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Is Your Meeting Storm Ready?

Smart Meetings

By Wednesday afternoon, more than 189,000 across New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were without power. Read More : How Meeting Planners Can Pre-plan for Event Crisis Management The storm is expected to make its way north into Canada with wind gusts of up to 95 mph. Are there any areas of the event venue prone to flooding?

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Why have a keynote speaker at your event? The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference.

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The Brief: AI Flavor Art and a Chicken WcNuggets

Event Marketer

PHILLY FLOWER SHOW SAYS SPONSORSHIP IS IN BLOOM The195-year-old PHS Philadelphia Flower Show is a floral spectacle that lures a range of sponsors to the Pennsylvania Convention Center every March for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s chief fundraiser. ” And the airport traffic.

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Top 98 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

Why have a keynote speaker at your event? The sole idea of organizing any business event or a conference is to engage with your audience and build a strong brand by providing value by the means of sharing knowledge, insights or present compelling stories. This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference.

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2 Ideas Worth Stealing from Day 1 of PCMA Convening Leaders

Smart Meetings

PCMA has become known for lining up top speakers—this year, Convening Leaders added author Seth Godin and actor Geena Davis to the mix—and sessions that speak to the problems that keep planners up at night—“turning sponsors into partners” and “managing risk in a complex world” come to mind. Play to Your Strengths.

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CMP Spotlight: Get to Know Teri Jakob, CMP

Smart Meetings

As an adult, she stumbled into non-profit work, which later sparked her passion for event planning. She is now associate director of special events at UPMC Pinnacle Foundation. When it comes to busy event days, she leans on her people. “We Staying in touch with my event friends, both onsite and off, keeps me going.

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Want Audiences to Interact? Unleash a Pit Bull

PCMA Convene

27-28, it will be showcasing its own solution to a common event-design problem: getting the audience to participate. The new event format involves taking the responsibility of audience engagement and interaction away from the speaker. FRESH organizers are calling their new interactive speaker session format the “Pitbull Session.”

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