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Hotel Strikes May Soon Widen to Hawaii, Boston and San Francisco

Smart Meetings

And tomorrow, another 2,500 Marriott workers in San Francisco will take a similar vote. The strike vote came after months of negotiation between Unite Here Local 5 and Marriott. Year-round health benefits and worker protection against automation are reportedly among the major issues on the negotiating table.

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Four Business Travel Trends and Forecasts Impacting Events in 2024

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Related Stories: Zeiss Shares Five Ways to Make Sales Meetings More Fun Q&A: San Francisco Travel Association Discusses Event Safety and Business 82% of travelers say business travel is ‘very or moderately’ worthwhile in achieving business objectives. AI could help companies analyze T&E on a ‘much more granular level.’

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Together Women Achieve: Harnessing the Power of Sharpie and Sticky with a Crowdsourced Agenda

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As attendees filed into The Village in the Financial District of San Francisco on Thursday, they were welcomed warmly and ushered to a swag buffet, where they picked their own gift bag items, just as they would soon be choosing their own agenda and action items. The first-ever Together Women Achieve meeting started with a hug.

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Job opportunity: Sales Development Representative

Event Industry News

Wordly, Inc San Francisco Bay Area, Remote working. We are also looking for individuals with more extensive experience ideally in Europe and the East Coast of the US to help us expand in those markets and potentially open offices. Click here to apply. About the job.

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Forever Remote: Event Central

SmartMeetings

Could forever-remote tech workers fuel meeting boom? The list of tech companies still operating on some variation of a remote-first work model is an alphabet soup of some household names: Adobe, Dropbox, Facebook, Hubspot, LinkedIn, Microsoft, SAP and Verizon have all announced that workers don’t have to come into the office daily.

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Using Formal Debates to Boost Audience Engagement at Events

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What happens during the live events IQ2US produces in New York City, where it is based, as well as in Chicago and San Francisco, is the opposite of an echo chamber. In addition to their own events, IQ2US has produced debates for outside events including the Aspen Ideas Festival, TED, and IBM’s Think tech conference.

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Smart Women 2017: Innovators

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Job title: Tech evangelist and idea igniter. What I love about my job: I love the eureka moments that our audience experiences when they realize that tech solutions, apps or workarounds can transform the way they work on a daily basis. Company or organization: MeetingSift in San Francisco. Dalia El Gazzar. Heather Reid.

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