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Event Marketer
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Valerie Strehle, Senior Director-Global Events, Workiva When an event organization operates under the code name GSD, or Get S**t Done, you know it has some serious momentum behind it. The team, created in January 2023, consolidated resources from marketing, sales, and EMEA to form the first-ever global events team at Workiva.
Smart Meetings
AUGUST 18, 2023
Significantly, 81% of event carpet was returned directly to inventory for reuse and the food court was uncarpeted, saving an estimated 4,184 pounds of CO2, earning MeetGreen Calculator’s Visionary designation. IMEX is not new to the quest for more sustainable events. A total of 14,557 pounds of food has been donated in that time.
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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.
Eventbase
MARCH 19, 2019
He described some of the “instagrammable” moments he experienced, including walking the red carpet at Cannes, meeting Al Gore and witnessing Barack Obama speak at SXSW, seeing the Foo Fighters play at a small BBQ restaurant, and even holding a human brain at a medical conference. Sinclair and West take in the 2012 London Olympic Games.
Maritz Global Events
DECEMBER 4, 2019
One of the most effective ways to ensure the long-term health of your event is to convert first-time guests into loyal, life-long fans. But you can’t do that until you see the event experience through their perspective. After they register, but before the conference, please keep them in the dark. .
Maritz Global Events
DECEMBER 11, 2019
A certain percentage of your conference participants don’t return. Here’s a simple annual meeting churn formula: (Attendance at last year’s conference – Attendance at this year’s event)/Attendance at last year’s conference = Churn Rate. The 550 attendees at this year’s conference don’t specify the number of new attendees.
Event Industry News
JUNE 7, 2022
Buongiorno is Vice President, AIM Group International, a company that for over sixty years has been one of the international leaders in events and conferences. The award recognizes a business events strategist who has demonstrated a vision, commitment and passion for the advancement and education of the global meetings industry.
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