Conferences that Work

JUNE 19, 2017

Can meetings where no one says a word exhibit significantly different interpersonal dynamics? Read the full article at Conferences That Work. After completing my third Vipassana silent meditation retreat (this one at the headquarters of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts), I’m gonna say: yes they can!

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Conferences that Work

MAY 20, 2024

Improving Conferences That Work I designed and facilitated my first peer conference in 1992. Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love took four years to write. I’m still proud of how well Conferences That Work lays out the fundamental reasons for the importance and value of peer conferences.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 26, 2024

Mahon is also a 2021 Smart Woman in Meetings: Innovator award winner. Phoenix Porcelli and James Frankis Phoenix Porchelli (left) and James Frankis (right), Convene Convene , a hospitality company that manages and designs meeting, event and office spaces, promotes two senior leadership team members.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 25, 2021

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. The post 9 Smart Moves in London, Dallas and More appeared first on Smart Meetings. Stacey Kokosinski. Salinas moved to the U.S.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 14, 2022

The ninth nSight conference was held in Raleigh, North Carolina, an up-and-coming technology hub between three major universities. The younger nCino started in 2011 and started nSight in 2013. Marisa Roberge, nCino’s associate director of global conferences & events, had prior experience with TSEC in her previous job.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 18, 2023

He brings experience in religious, fraternal and ethnic meetings segments to drive new conventions and meetings to Cincinnati and establish it as a top national meetings destination. She recently celebrated ten years with the company, having joined in 2013 as a catering sales manager.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Meetings don’t look how they used to. Today, planners are racing to adapt to trends that make conferences and events more engaging and dynamic than ever before. But when it comes to trends, where should meeting industry professionals put their focus? Here are five meeting industry trends that are changing the game.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 25, 2016

I guarantee you will learn many new great ideas about conference panels from this Blab of my Thursday chat with the wonderful Kristin Arnold. With many thanks to Kristin and our viewers (especially Kiki L’Italien who contributed mightily) I now offer you the AMA About Conference Panels annotated time-line. 1:30] Using sli.do

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Change is imminent — and in the meetings industry, it’s upon us. Here’s how the meetings industry is changing the game. With that, they’re also now the largest pool of potential meeting attendees. Control over the meeting agenda is moving to attendees. Millennials are the decision makers now.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 21, 2018

The Solution Room is rapidly becoming a popular meeting plenary. Invented at MPI’s 2011 European Meetings and Events Conference, the session fosters active meaningful connections between attendees, and provides peer support and solutions to the real professional challenges currently faced by participants.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 27, 2019

Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post How to improve your facilitation: an example appeared first on Conferences That Work. Share your ideas in the comments below!

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I’ve described in detail how to run The Solution Room at in-person meetings in my last two books: The Power of Participation & Event Crowdsourcing. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post How to run The Solution Room online appeared first on Conferences That Work. Well you can!

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SpotMe Blog

MAY 4, 2021

Virtual conferences aren’t a groundbreaking idea anymore, but event planners are continually learning how to use them in groundbreaking ways. Learn how virtual conferences work, which key components you need to include to really stand out in your field, and how going hybrid may be the trick in a post-pandemic world. Trade shows.

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Event Marketer

JUNE 5, 2023

Originally started as a cable network in 2013, REVOLT has since expanded into digital media, podcasting, news and events, all aiming to give Black storytellers access to the platforms, resources and support needed to engage a global audience. REVOLT, a Black-owned multimedia network founded by Sean “Diddy”​ Combs, is in a phase of growth.

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SpotMe Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Partnering with top medical communications companies is an important step toward ensuring that your next medical conference or event is a success. The right MedComms agency team should be able to leverage their expertise in medical communications to ensure that your event is successful and meets all of its goals. Get our ultimate list.

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EventSource

JULY 20, 2022

Launched in 2013, the expansive patio has been reconfigured to welcome guests for all types of events, and a revamped menu by hospitality specialists, Oliver & Bonacini will tantalize the taste buds of all. Customer appreciation days, corporate sales meetings, charity fundraisers, weddings, birthdays, and more.

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Eventtia

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Both platforms offer tailored solutions for organizing events such as conferences, trade shows, training sessions, and more across these sectors. We’ve curated a list of some of the best alternatives to Hopin, offering a diverse range of features and functionalities to meet your event management needs.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2023

We launched Athena’s internship scheme in 2013. Internships are essential for our industry’s future to ensure the next generation of event professionals are well-equipped to meet the evolving demands of the field. From Comic Cons to award dinners, concerts to conferences; Athena host it all. Athena really was the perfect match.

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Eventinterface

JULY 13, 2016

James discusses how event and meeting planners benefit by utilizing the services of the Tempe Tourism Office, what sets Tempe apart from other destinations and how the city is evolving over the next few years. What are the benefits for a meeting or conference planner to be working with the Tempe Tourism Office?

