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Event Tech Awards 2021: Meet the Judges – Heidi Legein

Event Industry News

As Chief Executive Guru at The MICE Guru, I have in the past year taken a deep dive into event tech; taken virtual certification, learned, tested, demoed, tried, implemented event tech all around, attended all major virtual events and discussed findings within our communities. Best (and worst?)

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Tech Meets the Future

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From around the world, announcements of dates and places for bringing tech minds together F2F have started to trickle in. We are a data company, but studies show they listen to their gut, and regardless of what the numbers say, they will go if they want to go.”. The post Tech Meets the Future appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Experts Debate Event Industry’s Growing ‘Technology Skills’ Gap

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Is the events industry facing a technology skills gap? A new research study has found that 47% of event planners say they have limited skills to make confident, informed decisions around their event tech investments, despite holding responsibility in the majority of organisations. It seems so.

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The Most Influential Event Tech Trends for 2019 & Beyond- Part 1

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In a recent study conducted by PwC, 72% of business leaders have termed AI as a “business advantage”. The global event management software market was valued at $6.4 In less than ten years, the event tech market will nearly double. Artificial Intelligence at Events. AI is the event tech of the moment.

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CMP Spotlight: Get to Know Robert Sanchez, CMP

Smart Meetings

But this profession isn’t too far off; he tells Smart Meetings that “the discipline, preparation and vision” present in the fighter pilots of Top Gun are “all essential when leading a team and planning missions – I mean, events!” In 2006, he earned his CMP certification from EIC. It was such a great bonding experience,” he says. “I

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Meeting Professional Continuing Education: CMP Spotlights

Smart Meetings

A meeting planner earns their certification through a course of study, an exam and a comprehensive professional evaluation. Sanchez currently works as the president and CEO of the Colleyville Chamber of Commerce and is the co-founder of S3 Global Events. In 2006, he earned his CMP certification from EIC.

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What Hybrid Platform Consolidation Means for Meeting Profs

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Fast-growing hybrid-software company Cadmium acquired Baltimore-based EventRebel in July, to the delight of Mary Pat Hanlin, MPS, DES, who is CEO of International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. billion valuation) unveiled a strategic partnership with Encore to create what is described as a global event-production company.