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Here Are Your Favorite Venues in the East

Connect Your Meetings

facility for its wayfinding signage, plentiful meeting and event spaces (77 custom rooms) and its location (downtown D.C.). Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, Rhode Island , earned praise from its staff. managing engineer (planning) at the Rhode Island Department of Transportation.

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Featured Event Leader: Kimberly Doell, CMP

Event Leadership Institute

Serving on the International Live Events Association (ILEA) Rhode Island Board for six years in a row, being a finalist in the BizBash Event Style Awards and now, serving as President of her ILEA chapter, it’s no doubt Kimberly Doell, CMP, has made her mark on the events industry. Kim and Sheila have accomplished great things together.

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Breaking up With Exhibit Booths

PCMA Convene

When they convene in Providence, Rhode Island, May 3–6, 2020, they won’t be able to find the usual exhibit hall at the Providence Convention Center — not for lack of signage but because the event’s overhauled trade- show floor bears little resemblance to its previous versio. “We Providing a Place to Meet.

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The DNC’s High-Stakes Experiment

PCMA Convene

And for those in the meetings industry, it was a historic opportunity to watch and learn from a massive, all-or-nothing experiment in capturing audience attention and engagement. It gave viewers the impression that the event was meeting the audience on its own ground. (Janis Friedlander Svendsen). Details can go big.

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Virtually Engaged with Robin Farmanfarmaian

SmartMeetings

The noninteractive content sections, including keynotes, panels and anything where the participant’s only role is to watch, should take up about 60 percent of meeting time. With hundreds of platforms out there and more being launched every week, planners are finding they can mix and match to meet specific event goals. The 60/40 Rule.

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