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Get Ready for the Future of Events at ELI’s Business, Design & Strategy Summit

Event Leadership Institute

Design: After being forced to adopt virtual events—and seeing rapid innovation in event tech—many event organizers plan to retain virtual options even after returning to in-person events. Another common challenge is creating sponsorship models that work in a virtual or hybrid environment.

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Not So Close! New Distancing Tool Eases Transition to F2F Meetings

Event Industry News

A new event-tech tool could smooth the return to meeting by making it easy to plan room layouts that take each region’s safety rules and recommendations into account. Allseated was one of the first companies to digitize venues to make sourcing and site selection more collaborative and efficient. Room to Experiment.

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CVBs and DMOs: A Hidden Resource for Meeting and Event Professionals

Eventsforce

Turn to the local convention and visitors bureau (CVB) and destination marketing organisation (DMO) to hit an event planning jackpot. Offering attendance marketing tools on the DMO and CVB website, like toolkits for venue searching and booking, to make sure planners have resources to help their event thrive.

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Ray Ezelle Lays Out Vision for Virginia’s Blue Ridge

Connect Your Meetings

As vice president of sales, he helped customize solutions for different market segments. Most recently, he was a third-party operator for a housing and site selection company. One exciting thing is the fact we have 21 institutions of higher learning within a 60-mile radius, including Virginia Tech.

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Tarsus Connect announces acquisition of BizBash

Event Industry News

Tarsus Connect has today announced the purchase of BizBash, the iconic trade media company for event and meeting planners, further expanding Connect’s market leading position. In cities where Connect and BizBash events overlap, they will collocate and combine efforts—including some pop-up events in markets new to BizBash.

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Breaking Down Convene’s Meetings Market Survey: What It Means for Venues

All Seated

. To get to the heart of how the needs of planners and organizers are changing, we dug into PCMA Convene’s recently released 28 th Annual Meetings Market Survey. Takeaway #2: Digital Venue Marketing Tools Play a Role. A robust venue marketing toolkit that appeals to a diverse set of needs. The answer?

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State of In-Person Events: Who’s Booking What, Where & When?

Smart Meetings

Who’s Booking : Hyatt is seeing a huge increase in leads from third-party RFP platforms like Cvent, and site selection companies like HelmsBriscoe. People are “cautiously optimistic” about the small meetings market for Q4 of this year. As of May 25, their Q2 lead volume has already surpassed Q1 numbers.