MeetingsNet

APRIL 20, 2023

The integration of Bizly into Cvent’s system allows for more of an organization’s small-meeting data to land in one database, improving management’s visibility into overall meeting spend. The integration allows for use of Cvent’s meeting-request form by planners of small meetings who use the Bizly platform.

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The Castle Group

AUGUST 23, 2022

As a result, meeting planners are experiencing short-staffed partners and/or less experienced personnel servicing their meetings. This doesn’t mean you cannot deliver a quality experience to your audience, but labor challenges should be addressed realistically and factored into your planning process. So how can you prepare?

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 20, 2023

Following the events of George Floyd’s tragic death in 2020, meetings industry organizations have been actively seeking to engage in the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) discussion. If a client has strong feelings about DEI, meetings planners should too. “If The onus is somewhat on my shoulders to start learning more.”

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Master the Event

DECEMBER 12, 2023

We all know when you find a speaker that is the right fit for your event or meeting makes for some really good news. That just right speaker can help to set the mood and tone for any event or meeting. Hiring a speaker is an important step when event and meeting planning.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Currently vice president, corporate at MCI USA, her meetings and incentives career goes back decades. She’ll bring that experience to Catersource + The Special Event with her session on the blending of the meeting-planning and event-marketing roles. Agnes “AC” Canonica, CMP, CMM, HMCC, has a long view of the events industry.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 15, 2023

Smart Woman Summit kicks off the next year for Smart Women in Meetings with empowerment and thoughtful conversations When leaders come together to tackle the biggest challenges in the hospitality meetings industry. One take-away for supervisors was the importance of “meeting employees where they’re at.” something magic happens.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Even as in-person meetings continue to reemerge with a vengeance, virtual meetings have taken a primary position in the event professional toolbox. When a speaker can hear the basic human gesture of clapping at the push of a button, it is beautiful to see,” he said. The Back-up Plan. Plus, you can measure it.”.

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Attendease

JUNE 20, 2023

From coming up with a theme, to securing standout keynote speakers and handling the budget and more… you’re practically a superhero! So, even if you’re still pinning down sessions and confirming speakers, you are set up to capture attendee interest and begin your pre-event marketing efforts. The best part?

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Why have a keynote speaker at your event? This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference. Often event planners find it difficult to find an easy reference list of keynote speakers or guest speakers for various industry segments. Keynote speakers in Marketing and Sales. Seth Godin Who is he?

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Why have a keynote speaker at your event? This where you need keynote speakers at your event or conference. Often event planners find it difficult to find an easy reference list of keynote speakers or guest speakers for various industry segments. Keynote speakers in Marketing and Sales. Seth Godin Who is he?

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Master the Event

JANUARY 9, 2024

Breaking into the meeting planning business takes a mishmash of education, experience and passion. It seems almost everyone I meet lately appears to have an interest in meeting planning and a meeting planner career. Immerse yourself in all things meeting planning.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 2, 2022

Planning an event in multiple languages can be a challenge for meeting planners. Innovative virtual language interpretation software is making attendee accessibility a reality for everyone involved in creating inclusive meetings. The program makes its virtual services impartial to any particular meeting platform.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

If there is a silver lining to the pandemic for the meetings industry, it’s this: The pandemic accelerated the evolutions of meetings. Like the typewriter, print publications and fax machines, the fully in-person meeting would have eventually become extinct. People know how to use them, and they make great meeting programs.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 24, 2023

Zillow Executive Producer of Live Content and Smart Women in Meetings Award winner Karen Hartline (@khartline) is one of those. You could post that you were going to be in downtown Los Angeles and would anyone want to meet up? When asked the best way for meeting professionals to use this new tool, she saw it as an investment.

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Maritz Global Events

MAY 23, 2019

Booking keynote speakers is a high-impact event decision that’s loaded with risk. 9 Keynote Speakers You Want at Your Event. Lisa Bodell Speaker Reel. A Swedish economist, writer and speaker, Kjell provides a unique and entertaining look at global trends and their impact on us, personally and professionally. Lisa Bodell.

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Maritz Global Events

MARCH 10, 2020

You and your team have been trying to book a big-name, big draw keynote speaker for years. Dos and Don’ts When a Big-Name Keynote Speaker Cancels. Can the speaker be available for live streaming? Time is of the essence – so agree to meet back in one hour with updates. But at the last minute, they’re out.

