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CELTIC MANOR RESORT RENAMES CONFERENCE CENTRE IN MEMORY OF IAN EDWARDS
Prestige Events Magazine
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Mr Gibson said: “From shaping team rooms for the competing golfers at the 2010 Ryder Cup to helping create the 2014 NATO Summit debating chamber, Ian oversaw some incredible event activity in this venue and it is entirely fitting that his name now welcomes guests to the Ian Edwards Conference Centre.
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The SEC announces Dominic McKay as new CEO
Prestige Events Magazine
JANUARY 22, 2025
Work has already started to prepare for the Commonwealth Games in 2026, when the SEC will again host several events building on the success of the 2014 Games. SEC Chair Morag McNeill said : We are thrilled to welcome Dominic as CEO. He joins at a very exciting time for the SEC as we develop our strategy for the campus over the next decade.
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The London Summer Event Show Celebrates a Decade of Creativity with a Fresh New Look
Prestige Events Magazine
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Since its launch in 2014, the London Summer Event Show has welcomed close to 10,000 attendees, hosted over 700 exhibitors, and inspired countless corporate summer events.
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Improve your meetings: Make attendee status a real-time construct
Conferences that Work
MARCH 3, 2025
For more on how this works, check out this 2014 post. However, my peer conference designs go even further, embedding fluid attendee status that adapts moment-to-moment throughout the event. Improve all your meetings!
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A free guide to creating peer conferences
Conferences that Work
JANUARY 20, 2020
Being Schooled: Inside a Conference That Works “Mad blogger” Sue Pelletier of MeetingsNet has written an excellent article on her experiences at the four-day Conferences That Work format edACCESS 2014 annual meeting I convened in June.
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Corporate Event Gifting: Creative Ideas that Stand Out
Eventmobi
JANUARY 15, 2025
Having worked directly with thousands of event professionals since 2014, Cat has an intimate understanding of the day-to-day challenges event planners face when implementing new technologies to achieve their event goals.
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Crafting Compelling Emails to Engage Your Audience Pre-Event
Eventmobi
JANUARY 7, 2025
Having worked directly with thousands of event professionals since 2014, Cat has an intimate understanding of the day-to-day challenges event planners face when implementing new technologies to achieve their event goals.
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How a LEGO Hobby Transformed Into a Record-Breaking Events Business
Picatic by Eventbrite
JANUARY 28, 2019
In 2014, Collins put on his very first LEGO event, which was designed to inspire, educate, and […]. What do you do when your family’s LEGO hobby leads to you creating an event for 24,000 people? If you’re Chad Collins, Learn With Bricks founder and Brick Fest Live creator, you build a business off of it.
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Trivandi Acquires The Bulb to Drive Sustainable Transformation Across Major Events, Venues, Destinations and Sports Organisations
Prestige Events Magazine
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Together, they will deliver a comprehensive range of services, including event sustainability strategies, operational and design consultancy, training sessions and programmes that engage and educate leadership and teams as part of the Trivandi Academy, certifications including ISO 20121:2014 and carbon footprint measurement and reporting.
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Event Design is how it works
Conferences that Work
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Being Schooled: Inside a Conference That Works “Mad blogger” Sue Pelletier of MeetingsNet has written an excellent article on her experiences at the four-day Conferences That Work format edACCESS 2014 annual meeting I convened in June.
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Squaring the circle: creating room sets for connection
Conferences that Work
JULY 8, 2019
Being Schooled: Inside a Conference That Works “Mad blogger” Sue Pelletier of MeetingsNet has written an excellent article on her experiences at the four-day Conferences That Work format edACCESS 2014 annual meeting I convened in June.
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Better Because You Were There
Velvet Chainsaw
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
This was shortly after the killings of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, in 2012, and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. Years ago, I facilitated focus groups with association executives around boycotting destinations. Louis as meeting destinations.
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Hubilo’s Founder Hands Off CEO Title
EventMB
JULY 19, 2024
Skift Take: Vaibhav Jain’s run at the helm of the company he co-founded in 2014 has ended. Former engineer and product manager Shailesh Hegde takes over. Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings
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Handling a meeting question that isn’t
Conferences that Work
JANUARY 14, 2019
Being Schooled: Inside a Conference That Works “Mad blogger” Sue Pelletier of MeetingsNet has written an excellent article on her experiences at the four-day Conferences That Work format edACCESS 2014 annual meeting I convened in June. Sue, Conferences That Work goes to Japan!
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Mastodon is the old Twitter
Conferences that Work
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
From my viewpoint, the platform’s popularity and usefulness reached a peak between 2014 – 2017. While my followers on Twitter have been stagnant since 2014, new people continue to find my content on Mastodon and follow me. Since then, Twitter began a slow decline. See the graph of my monthly website pageviews below.)
