SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Editor’s Note : As part of Back Light , a series of articles sharing insider observations, we asked Tracy Judge, founder & CEO of Soundings Connect, for strategies meeting professionals can use to remain employable in the coming years. The shift happened quickly and out of necessity, but a tech disruption in the industry was inevitable.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 8, 2022

Hotels are now less likely to negotiate rental fees and other typically negotiable line items. Pair this with a short turnaround time for healthcare meetings (back to the lack of predictability), plus the surge in live meetings put on pause from 2020 and 2021. Read More : Smart Tech: The Great Resignation.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

IHG Hotels & Resorts has teamed up with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Morehouse College (MC) and Clark Atlanta University (CAU) for a mutually beneficial collaboration through their early career recruitment program. Those students that are in computer science may be going to Google or some of the tech companies.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 25, 2019

They provide in-house AV and production at convention centers, venues, and hotels such as Kimpton, Hyatt, and Marriott, across the country. PSAV acquires Southern Audio Visual , with the acquisition came valuable partnerships with luxury hotels and strengthened their hold on key markets. Will this merger change that? Kelso & Co.

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SpotMe Blog

JUNE 13, 2023

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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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Having helped to plan and oversee thousands of meetings during my career, it has been interesting to see how the meeting and convention industry has changed and continues to evolve to this day. It is no surprise that one of the biggest changes I’ve noticed in meetings throughout the past decade is the use of technology.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 5, 2017

The Kimpton Alexis Hotel in Seattle recently rolled out Amazon Echo devices in each of its 121 guestrooms. The addition of Alexa-powered devices makes the Kimpton Alexis the first hotel in the country to offer the service in every guest room and suite. What can Alexa do for the meeting planner? Alexa, ask Alexis….

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Master the Event

APRIL 5, 2022

She has been working for a local meeting planning company and as she said “so far so good”. When convention planning, each and every planner I know spends a great deal of time and energy figuring out where to hold their convention, conference or meeting. It’s All about the Conferences and Conference Centers.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 28, 2020

Joe Colangelo, CEO and cofounder of Arlington, Virginia–based Bear Analytics , a consulting and tech firm for associations and events, said that associations realize that they must pivot faster. If they have a live meeting planned in 2020, Colangelo said, they see that they must take it down — like a house, brick by brick.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Nearly adjacent to Durham Convention Center is The Durham , a boutique hotel serving the tech companies and academics that come to meet in the university-framed Research Triangle Region. It’s also serving an alternative to the hotel room coffee experience. Door Delivery in Durham, North Carolina. But not at The Durham.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

After all, attendees spend much of their time indoors as it is, so taking a break from enclosure may be welcomed; technically it’s still work for them, but taking the meeting outside will take the pressure off and remind everyone that it’s supposed to be fun. Many hotels and resorts offer a broad range of activities from which to choose.

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Plan Your Meetings

MARCH 25, 2019

We’ve seen, just in the last few weeks, pretty much the three largest hotel groups with a thousand plus hotels in their portfolio, cut commissions by 30 percent. And on the tech side, Cvent just announced another acquisition of QuickMobile. The industry we’re in is changing in front of our eyes.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 22, 2016

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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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

It reopened as a venue and hotel in 1985, and has remained a mainstay of downtown St. The number of hotel rooms at the station has grown from 75—when the building debuted—to 567, with St. Louis Union Station Hotel now part of the Curio Collection by Hilton. Louis ever since. It features 130,000 sq. of event space.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 31, 2017

Best Airport Hotel. Best Ballroom Hotel. Best Beach Hotel. Best Boutique/Lifestyle Hotel. Best City Hotel. Best Coastal Hotel. Best Conference Center Hotel. Best Convention Center Hotel. Best Desert Hotel. Best Eco/Green Hotel. Best Family-Friendly Hotel/Resort.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 2, 2018

More : Tech Companies Flee Cubicles, Meet Outdoors. Meet in earshot of nature. The only thing left to do now is get the outdoors into your next meeting. Jennifer Grosclaude is the D irector of Sales, Marketing and Events for Hyatt Regency Lake Washington , a 347-room, 12-story waterfront hotel at Seattle’s Southport.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Company or organization: Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel. What I love about my job: I enjoy the art of the sales process and meeting execution. Job title: Tech evangelist and idea igniter. What I love about my job: I love designing tools to help people collaborate at meetings. Tracy Blair. Dalia El Gazzar.

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Planner WIre

APRIL 17, 2020

I am also lucky to be working with my peeps at i3 Events , with “Remote, Reliable, Responsible” a meeting planning consortium, with Tess on The EventTech Pull Up , and also with the team at Dahlia+ …. The days are super-busy and they are full of actual work. BUT… It is coming. You see and hear it in dribs and drabs.

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Planner WIre

APRIL 17, 2020

I am also lucky to be working with my peeps at i3 Events , with “ Remote, Reliable, Responsible ” a meeting planning consortium, with Tess on The EventTech Pull Up , and also with the team at Dahlia+ …. The days are super-busy and they are full of actual work. BUT… It is coming. You see and hear it in dribs and drabs.

