MeetingsNet

JUNE 6, 2022

A meeting designer used a carbon-dioxide meter in all the spaces he moved through while attending a recent conference. In late May, Adrian Segar attended a meeting-industry leadership summit in San Juan, Puerto Rico. First, Segar noted the CO2 concentrations his portable meter measured during his air travel.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

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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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The multi-hub format, with multiple connected venues like this meeting with 18 hubs in Spain, combines the benefits of both. As efforts to contain the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus by restricting travel ripple across the globe, a growing number of event organizers are opting to move meetings online as an alternative to canceling them.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 4, 2019

” Using peer to peer learning techniques, innovative technology, and creative meeting design, The EVENT ‘s objectives are to: encourage participants to collaborate with industry peers; cultivate new ideas; and elevate the entire meeting industry. I’m happy to offer a rare Participate!

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Conferences that Work

MAY 29, 2023

Meeting designers and facilitators like me get plenty of practice at this balancing act.) Black holes Thankfully, unless faster-than-light travel becomes possible, you’ll never have to interact with a physical black hole. If you do, there’s more learning needed.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 22, 2020

Virtual meetings require careful design to keep attendees engaged and deliver value for the hosts. But how do you translate the energy and insights from a face-to-face meeting through a computer screen? However, it is important to remember that content is just one part of the meeting paradigm. Work Around Their Schedule.

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Event Industry News

JULY 27, 2021

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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Event Leadership Institute

APRIL 30, 2021

Other sessions will address positioning your company for post-COVID growth and how the work-from-home culture and decrease in business travel will affect in-person meetings. Juliette Kayyem, former assistant secretary of Homeland Security and CNN national security analyst will share tips for moving ahead.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 16, 2018

When FRESH18 — which bills itself as the first annual conference focused exclusively on meeting design — gets underway Feb. 27-28, it will be showcasing its own solution to a common event-design problem: getting the audience to participate. Indeed, I hope others will use it in their meetings and speaker sessions.”.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 25, 2019

“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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PCMA Convene

JULY 22, 2020

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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Event Industry News

JUNE 6, 2019

Lastly, the in-person audience must not be neglected, they are the VIPs who travelled to participate in the event, so giving them a second-rate experience is to be avoided at all costs. After the session, I hope participants will be able to make an educated decision on if and how they can use hybrid meetings themselves.

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Gallus Events

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It helped covering the same topic, online events, in both London and Coimbra but preparing, traveling and delivering sessions is always a challenge. IBTM session was all about Meeting Design and the venue is about 5 miles from my office, so attending that one was much easier! Details of my session at IBTM World.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 26, 2019

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. Understanding people better became important to me.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 19, 2019

Related: The Ground Shifts Yet Again for Medical Meetings. Meeting Design and Regulations. While content is the most important aspect of any meeting, how it is delivered is key in attracting HCPs to your event. Cote discusses the pros and cons of different kinds of meetings, according to HCPs.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 31, 2017

A similar disconnect exists in the meetings industry, according to a new Wellness in Meetings and Incentive Travel Study from the Incentive Research Foundation (IRF). The study measures the prevalence of wellness initiatives in incentive travel and meeting programs.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Tahira Endean tweets about the intersection of experiential, immersive meeting design and technology. If you’re looking for the latest travel news to hit the Twittersphere, look no further than Skift News Editor Dennis Schaal’s Twitter account. Ciara Feely is a hotel meeting and event space sales expert. TahiraCreates.

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Plan Your Meetings

JANUARY 15, 2018

The participants are creating their own understanding of the data flow and interdependencies of the new system through color-coordinated lighted balls that resemble the system’s main areas and strings as the roads on which the data travels. begins when you succeed in getting all of the five elements into your meeting design.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Discussing the hot topic of hybrid events, Linda McNairy, VP Americas, American Express Meetings & Events and Ariana Reed, Senior Manager, Business Strategy, American Express Global Business Travel highlighted key considerations in the planning process to create an engaging hybrid event experience.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

Oklahoma City is using influencer marketing in the form of a travel-writing team who will highlight the city’s leisure attractions — and is also bolstering its meetings portfolio with a new convention center. Why choose a leisure-travel writer instead of a traditional meeting planner? It just doesn’t have one at all.

