Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Having been on Twitter (yes, I know it’s been renamed “X”, sue me) since 2009, I’d describe Mastodon as the old Twitter. What Twitter was back then When I joined Twitter in June 2009, the platform was just about to take off. By the end of the year, “Twitter” was declared the top word of 2009.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 12, 2021

Woodley is area director of events and event operations of Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, Spa and Casino ; and Resort at Squaw Creek in Incline Village, Nevada. Woodley previously worked as director of events for Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe. Brian Hilterbrandt.

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Event Marketer

JULY 11, 2024

Still, Sundance isn’t the only festival (possibly) on the move; it joins a growing list of big events and conferences that are set to relocate or expand to new cities. Cargill Philanthropies. This news follows last year’s successful showing in the Asia-Pacific region for the weeklong, inaugural SXSW Sydney , returning Oct.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Event innovation has to be more than giving attendees souvenirs. Extending your event brand. Similarly, to successfully extend your event brand you need to design appropriate additive and new experiences into it over time. So don’t serve up the same stew of event formats year after year. Event innovation?

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2009 Events Conference Speakers 227

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Las Vegas, which strives to go bigger than anywhere else—and is in continual competition with Orlando for meetings and events business—used to have its restaurants rated by Michelin. The last guide covered 2008-2009. And with so many celebrity-chef outposts, deservedly so. Yet apparently that guide sold so poorly it was discontinued.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 29, 2024

Since 2009 I’ve maintained an informal calendar of peer conferences (aka unconferences) on this site. It’s informal because I only list events I hear about, a minuscule fraction of the unconferences people hold every day. Even so, the calendar lists hundreds of events. Currently, I add a few peer conferences a month.

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EventMB

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

zkipster event management software has just launched new event invitation features to add to its current functionality. zkipster started when they created a guest list app for their own event. Since launching in 2009, the Swiss company has grown to offer a fast, reliable, and secure suite […]. Here is our review.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 29, 2024

“Google wants to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible—that is the mission of the company—and I think if you follow that sentiment to its logical conclusion, accessibility and making things accessible to all of our users can only happen if we understand what our users need, and that goes for live events, as well.”

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 24, 2020

Intentional Event Design ( ebook or paperback ). Amidst the myriad books on creating and running events, Intentional Event Design , by Tahira Endean and published in 2017, stands out. And I’m not saying that because she’s kind enough to mention two of my books and an event I designed and facilitated.).

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 25, 2024

A dozen years of designing and facilitating these events, together with their enthusiastic reception, had convinced me that what I’d created was valuable and important. Attendees loved my events! Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love was published in 2009. Nothing worked.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 14, 2023

Read More: 5 Tips for Flexible Event Budgeting, No Matter the Format or Economic State 5. Lee is the author of Entrepreneur Press book, “ Taxpertise, The Complete Book of Dirty Little Secrets and Tax Deductions for Small Business that the IRS Doesn’t Want You to Know ,” published in 2009.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Stewart is director of special event for Visit Panama City Beach in Florida. He joined the organization in 2015, and since then, has worked as sports marketing and special events coordinator, and operations manager. He has been with the organization for a total of 10 years, joining as program manager for IAAPA Europe in 2009.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 25, 2021

He joined the company in 1992 and has held his position as senior vice president since 2009. Until January of this year, Martin was partner events manager for RingCentral, and before that, she was senior meeting manager for National Conference of State Legislatures, both in Denver. Jeremy Heyes. Megan Martin.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 18, 2024

Women are Making Events Industry History in Leadership Roles Access —the largest destination management company in the United States, and the only woman-owned and led National DMC—makes history with its appointment of three women as Co-Chief Executive Officers: Jennifer Miller, Danielle Phippen and Heidi Brown.

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2009 Advertising 2015 Hospitality 246

Event Marketer

MAY 16, 2022

As corporations pledge to be more sustainable, the event industry seeks lasting solutions. The world, and the event industry, entered a new reality last year when the U.N. More on This Topic: 10 Event Sustainability Ideas to Implement Right Now. THE PANDEMIC EFFECT.

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Stova

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Events Industry New York, NY, November 4, 2024 Eventex has officially unveiled The Most Influential People in the Events Industry in the United States for 2024 and we are pleased to announce that Stova’s Kirk Ziehm is featured on the list. Stova offers event organizers the most complete full-service event management solution.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 11, 2018

This is the lowest number since 2009. Tripleseat’s 2018 Holiday Party Feedback Survey tallied the results of 1,100 event planners, consumers and managers from all across the country and found that 57 percent of employees have witnessed co-workers intoxicated. Everyone who throws a party or event of any kind wants great attendance.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 16, 2023

Through the years, redditors have kept their fingers on the pulse of the latest trends in tech—often predicting the next big thing through subreddits like r/electricvehicles (started in 2009) and r/bitcoin (established in 2010). More B-to-B Event Strategies: Inside Reddit’s Explorer-themed Cannes Lions Activation. Agency: Giant Spoon.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 20, 2024

Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love took four years to write. When it was published in 2009, my peer conference work exploded. Improving Conferences That Work I designed and facilitated my first peer conference in 1992. I ran them in my spare time for thirteen years before writing my first book.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Every year the second Tuesday of October marks Ada Lovelace Day (12 th October 2021), founded in 2009 in recognition of Ada’s ground-breaking contribution to computer technology, and to celebrate the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM). horsley-estate/events/. About Ada Lovelace.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Here’s an independent review of my conference design work, published as a case study in Chapter 25—Designing and Developing Content for Collaborative Business Events—of the book The Routledge Handbook of Business Events. Tip: The hardback version is expensive, the ebook is a quarter of the hardback cost.)

