SmartMeetings

AUGUST 24, 2017

If you are sick and tired of your old wardrobe, pack your bags with everything you don’t want to wear and head to a hotel participating in a swap meet. It’s important to dress for success at meetings. One such example is the ObesityHelp National Conference , which has dedicated space for a clothing swap at their annual event.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 2, 2024

A LeadsCon Connect participant attempts to complete his Networking Bingo game by doing an activity listed in one of the board’s squares: Meet a LeadsCon speaker. Watch for more ideas online and in our September-October print edition. It was a strong launch event for us last year, with lots of room to grow,” Gignac said.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The Meetings Industry Association (mia) has seen continual growth and retention through 2019, highlighting the particular value of its role during challenging trading conditions. Chair Kay England proudly revealed at the association’s 30th Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 11 February that mia membership had grown by 15.8%

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 17, 2021

Editor’s Note: Meeting professionals are still pivoting on the regular and can learn a lot from the experiences of their peers. She said, “This isn’t ideal, but, I have a captive audience of customers and suppliers that want to meet. The week of the conference happened to be an “off week” for the Padres.

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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.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Today’s iconic guest, Deanna Nwosu , thinks that all event and meeting planners should nurture an entrepreneurial spirit. For almost 20 years, Deanna has worked on fundraisers, conferences, trade shows, and other events ranging in size from 10 to 20,000 attendees. . A lot of our predecessors fell into event coordination.

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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. She’s heavily involved in the process with the meeting planners and letting them know what we already do.

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Guidebook

MARCH 31, 2017

One of the places these organizations use Guidebook is for corporate events, meetings, conferences, tradeshows and more. This annual conference, focused on emerging trends and technology, brings together thousands of event professionals for five days of learning, networking and product evaluation.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 14, 2023

In his 25 years in the events industry, he also worked with organizations such as Ascot Rececourse, conference center operator Wembley London Ltd (formerly Wembley Stadium Ltd), and the Baku European Games. The post Smart Moves in Qatar, London and More appeared first on Smart Meetings. Thomas, U.S.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 8, 2022

Venue Management organisation, Central Hall Venues, today announces two new appointments for its newest UK-wide conference and events venue, St Saviourgate York. SSY is a Grade II* listed building, designed by architect James Simpson as a meeting and community space and dates back to 1840 when it was built to mark the centenary of Methodism.

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Coterie Spark

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

What if bringing the next big thing in conference and corporate meeting technology to your event wouldn’t add to your budget? The next change on the horizon for conference and meeting technology, isn’t actually technological at all. How this ties in to your corporate meeting or event.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 29, 2022

That message of diversity, abundance and welcoming is even more applicable for groups looking to return to in-person meetings safely and dynamically. Marketing conferences is more complicated now than it was two years ago. They are inventing new virtual and hybrid solutions that will lead to more productive meetings everywhere.

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Eventtia

JUNE 30, 2022

MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) and Tourism industry professionals gathered for the 9th time at ACE of MICE Exhibition on 25-27 May 2022. The Turizm Medya Grubu, the organizer, started its operations in 2007 to ensure the development and growth of the MICE industry. The Mobile App to schedule meetings.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Present Communications started out offering an audio and visual equipment hire service for conferences and other events but, by the beginning of last year, around half of the business was focused on video conferencing and webcasting. The conference industry has become almost completely virtual.

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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.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2018

Shortly after Roger Dower became president of the Johnson Foundation in 2007, he wanted to explore what it takes to host meaningful meetings. So, he held a meeting with a group of 18 experts who ranged from labor arbitrators to environmental mediators. What are the keys to a productive meeting? Is everyone prepared?

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 29, 2022

That message of diversity, abundance and welcoming is even more applicable for groups looking to return to in-person meetings safely and dynamically. Marketing conferences is more complicated now than it was two years ago. They are inventing new virtual and hybrid solutions that will lead to more productive meetings everywhere.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 5, 2018

As it turns out, the notion of an inclusion rider — a clause that an actor can insist be inserted in his or her contract requiring that the cast and crew on a film meet a certain level of diversity — was first floated at a conference. From 2007 to 2015, Smith’s research team had viewed the top 800 grossing films in the U.S.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 11, 2019

Established in the actual bank vault, the Palladio Room offers the perfect space for private meetings and conference calls, its beautiful wallpaper, fabulous mirrors and the print of the original Buckingham Palace making this a one of its kind experience.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 31, 2016