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 21, 2021

RainFocus Essential brings event and marketing teams together with one easy-to-use platform for meetings and small events. This provides them with consistent data across their entire event portfolio and consequently a clearer view of how meetings have impacted their customer journey. To learn more about INSIGHT, visit [link].

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 29, 2019

My heart was pounding as I hung up the phone with the director of sales for C2 Montréal, a business conference that, in its first year, already had made a global splash. on a Friday afternoon in February 2013. I looked at the clock: 4:45 p.m. Then came the call: “Let’s bring braindates to C2.”.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 21, 2022

In 2013, she was hired as New Orleans Marriott’s senior sales executive for the greater New Orleans area, and she has held several other sales leadership roles at Marriott International. She brings a list of global meetings and events experience, previously holding the role of director of community engagement at BestCities Global Alliance.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 26, 2019

My final destination was the Fairmont Le Montreux Palace, a five-minute walk from the train station, and the site of Global Meeting Exchange 2019 (GME 2019), hosted by Accor Hotels. In total, the hotel offers more than 40,000 square feet of meeting space and 15 meeting rooms. Their strategy, said Accor’s deputy CEO, Chris J.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 27, 2021

Chip Conley, founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, had joined Airbnb as the company’s head of global hospitality and strategy in 2013 — a role with a wide range of responsibilities, and one focused on something that might have seemed surprising for what many considered a tech company: cultivating the value of face-to-face connections among hosts.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 8, 2017

During a livestream hosted by PCMA back in 2013, Marie Lou Coupal, CMP, struck up a conversation with other meeting professionals in the group chat. “I Coupal and event-marketing strategist Rachel Stephan, whom she also met during the livestream, chartered a bus to Boston for 25 meeting professionals. Branding the experience.

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Fork in the Road

JANUARY 22, 2013

We connect (meet), download (inform our colleagues about a project) and kvetch about bandwidth (time required to accomplish tasks). I left last week’s PCMA Convening Leaders conference in Orlando thinking about a number of statements, but one in particular has stayed with me. I think the meetings industry has been laying.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 21, 2017

Meeting professionals are tasked with making sure the audio of presentations is clear , that there’s no feedback and that it is at a comfortable volume—but what about the attendees who live in silence? The child was ecstatic after meeting the characters because he didn’t know they would speak ‘his language,’” a rep for the group told KABC-TV.

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Eventtia

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It is ideal for events such as conferences, trade shows, corporate meetings, product launches, and virtual summits, accommodating both large-scale international gatherings and smaller, intimate events. Networking and Matchmaking: Attendee matchmaking and one-on-one meeting scheduling via an event networking platform.

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Eventtia

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Eventdrive Analysis Eventdrive is a France-based event management platform specializing in solutions for corporate events and meetings. Established in 2013, Eventdrive aims to simplify the event planning process by providing an all-in-one platform that integrates event management, communication, and engagement tools.

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Bizzabo

DECEMBER 17, 2018

We have compiled a list of event marketing statistics—covering topics such as event budgets, event technology and event promotion—that you can use in your next event marketing presentation, conference, or call. 54% of event planners attend conferences to keep up with trends. CMO Council & E2MA , 2013). Sponsez , 2013).

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Event Industry News

MARCH 2, 2020

The Meetings Show has pledged a commitment to work with WRAP, the Mayor of London, London & Partners and Olympia London to help tackle the issue of food waste in the events industry as part of a wider sustainability pledge. The announcement has been welcomed by The Meetings Show host venue Olympia London.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Company name: Visualizer Founded: 10 th January 2013 Web address: www.visualizergroup.com. About: Visualizer provides a customisable virtual sales tour for meeting hotels and event venues. Type of events served: Conferences Meetings Weddings Hotels and venues. Conferences. An example link: [link]. Exhibitions.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

Oklahoma City is using influencer marketing in the form of a travel-writing team who will highlight the city’s leisure attractions — and is also bolstering its meetings portfolio with a new convention center. But despite all of these shiny new additions, the one thing the CVB keeps hearing from meeting planners is, why Oklahoma City?

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 8, 2019

since 2013/14, with a GVA to London alone of £117m. . This spend covers a range of activities including overnight stays, subsistence and expenditure in the local economy, and is 5% higher than in 2017/18 and a staggering 71% higher than six years ago in 2013/14. increase on the 2,001 estimated jobs generated in 2013/14.

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Bizzabo

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The report analyzed the gender diversity of more than 60,000 event speakers over a five-year period, from 2013 to 2018. The least diverse event types were meetings and networking (71 percent male versus 29 percent female) and conferences and conventions (68 percent male versus 32 percent female).

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

More universities than ever are including conference hotels on their grounds to accommodate meetings of the mind in academic settings. Check out some of these properties and the opportunities they represent for creating smarter meetings. of meeting space, including J. Notre Dame Conference Center houses 20,000 sq.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 28, 2017

“Women were often left out of meetings with clients who’d benefit from a woman’s perspective,” Gordon said. The things that gave me pause about doing [this conference] were the things that I’m not good at, but you can outsource those. ” The inaugural event put the 3% Conference on the map.

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