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Create Powerful Meetings Instead of Power-over Meetings

Conferences that Work

Traditional conferences unconsciously promote and sustain power imbalances between the “speakers” at the front of the room and the audience. All meetings incorporate power relationships that fundamentally affect their dynamics and potential. If you had told me then that the.

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Raccoon Media Group expands Outdoor Expo portfolio into Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Prestige Events Magazine

The Boston event will continue to work hard with industry partners including Boston.com, Vermont Sports, Vermont Mountain Bike Association, Youth Enrichment Services, Outward Bound, Beasley Media and the 98.5 The Sports Hub.

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Mountain Festivals Beckon Groups

Smart Meetings

The setting in Squaw Valley spreads across six peaks and 4,000 acres, and is the perfect venue for wellness worshipers to partake in mountaintop meditations, sample sustainable food and enjoy a “speakeasy” of mindful living. Vermont Renaissance Faire.

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Smart Moves in San Antonio, Atlanta and More

Smart Meetings

With over 25 years of experience in travel, tourism and business events, and in leadership roles with Starwood Hotels and Resorts and Destination Toronto, he brings extensive experience to oversee BestCities operations, focusing on their values of legacy, sustainability and advancement of the global impact of meeting events.

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Growing Appetite for Local Ingredients on Event Menus

PCMA Convene

I want to be there when the food is prepared, I want to be there when it’s picked and when it’s brought to the kitchen and when the chef starts to use it,’” said Molly Crouch, director of sustainability at Sodexo Live!, the exclusive F&B provider for Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center (OCCC). Jennifer N.

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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems

Conferences that Work

Respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in Vermont? For example, we designed and held some of the earliest hybrid meetings, and introduced the meeting industry to peer conferences, gamification, improv, sustainability issues, and many other, now common, meeting components. Here are some examples. Improve our organizational culture?

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Four Tips for Hosting Cold-weather Outdoor Activations and Events this Winter

Event Marketer

At the heart of the tour—which this year hit ski resorts in Vermont, Colorado, Utah, California and Oregon—is a showcase of the Subaru Wilderness family of vehicles, and the experience includes music, F&B, giveaways, gear demos, the Solo Stove hangout zone and even special appearances by avalanche rescue dogs.

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