Event Industry News

JANUARY 17, 2020

Akos Dominus, sustainability manager of Sziget Festival, Hungary, commented:“Sziget has been involved with environmental issues since 2003,” (through AGF). “We The Green Events & Innovations Conference takes place in London on 3rd March 2020. Applications are now open for the Greener Festival Awards 2020. DGTL Festival (NL).

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

McNish is returning to Chewton Glen in Hampshire, England, as general manager; McNish worked as the property’s spa manager between 1995-2003. Before the move to Nashville, Nelson worked as general manager for UNC Charlotte Marriott Hotel & Conference Center. Clive McNish.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 31, 2018

“ —Steve Jobs, The Guts of a New Machine , 2003 New York Times interview If only we applied Steve’s insight to event design. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Event Design is how it works appeared first on Conferences That Work. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 28, 2018

The era of instant, inexpensive, and immediate self-portraits began in 2003, when Sony began installing front-facing cameras into flip phones. And there likely were a few selfies taken at the conference as well. who, the BBC reported , takes 200 selfies a day. .

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Agency: Yellow Fish Formed: 2003 Annual Events: 51-100 Staff: 11-50 Offices: 1 yfish.co.uk/. Case Study: From virtual conferences to incentives and recognition our focus is always on disrupting the norm and creating integrated campaigns. If your agency has a fitting story to tell, get in touch: Kizzy@eventindustrynews.com.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 7, 2023

Here’s how Courtney Mesmer, CMP, DES, CED, vice president, events for WorldatWork, successfully led her organization’s annual conference through a wave of major improvements. We saw a strong uptick in registration plus exhibit and sponsorship sales” in the final month before the conference, she says.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Since it’s opening in 2003, Walter E. Louis Exclusive Conference Center and 1,400-seat Ferrara Theatre. If your event has you bound for Washington D.C. this winter season, try checking out the National Christmas Tree, or visit the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Ice Rink. The center offers event promoters 2.3 million sq.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Founded in 2003, EM is a full-service event technology company and the premier global provider of live audience engagement tech and services. Conferences. Educational Measures® (EM), the live events engagement company, is debuting as an Event Tech Live exhibitor this year. Areas of interest. Brand Events. Concerts & Tours.

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 21, 2021

Remember conferences and events before COVID-19, mask wearing and social distancing? We all know masks help save lives—but here’s the clencher—are you willing to wear your mask the entire conference time? Bird Flu broke out in 1997, followed by SARS in 2003 and Swine Flu in 2009. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane, shall we?

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Bizzabo

JUNE 27, 2020

Here’s a look at the top 16 conferences, summits, events, and parades centered around LGBTQ+ communities. Why You Should Attend: The annual pride bash began in 2003 to showcase the diversity and inclusion in Essex. The conference includes a variety of sessions on diversity and inclusivity. NYC Pride Human Rights Conference.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 18, 2018

He began his career at Liverpool City Council in 1975 before moving to the Housing Corporation where he spent 25 years working in all aspects of housing, eventually becoming director of Investment and Regeneration North before becoming chief executive of Elevate East Lancashire in 2003.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

DuBois shared that it took about four months for the SARS scare in 2003 to stabilize. The Events Industry Council (EIC) held a webinar on Feb. 7, “Industry Discussion on Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV): Identifying Reliable Sources and Factors for Informed Decision-Making.” Here are some takeaways.

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Unique Venues

JULY 6, 2021

Built in 2003 on 240 acres, The Ranch has earned a reputation as one of the premier event and entertainment complexes in the region hosting over 700 events per year from the small weekly meeting of 10 to the large campus wide event of 100,000. foot layouts.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Attendees are all ears at the 2018 NPAPW conference at the New World Center in Miami Beach, Florida. The venue felt familiar for many NPAPWS regulars — the workshops started there in 2003. Phillip Pessar/Creative Commons). Since 2008, the program has rotated every other year between the New World Center and a European arts venue.

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Connect Your Meetings

DECEMBER 15, 2016

We feel like it’s ‘mission accomplished,’” says DeGolyer, who began working with COAA in 2003. Now the association has grown from having two national conferences to about 40 events, including chapter gatherings and educational training seminars. Six weeks prior to one of COAA’s two annual events, its executive director resigned.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 8, 2017

Bush administration between 2001-2003, Ari Fleischer, now president of Ari Fleischer Communications, got a master class in learning how to navigate sensitive matters with the press. If you respond to the pressure of the press making you speak before you’re ready to, that press conference will be a disaster. H: HOMEWORK. “As

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 18, 2022

Fontainebleau Las Vegas named Yousfi its senior vice president of sales, catering and conference services. Gold has been with the DMO company since 2003, when she joined as its special events manager and has since become a sales and events leader among those in her field. Tony Yousfi, CMP. Mark Catuogno, CGSP.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 18, 2022

Fontainebleau Las Vegas named Yousfi its senior vice president of sales, catering and conference services. Gold has been with the DMO company since 2003, when she joined as its special events manager and has since become a sales and events leader among those in her field. Tony Yousfi, CMP. Mark Catuogno, CGSP.

