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Bring the Latest in Food and Beverage Tech to Your Event with These Automated Offerings

MeetingPool

Some of the latest tech can also make managing food and drink service at your next event easier, allowing attendees to enjoy their preferred snack or beverage without hiring substantial amounts of extra staff to make it happen. Automation isn’t just relegated to standard business operations.

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New Realms, New Ideas: Virtual Reality Tech Is Transforming Events, Experiences

Smart Meetings

Smart Meetings talked to Scott Schoeneberger, managing partner at Bluewater Technologies Group Inc., a multimedia design and tech company, to map out best practices for putting the technology to work in the conference center, and he shared experiences developed alongside event organizers who understood the possibilities.

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Mike Dominguez: Hotel, F&B Prices Aren’t Going Down, and Other Predictions for 2023

Smart Meetings

While Dominguez sees gas prices dropping, he also sees a slow down in growth around food and beverage prices. “We No Recession for Meetings. Despite the recent layoffs and talk of a recession specifically in the tech sector, Dominguez is optimistic that the meetings industry won’t be impacted. “I

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Win at Negotiating AV Services with Hotels

Smart Meetings

Date, venue and rates are critical and typically given priority in the earliest stages of the meeting planning cycle. If the hotel remains firm on the use of its AV vendor, the planner can elect to block fewer rooms or purchase less in hotel food and beverages to compensate for higher costs.

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The best pharma event management companies in 2023

SpotMe Blog

That’s why we’ve created a list of examples of the top pharmaceutical meeting planning companies we have experience with. They also own or have access to the latest event tech, staging, and production equipment, saving you time and money. Disclaimer: The objective of this list is to share useful information.

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5 Best Webinars for Meeting Planners

SmartMeetings

In this webinar, Smart Meetings 360’s sourcing experts teach you how to narrow down destination options, get the most out of site visits and make your RFPs more desirable to hotels. Meetings & Tradeshow Automation. There are countless options for meeting planning software, apps and tools that can make your job easier.

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8 Meeting Planner Lessons I Learned from My Mother

SmartMeetings

Even though my mother is a doctor, not a meeting planner , she has endured quite a bit of stress and mayhem in her time, enabling her to impart some very valuable lessons that can be applied to meeting planning. At events, it can be difficult to resist all of the wonderful food and beverages on display.