop Quiz for MPI Innovator Jessie States. Jessie States.

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Booking Meeting Venues Site Unseen

PCMA Convene

The virtual site tour for Excel London features a series of videos for different venues within the complex. After a year spent moving in-person events to digital platforms and monitoring the shifts in the feasibility of meeting in person, the timelines for holding safe in-person meetings in the future are slowly coming into focus.

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Unclear and Present Danger

PCMA Convene

For James Schultze, CMP, the realities of security at meetings and events in the post-9/11 era are encapsulated by a client he worked with on two events in the aftermath of the attacks. Marine Corps officer who has nearly 20 years of experience planning business events. “I You don’t make a good target for terrorists.

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Unclear and Present Danger

PCMA Convene

For James Schultze, CMP, the realities of security at meetings and events in the post-9/11 era are encapsulated by a client he worked with on two events in the aftermath of the attacks. Marine Corps officer who has nearly 20 years of experience planning business events. “I You don’t make a good target for terrorists.