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Bizzabo

JUNE 26, 2020

Here’s a look at the top 16 conferences, summits, events, and parades centered around LGBTQ+ communities. Why You Should Attend: The annual pride bash began in 2003 to showcase the diversity and inclusion in Essex. The conference includes a variety of sessions on diversity and inclusivity. NYC Pride Human Rights Conference.

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Social Tables

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Take for example, Salesforce.com’s annual conference, Dreamforce. With the goal to educate and inspire customers, the first Dreamforce event brought together just over 1,300 attendees in 2003. Corporate leaders everywhere are looking to events as viable marketing channels, or as engaging platforms for internal initiatives.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

Convene has written a lot about groups that are consolidating their meeting portfolios—the American Society for Microbiology combining two annual conferences into one, the Consumer Bankers Association going from eight down to one—but the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) is going in the other direction.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 1, 2024

How to lead with Disney magic Maybe you’ve run up against them in your professional travels or heard one present a keynote at a conference. Originally it had a real campus on Disney World property in Orlando, but since 2003 it has existed as popup programming in Orlando and at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, throughout the year.

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Slido

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Silent conferences Have you heard about silent discos where people equipped with wireless headphones dance to what the DJ is playing in their ears? Motivated by positive feedback from the audience, conference organizers have increasingly started incorporating wireless headphone technology into their events.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 17, 2023

Food festivals, music concerts, conferences and private events have all utilized the convention center for its flexibility and its surrounding hotels, restaurants and nightlife. The expansion of the center completed in 2003 added 600,000 sq. The White Room Event Hall is the larger indoor facility with 50,000 sq. of contiguous space.

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Social Tables

JANUARY 21, 2017

With a second office in Los Angeles and also known as MKG Marketing, it was founded in 2003 by Maneesh K. Working in all fields including conferences, Wonderland has been in the industry over 15 years. MKG – New York. Wonderland – London. Their clients include brands like Twitter, H&M and Ugg.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 20, 2023

Performedia has been a leading turnkey provider of hybrid and virtual event services since 2003. Clients large and small, from AARP and the National Association of Broadcasters to MPI-Potomac and PCMA Capital Chapter have chosen Performedia to produce their hybrid events for them.

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Bizzabo

APRIL 4, 2019

After all, if your company doesn't experience any benefits from hosting a conference, expo, or similar gathering, why do it? Let's start with one of the biggest software conferences in the world, Dreamforce, an event put on by B2B tech giant, Salesforce. Dreamforce first launched in 2003. event marketing. Dreamforce.

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Canadian Special Events

JULY 6, 2017

In 2003, Scott was featured in the season premiere of Ripley’s Believe It or Not for his stunt “Escape to Cloud Nine.” Imagine your conferences motivational speaker starting his talk by dangling high above the crowd, ankles bound, performing one of his world renowned straight jacket escapes then magicallt appearing on stage.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The upgrade is being done through a collaboration with RefTech , which provides cloud-based registration and appointment-setting software for conferences and exhibitions. RefTech has worked with IMEX since 2001, when we created the original bespoke web and organizing systems for the very first IMEX show, in Frankfurt in 2003.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I remember interviewing Pete Shelley and Steve Diggle at Shepherds Bush Empire in spring 2003, both of them affably batting away any production questions. ‘We Conferences. We just have the basics. I’m still learning stuff about the guitar, noise and sound,” Diggle shrugged. Mixing desks are a lot shinier. Areas of interest. Event Tech.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 30, 2017

At their 2005 conference at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, she contacted the local CVB ahead of time to see if any other groups would be having events at the same time. For the American Pyrotechnics Association annual convention, Heckman likes to go out with a bang with a big firework show as “our closing event.”

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2017

What we do,” Thiemo Gillissen, the event’s co-founder and partner, told Convene, “is a business conference done differently.”. As for the “festival” part, he thinks that’s what a modern business conference should feel like. But once you’d spent, say, 15 seconds on the fifteenseconds.co website, you’d see that it’s exactly the opposite.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 30, 2019

Since Jones began heading up VisitDallas in the fall of 2003, the organization has produced clear results, he said. We are all very proud of the tremendous increase in tourism, sporting events, citywide business, and individual meetings and conferences in Dallas. VisitDallas). In 2018, Jones said that the figure had grown to 2.5

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Event Industry News

MARCH 21, 2022

Designed, built and owned by Oceandiva, founded by Edwin Petersen in 2003 in the Netherlands, the ship will be the first London venture outside of mainland Europe from the group who are well established in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium with clients including Porsche, L’Oréal, Microsoft, Dior and Jaguar.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 23, 2018

While writing about seeing the gifts in people and events I remembered one of my favorite scenes in Love Actually (2003). With his wife shopping nearby, Harry ( Alan Rickman ) impulsively purchases an expensive necklace for his mistress — only to be tortured by the fear of discovery as Rufus ( Rowan Atkinson ) slowly wraps his gift.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Founded in 2003, GiftGuru.ca As one of our most valued partners, they generously contributed a selection of their top products to our exclusive gift bar and provided premium items for conference attendees. In today’s business world, where sustainability ranks high among both consumers and companies, this approach is invaluable.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The closest comparison was the Committee of 100’s Annual Conference & Gala in May of 2023. The company, which launched the landmark conference in the city where it is headquartered in 2003, also announced Dreamforce would be returning to San Francisco in 2025 to the joy of hoteliers all over the city.

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