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An Audience-First Approach to Meeting Design

SmartMeetings

Meeting planners face the same problems as social media managers—competing for the time and attention of potential attendees. Consider these three key trends and how they can positively impact meeting design. The Independent Traveler. Attendees are more empowered than ever to explore host cities on their own.

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IRF Highlighted the Humanity in the ‘Incentiverse’

Smart Meetings

How AI and new demographics are changing incentive travel AI can help find relevant data and perhaps even write the first draft of an incentive program outline, but the level of personalization required to really motivate employees by rewarding them with experiences requires a human touch. We make a difference,” she concluded. Another change?

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2023 in review—and a book sale!

Conferences that Work

After COVID decimated the meeting industry, I focused on the design and facilitation of online meetings. But our industry still faces ongoing challenges, such as: high travel, F&B, and production costs; staffing shortages; tight client budgets; and the rise of last-minute event registrations. Typical Participate!

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Associated Luxury Hotels International’s (ALHI) executive team welcomes Silvia Zamora

Event Industry News

As ALHI’s new Vice President of Meeting Design and Experience, Zamora will lead and accelerate the company’s vision for meetings and events in partnership with more than 250 member hotels and partners. Zamora culminated her tenure at Virtuoso as the Director of Event Operations.

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Participants Will Pay for Virtual Events If the Content Is Compelling Enough

PCMA Convene

The panel members — a corporate planner, two association planners, a meeting-design expert, and a hotel executive — discussed the viability of hybrid events. The hybrid meeting model is the best way forward, she said, at least until attendee trust in traveling and meeting in person safely has been restored.

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Introduction to my new book Event Crowdsourcing

Conferences that Work

I immigrated to the United States after falling in love with Vermont, a rural state with no opportunity to continue the big-lab science path I’d been traveling.

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Thrival Festival Integrates Pittsburgh Locale into Event

PCMA Convene

“We talked about what types of experiences we had all had in our different fields in going to meetings or events and having no connection to the place, even though it was a really cool place that we went to.”. Blackman previously managed bands, traveling all over the world, she said. “I More Meeting Trends. Ben Petchel).

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