Smart Meetings

AUGUST 17, 2018

Australia Forum was first pitched in 2015. It was to consist of multiple exhibition halls, a 24,000-square-foot ballroom, 18 meeting rooms and Centre for Dialogue, which would accommodate meetings in the round. of meeting space. The 1996 eastern side would get renovated and outfitted with new meeting rooms and a lobby.

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SmartMeetings

JULY 11, 2016

Las Vegas is not only the entertainment capital of the world; it is also one of the top destinations for trade shows. In 2015, Las Vegas was named the No. 1 trade show destination for the 22nd consecutive year in the Trade Show News Network’s (TSNN) “2015 TSNN Top 250 Trade Shows in the United States” list.

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Connect Your Meetings

JUNE 28, 2017

Over the next few years, Kalahari Resorts & Conventions will ramp up its efforts to draw meeting planners to its most recent Poconos property and a brand-new resort in Round Rock, Texas. Opened in July 2015, Kalahari Poconos revealed Phase 2 of its construction on March 8. Kalahari’s first property, Wisconsin Dells, opened in 2000.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 30, 2016

As the founder and CEO of 360 Live Media, a marketing and experience design agency, Don Neal has watched decades-old annual meetings struggle to stay relevant in the era of TED Talks and South by Southwest. These associations certainly aren’t the only organizations rethinking their meeting strategies right now. XPONENTIAL.”.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 30, 2016

NAAA reasoned that the new door not only would benefit NAAA, which promised to commit to future conventions in Savannah, it also would enable SITCC to host other groups that exhibit aircraft as part of their trade shows. Considering that NAAA’s two follow-on bookings each had an economic impact of $1.8

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Today’s iconic guest, Deanna Nwosu , thinks that all event and meeting planners should nurture an entrepreneurial spirit. For almost 20 years, Deanna has worked on fundraisers, conferences, trade shows, and other events ranging in size from 10 to 20,000 attendees. A lot of our predecessors fell into event coordination.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2016

Feeling overwhelmed by technology is a common sentiment expressed by meeting-professional respondents to Convene surveys, who say that they struggle with the fast pace of change, the latest tech tools and up-to-the-minute applications, and the shiniest new things. What about meeting organizers themselves? Artificial Intelligence.

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The lab communicates on behalf of the partners with journalists, event professionals and event organisers at trade shows, conferences and professional association events. James is one of the true personalities of the Event Tech scene, so joining the Event Tech Lab when we first started out in 2015 was a no-brainer. Brand Events.

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Capterra Event Management

APRIL 26, 2016

Airfare prices are estimated to be about 15% lower in 2016 compared to 2015 due to drops in oil prices and increased competition. Overall meeting spending in North America is set to increase by 1.9% The top three most popular destinations for meetings are: Orlando, FL, Las Vegas, NV, and Chicago, IL.

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Bizzabo

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Conferences and tradeshows account for one-fifth or more of planned meetings activity in North America and Europe. Global Experience Specialists , 2015). Global Experience Specialists , 2015). Global Experience Specialists , 2015). Global Experience Specialists , 2015). Global Experience Specialists , 2015).

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EventMB

MAY 26, 2022

EventRebels adds a configurable online and onsite event registration, membership authorization for conference and trade show attendees, and lead retrieval to the Cadmium platform. Fireflies.ai’s meetings assistant promises to record, transcribe, and search across your voice conversations. Freeman Partners with Hubilo.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The possibilities are truly endless when designing a custom floor plan for your Remo event that immerses attendees to any imaginable location (trade show floor, the moon, the beach, relaxing networking lounge). Attendees can personalize their agenda, meet in the app with video meetings, and even save the video files for review.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 30, 2016

3D Media clients have offered this at two recent medical shows, with Alcon sponsoring a poster with a cross-section of the eye at the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s 2015 Annual Meeting, and Synergy Pharmaceuticals sponsoring a poster of the digestive tract at Digestive Disease Week 2016. “I Think jewelry, food, wine.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2021

At the time, Davis said that some established trade shows around the restaurant industry and natural products were “paying attention” to the topic, but the education offerings were broad and barely scratched the surface. The Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) is a registered trademark of the Events Industry Council.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Whether a paid for conference, trade show or large consumer event our teams and software can be scaled up to meet the complex demands of your events. Our modular product suite provides event organisers with all the tools to deliver an exceptional service for visitors and exhibitors alike.

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e2m.live

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Business card scanning tool: Scanning tools are used to collect and save information from business cards or trade show badges of event attendees. Meeting scheduler tool: Event apps reduce the grunt work of sales teams by taking charge of follow up tasks until leads show interests to meet or call sales representatives.