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Event Marketer

MARCH 7, 2024

Dubbed the largest annual light construction trade show in the world, IBS grew 12 percent this year, with attendance at the highest level since 2009, according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), which owns the show. Partner: ImpactXM Send your exhibit stories to Anna Huddleston, ahuddleston@accessintel.com.

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2024 Trade Shows 2009 Banking 312

Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

Wi-Fi has been voted as the top technological invention to influence events in the past 150 years, followed by electric lights and the aeroplane, according to a recent survey by IET Venues. With up to three selections possible per respondent, 42% of event organisers agreed that Wi-Fi was one of the most significant breakthroughs.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Since 2009, hotel room occupancy has increased steadily and is now breaking records with average occupancy at 65.5 The generation accused of a tendency to reject face-to-face meetings is showing up at events, after all. As 2018 comes to a close, Dominguez shared some insights into what he sees for the future of the meetings industry.

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

One thing is certain, if your conference attendees are not fully engaged in the experience you provide, there is little, if any, chance that they will leave your event with any real ROI. And if you want attendees to return and state that they gained value from attending your event, you must plan for them! Marzano and Debra J.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 20, 2023

” As the presenting sponsor of the Army-Navy football game since 2009, USAA never approaches each year’s game-day experiential activation the same way. More Touchpoints from the Exhibit: The post USAA Activates a Museum-like Historical Timeline at the Army-Navy Game appeared first on Event Marketer. But the 2022 matchup on Dec.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Meeting process I have been designing and facilitating participant-driven and participation-rich conferences for over thirty years, and evangelizing the advantages of this approach since 2009. While the meeting industry is slowly realizing the importance of facilitating connection at events, traditional conferences still dominate.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 17, 2021

Sherpa has been at the forefront of event technology since 2009; developing and deploying innovative and robust solutions to support the most complex events. Our online and hybrid event solutions were designed to help events increase profitability like never before. Hybrid event platform: Unify. Marketplace.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 3, 2023

As you may know, I have been selling my ebooks at a fixed price of $11.00 since 2009. Stock up on my ebooks before the price increases on April 15th! Dear Readers, I’m writing to share some important news regarding my ebooks. After careful consideration, I have decided to increase the price to $19.99 on April 15, 2023. to $49.99.

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Event Marketer

APRIL 17, 2023

Some are returning to large-scale in-person events for the first time in three years. There were plenty of people who did not thrive under the way that networking events were typically organized, and I think the shift to virtual gave people more permission to acknowledge and name that,” she says.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JUNE 15, 2021

Julie studied Fine Art at Nottingham University, beginning her career in art galleries, before moving into live event production and the creative communications industry. Including working at agencies Imagination and Logistik before joining DRPG in 2009. During her time, she built the Creative Comms and Campaigns division of the group.

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Prestige Events Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2023

Buy tickets here Looking ahead to their Autumn and Winter event series, Bristol’s crown jewel club Motion relaunches their beloved event series In:Motion with huge lineups in tow.

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Eventmobi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Learn about the top event management platform that event planners are using to save time and effort when managing their meetings and events. I remember the state of the meeting and events industry when we first started EventMobi about 10 years ago. Event apps were the new technology on the block for event planners.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 8, 2019

I decide to write a book about it, and in… 2009: I self-publish Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love. The five day event is being held by Federation EIL, the worldwide network of The Experiment in International. Organizations hear about these conferences and ask me to design and facilitate them.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 29, 2016

The following year, David was kind enough to honor me in his flagship publication BizBash as one of the most innovative event professionals. However, one recurring theme in David’s magazine irritates me, because it perpetuates a common misconception in the events industry. Here are three examples: 1 — The world of weddings.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Now, customers who have been using the video conferencing platform to host online events, conferences, meetings, or live streams, have to find a new way of connecting with virtual audiences. Large companies, schools, and other organizations used BlueJeans to host and manage engaging events for people across the globe.

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Core-apps

JANUARY 4, 2018

We’ve Been Riding Shotgun with Apple Since 2009. We’ve been riding shotgun with Apple since 2009, as the first native app developers in the event space. With all of the recent news about Apple’s updated policies regarding App Store approvals and event apps, we felt that it was important to maintain our position on this topic.

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