A t the Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), attendees are going to see the world. Focusing on cutting-edge practices and research related to the use of MRI, the conference rotates around the globe every four years — from Asia to Europe to the Americas.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It’s been crowned the number one venue every year since opening in 2007 and now The O2 arena celebrates over 25 million tickets being sold. The venue has hosted over 2,000 individual performances since opening in 2007 and now averages over 200 events a year which cover music, sport, comedy, family entertainment and e-Sports.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Nao, Sons of Kemet, Rosalia, Doves and The Good The Bad & The Queen were among the headliners meeting the criteria this time. Britannia Row has long delivered telling answers to taxing questions at the Summer Series, including Mogwai’s request for surround sound in 2007. Conferences. Areas of interest. Brand Events.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Rita Moore ConferenceDirect, a West Hollywood-based, full-service, global meetings solution company, added Moore to its team as director of conference management operations. She was most recently interim director of meetings and events at The Westin San Diego Gaslamp Quarter.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Viagogo boss, Eric Baker, co-founded StubHub but left the company before it was sold to eBay in 2007 for $310m. Conferences. In a move to create “more choice” for consumers, secondary ticketing site, Viagogo, has announced a $4bn (£3.1bn) deal to buy its rival, StubHub. Areas of interest. Brand Events. Concerts & Tours. Event Tech.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 2, 2017

of meeting space. Next to upscale Lenox Square Mall; IACC-certified conference center; fitness center; outdoor pool; 349 guest rooms; 30,000 sq. of meeting space. of meeting space. of meeting space. of meeting space across 12 rooms. of meeting space; 150,000 sq. of meeting space across 13 rooms.

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Prestige Events Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Paje are specialists in the meetings, events, and conference market, who offer bespoke training for venues, hotels, and agencies. Paje Consultancy was set up by Mandy Jennings in 2010, who has a breadth of sales, conference and marketing experience with major hotel and venue operators.

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Event Industry News

MAY 18, 2022

A Greener Festival (AGF) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving sustainability of the events sector since 2007. The Green Events & Innovations conference (GEI) is AGF’s annual flagship conference, usually held in London. Our goal is to help the events and entertainment sector to become more sustainable.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Conference variation allows for concurrent tracks, reception area, and exhibitor booths. Attendees can personalize their agenda, meet in the app with video meetings, and even save the video files for review. Building events since : 2007. Building events since : 2018. Albert’s Aha! Building events since : 2016.

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Converve

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Since early 2007, with ‘only’ 700 bloggers, re:publica has developed into one of the world’s leading events for the digital economy. The website succinctly states why someone should travel to the event in Berlin: this is where the ‘Digital Society’ meets! Epicurrence, Park City / Utah, USA: Lateral Thinkers Meet to Snowboard.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 14, 2019

The balloon was built in Bristol in 2007 by Cameron Balloons but had never flown in the city, despite appearing at balloon meets around the world. We called a management meeting at 10am on Wednesday morning, when we were in the middle of loading in 363 traders and framed a contingency plan to safely open the event early. “We

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Event Industry News

JULY 9, 2019

a branch of MCI Group – a global leader in engaging and activating audiences with impactful meetings, incentive travel, events and experiences – is pleased to announce the promotion of special event industry veteran, Natasha Hilliard, to the role of director, institutional division, in its Vancouver office. Conferences. Brand Events.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Staged initially at Edgbaston Cricket Ground (1995) with only 30 shell scheme exhibitors, it relocated to Donington Park, then Sandown Racecourse and in 2007 to Ricoh Arena where this year it hosted 110 participants and occupied almost all of the available 6,000 square metres. Conferences. Areas of interest. Brand Events. Exhibitions.

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InCharged

AUGUST 23, 2019

Not long after the late Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone in June 2007, analysts started to ponder how advanced mobile devices would change business meetings. Incharged offers various charging stations for many situations; the three below are the most ideal for conventions, conferences, and trade shows.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 14, 2019

In the seventies, half of all adults in the UK smoked and until the ban in 2007, it was common for many events to take place in fug of smoke with ashtrays on every table. Conferences. How can you make sure smokers are properly managed – disposing of their debris safely and keeping to designated areas? Areas of interest.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 9, 2019

I have a combined deep industry knowledge with experience design and project management, while maintaining excellent stakeholder relationships to elevate customer engagement in my company’s annual conference. metro area in 2007, I had the opportunity to start working in a medical specialty association on educational programming.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 25, 2016

After more than 10 years, Chicago has been chosen to host American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Annual Meeting & Exposition in 2018. We are proud to welcome ASAE back and host this important conference once again. The post Chicago Chosen to Host ASAE in 2018 appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Eventsforce

MARCH 26, 2019

We also find out why Twitter’s new camera is good for audience engagement and how inflatable walls offer a better alternative to traditional shell schemes when creating meeting spaces around your events. The hot app at SXSW back in 2007 was Twitter. When it comes to augmented reality, conferences are going all in on the tech.

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