Event Industry News

DECEMBER 11, 2019

It may sound like simple work – finding a venue and exchanging contracts – but the devil is in the detail and more often than not, there’s a myriad of hidden factors that will impact the eventual price tag. Conferences. If you book venues on a “shoulder day” i.e. a Monday or a Friday, the chances are they will be cheaper.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The UN SDG’s are an easy way to assess your progress Align with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – Benchmark achievements against the 17 global goals set by the UN in 2015. Conferences. Areas of interest. Brand Events. Concerts & Tours. Exhibitions. Event Tech. Sporting Events. Yes, I agree with the privacy policy.

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Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 3, 2018

Jim Clapes, 37, works in New York City as conference and events manager at the Drug Policy Alliance. What I do: I am directly responsible for the planning and management of the biennial International Drug Policy Reform Conference, annual staff Retreat and 20 to 30 additional organizational events throughout the year.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 22, 2019

In addition to combing through more than 2 million anonymous hotel and Airbnb guest records from 2015 to 2018, researchers surveyed 750 convention attendees to understand what factors went into their decision to book inside or outside the group room block. But these people were where they were expected to be.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The events industry talks a lot about legacies — the lasting imprint that meetings and conferences leave behind in host destinations. I went to Dubai in 2015 with PCMA for the Dubai Meetings Forum. Heather Seasholtz meets an elephant during PCMA’s 2017 Global Professionals Conference in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 15, 2018

He’s based in Thailand and will help planners with site selection and contract negotiation throughout the Asian market. She has been with ACVB since 2015, previously serving as trade show sales coordinator and administrative assistant. Maytas Jiwalai Jiwalai joined ConferenceDirect as director of global accounts.

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Bizzabo

JUNE 20, 2018

Although the community started online, it has since grown into the world's hottest conference for business software in the world. Some of those contract sizes are quite large and they do follow more of that typical B2B sales cycle where we are generating long-form content, putting folks into lead nurture tracks, running targeting ads to them.

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Endless Events

APRIL 12, 2019

In fact, you should ideally hire your AV company before you even sign your venue contract. Pre-plan where each item will be hung to avoid additional costs and check with your venue before you sign the contract whether or not rigging points and included in the cost. Hiring Your AV Company Too Late. Skimping on Audio.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

UKSV was recognised for its work producing a three-day conference for leading research-driven family-owned biopharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim (BI). UKSV developed the engaging conference, which was six months in the planning, around the concept of a television magazine and chat show.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2017

And their searches are taking them to many digital destinations outside the “Hotel & Travel” section of the typical conference website. A 2015 Tourism Economics study of 170-plus events revealed that more than 34 percent of rooms are being booked outside the contracted room block. EMBRACING ALTERNATIVES.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Only 34 percent of respondents (down from 43 percent in the 2016 survey and 50 percent in the 2015 survey) indicated that they will be holding meetings outside the United States in the future. Contracting space — Total exhibition space shrank 20 percent compared to the average exposition footprint in last year’s survey.

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Bizzabo

JUNE 4, 2018

An organizer of a mid-size conference recently told us that she used Wordpress to build her website, Eventbrite for event registration , Constant Contact for email attendees, and Excel for monitoring her event contacts. Each tool is sourced from a different vendor with its own pricing, contract, interface, and analytics.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2018

I’ve wanted to interview attorney Paulette Brown ever since I learned that she had been named the first black woman president of American Bar Association (ABA) in 2015, and I was delighted to finally have the opportunity this month to learn about the important work she is doing in implicit bias training. But that’s just step one.

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Event Leadership Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Flying to present to a client in their office doesn’t mean someone is willing to mingle with hundreds of people at a conference or reception. In 2015 U.S. With demand for in-person event venues and vendors at historically low levels, expect supply to contract. Mask Wearing. Outlier examples don’t prove or disprove a hypothesis.(In

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Scott Kelly, former commander of the International Space Station, who in 2015 set a record for the most total accumulated days spent in space by an American astronaut. But “how good you are at the beginning of anything you do is not a good indicator of how good you can become,” said Capt. His twin brother, Capt. Zero Tolerance’.

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Endless Events

APRIL 26, 2019

You should actually hire your AV company before you even sign your venue contract. So let’s say, for example, you have a digital marketing conference. Before signing any contracts make sure your quote is final. Know When to Hire Your AV Company. Ideally, your AV company should be one of the first vendors you hire.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

First Sight Media has seen its turnover grow by over 20 per cent year on year since 2015 when it established itself as an event streaming and video production specialist. The purchase of Visions Unlimited, located in Suffolk, will complement First Sight Media’s extensive client base and experience in the events industry.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 30, 2016

Every few years the question comes up as to whether or not [procurement] should be handling our contracts,” she said. “We McDonald’s Corporation has been undergoing a major restructuring since 2015. We had one client whose procurement department planned a conference, and we handled everything for them,” Owen said. “I

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 1, 2018

What do you do when you’ve booked your ambitious biennial conference just as your country’s economy slips into a serious recession? Their solution was to harness a revenue resource that cost very little for its ROI: digital outreach.

