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Cashing in: how events benefit local and national economies

Prestige Events Magazine

by Simon Hainsworth, Corporate Sporting Events When athletes or business people come together for a sporting or corporate event, theyre not just creating opportunities for people inside the stadium or conference hall to win. billion economic benefit generated by the London 2012 Olympic Games. billion to the economy, and the 9.9

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B-to-B Dream Team 2025: Meet Valerie Strehle

Event Marketer

Event Marketer’s 2025 B-to-B Dream has been unveiled. The team, created in January 2023, consolidated resources from marketing, sales, and EMEA to form the first-ever global events team at Workiva. Strehle heads up a group of five that sits in marketing operations and ladders up to the vp of marketing.

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Destination Emirates Old Trafford Relaunches Players and Media Centre for Events

Prestige Events Magazine

Destination Emirates Old Trafford has relaunched its Players and Media Centre to further strengthen support for conferences and events held at the venue. The centre, which originally opened in 2012, has seen an increase in use by planners looking to take advantage of its event spaces, on-site studio, and broadcasting capabilities.

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These aren’t the unconferences you’re looking for

Conferences that Work

I’m noticing that event promoters are increasingly using the word “ unconference ” to describe traditional conferences. <Sigh> Well, surely titan Google would accurately describe their annual Search Central conference ? Conference programs that are predetermined with attendee input are not unconferences.

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Better Because You Were There

Velvet Chainsaw

A number of our consulting clients have made social responsibility a cornerstone of their conference strategy — with the desire “to leave the host city better because we were there.” When you adopt a strategic objective like that for your conference, it leaves room for creativity in achieving that desired outcome. Choose Your Charity.

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Smart Moves in Chicago, Mexico and More

Smart Meetings

She also worked as reservations agent and manager in training for conference services and groups sales. Kranzle joined the Hilton Hotels team in 2012, serving as general manager for Hilton Mexico City Reforma; most recently, Kranzle was the opening general manager of Hilton Guadalajara Midtown in Mexico. Nadeem Siddiqui. collection.

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Back to the Future: Revisiting Event Planner Predictions From 2012

PCMA Convene

One event planner predicted in 2012 that that keynote speakers would give their presentation from the new orbiting space station in 2022. In July 2022, NASA flight engineers Jessica Watkins (left) and Kjell Lindgren addressed International Space Station Research and Development conference attendees from aboard the space station.

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