Event Industry News

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Lead time – work with your venue finding agent to understand the metrics of your booking patterns; what is the optimum lead time to source a venue, negotiate best value, retain space on option to allow for site visits and exchanging of contracts, that results in the best value per delegate?

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Building events since : 2015. Building events since : 2015. Feature : If fully immersive 3D is among your non-negotiables for your event platform, EXVO just might be the right fit for you. Building events since : 2015. Building events since : 2015. Click here to listen or read about the episode! Albert’s Aha!

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Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 3, 2018

As a one man show at DPA, I am involved in all aspects of the planning process, including site selection, vendor acquisition and management, contract negotiation, budget development/reconciliation as well as social media outreach and management. and marry my interest in event coordination with the non-profit sector.

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Endless Events

APRIL 12, 2019

They will also help negotiate out any unnecessary venue fees. If they are not included you can try to negotiate this fee out before signing. #11. If the venue WiFi doesn’t fit your needs you can always negotiate to use a 3rd-Party Supplier who will be able to tailor the WiFi to exactly what you need for your event. #8.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 11, 2017

If a hotel accepts Bitcoin in payment, planners could potentially negotiate better prices by reducing the cost of fees third parties typically charge for processing transactions. After a rapid rise in value in 2013, the cryptocurrency’s value more than halved by mid-2015. How much does the value of Bitcoin fluctuate?

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Event Industry News

JUNE 13, 2022

First appointed to the position in January 2020, Benaderet negotiated and booked multi-venue and multi-year agreements for her nationwide team, with a focus on increasing relationships and generating revenue by booking daytime meetings, social events, and third party-promoted special events. She joined the department in 2015.

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Hubilo Blog

MARCH 7, 2020

She’s a past president of Meeting Professionals International, Chicago and has been named as one of the 40 under 40 in the meetings industry by Connect magazine in 2015. Annette Naif : For 25+ years, Annette has been helping clients plan events combining her expertise in strategic negotiating, on-site management and crisis management skills.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I went to Dubai in 2015 with PCMA for the Dubai Meetings Forum. She will be part of “Negotiating Beyond the Typical Venue Contract” on January 7 at 3:30 p.m. When you look back on your involvement with PCMA, what stands out as your favorite memory or favorite event? The international trips with PCMA are high on my list.

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Endless Events

APRIL 26, 2019

Often venues will give you discounts and pressure you to use In-House AV but realize this is completely negotiable and you do not need to. They will also help negotiate out any unnecessary venue fees. Before locking into any agreements look around! Check out several AV companies, in-house, and 3rd-party alike!

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 8, 2017

Science published an article in 2015 in which an evolutionary biologist was quoted. Katie says negotiating can be uncomfortable for women, so many don’t do it or back off too quickly. AM-T: But she says that is not a reason to avoid it – and anyone seeking negotiation tips will find a whole podcast on that from last year.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 30, 2016

I know where my negotiation points are, and where I can bring expenses down to create more value for the company.’”. For meeting professionals who work hard at building relationships and excel at negotiation, requiring sign-off from a procurement team — or even having procurement run the RFP process — can be a hard pill to swallow.

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Unique Venues

MAY 19, 2021

Benaderet notes that one of the first things she and her team did when establishing the department in 2015 was to visit every one of the venues in their robust portfolio to understand the layout of the various spaces and how each could best be used. LIVE in Los Angeles and Bowery Presents Venues on the East Coast.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Smart Meetings was also recognized for two honorable mentions in the categories of standalone digital magazine for its October 2015 digital edition and B-to-B overall design for its monthly print magazine. Every win is a team effort and a testament to our place in the industry.”. About Smart Meetings 360, Inc.:

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Since MPI Academy launched in August 2015, it has successfully introduced more than 200 hours of live and on-demand educational courses, webinars, seminars and certificate programs that address the meeting and event industry’s greatest challenges with bespoke solutions, best and next practices and application-based learning formats.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

You learn so many things about yourself… [including] how to negotiate with other people. When ParticipACTION released its 2015 report card grading the physical activity levels of children in Canada, the country received a D-. It’s physical, it’s emotional, it’s fun.”. Having an Impact.

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Plan Your Meetings

JANUARY 3, 2018

The MPI Academy, launched in 2015, is a central depot for the well of education and learning experiences available from the world’s largest meeting and event industry association. Art of the Deal: Strategic Hotel & Contract Negotiations. Give yourself a gift by investing in your own future. The MPI Academy.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2016

GRAHAM Because we hosted the World Meeting of Families and a papal visit in September [2015], there was a lot of beautification and infrastructure that was added that will have a lasting effect on attendees going forward. Ultimately, we were able to resolve the issue and secure the rooms needed.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Taking place throughout the show, they were led by Tahira Endean, who was recognized in 2015 as one of the Top Five Women in EventTech and who now specializes in explaining the integration of technology into our lives, businesses and events. Among the initiatives that IMEX America has introduced to meet this need is the EventTechTours.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Most mature markets continue to experience healthy growth, with the exception of France, which stagnated in 2015 due to strong decline in the B2C trade-fairs segment partly because of the recent terrorist attacks. Did anything surprise you about the exhibition sector’s performance in 2016? and France.

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Planning Pod

JULY 13, 2022

When Laura first joined the Barber Vintage Motorsports events team in 2015, they were using a variety of scattered and disconnected software tools to manage all of their in-house and private events. “We We had an in-house system for managing staffing and company documents.

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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. Compare bids, negotiate contracts, and plan your budget without moving to another app.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Oren is one of the world’s leading experts on sales, raising capital and negotiation. The class was the first Deep Learning course offering at Stanford and has grown from 150 enrolled in 2015 to 330 students in 2016, and 750 students in 2017. Where to find him? Tweet to him on @karpathy Back to top. Keynote speakers on Big Data.

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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. Compare bids, negotiate contracts, and plan your budget without moving to another app.

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Hubilo Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The class was the first Deep Learning course offering at Stanford and has grown from 150 enrolled in 2015 to 330 students in 2016, and 750 students in 2017. Together with Fei-Fei, Andrej designed and was the primary instructor for a new Stanford class on Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition (CS231n). Where to find him?

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Ever wished you could step inside the pages of Field & Stream, the magazine published in print from 1895 until 2015 (don’t worry, you can still enjoy its digital content)? Get ready for your dream to come true in winter of next year. Know what a “travel maximizer” is? Hilton is here to tell you all about it.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

From stories about fax machines to photos of 3D projection mapping, from advice about negotiating piles of paperwork to a roundtable discussion among female CEOs, we’ve gone from serving an industry in its infancy to one that has come of age. Does a planner’s attitude make a difference when negotiating with hotels?”

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Canadian Special Events

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The challenge is keeping the costs to create the activations manageable and potentially negotiating with the sponsor to underwrite these expenses in addition to their cash investment. In 2015, one installation included an interactive food performance (work entitled “So Sorry”) by artist Jennifer Rubbel. Use of Technology.

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Event Leadership Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Mind your money with battles over escrow deposits to suppliers and more room to negotiate venue commissions. In 2015 U.S. Be prepared for unpredictable attendance, with more no-shows as people hesitate about returning. Outlier examples don’t prove or disprove a hypothesis.(In Unpredictability of Attendance.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 31, 2016

There’s continually a lot of give and take and continually a lot of negotiation. In September 2015, Philadelphia hosted a visit from Pope Francis in conjunction with the World Meeting of Families — a huge event that at its peak drew an estimated 1 million people to the city’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway for a Papal Mass.

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