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Five Reasons to Change Conferences
Conferences that Work
DECEMBER 24, 2018
Being Schooled: Inside a Conference That Works “Mad blogger” Sue Pelletier of MeetingsNet has written an excellent article on her experiences at the four-day Conferences That Work format edACCESS 2014 annual meeting I convened in June.
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FX Activates a ‘Courtside Club’ Exhibit to Highlight One of the Biggest Scandals in Sports
Event Marketer
JUNE 28, 2024
And to ensure it attracted an audience that was of age, and likely interested in, the Sterling scandal when it broke in 2014, the brand targeted a subset of its primary audience in the 18-49 age range.
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New and Renovated: Skylines and Style
Smart Meetings
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
A Denver icon, Union Station originally opened in 1881 and reopened in July 2014 following a $54 million renovation that created The Crawford Hotel, named after urban preservationist and Union Station Alliance member Dana Crawford.
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Caesars Unveils $400 Million Revamp in Atlantic City
Smart Meetings
APRIL 26, 2021
From 2014 to 2018, Caesars Entertainment invested $250 million in its AC resorts, including construction of the East Coast’s largest event facility, Waterfront Conference Center , and renovating Harrah’s Coastal and Harbour towers.
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Subaru Carves Out Micro-events, Adventure for its 2022 WinterFest Tour
Event Marketer
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
The platform, which launched in 2014, is returning to the slopes after a two-year hiatus to meet the pent-up consumer demand for outdoor recreation, to maximize the winter experience for brand devotees, and to evoke an “emotional connection” with 25-34-year-old outdoor adventure seekers.
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Scenes from a Participate! Workshop and Solution Room
Conferences that Work
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: Being Schooled: Inside a Conference That Works “Mad blogger” Sue Pelletier of MeetingsNet has written an excellent article on her experiences at the four-day Conferences That Work format edACCESS 2014 annual meeting I convened in June.
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Q&A with Adrian Segar on Crowdsourcing
Conferences that Work
APRIL 1, 2019
Being Schooled: Inside a Conference That Works “Mad blogger” Sue Pelletier of MeetingsNet has written an excellent article on her experiences at the four-day Conferences That Work format edACCESS 2014 annual meeting I convened in June.
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Creating Conferences That Work with Adrian Segar
Conferences that Work
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Being Schooled: Inside a Conference That Works “Mad blogger” Sue Pelletier of MeetingsNet has written an excellent article on her experiences at the four-day Conferences That Work format edACCESS 2014 annual meeting I convened in June.
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Case Study: Meeting Expectations Doubles Attendee Event App Adoption Year-Over-Year
Eventmobi
AUGUST 9, 2022
2014 was the kickoff year for Meeting Expectations’ annual HR conference, and they knew they wanted to incorporate an event app to help engage their audience. For their annual ‘Spotlight on HR’ conference, the Meeting Expectations management team wanted to set a new record for member adoption and engagement on their Event App. The Back Story.
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Wedding Open House at Fermanagh Farms
EventSource
MAY 28, 2024
The original barn, built in 1893, received a renovation in 2014, upgrading the space to be able to provide everything a marrying couple could need for their dream day. Located a mere 30 minutes from Vaughan, Fermanagh Farms is the perfect setting for any couple looking to host up to 120 guests (or 200 guests in the tented area).
Hilton Purchases Graduate Hotel Brand for $210 Million
Smart Meetings
MARCH 15, 2024
Ben Weprin, also the founder of Nashville-based real estate company AJ Capital Partners, founded Graduate Hotels in 2014. We’re proud to embark on this new chapter for Graduate Hotels with Hilton,” Weprin states, calling it the “ideal partner” to take the helm for the brand’s future growth.
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My Presentation Is Fine—It’s The Audience That Doesn’t Get It!
Velvet Chainsaw
JUNE 6, 2017
Lectures, panels, and speeches prevail even though evidence shows that the traditional stand-and-deliver lecture does little to help an audience learn ( Bligh 1971 ; Freeman, McDonough, Okoroafor and Wenderoth 2014 ; Smith and Valentine 2012 ; Teaching College by Norman Eng just to name a few).
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Have I Met You Before? Three ways to minimize embarrassment when meeting people
Conferences that Work
AUGUST 27, 2018
Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: Being Schooled: Inside a Conference That Works “Mad blogger” Sue Pelletier of MeetingsNet has written an excellent article on her experiences at the four-day Conferences That Work format edACCESS 2014 annual meeting I convened in June.
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Combining facilitation tools
Conferences that Work
JUNE 26, 2023
My 2014 post on RSQP gives a clear example of how it works (and my book Event Crowdsourcing includes full details) so I won’t repeat myself here. The 2014 and the recent conference each had around 200 participants, so the process and timing (around 25 minutes) were pretty similar. But there were two significant differences.
