Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Click to vote for The Most Influential People in the Events Industry for 2023! It’s with pride and gratitude that I share that I’ve been nominated once again for the prestigious Eventex Index as one of The Most Influential People in the Events Industry for 2023. You can vote for up to ten people.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 8, 2024

.” Expressing Our Feelings In Public , April 5, 2010 Here are my personal experiences and observations. Thoughts, emotions, and feelings Our brains provide physiological experiences that we typically label as thoughts and emotions. Experiments show that thoughts and emotions originate in different places in our brains.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

I have written many posts about lessons from Anguilla gleaned during our visits, and this trip uncovered more. Here’s the view from the large deck outside our apartment. The same deck with the author’s feet included We loved our new accommodations (read below for more reasons) and hope to return there next year.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Here are three illustrative fragments: “In fact, we should acknowledge that most people are forced to live inside someone else’s imagination and one of the things we have to come to grips with is how the nightmares that many people are forced to endure are the underside of elite fantasies about efficiency, profit, and social control. .”

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Event Farm

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Our in-house event experience technologist, Ryan Costello, co-founder of Event Farm and Chief Strategy Officer at MemberSuite, shared his trusted technique in our recent webinar: Crafting the Event Experience – Part 2: Experience Mapping. Ryan explained how to do this in Part 1 of our Crafting Event Experience workshop series.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 20, 2024

In her closing keynote, “Conscious Connection: Unlocking Transformative Potential Collaboration and Community,” she dove into what it means to connect intentionally, both inside and outside the meeting room, and the impact true connection has on our overall well-being.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 18, 2024

This new position will play a key role in shaping and transforming our signature events—including IPW, ESTO, Summer Summit, and Future of Travel Mobility—and also deliver new offerings aligned with our strategic priorities,” says Ellen Davis, the group’s executive vice president of business strategy & industry engagement.

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Opus Agency

AUGUST 25, 2023

Discover Why the World’s Leading Tech Brands Activate at Collision Conf

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 18, 2024

We are highlighting women who have worked their way up and earned the position of General Manager (GM) to show our appreciation for their dedication to hospitality, their genuine passion for helping others and for standing strong in an industry where men still dominate the majority of leadership roles. Hospitality was really a way of life.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 25, 2024

People want to go. That is our vibe,” Schwedelson said. In 2023, GURU conference, which runs on the RingCentral platform using integrations, including Kahoot , kept 20,000 people tuning in over two days. Engage people rather than just asking them to sit passively,” he said. We’ve trained people to ghost us.

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Event Marketer

DECEMBER 18, 2023

“What we learned this year is that folks really do like in-person experiences, as a lot of our community works remotely and works from home. SW: There are so many thousands of people there, and so part of what we focus on is recruiting and talent acquisition opportunities with our tech companies.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 18, 2024

With practices framed around people, planet and purpose, Exclusive Collection has been leading the charge in sustainability and ESG and has far reaching business practices in place to lighten it’s environmental impact, while also contributing to its local communities.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 22, 2024

Meanwhile, an increasing number of states are proposing or passing laws hostile to people of color. Destination boycotts do not have the intended impact that people are hoping for,” said Beth Surmont, CMP, FASAE, CAE, vice president of event strategy and design for 360 Live Media, during the Jan.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Take a moment to improve your mental health and your meetings will reap the rewards Meeting professionals are some of the busiest people out there. But when we find that we’re feeling stressed more often than not, we could face serious effects on our physical and mental health, our work and our quality of life.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 19, 2024

Glowing overhead LED cubes with brand colors and messaging made it impossible to miss the Siemens Digital Industries Software exhibit at CES 2024 , where attendees could explore the brand’s innovative technologies solving real-world challenges through the stories of companies and people who use them. “Our Gromlich agrees.

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The Castle Group

APRIL 22, 2024

Our mission is to drive forward a just and equitable clean energy transition in the Northeast. Deanna LeBlanc: As one of Castle’s vice presidents of public relations, I develop strategies for our energy sector clients that build brand awareness and reputation through media and stakeholder engagement. Excited for the conversation.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 19, 2024

How do we bring our products directly into the hands of people through these events and experiences we’re creating? I walked away thinking that Adobe has a right to be here and should be a centerpiece of what’s happening on Main Street, given how much of what happens at this event comes from our products.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Neil Fagg, founder of Event Buyers Live, said: “In 2022, Event Buyers Live made hugely positive steps to address DEI, acknowledge where we could improve our own processes, and promote DEI within the events industry. “We We introduced several policies and implemented a number of changes, which were recognised by our attendees.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 21, 2024

Our whole differentiator is bringing the human connection back to online shopping, and we just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to bring that brand positioning to life.” We felt like there was a really great psychographic match for us with the South by attendee base and our Shipt target audience,” says Stadd. “We

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Event Marketer

MARCH 29, 2024

“People say that it looks like a wildlife preserve but it’s what our farms look like.” ­­–Niki Haugh, Promotions Marketing Program Manager, Organic Valley If there ever was a trade show that’s all about sampling, it’s arguably Natural Products Expo West that takes place at Anaheim Convention Center each spring.

