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Hybrid Meetings: Finding Balance Between Scale and Serendipity

PCMA Convene

MICE professionals in Sydney and around the world listen to in-person and remote speakers during the recent hybrid event, Convening Asia Pacific: The Global Recovery Forum. Hybrid meetings have the potential to combine scale and serendipity, said futurist Mark Pesce. Mark Pesce.

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Online Events Grow in Wake of Coronavirus

PCMA Convene

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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11 Major Business Events to Attend in Australia in 2020

Hubilo Blog

World Business Forum Sydney . City: Sydney. The main takeaway of this conference is fresh ideas and strategies from well-known industry speakers. The Expo dates are: Sydney: 20–21 March 2020 at ICC Sydney Darling Harbour. Sydney Build Expo . City: Sydney. City: Sydney. 28th May 2020.

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8 Event App Features on Your Attendee’s Wishlist

Eventmobi

Having planned events and international conferences from Chicago to Sydney, I’ve been there and I get it: Name badges alone have caused me more headaches than I ever imagined possible. From sponsors and speakers to fellow attendees and agendas, your event app has to have it all. Speaker information. your guests love.

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4 Live Events That Were Transformed into Virtual Formats

Floktu

Salesforce World Tour Sydney. Back in March, when the world was just beginning to understand the global scope of the pandemic, Salesforce was scheduled to have their World Tour Sydney. The revised program consisted of videos featuring individual speakers as well as sessions led by multiple speakers. Event Marketer ].

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Accelerating the Pivot to Virtual Events

SmartMeetings

While the meeting landscape is different, it’s also the same. McNeel Keena, vice president of product management at Cvent, talked about the implications for planners of this and much more in the latest Smart Meetings Accelerator, “ Best Practices to Accelerate Your Pivot to Virtual Events.”. More: 6 Great Virtual Meeting Icebreakers.

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How to Do the Knowledge Economy

PCMA Convene

We here at Convene are close observers of the knowledge economy — subject of not one but two cover stories in the last several years — and in Sydney, Australia, we have an amazing case study of theory into practice. And earlier this week, BESydney and ICC Sydney brought the Sydney Speaker Series to Washington, D.C.,

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