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Planner WIre

APRIL 17, 2020

I am also lucky to be working with my peeps at i3 Events , with “ Remote, Reliable, Responsible ” a meeting planning consortium, with Tess on The EventTech Pull Up , and also with the team at Dahlia+ …. The days are super-busy and they are full of actual work. BUT… It is coming. You see and hear it in dribs and drabs.

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Planner WIre

APRIL 17, 2020

I am also lucky to be working with my peeps at i3 Events , with “ Remote, Reliable, Responsible ” a meeting planning consortium, with Tess on The EventTech Pull Up , and also with the team at Dahlia+ …. The days are super-busy and they are full of actual work. BUT… It is coming. You see and hear it in dribs and drabs.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 22, 2017

The tech giant’s new headquarters is located in Cupertino, just minutes away from San Jose. My big hope is that the cost of hotels, restaurants and all of the sundry expenses that developers found overwhelming in San Francisco will decline in San Jose,” he wrote. These have been the catalysts to many high-rise developments.”.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Raddisson Red–the newest brand within the Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group umbrella– launched in Brussles in April and is opening its first hotel in the U.S. Guests glided through a vibrant red hotel lobby and into meeting spaces and guest rooms. Radisson Red. in November in Minneapolis.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 3, 2019

Two-thirds of the funding for the project came from a partnership with the hotel community, and representatives were onsite Thursday to see the final project. “I Later, Mayor Ed Lee took up the cause of expanding and modernizing so the city could continue to compete for large conferences and serve the needs of a growing tech community.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 10, 2018

Five days later, The Golden Globe Awards followed in Beverly Hills, California, and the ceremonies will keep on coming, leaving event planners and hotels mighty busy straight out of the gate. Staging an awards gala requires substantial planning, and in many ways it is similar to planning a meeting or an event.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Company or organization: Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel. What I love about my job: I enjoy the art of the sales process and meeting execution. Job title: Tech evangelist and idea igniter. What I love about my job: I love designing tools to help people collaborate at meetings. Tracy Blair. Dalia El Gazzar.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2023

After a blow to international travel due to Covid, a wave of tech layoffs and some negative publicity, the city is leaning into its strengths as a diverse, business savvy and beautiful destination to reemerge stronger. of contiguous space and sits within walking distance to more than 19,000 hotel rooms.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

The nation’s most populous city contains myriad meeting venues , from large hotel banquet halls to meeting rooms atop skyscrapers. The expansive New York City public transportation system connects them all, in addition to virtually any destination for post-meeting plans. Washington, DC.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 16, 2017

This information will provide meeting and event organizers with valuable information about how and where attendees spend their time at meetings, as well as attendee patterns and behaviors, making it easier to implement improvements and changes. Wynn Las Vegas is adding Amazon’s Alexa to all hotel rooms in 2017.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Innovation on the floor took the form of tours enabling planners to gain the advice of experts on how to use how tech , innovation and trends to create compelling experiences. They demonstrated how tech, innovation and trends can be implemented into general sessions, as well as examining the future of meeting experiences.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

This might mean that you have to bring in your own system aside from what the hotel can provide to ensure seamless use. If you’re using a hotel or convention center’s network, make sure to test each room as you do a walk-through. Thou Shalt Make Sure the Main Areas are Wi-Fi Friendly.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

By incorporating a hospitality perspective, Concierge.com provides a line of communication to relevant hotels throughout the planning process. Develop relationships with the staff at specific hotels during each event. This saves a lot of time, perhaps the most valuable thing to a planner.

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Corbin Ball

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

18 LINKS FOR MEETINGS, BUSINESS AND FUN. Or helpful business or meeting planning links? 6 Meeting Industry-Related Sites: ebook from Julius Solaris: The Future of Event Marketing. Kapow: very interesting new "meeting experience" booking engine. Microsoft adds live event tool - Glisser - to PowerPoint. TESTIMONIALS.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 30, 2017

As budgets continue to grow—one third of planners now have a budget of $3000-$4000 per person—and more luxury hotels and properties with ample meeting space are coming online, it seems this segment of the industry is going gangbusters. Gift card programs are booming. Annually, U.S. Let your program evolve organically.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 26, 2017

As budgets continue to grow—one third of planners now have a budget of $3000-$4000 per person—and more luxury hotels and properties with ample meeting space are coming online, it seems this segment of the industry is going gangbusters. Gift card programs are booming. Annually, U.S. Let your program evolve organically.

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Stova

MARCH 16, 2023

A traditional board meeting, on the other hand, may require a more formal setting. Going over the details like the number of attendees and available dates are basic steps in meeting planning. If you must make cuts, skimp on things that don’t affect the meeting mission or goals. Be prepared so you know what to expect.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 29, 2017

I’m using my strongest skills in meeting and event planning, so I kind of took a winding route, but it’s a really, really great fit for me. Claire Abrams My whole career’s been in association meeting planning for dental, medical, or commercial associations.

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