Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Organizations are making tough decisions about how to–or even whether to–move forward with their upcoming conferences and expos. Learn what worked and what didn’t from two event pros who held major in-person conferences in late August and early September, from Covid compliance to the on-site vibe.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 26, 2018

Once you’ve observed the conference through the lens of your target customer and gained insights from conference data, you can move to the next steps. These steps are critical for you and your conference planning teams to embrace, enlist and employ. Define A Common Purpose And Goals Of The Conference Customer Journey.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Cramer reports that “Between the Conference Blocks, Conference Sessions, and Labs, there were literally 11 different ways for every attendee to experience every hour of the three day event.”. A Look Back at My 2016 Predictions. Finally, there’s the demand for data and intelligence capabilities I identified as a 2016 trend.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

After 35 years, the total dollars raised and invested in the business events industry is now $10 million and the group is in the midst of a matching fundraising campaign to help victims of the earthquake in Turkiye , which happens to also be the newly announced location for next year’s SITE Global Conference, Istanbul.

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Attendease

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Best Conference Technology. Attendease has won Best Event Website/ Mobile Site in 2016 and Best Attendee Management Technology in 2019. Best Event Management Platform. Best Hybrid Event or Live Streaming Solution. Best Event App. This is the 8th edition of the Awards and it's the most important recognition awards in the event industry.

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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The future success of your conference will depend on changing your culture to be one of inclusiveness. Want to know more on how you can infuse your conference culture with Radical Hospitality? Join us next Monday, October 24, 2016 at 2:00 PM EDT for our next free webinar, Developing Conference Radical Hospitality.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 26, 2017

This article was penned prior to the 2016 election. Impact on Healthcare Conferences? Here are four questions (and tips) for your conference committee to consider as they navigate this changing landscape: 1. Tip: have each conference committee member reach out to five to ten key attendees to understand their pressing priorities.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Why the SfN lost its way Bishop’s article gives the financial details, also available from the association’s 2016 (latest) IRS Form 990. To summarize, the Society for Neuroscience: Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post When association leadership loses its way appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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Event Farm

DECEMBER 19, 2016

As 2016 comes to a close, we at Event Farm are excited about the coming year and the opportunity to continue helping you—the event and marketing pros—drive business results through offline, in-person experiences. 8 Trends for Event Marketing in 2016 and Beyond. Yup, 2016 and beyond.

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Guidebook

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Check out some of our favorite new apps of 2016 and get inspired for your next build. In 2016 we saw over 30,000 guides get published on Guidebook’s Builder platform and we couldn’t be more proud. Here are our best guides of 2016 and some key takeaways. Here are our best guides of 2016 and some key takeaways.

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Gallus Events

JUNE 17, 2016

The event was held at one of the particular fantastic – and pretty new- ETC Venues in London and it was a day that promised something different from the standard association conference: and trust me, association conferences can be VERY STANDARD. Running events in this space has never been easy and it is certainly getting harder.

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Gallus Events

JULY 7, 2016

As well as the conference programme they have a prestigious awards: “The Best Events Awards stands out as the main European event industry recognition, an initiative to celebrate the best creativity and innovation applied to events.” The post Speaking at the EuBea Festival 2016 appeared first on Gallus Events.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 17, 2017

Over time, Conferences That Work grew into a website with ten million page views per year. But as 2016 drew to a close I noticed that something was changing in the Twitter world. Here’s a graph of my follower count over time: Read the full article at Conferences That Work. No related posts.

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Event Marketer

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Simone White, SVP-AfroTech and Live Events Since 2016, AfroTech has been the place where inclusive tech companies and Black professionals and innovators meet. In addition to its signature conferences, AfroTech hosts several happy hours and meetups throughout the year across the U.S. The media company, under Blavity Inc., How did it go?

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 2, 2023

When I decided in 2016 to start running on the dirt roads by my home , I was terrible at it. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post At 72 I’m running faster than ever appeared first on Conferences That Work. I didn’t predict this would happen. I couldn’t run up the first hill. After a few months, I could.

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Eventinterface

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

IMEX 2016 breaks attendee records, Event Pro Update launches and Bermudian returns to lead BTA in 2016. This and more in our latest news update for Meeting and Conference Planners. IMEX 2016 America Breaking Records Once Again. Analyzing the Conference Behaviors of Fortune 1000 Executives. More details.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Bishop’s article has the financial details, also available from the association’s 2016 (latest) IRS Form 990. To summarize, the Society for Neuroscience: Read the full article at Conferences That Work No related posts. .” —Dorothy Vera Margaret Bishop, Has the Society for Neuroscience lost its way?

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GEVME

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Malaysia’s most prominent business events conference returns for the fourth edition this December at the Setia SPICE Convention Centre. The conference targets the business events and hospitality industries. Today we have a story about Be @ Penang event.

