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Smart Moves in California, Oregon and More

Smart Meetings

The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Portland, in Oregon appointed Lapsley director of sales and marketing. Most recently, she was director of sales and marketing at The Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua, in Hawaii. She has been an international leader in events for over a decade and has become an internationally sought-after speaker.

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Caesars Launches Wellness Menu Ahead of IMEX

Smart Meetings

Healthy Meeting Resources Help Planners Start Meaningful Discussions Looking for an easy way to keep everyone healthy when putting together an agenda? A History of Meeting Well The current focus on healthy meeting spaces is not the first time brands have gone beyond accommodating “dates and rates” to differentiate their spaces.

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CalSAE Seasonal Spectacular Brought the Festive

Smart Meetings

The holiday spirit took over Sacramento’s renovated SAFE Credit Union Convention Center last week as 400 association meeting professionals came together during the return of CalSAE ’s Seasonal Spectacular event Dec. It threw lubrication in the wheels of change and now labor markets have shifted permanently,” he said. Enterprises Inc.

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MPI WEC Inspired Action in San Francisco

Smart Meetings

The 1,700 attendees checking in live at Meeting Professionals International’s World Education Conference ( WEC ) at Moscone Center in San Francisco this week were treated to a performance in three acts designed to provide “perspective,” “approach” and “action,” according to Paul Van Deventer, MPI president and CEO.

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Fundamental Event Planning Tips: These Never Go Out of Style

Guidebook

Here at Guidebook, we share a lot of strategies for planners from tech tools to try, sponsor package ideas , and specific event marketing timelines. Use your pre-event survey to get prospective attendees to vote on topics, speakers, workshops and more. Check in with sponsors and speakers. Mark Knowles. Co-Chair, Bend WebCAM.

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How the Future of Storytelling Can Change the Way We Meet

PCMA Convene

FoST participants travel to the meeting by private ferry. So we have some corporate-marketing-type people, we have some advertising-/branding-type people, but we have content people, journalists, filmmakers, authors, musicians—all of these traditional types of storytelling. THE SPEAKERS . ‘A Photo by Eliza Hoyland.

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At-Home Perk: How the Specialty Coffee Association Made Its Virtual Event a Sensory Experience

PCMA Convene

Our event has always had many multi-sensory components,” said Alex Bernson, SCA’s event marketing director. So when Re:co, originally scheduled for April 21-23 in Portland, Oregon, had to be canceled due to COVID-19, the prospect of recreating the event online was daunting. The in-person aspect,” Bernson said, “is super important.”.