2007 Conference Events 
Conferences that Work
MARCH 20, 2023
Are you obsessed with conferences? Yet no vice bedevils me like my one desperate fixation, my shameful ravening itch: I simply must attend conferences. George Meyer , My Undoing: Obsessed with conferences , The New Yorker, May 28, 2007 Of course, every good meeting planner is fixated on the details of the events we plan. .
Smart Meetings
AUGUST 17, 2021
We asked Mandi Graziano, vice president of global accounts for HPN Global and published author, to share a behind-the-scenes look at a recent event she planned that make a quick change. Our 2,000-person event was the end of June. We had all the hotel blocks booked and had already moved the event twice due to Covid-19.
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PCMA Convene
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Efforts to make the CodeMash tech conference more accessible to Midwesterners led to a more family-friendly event that includes attendees’ children. Why not, he thought, bring a conference to them instead? They were often too expensive and required extensive travel and time away from their families.
Conferences that Work
MARCH 25, 2024
And then in 2005, twenty-eight years later, I felt compelled to write a book about the new ways I’d developed to design and lead conferences that became what the participants wanted and needed. I would need every scrap of my conviction about the importance of peer conferences to persist in what followed. ” Jerry was right.
Smart Meetings
APRIL 14, 2023
Most recently, Hooker worked as event delivery director for the all-electric motorsport series Formula E. Before this, he spent time overseeing the event venues outside London for the 2012 London Olympic & Paralympic Games. Thomas, U.S. Eumi Koh Koh is general manager for Conrad Nashville.
Prestige Events Magazine
MARCH 24, 2023
The Blackpool Conference and Exhibition Centre has announced today that in its first 12 months of operating, it welcomed 55,000 delegates through its doors and generated, alongside Winter Gardens Blackpool, in excess of £70m in economic benefit, contributing to Blackpool’s overall visitor economy which is valued at more than £1.58bn.
Smart Meetings
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
A great example of Virginia Beach tapping into its local farms for events at Virginia Beach Convention Center was the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation Conference held in November 2023. Virginia Green Certification Virginia Green was launched in 2007, created to encourage green practices in the state’s tourism industry.
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