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Tito Blog | An Event Blog for Organisers

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Jessie is the co-founder of Layers , a three-day conference where people talk about design and technology. 6000 people go each year. Jessie's going to be joining our line-up for Admission , our conference for organizers. It's become a very popular WWDC event each year. It's kind of a big deal.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 16, 2023

If you missed the first two parts of our interview with future of work experts and The Empathy Advantage: Leading the Empowered Workforce authors Heather E. This interview is part of our May/June cover and CMP Series story package. One of the struggles employers have is bringing people back to the office.

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Event Marketer

APRIL 17, 2024

We all bring such different passions and points of view and we know the industry so well, and so I lean on our team on an hourly basis. At Oatly, sustainability is a big part of our mission. We use a beMatrix structure and we try our best to rent or even borrow assets from friends and neighbors. We don’t want to produce waste.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 4, 2024

Despite this being our specialty and one we are proud of; we wanted a website that better represents where the business is today and all the remarkable work we are doing as a full-service event agency!” From large scale production for conferences and awards for up to 800 people and over 60 corporate festivals a year for 300 – 1000 people.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 28, 2023

We need to build that technology into our events to give them flexibility. Kids coming into the workforce now have grown up using virtual reality tools and have an expectation that the world is going to shift how they engage at events, how they engage with other people and how they do their jobs every day.”

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 18, 2024

It was set up to teach hospitality skills to homeless and vulnerable people and to empower them to find sustainable employment. ESG has been high on our agenda for some time, from minimising the impact with plant-based alternatives to stimulating our local area by recruiting, upskilling, and championing diversity in the venue.

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Expo Pass

DECEMBER 20, 2021

We do our best to bring you the most up-to-date news, predictions, and happenings in the event world. But our favorite way to find out what’s going on with events is looking at which Expo articles people are reading the most! Keep reading for our most popular articles of 2021. All the Expo fan favs!

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

We provide great people, great ideas, great support and great kit for our clients. Our services include sound, light, vision, stage, power and media. The team at Universal Live have been providing full service technical support to the live event industry for over 30 years.

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Expo Pass

JANUARY 4, 2023

We do our best to bring you the most up-to-date news, predictions, and happenings in the event world. . But our favorite way to find out what’s going on with events is by looking at which Expo articles people are reading the most! . Keep reading for our most popular articles of 2022. All the Expo fan favs! We promise. .

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Event Marketer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Our annual listing of the Top 100 agencies serving the event marketing industry has arrived Behind every powerhouse brand experience is an event marketing agency whose people live for “live.” And as always, our editors took it from there. Your RFPs can now… go out. And on this list, that distinction is key.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 18, 2024

It’s brilliant to be leaning into the coming years with such extraordinary and progressive people driving our business forward. As an industry we are evolving at pace, and the full team is embracing the future with energy and conviction to delivering for our clients.” Kathleen Warden, Director of Conference Sales.

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Expo Pass

JANUARY 23, 2024

Our recent webinar, Decoding Event Marketing: What Works & What Doesn’t , featured a pair of marketing gurus who graciously shared their wisdom. So, without further adieu, let’s learn how to elevate our marketing game to bring new attendees into our orbit. People have a lot to think about these days.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 24, 2023

by John Nugent, Chief Executive at Green & Fortune The event and hospitality sector has faced significant challenges in recent years: people left the industry or migrated away from the UK in droves. By supporting our people, we also help build personal confidence, pride and long-term retention too. What’s important now.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 15, 2024

Playful experiences improve brains, help people stay open to new approaches, work better with others and build emotional resilience that wards off stress. It turns out empowering people with agency is key to turning on the playfulness faucet. “No Play is in our DNA in California. We are the Ultimate Playground,” she added.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

Through its focussed framework around people, planet, and purpose the hotel company is aiming for a 10% plus increase when it is re-assessed for B Corp certification later in 2024. We finished 23 on a high with Tom Hamblet winning MasterChef: The Professionals and South Lodge named as Most Sustainable Hotel at The Cateys.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 26, 2024

“I think for our category more than any other category, that real-life experience is of critical importance. And these are intuitively easy-to-understand products, but it is important to have that ‘first great sip,’ we like to call it, to build that advocacy and to make people believers in the proposition.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 5, 2024

Ahead of the Chancellor’s Spring Statement, Simon Richards, Finance Director of beam says: “It is vital for the short and longer term future of our industry that our members invest in their businesses and people, but many cannot afford to take the risk.

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