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Meeting Tomorrow

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

We are already seeing some very compelling use cases in the incentive travel space, where VR is being used to both make events feel more innovative and to reduce costs by shifting some experiences from live to virtual. . Also, if you need more convincing that VR is going to rock the industry, check out Facebook Spaces.

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Converve

MAY 9, 2017

For some time, more and more event managers have been concerning themselves with the topic of meeting design. There is still however no clear description of what meeting design actually means. This solution obviously leads to savings on travel and accommodation costs.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 4, 2019

Travel Portland). What she hadn’t expected, she told Convene , was that so many of the people looking for that kind of connection to the city and its surroundings would be business travelers. One way to genuinely experience this place is by connecting travelers with the human beings behind the products,” she said.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 27, 2020

Pre-pandemic, I traveled fairly frequently for my work as a consultant on meeting design and facilitator of meetings, and would try to run a couple of miles every day, wherever I was. I live in rural Vermont on a moderately hilly dirt road that’s quiet enough for me to run a couple of miles daily.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 6, 2016

This was our registration desk at a travel show. Meeting Design allows us to think very differently about the content we have at our event. The audience for your event is not just the one in the room! These little things are statement pieces I suppose. They say, we are different. How BORING is your event?

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Converve

MAY 9, 2017

For some time, more and more event managers have been concerning themselves with the topic of meeting design. There is still however no clear description of what meeting design actually means. This solution obviously leads to savings on travel and accommodation costs. (updated 18 July 2018).

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Endless Events

JANUARY 12, 2018

Brand New Destinations That Will Attract Avid Travelers in 2018. Most travelers now crave the uncharted and are willing to venture there just for the unique experience. Other unexpected locations mentioned in the list are Malta and Ethiopia, which will definitely attract those who want to travel back in time. Click To Tweet.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 24, 2019

It will be led by consultant Donna Kastner, an entrepreneur and expert on meetings design, and Jamie Murdock, vice president of sales at Experient, who have both facilitated successful hackathons at the Education Conference over the previous two years. The duo will be back at this year’s Educon. Jacob Slaton).

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Hubilo Blog

MARCH 7, 2020

She’s a past president of Meeting Professionals International, Chicago and has been named as one of the 40 under 40 in the meetings industry by Connect magazine in 2015. Kate Patay : Kate brings 20+ years of rich experience in business travel, tourism and event marketing strategy. Robyn Davis : Master of trade shows.

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All Seated

MAY 10, 2019

After another strong year in 2018 for meetings and events, many predictions show the upward trends continuing this year: The Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) 2019 Meetings & Trends Report predicts a robust 5 to 10 percent growth in demand. in GDP in 2019.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 25, 2019

Travel Portland). What she hadn’t expected, she told Convene , was that so many of the people looking for that kind of connection to the city and its surroundings would be business travelers. One way to genuinely experience this place is by connecting travelers with the human beings behind the products,” she said.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2019

Where past generations of meeting-goers might have been content as spectators, attendees today are looking for more active participation and experiential learning — starting with the fact that much of what they used to travel for is now available digitally.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 6, 2016

This was our registration desk at a travel show. Meeting Design allows us to think very differently about the content we have at our event. The audience for your event is not just the one in the room! These little things are statement pieces I suppose. They say, we are different. How BORING is your event?

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2017

Where past generations of meeting-goers might have been content as spectators, attendees today are looking for more active participation and experiential learning — starting with the fact that much of what they used to travel for is now available digitally.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 19, 2021

If you want maximum learning, interaction, and connection at a meeting, small meetings are better than large meetings. Hub and spoke topology allows tremendous design flexibility for a meeting. This allows more people to attend the hub and spoke meeting, and makes it easier for them to do so. Flexibility.

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Slido

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Skift Skift is a media company that features news for the global travel industry. Its website has a whole section dedicated to the meetings and events industry and it also sends out a weekly newsletter called Meetings Innovation Report, which features disruptive strategies and updates on the future of meetings, conventions and other events.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 18, 2022

“Some participants had traveled thousands of miles to edACCESS 2010, and now here we were, sitting in a theater auditorium, silently working at our computers.” Unfortunately, the association practitioners simply couldn’t take off more than a day to travel to and attend the event. The online portion felt eerie….

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