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Connect Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Your speakers will love LikeSo , an app that acts as a personal speech coach. The post 5 New Apps to Make Meeting Planning Tasks Easier appeared first on Connect Association. Building communities is priority No. 1 for Skoop , a communal app allowing event attendees to stay connected with each other year-round.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2022

The action-oriented panels on ripped-from-the-headlines topics were in line with opening keynote speaker Chip Conley’s advice to ride the waves of trends and plant seeds during uncertain times. The post Destinations Skill-up to Support Meetings Industry Advances appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 17, 2020

Henry, president of NCBMP, speak during a session of NCBMP’s Be Inspired Speaker Series: A Night at the Museum. COVID-19 has wreaked economic havoc on many industries, particularly the meetings, hospitality, travel, and tourism sectors, where many employees have been furloughed or laid off. Henry and vice president Nicholas I.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

A keynote speaker that connects with the audience can be the difference between an event that is memorialized in tweets and snaps for years to come and one that is forgotten before the pen in the swag bag runs out of ink. By locating the right keynote speaker , you’re ensuring an entertaining and informative event. Homework Essential.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 7, 2017

While there’s no foolproof way to know, here are ten signs that the speaker you’re thinking of retaining will be just fine: 1. A professional speaker recognizes the importance of accessibility and thus offers you a direct phone line. Going further, many speakers also offer their home number. Is highly accessible.

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Event Leadership Institute

JANUARY 6, 2020

It’s no secret that attendees who are engaged at meetings retain information more effectively than those who aren’t. In addition, engaged attendees are much more likely to walk away from a meeting or event feeling like they gained something of value. Four Creative Ways to Create Engaging Meetings. READ TIME: 2 minutes.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 7, 2017

Not every meeting has to revolve around words of wisdom delivered from a keynote speaker behind a podium at the front of a room. Meetings have included keynote speakers for the last 20 years, let’s try something new to better engage today’s audiences,” Wigston says. Doing creates understanding,” Wigston says. “It

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 13, 2020

As attendees started second-thinking travel and meeting plans due to fears about COVID-19, meeting professionals across the country scrambled to switch to a hybrid or virtual format for their gatherings. Smart Meetings polled leading event technology companies for tips on what to consider if you are virtual curious.

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Eventinterface

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Countless multilingual business meetings, conferences and events are conducted around the world daily, the success of which largely depends on attendees understanding each other. If you are hosting a multilingual meeting, conference or event, it is important to keep in mind how critical it is to get the participants' messages across.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

. American Express Meetings & Events ’ suite of technology solutions for event professionals is now even more robust with the addition of Attendify and Splash as partners. The common thread with the products is that they drive efficiency in the meeting planning process, deliver data and insights, and focus on the attendee experience.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Tarin Horan, CMP, knew that meeting planning was the industry for her when she began interning with sports teams. In this role, she planned their season ticket holder events. I love working with our members and designing great event experiences with fantastic speakers and content.” Horan says, “I love what I do.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 6, 2020

The American Association of Suicidology’s annual meeting had been growing steadily in recent years. in late April, staff and volunteers went into overdrive to transition the physical meeting to a virtual one in a matter of days.They knew how critical it was to deliver much-needed content to their global community.

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Hubilo Blog

MARCH 19, 2019

Searching for event technology or meetings technology influencer, the most heard name is of a renowned influencer?—? Corbin Ball, CSP, CMP, DES, MS is an international speaker, consultant as well as writer. Corbin started off his career as the Meetings Manager and Head of Conference Operations for SPIE?—?The Corbin Ball.

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Maritz Global Events

MARCH 10, 2020

You and your team have been trying to book a big-name, big draw keynote speaker for years. Finally, the stars align, and their bureau and booking agent say yes! But at the last minute, they're out. What do you do?

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MeetingsNet

JULY 6, 2023

Wondering how artificial intelligence can actually make a difference in the meeting planning process? Meet MeetingsNet Changemaker Maxwell Kelly and read up on the lastest industry A.I. tools specific to meetings and events have launched this spring. initiatives and tools. For an introduction to generative A.I.,

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Eventinterface

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Finding vendors for events and meetings is challenging. Meeting and event planners have countless options at their fingertips. “Event and meeting planners constantly point out to us how hard it is to find vendors. There are numerous technology vendors, each providing a segment of the services needed, few working together.

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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. Things like target audience, messaging, venue selection, and budget are all part of the planning process. Disclaimer: The objective of this list is to share useful information. It may change in the future.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 4, 2023

How the meetings industry can help As the importance of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is increasingly prevalent in conversations within the meeting industry, some marginalized groups continue to be widely underrepresented. Q: What made you interested in the meetings industry? Who’s on the speaker panels?

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 22, 2017

Much of the meeting and event planning industry only recently began evaluating its impact on the LGBT community. Even though you might assume that your meetings and events are free of LGBT influence, there’s always an effect. The newly created LGBTMPA is a strong LGBT voice in the meeting and event planning world.

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Eventinterface

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Finding vendors for events and meetings is challenging. Meeting and event planners have countless options at their fingertips. EventTechHub is a collaborative initiative that assists planners with the full lifecycle of their meetings and events: Before the event. During the event. After the event. About EventTechHub.

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Eventinterface

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Finding vendors for events and meetings is challenging. Meeting and event planners have countless options at their fingertips. EventTechHub is a collaborative initiative that assists planners with the full lifecycle of their meetings and events: Before the event. During the event. After the event. About EventTechHub.

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