Event Industry News

JUNE 13, 2022

The former General Manager of Blossom Music Center in Ohio (under House of Blues Concerts/Live Nation), Girton joined AEG Presents in 2008 as the original General Manager for The Novo, located at LA Live in downtown Los Angeles. In 2017 he was named SVP of Special Events at AEG Presents, which involved overseeing 45 venues nationwide.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

W hen Geralyn Krist, CMP, CTA, put in a request to start working from home in 2008, she’d been in convention sales with Visit KC for six years. In fact, a frequent comment voiced by meeting planners responding to Convene ’s 2016 Salary Survey was that they wished they were allowed to work from home more often.

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Hubilo Blog

MARCH 7, 2020

With more than a decade of experience as a professional speaker, Dahlia founded The Meeting Pool , a great source of information for event professionals. She’s a past president of Meeting Professionals International, Chicago and has been named as one of the 40 under 40 in the meetings industry by Connect magazine in 2015.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If you’re interested in scheduling Bob to speak at your company meeting, conference or convention, please contact Kathy Tagenel at (775) 220-6995 or click here to email her. Oren is one of the world’s leading experts on sales, raising capital and negotiation. Where to find him? Brian Tracy Who is he? What is she known for?

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

If you’re interested in scheduling Bob to speak at your company meeting, conference or convention, please contact Kathy Tagenel at (775) 220-6995 or click here to email her. Christy Lamagna is the founder of and Master Strategist at Strategic Meetings & Events. Bo Krüger is a speaker, facilitator and meeting designer.

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Event Leadership Institute

APRIL 10, 2020

For a huge number of people, experiencing this baptism-by-fire of virtual interaction has shown them that while it may not be a true substitute to meeting in-person, it’s a lot closer than people thought. For theater or classroom style meetings it may be easy to lower density without drastically reducing the impact.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 31, 2017

International meetings, conventions, and other business events are melting pots. So many of our communities are like that now — from Burning Man to biker meet-ups to book groups. I believe that any program where people meet “the other” can be incredibly valuable.’. Outrage is in, discourse is out. DEMOCRATIC DIALOGUE.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

I n a real sense, Convene , which was launched in 1986, grew up alongside the meetings profession. As late as 1980, there was no textbook on meeting or exposition management and only one accredited college program devoted to its practice, former Convene editor Peter Shure pointed out in a 2003 story in the magazine.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 31, 2016

There’s continually a lot of give and take and continually a lot of negotiation. The first strategy meeting was with the city and the city leaders,” said Colette Jones, Destination Cleveland’s vice president of marketing. “The You probably know that Cleveland bid on the 2008 Republican National Convention.

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