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EventBooking shortlisted for the Event Technology Awards 2020

Event Industry News

EventBooking was founded 1999 by John Platillero, who saw the need for a way for venues to book and manage events online. His vision was a simple but powerful one—to create a tool for venue professionals to access, manage, and share event information from anywhere in real time. Not a novel concept today, but it was for the late 1990s.

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Havana Club set to empower the next generation of ‘party makers’

Event Industry News

Havana Club is launching a new financial grant and mentoring programme to support emerging party makers and empower the next generation of event coordinators, festival organisers and late-night venue owners shaping the global party scene. Havana Club Party Makers judging panel.

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5 Midsize Cities Using Their Local Knowledge Economies to Bring In Meetings

PCMA Convene

IPAC rotates among continents, and when Hutton volunteered to organize the next North American event, he was stymied as to what destination might rival recent hosts such as Kyoto, Japan, and Shanghai, China. “I Hutton said. “No, No, there wasn’t.”. It doesn’t stop with marine technology and research, either.

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Denzil Rankine: ‘We Have an Extraordinary Journey in This Industry’

PCMA Convene

1 skillset is no longer your food and beverage and your contracting of the venue and so on. We have all of these big, purpose-built venues, yet smaller events will be the trend going forward. With so much of their space going unused, how do you see event venues reimagining themselves? We see a lot of venues adding studios.

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Top 99 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

As such, he is responsible for UFI activities and events globally, as well as the operation of its offices and presences in Paris, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Dubai, and Bogota. Send her request to speak on wealth management & financial literacy here Theodora Lau Who is she and what is she known for? Where to find him? Where to find him?

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Top 98 keynote speakers every event planner must know about

Hubilo Blog

As such, he is responsible for UFI activities and events globally, as well as the operation of its offices and presences in Paris, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Dubai, and Bogota. Send her request to speak on wealth management & financial literacy here Theodora Lau Who is she and what is she known for? Where to find him? Where to find him?

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Event Technology Awards this Thursday at 7:00pm (GMT)

Event Industry News

With Allseated Vision, venues can sell remotely, giving clients the ability to visualize events within an event space from anywhere in the world. EventBooking was founded 1999 by John Platillero, who saw the need for a way for venues to book and manage events online. EventBooking shortlisted for the Event Technology Awards 2020.