Smart Meetings

JANUARY 11, 2024

Total registration was 66% higher than the 3,300 who signed up to attend PCMA Convening Leaders in Columbus, Ohio , last year where Viola Davis was scheduled to speak (but dropped out days before to attend an awards show). Leonard Hoops, president and CEO of Visit Indy and incoming PCMA Chair, agreed.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Conference or Trade Show. Conference or Trade Shows. Large conventions and trade shows are manpower intensive before and during the event. As a former meeting planner who has received Ohio MPI’s Planner of the Year award twice (2006 & 2012), she brings a unique perspective. Meeting Type.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Professional meetings and exhibitions are structured events conducted under controlled environments allowing for maximum health and safety measures to protect participants, according to analysis by The Ohio State University health-care scientists. Recent independent studies from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the U.S.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2017

At the beginning of 2017, trade-show organizers were forced to confront an unfriendly adage: All good things must come to an end. percent annual growth rate in 2016 was relatively sluggish, CEIR estimates that the trade-show industry will grow by 2.4 While the 1.1-percent per-cent this year. PROCEED WITH CAUTION.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 20, 2023

At the recent Convening Leaders 2023 conference, the association for convention and trade-show management delivered advice from experts on pushing beyond one’s comfort zone to try new approaches.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 9, 2020

Smart Meetings caught up with her in her home office in Hudson, Ohio, this week to ask how event professionals can continue to move forward while sheltering in place. That trade show you have done the same way for the last 15 years? One of her last presentations was at Association of Women in Events’ Elevate! Win or Learn.

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Maritz Global Events

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Add a trade show. As a former meeting planner who has received Ohio MPI’s Planner of the Year award twice (2006 & 2012), she brings a unique perspective to these blog posts. In the end, however, you’ll reach far more prospective attendees who will hopefully turn into attendees. It doesn’t have to be large and elaborate.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 21, 2021

a concert, movie, trade show). As a former meeting planner who has received Ohio MPI’s Planner of the Year award twice (2006 & 2012), she brings a unique perspective. When you are sick , even if it is only with a common cold. On the days when the air quality index is high (meaning smog or pollution is hanging overhead).

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Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 6, 2017

However, since the Nice Attack, there have been similar incidents at Ohio State University as well as in Berlin, Jerusalem, the United Kingdom (Westminster) and Stockholm. Whether it’s a conference, trade show, sporting event, concert, festival or corporate event, anywhere crowds gather can become a target.

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Event Leadership Institute

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Trade Show Operations Manager | Urban Expositions | Trumbull, CT. Meeting and Events Coordinator | CWT Meetings & Events | Ohio, IL. Trade Show / Events Manager | Butterfly Network, Inc. | Trade Show & Events Manager | APCON | Wilsonville, OR. New York City, NY. Portland, OR. Pennsylvania.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

It seems like you wanted to explore personal passions or interests or hobbies, as opposed to going to a professional conference or a giant commercial trade show. Once I got there, that’s when I realized this is really a trade show and it kind of felt outside the realm of the other conventions that were clearly going to be in the book.

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Event Leadership Institute

JANUARY 31, 2018

Trade Show Operations Manager | Urban Expositions | Trumbull, CT. Meeting and Events Coordinator | CWT Meetings & Events | Ohio, IL. Senior Manager / Manager, Trade Shows and Events | Cvent | Mclean, VA. Branding Event Planner | Gartner | Stamford, CT. Project Manager, Events | SpotMe | Chicago, IL.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Company or organization: Experience Columbus in Ohio. each month, along with the numerous trade shows Experience Columbus attends throughout the year. Kalee Barnhardt. Job title: National sales manager. What I love about my job: I love the travel associated with my job. I am able to travel to Washington, D.C.,

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Event Leadership Institute

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Trade Show & Events Coordinator | B&R | Roswell, GA. . | Atlanta, GA. Events Management Coordinator | The Home Depot | Atlanta, GA. Global Event Manager | Conduent, Inc. Jersey, GA. Event Planner | A Divine Event | Roswell, GA. Audio Visual Technician | Comcast Spectator | Sandy Springs, GA. Event Manager | GetG5 | Bend, OR.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Company or organization: Experience Columbus in Ohio. each month, along with the numerous trade shows Experience Columbus attends throughout the year. Kalee Barnhardt. Job title: National sales manager. What I love about my job: I love the travel associated with my job. I am able to travel to Washington, D.C.,

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

At Convening Leaders 2023 in Columbus, Ohio, I moderated a Convene Live panel conversation, “How Event Models Can Transform Traditional Business Models,” with three event professionals who shared how they have successfully incorporated digital strategies in their events portfolio. Is it a product for profit? Is it a meeting of our membership?

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

Nominated by Debbie DesRoches, Director of Trade Show, SnowSports Industries America — “Debbie is a true professional, and we have been so lucky to work with her since our event moved to Denver in 2010. Nominated by Debbie DesRoches, Director of Trade Show, SnowSports Industries America — “Working with Annie is a pleasure.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 6, 2020

Earlier this year, I talked to Tina Warren , director of trade show marketing with PMMI , The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, about its marketing efforts for PACK EXPO International and Healthcare Packaging EXPO 2018. Barbara Palmer.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Earlier this year, I talked to Tina Warren , director of trade show marketing with PMMI , The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, about its marketing efforts for PACK EXPO International and Healthcare Packaging EXPO 2018. Barbara Palmer.

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Bizzabo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

They are known for planning epic events, creating amazing exhibits and organize engaging trade shows. From live event production to trade show exhibits, they transform and elevate their clients’ brands. Notable clients: AEP Ohio, Mattress Recycling Council, Nationwide, OhioHealth, Piada Italian Street Food.

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Plan Your Meetings

JANUARY 28, 2019

The first time I saw this was at an ILEA (ISES at the time) event in Columbus, Ohio. Of course, the bit convention and trade show side of the industry deserves some play here, especially as pop culture cons continue to grow. We watched a portion of the movie in a theater, then went to the lobby to eat that same course.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 21, 2019

Believe it or not, the progress made between the United States and China at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 28-29 will likely have ramifications for the meeting, incentive, and trade show industry. Specifically, if U.S.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 12, 2016

. “It’s estimated that there are about 50,000 people coming in officially related to the convention,” said David Gilbert, president of the non-partisan 2016 Cleveland Host Committee, an Ohio nonprofit corporation founded to manage the process of bringing the RNC to town.

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Plan Your Meetings

APRIL 10, 2017

The image of meeting attendees crossing a trade show floor with rifles strapped to their backs is a scene reminiscent of the Gunfight at the O.K. Ohio law allows firearms to be brought into the convention venue, and the Republican Party supports gun rights. They may view guns as inherently threatening to some.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 1, 2017

When a convention, trade show, or conference is analyzed in one destination, the value must be comparable with another destination.”. “The Cleveland RNC is a great example of why it’s so important for the industry to have a set of the same definitions across destinations,” Sacks said. Earn one clock hour of certification credit.

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