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Conferences that Work
MARCH 26, 2018
Being Schooled: Inside a Conference That Works “Mad blogger” Sue Pelletier of MeetingsNet has written an excellent article on her experiences at the four-day Conferences That Work format edACCESS 2014 annual meeting I convened in June.
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Caesars Launches Wellness Menu Ahead of IMEX
Smart Meetings
OCTOBER 16, 2023
In 2014, Westin, then part of Starwood, introduced its “six pillars of health.” A History of Meeting Well The current focus on healthy meeting spaces is not the first time brands have gone beyond accommodating “dates and rates” to differentiate their spaces. The same year, MGM Resorts and Dr.
Smart Moves: Food and Beverage
Smart Meetings
MAY 31, 2023
His more than a decade of culinary experience most recently saw him working as executive sous chef at Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki, a position he held since 2014. Brooke Tadena Tadena is Hawaii Convention Center ’s executive chef. He also previously worked as executive sous chef at Moana Surfrider, A Westin Resort & Spa in Honolulu.
Events, Faith Communities, and the Public Square
Conferences that Work
AUGUST 12, 2024
I learned about them when I presented at The Religious Conference Management Association annual conference in 2014, and I’ve written about what meeting designers can learn from religious services. Religious meetings are a small, fascinating subset of the meeting industry.
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Lessons in Longevity: Agency EA Reveals Five Business Insights from the Past 25 Years
Event Marketer
JUNE 21, 2024
Cosgrove began his tenure at EA in 2010, evolving from the agency’s first in-house designer to incepting and building the Creative Department in 2014. Rick Cosgrove is the President of Agency EA , overseeing the client services, production and creative departments. The agency is celebrating its 25th year in business.
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HBO Max Offers Three Insights on Mastering Modern Brand Partnerships
Event Marketer
JUNE 1, 2022
launched in 2014 and has seen steady growth since. Themed macarons offered at Jubilee paid homage to Child’s most popular cookbook, “Mastering the Art of French Cooking.” ” Cherry Bombe’s annual Jubilee festival, billed as the largest gathering of women in food and drink in the U.S.,
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Conferences that Work
SEPTEMBER 25, 2017
Being Schooled: Inside a Conference That Works “Mad blogger” Sue Pelletier of MeetingsNet has written an excellent article on her experiences at the four-day Conferences That Work format edACCESS 2014 annual meeting I convened in June.
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Smart Moves in Laguna Beach, Dubai and More
Smart Meetings
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Before he joined Rosewood in 2014, he worked in managerial roles for Les Thermes Marina de Monte Carlo in Monaco City and MAIA Luxury Resort & Spa on the southwest coast of Seychelles’ Mahe Island. Vidal joins Rosewood Hotel Group as vice president of operations for the Americas. Richard Alexander.
UK Comedy Scene Surges, with 1 in 5 Brits Opting for Laughter-Filled Date Nights
Event Industry News
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Nearly one in five Brits (18%) are choosing to take a date to a live comedy show, a huge shift since 2014, when Ticketmaster’s Comedy State of Play report found that only 2% of attendees […] Ticketmaster, the global market leader in live event ticketing, releases new research revealing how laughter is transforming the dating scene.
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59 500 Million Starwood Guests May be Victim of Data Breach
Smart Meetings
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
Personal information from as many as 500 million Starwood guests dating back to 2014 may have been stolen, Marriott International announced Friday. The cybersecurity theft affected reservations made up to September 10, 2018.
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From Classroom to Career: Hospitality’s Educational Initiatives for Ambitious Students
Prestige Events Magazine
AUGUST 21, 2024
Through a partnership with the Institute of Hospitality, Master Innholders enables such professionals to access the Institute’s renowned mentoring programme, Mentor Me.
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How to Secure Your Event in the Face of Rising Active Shooter Incidents
Smart Meetings
JULY 7, 2022
The number of people killed in mass shootings has risen from 272 in 2014 to 692 in 2021. Gun violence in the United States is, unfortunately, a reality every event planner must confront. As of July 4, 2022, there have been 320 mass shooting deaths already this year.
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New and Renovated: New, New England
Smart Meetings
JULY 3, 2024
In 2014, it was acquired by Lark Hotels as its flagship property. Americana Charm The Hotel Portsmouth; photo credit: Read McKendree The Hotel Portsmouth has debuted a full redesign led by award-winning boutique design firm Elder & Ash.
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Designing conferences to solve participants’ problems
Conferences that Work
JANUARY 11, 2021
In the meetings world, the most well known are the series of EventCamps that were held around the world between 2010 and 2014. Finally, there are conferences that are entirely experiments! These were volunteer-run, meeting experiments that explored a wide range of meeting and session formats and technologies.
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