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EncoreAPAC

MARCH 20, 2023

COP27’s revelations chime with the V-EX’s latest sustainability report, which states that a three-day conference with 800 attendees carries a carbon footprint of 455 tonnes of CO2 equivalents, which is the same as 455 return flights from Paris to New York. Encore’s evolving green journey started in 2015. Pass a global benchmark.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

In 2014, we brought in an outside consultant to help assess our security measures, and by 2015, we added metal detectors and bag checks for everyone coming to the show. We sit down with all our team members sometime in the first quarter to contract for the following year. Now, there are much bigger threats confronting events.

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Event Leadership Institute

JULY 26, 2018

I joined a team organising conferences and enjoyed the sense of achievement in completing each one successfully. Sleek Collective recently won their first 3-year contract to deliver winter activation at Chiswick House & Gardens Trust.”. Founder & Managing Director, Sleek Events.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

A few months before this announcement, I had a large conference where I pushed attendees further than they wanted to go by incorporating QR codes, iPads, and social media throughout the entire program. Opening morning (and the follow-ing days, too) of a conference in Las Vegas for 10,000 super-excited hair-dressers. Derek Anderson.

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TicketBud

MARCH 1, 2017

and so I recently left C3 to do some freelance independant contract work with landed me this opportunity with 3Can Events and the Austin Trail of Lights. So when an organization hires you, or contracts with you, what are they getting? It can be anything from a conference to a festival to a bake sale. Kayhan and Sean: Wow!

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PCMA Convene

JULY 22, 2024

The launch of Reduce 2 — so named to reflect the 2015 Paris Agreement to hold the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius — was also well-timed. That’s when the site selection contracts end — that’s now 2025,” Hansen said. The client had moved from host destination California to Barcelona, Spain.

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Eventtia

APRIL 12, 2023

Since 2015, Eventtia has helped countless leading brands from 50 countries to host over 100,000 successful events. Attendees can easily schedule one-on-one meetings via chat or video conference. Compare bids, negotiate contracts, and plan your budget without moving to another app.

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Planner WIre

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

There are a lot of platforms in the event and conference management space. At i3 Events, we have been using PlanningPod since 2015 for many of our clients. Welcome to the EventTech 12 PlanningPod Edition.

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Planner WIre

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

There are a lot of platforms in the event and conference management space. At i3 Events, we have been using PlanningPod since 2015 for many of our clients. Welcome to the EventTech 12 PlanningPod Edition.

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Planner WIre

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

There are a lot of platforms in the event and conference management space. At i3 Events, we have been using PlanningPod since 2015 for many of our clients. Welcome to the EventTech 12 PlanningPod Edition.

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Planner WIre

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

There are a lot of platforms in the event and conference management space. At i3 Events, we have been using PlanningPod since 2015 for many of our clients. Welcome to the EventTech 12 PlanningPod Edition.

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Eventtia

APRIL 12, 2023

Since 2015, Eventtia has helped countless leading brands from 50 countries to host over 100,000 successful events. Attendees can easily schedule one-on-one meetings via chat or video conference. Compare bids, negotiate contracts, and plan your budget without moving to another app.

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Plan Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

In fact, he says, the only widely adopted change he has seen is that meeting planners tend to include a clause in contracts that says they can cancel events because of terrorist acts. Segal advises choosing a venue with conference doors that can lock from the inside in case you need to keep someone out. What could possibly go wrong?

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Launched in July 2019, Cadre is compliantly simplifying event staffing and management from onboarding to contracting to payment. A fee is only applied if staff is contracted. The winners will be announced at the ETL live conference, which is also being held on a virtual conference platform. million visitors.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

2015 they acquired American Audio Visual. 2015, one year later. We were just talking with a bunch of those guys up in Edmonton for the Go West Conference. You can negotiate these contracts. But it’s in the contract is exclusive provider and that was non-negotiable. Brandt Krueger: So that was 2014.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 25, 2019

January 2015. Usually when hotels bring AV companies to bid on for the exclusive in-house AV contract hotels typically will go with the company that gives them the biggest kickback and the best incentives. Kelso & Co. January 2014. Olympus Partners, Goldman Sachs acquire PSAV . It Could Bring New and Fresh Opportunities.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 11, 2017

So if a planner] liked North Carolina in 2015, there’s no reason why they wouldn’t like it today. But what recourse do conference organizers have when discriminatory legislation is passed in a future host city that is already on the books? One way for conference organizers to protect themselves is through legal means.

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Converve

MAY 27, 2016

How efficient this approach is, is shown by the success quota: 92% of participants at ABM events in 2015 reported that they managed to make high quality contacts for follow-up business at the event. 20% of participants even managed to close contracts during the event! Plans for 2017: Expansion into the USA.

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