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Quickmobile

DECEMBER 28, 2017

If trade shows, conferences, sales meetings and other corporate events can benefit from the networking and connecting power of mobile apps, why would it be any different at a training event? This blog was originally published on Sept. It has been edited for updates and accuracy. Every training event has a social element to it.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 14, 2017

First a look at the numbers, taken from a decade’s worth of data gathered in Convene ‘s Meetings Market Survey: The average room pickup in 2007 was 6,009 — in 2016 it was 3,449. Trade shows had more rooms booked outside the block vs. meetings.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Las Vegas is one of the world’s top destinations for trade shows. In 2015, the city was named the No. 1 trade show destination for the 22nd consecutive year in the Trade Show News Network’s (TSNN) “2015 TSNN Top 250 Trade Shows in the United States” list.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The newest study from Oxford Economics on the economic significance of the meetings industry is out, illustrating the size and impact of meetings, conferences, incentive travel programs, and trade shows. million meetings • 251 million meeting participants. The meetings industry in 2016 supported: • 5.9

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2017

In the world of business events, VR is already transforming how some destination marketing organizations work with meeting planners, from saving time and money on sites visits, to creating jaw-dropping experiences at shows. Travel Association’s IPW show in June 2015. “We MobiManage developed the Meet L.A.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the meetings and conventions industry is built on relationships — one on one, face to face, rooted in competence and trust. So when we decided to do something different for the fifth year of our Best in Show awards, it didn’t take long to figure out what. Our readers did not disappoint.

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Hubilo Blog

MAY 26, 2020

The internet has disrupted the way we used to meet and gather at a physical venue for any purpose. Virtual meetings are interactions between two individuals or across a group of people online. They can communicate or e-meet with each other and share their insights, experiences, or anything. Westuc, 2015). Trade-shows.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 13, 2018

Bleisure travel is on the rise, and some parents bring children along for the ride if babysitting is available at the meeting destination. Meet Shelfpack , a suitcase featuring collapsible shelves that pop up upon opening. The post Suitcase Superlatives: Best Carry-Ons, Checked Bags and More appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

Over the 24 days she was on site for the 2016 LA Auto Show, Toennies — executive vice president and general manager of ANSA Productions, which owns and operates the show — logged 160 miles on her FitBit as she regularly walked the perimeter to verify that security personnel were in their proper positions. How big is the security team?

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 1, 2018

That’s because The Toy Association, which hosts the 30,000-attendee trade show at the Javits Center in New York City, created ShopToys365.com com : a free platform that lets buyers and sellers build relationships year-round, without (gulp) needing to wait for a trade show. It’s an enhancement.”. International Outreach.

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Hubilo Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Take demos of your top vendors, understand how far their product can meet your requirements and then pick the best fit. Global Experience Specialists , 2015. Global Experience Specialists , 2015. Your research must include their overall appeal, their previous clients and the events they have powered along with past feedback. .

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2016

Thanks to advocates from within the meetings industry, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) now recognizes “meeting, convention, and event planners” as a standalone business sector, separate from lodging and tourism. Before 2015, meeting planners had appeared in the same sub-sector as lodging managers, restaurateurs, and dishwashers.

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Converve

AUGUST 5, 2016

Trade show organizers that see themselves purely as space rental companies are under pressure. More and more exhibitors question the return-on-invest of their trade show participations. The visitor (or hosted buyer) is committed to completing a certain number of appointments with exhibitors at the trade fair.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 1, 2016

Bloom founded IMEX Group, which organizes international trade shows for meetings, events and incentive industry. His very popular shows are held annually in Las Vegas and Frankfurt, Germany. Before he passed away in 2012, he helped put Orlando on the meetings map, as the city welcomed a record 51.5

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 20, 2016

There were more reasons than ever to attend IMEX America 2016, the biggest three-day exposition for incentive travel, meetings and events, which concluded yesterday at Sands Expo and Convention Center at The Venetian | The Palazzo Las Vegas. Among the initiatives that IMEX America has introduced to meet this need is the EventTechTours.

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Connect Your Meetings

JUNE 4, 2018

In January 2016, two of Georgia’s destination marketing organizations, Meet College Park and Meet East Point, combined and rebranded to become ATL Airport District. When we initially started out, we were Meet College Park because we only handled one city. Two more organizations (Union City and Hapeville) quickly followed suit.

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Converve

AUGUST 5, 2016

Trade show organizers that see themselves purely as space rental companies are under pressure. More and more exhibitors question the return-on-invest of their trade show participations. The visitor (or hosted buyer) is committed to completing a certain number of appointments with exhibitors at the trade fair.

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Capterra Event Management

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Feb 21, 2015: Eventbrite, the Best Way to Sell Out your Event Online. Meetings Podcast. Meetings Podcast, hosted by Mike McAllen, is a much more detail oriented program surrounding event management problem solving, such as event logistics and technical issues. June 1, 2016: The 5 W’s of Standing Out At Your Next Trade Show.

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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. During COVID, people tried virtual trade shows and organizers saw revenue streams rapidly disappearing if that became the way of business going forward.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

It seems like you wanted to explore personal passions or interests or hobbies, as opposed to going to a professional conference or a giant commercial trade show. Once I got there, that’s when I realized this is really a trade show and it kind of felt outside the realm of the other conventions that were clearly going to be in the book.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly created the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in which 17 goals were created. These can be addressed in every event from conferences and seminars, to trade shows and festivals. Ensure your panels/workshops/meetings are gender-balanced and you have achieved goal 5.

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