Smart Meetings

JANUARY 11, 2024

Total registration was 66% higher than the 3,300 who signed up to attend PCMA Convening Leaders in Columbus, Ohio , last year where Viola Davis was scheduled to speak (but dropped out days before to attend an awards show). Another Kind of Intelligence The overarching topic, however, was the impact of Generative AI on events.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Even as companies and organizations continue to debate whether to green light the return to in-person business travel, growing evidence suggests that professionally planned events “can and are being safely held.” Tourism Economics highlighted the value of domestic business travel to the U.S. jobs in 2019. Travel Association.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2017

At the beginning of 2017, trade-show organizers were forced to confront an unfriendly adage: All good things must come to an end. percent annual growth rate in 2016 was relatively sluggish, CEIR estimates that the trade-show industry will grow by 2.4 While the 1.1-percent per-cent this year. PROCEED WITH CAUTION.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 9, 2020

Holler, who heralds from the world of improv acting, speaks at events around the country about how to shift your mindset to manage fear—or at least that’s what she did until mid-March, when the coronavirus pandemic effectively shut down the travel and meeting circuit. That trade show you have done the same way for the last 15 years?

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 20, 2023

At the recent Convening Leaders 2023 conference, the association for convention and trade-show management delivered advice from experts on pushing beyond one’s comfort zone to try new approaches. As a result, you must operate and collaborate differently to succeed in the new environment.

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Maritz Global Events

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Do you need to find new sources of income for your events? 31% bought an ad that went on the event or organization’s website. Give attendees a deal on your next event. One of the biggest obstacles in selling an event into the future is the possibility the attendee can’t make it. Add a trade show.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 21, 2021

Remember conferences and events before COVID-19, mask wearing and social distancing? You would fly into the city and arrive at the event just in time for the opening reception. See also : Are You Responsible for Mask Policing at Events? a concert, movie, trade show). Let’s take a stroll down memory lane, shall we?

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Event Leadership Institute

DECEMBER 31, 2017

One of the main reasons event professionals learn with us is to hone the skills needed to advance their event planning careers, and many of them ask us about job openings. Meeting & Event Job Openings | January 2018. Design & Event Coordinator | AlliedPRA | Chandler, AZ. Event Manager | streamlinevents, inc.

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Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 6, 2017

However, since the Nice Attack, there have been similar incidents at Ohio State University as well as in Berlin, Jerusalem, the United Kingdom (Westminster) and Stockholm. What are the implications for event industry professionals? Do you need armed security at your event? Getting a grip on event firearms policies.

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Event Leadership Institute

JANUARY 31, 2018

One of the main reasons event professionals learn with us is to hone the skills needed to advance their event planning careers, and many of them ask us about job openings. Meeting & Event Job Openings | February 2018. Events Coordinator II – Operations Logistics | Isagenix | Gilbert, AZ. Learn More.

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Event Leadership Institute

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

One of the main reasons event professionals learn with us is to hone the skills needed to advance their event planning careers, and many of them ask us about job openings. Fundraising Event Management. Technical Meeting & Event Production. Event & Meeting Management Fundamentals. Upcoming Courses.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

And not just when it came to learning about the communities and subcultures of people who attend events like Bronycon, Military History Fest, and the World Taxidermy Championships. . It seems like you wanted to explore personal passions or interests or hobbies, as opposed to going to a professional conference or a giant commercial trade show.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Company or organization: Experience Columbus in Ohio. each month, along with the numerous trade shows Experience Columbus attends throughout the year. I planned and executed two events for the festival. Job title: Senior event manager. Job title: Director of international events. Kalee Barnhardt.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Company or organization: Experience Columbus in Ohio. each month, along with the numerous trade shows Experience Columbus attends throughout the year. I planned and executed two events for the festival. Job title: Senior event manager. Job title: Director of international events. Kalee Barnhardt.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

(Curt Wagner/Convene) As face-to-face meetings have returned, seven out of 10 event professionals we surveyed late last year for our Recovery Dashboard said they were planning in-person events only in 2023. Prescott, CMP, DES, head of North American Event Operations for Markets Group; and William F.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

In participating in the nominating process for our Best in Show awards program this year, DeBolt, director of meetings and events for PLM World, singled out Roberta Tisdul, CMP, senior convention services manager for Visit Indy, in our Convention Services/CVB category. She was on call and available to assist the day of the event.

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Bizzabo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Looking for an event or experiential marketing agency? We've compiled the most comprehensive list of US event agencies on the internet for 2019. According to the Event Marketing 2019 Report , events are the single-most effective marketing channel. Some of them are focused soley on events, others are full-service agencies.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 6, 2020

The editors of Convene looked back over 2019, asking this question: What’s one meeting and event trend on my radar in 2020? So I’ll be following AI this year, and how, as we become more familiar with its abilities and shortcomings, that will in turn shape how we choose to use it in the business events industry. Why I Have My Eye on AI.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The editors of Convene looked back over 2019, asking this question: What’s one meeting and event trend on my radar in 2020? So I’ll be following AI this year, and how, as we become more familiar with its abilities and shortcomings, that will in turn shape how we choose to use it in the business events industry. Why I Have My Eye on AI.

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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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MeetingsNet

JUNE 21, 2019

Believe it or not, the progress made between the United States and China at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 28-29 will likely have ramifications for the meeting, incentive, and trade show industry. We would never take on an event without a purchase order, and that order would have to have a tariff allocation line.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 12, 2016

. “It’s estimated that there are about 50,000 people coming in officially related to the convention,” said David Gilbert, president of the non-partisan 2016 Cleveland Host Committee, an Ohio nonprofit corporation founded to manage the process of bringing the RNC to town.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2017

City officials had another question on their minds: What was the event really worth to their bottom line? When a convention, trade show, or conference is analyzed in one destination, the value must be comparable with another destination.”. it to analyze more than 100,000 events. it to analyze more than 100,000 events.

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