Tito Blog | An Event Blog for Organisers

JULY 24, 2019

JSConf and CSSconf have anonymised speaker applications for their conferences. We were also thinking about how we could reduce bias in our speaker search. When I joined the team in 2015 it was like: other events have a scholarship programme, it can’t be that hard, let’s have it too. Are they involved in a local community?

2015

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.

2016

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. percent in the 2015 survey). 2015 Event-supply rentals. We’re lowering guarantees and budgets to account for the decrease.”.

Marketing

PCMA Convene

MARCH 26, 2019

Web hosting company GitHub launched its first conference for software developers in 2015 at San Francisco’s Pier 70. You get up close and personal with the speakers,” Spaniolo said. Sponsorship packages included options for interactive components and demo stations, and the customization was virtually limitless.

Meetings

TicketBud

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

David Bisset details his experience using Slack to organize WordCamp Miami 2015. Sponsorships, speakers, and volunteers all had their own channel to avoid the messiness of a single, public chat. When Google Docs & smoke signals ended up not working, David turned to Slack and saw awesome results.

Event Planning

Bizzabo

MAY 2, 2019

Nail Your Speaker Lineup. One thing this event series did extremely well was curate a roster of great speakers. First, they had their standard speakers that traveled to each location and delivered a similar keynote to the crowds at each stop. Yext also did a great job of bringing in unique speakers for each location as well.

Financial

PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Be a speaker. China, Germany, India, and Japan, told Convene that members’ names and photos are often displayed online as speakers or members of organizing committees without their knowledge to give a fake conference a sense of legitimacy. Some excellent speakers came from the U.S.,” Cover Illustration by Ollanski).

Conference

PCMA Convene

MARCH 1, 2018

This is the situation the Brazilian Spine Society and its conference organizer MCI Group-Brazil found themselves in just before 2015, after committing to the 2017 Brazilian Spine Society Congress, scheduled for April 18–22 in Rio de Janeiro. Their solution was to harness a revenue resource that cost very little for its ROI: digital outreach.

2017

Bizzabo

JUNE 20, 2018

The other thing is that the two areas of revenue for us are ticket sales and sponsorship sales. Sponsorship sales follow a pretty typical B2B sale cycle. Obviously the sponsorship sales—that's really a huge focus for us because that's repeatable revenue that can be renewed year over year. I think that's the main difference.

Conference

Eventtia

APRIL 12, 2023

Since 2015, Eventtia has helped countless leading brands from 50 countries to host over 100,000 successful events. The mobile app can also provide real-time information about the speakers, event agenda, sponsors, and more. Sponsorship: invite sponsors to the event page to give them more visibility.

2023

Bizzabo

APRIL 4, 2019

While we don't have access to exact numbers, here's what we know: full conference passes in 2019 cost $1,899 each and Dreamforce sell sponsorship packages, some of which cost over a million dollars. The list of 2019 speakers includes professionals from Best Buy, HP, and Fox. But let's talk revenue. Gainsight Pulse. Source: Gainsight.

2017

Bizzabo

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In fact, content marketing was found to be the most effective B2B marketing tactic in North America in 2015 (although a more recent study reveals email marketing to be the most effective marketing channel for events). Here are several ideas to get you started: Articles written by speakers, exhibitors and sponsors. Content Marketing.

B2B

PCMA Convene

MARCH 2, 2020

The event was the first of its kind, according to Nicole Osibodu and Liz Lathan, who along with Tom Spano founded Haute Dokimazo in 2015, after experiencing what they called “xylophone shaming” at a conference. They then asked attendees with topic expertise to act as facilitators instead of having speakers lead the sessions.

Speakers

Bizzabo

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

From here, you’ll get a better understanding of your ideal audience, content, speakers and experiences.". Attendees will appreciate that you and your team did the research to find out which speakers were from their area and made the conscious effort to include them within the speaker lineup. Source: BizBash.

2019

Eventtia

APRIL 12, 2023

Since 2015, Eventtia has helped countless leading brands from 50 countries to host over 100,000 successful events. The mobile app can also provide real-time information about the speakers, event agenda, sponsors, and more. Sponsorship: invite sponsors to the event page to give them more visibility.

2023

PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

The best day I’ve had in the meetings industry so far was in January 2015. Whether they are speakers, vendors, partners, or staff, we all have the common goal of inspiring attendees to take away ideas and connections that enable them to become more engaged, be more productive, and grow professionally.

2017

Event Industry News

JULY 4, 2022

The company’s robust platform includes tools for attendee, speaker, and exhibitor management; content delivery; gamification; reporting; engagement scoring; and much more — all of which can be configured easily in a short amount of time with the support of RainFocus’ client success team.

2022

TicketBud

AUGUST 28, 2023

But if you promote a premium experience, you need to build a budget for it with a firm understanding on how expenses and revenue streams (vendors, tickets and sponsorships) might make or break your bottom line. Marketing for the event touted celebrity guests, top-level speakers and a highly anticipated ball pit. Need convincing?

2009

Endless Events

JANUARY 28, 2020

The speakers tend to come in off the travel, right? “If we can get a list of, for example, emails of all the speakers. We’re going to make sure that we try and get the best speakers we can and the most speakers on the show to talk about what they’re talking about at the show. I love those.

Trade Shows

PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Key performance indicators, such as 2016 attendance vs. 2015 attendance, show an increase, but at a lesser rate than last year’s survey. Here are some topline results from this year’s survey compared to last year’s: › Size of 2016 convention/meeting budget vs. 2015 convention/meeting budget : +1.7 In the 2015 survey: +5.3

2015