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Gallus Events

JUNE 17, 2016

The event was held at one of the particular fantastic – and pretty new- ETC Venues in London and it was a day that promised something different from the standard association conference: and trust me, association conferences can be VERY STANDARD. Running events in this space has never been easy and it is certainly getting harder.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Velas Resorts Becky Melchi Benchmark Resorts & Hotels names Melchi director of sales for Wingspread Retreat & Executive Conference Center, an iconic Frank Lloyd Wright property in Racine, Wisconsin. Since 2016, he’s been front office manager of sister property Courtyard by Marriott Stamford Downtown.

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Eventinterface

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Meeting Professionals International (MPI) has published its Meetings Outlook 2016 Fall Edition in partnership with MGM Resorts International. The report highlights a greater awareness of security threats amongst meeting and conference planners, and increased spending on security measures.

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Event Farm

OCTOBER 27, 2016

When we launched our first industry conference in 2016 -- OFFLINE Summit -- we learned quite a bit about what conference and meeting planners go through in all realms. Securing sponsorship for a conference is sales. Many conferences do not ask that third question. What’s in it for them? Use social proof.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 20, 2018

A flexible wall system allows suite layouts to be modified for meetings, incentives, conferences and events (MICE) planners to accommodate specific attendees. They will feature private terraces, multiple dining venues, tech-enabled meeting room space and, of course, Wi-Fi. Luxury on the Rise.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 21, 2021

Venues of Excellence, the leading UK consortium for conferences, training, meetings and events, have taken a strategic decision to sell the business to Mandy Jennings, Director of Paje Consultancy Ltd.

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Event Marketer

APRIL 11, 2024

–Sharon Yi, SVP-Brand Solutions, Future plc Four ways the brand evolved its annual Power Trip conference into the always-on Power Play platform A curated group of 100 women kicked off Marie Claire’s reimagined Power Play summit in L.A. approaches its 30 th anniversary this fall.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 4, 2021

Burks has also held conference service positions at Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta, The St. During her tenure at Coconut Grove, Sanchez was awarded 2018 Leader of the Year, 2017 Greater Miami and the Beaches Hotel Association Inn Key—Spa Hospitality Leadership Award and 2016 Five Star Employee of the Year. Ellen LaMaire.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 24, 2021

After participants completed the pre-test survey independently, they initiated a conference call with their partner. In 2016, I experienced my first escape room. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Are Online Meetings Reducing Our Collective Intelligence? appeared first on Conferences That Work.

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 27, 2016

In this case, “there” was a wonderful five-day improv and mindfulness workshop Mindful Play, Playful Mind , held June 8-13 2016, at Mere Point on the beautiful Maine coast. Read the full article at Conferences That Work. Face The Fear—Then Change Your Conference Design! You had to be there. How I got there.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 2, 2022

And specific to the trends that were emerging in 2016, we are now wading waist-deep in most of them. Instead of finding some embarrassing miscalculations, I was delighted to see that our foundational ideas were fairly prescient. One that jumped out at me was a trend labeled “intelligent reduction.”

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

(Photo: Courtesy of Nvidia) Locations: San Jose, CA; Virtual Dates: March 18-21 Artificial intelligence has already begun dominating business conversations across industries this year, making Nvidia’s annual GTC conference for AI developers more relevant than ever. And interest in the concept is rapidly gaining steam.

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BizBash

OCTOBER 17, 2016

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 15, 2024

At the annual user conference Cvent Connect for a record 4,000 attendees in San Antonio this week, the event technology company which was purchased by Blackstone last year announced new products and acquisitions designed to better meet the needs of meeting professionals, whether planning simple events or complex hybrid affairs.

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BizBash

JUNE 28, 2018

Google is known for taking risks with its annual I/O conference. For its 10th anniversary in 2016, the massive developer conference.

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Event Farm

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

HubSpot’s INBOUND started in 2012 as a conference of 2,500 registrants. Last week, HubSpot hosted more than 19,000 attendees from 92 countries at INBOUND—an event that has become the annual marketing and sales conference. Keep reading to find out what event marketers and planners can learn from HubSpot’s conference.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Before moving to the California hospitality and wellness scene, Flora was owner and operator of The Retreat Day Spa in Birmingham, Alabama, which she opened in 2016. Before his present positions, Croke held the role of vice president of sales and marketing at The National Conference Center in Washington, D.C. Rachel Kaiama.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 3, 2022

Sands built Wyebot in 2016 after noticing a gap in the Wi-Fi industry. With the pandemic, video collaboration, teleworking, conferences, the staffing isn’t there to support all their needs. That’s what makes it so difficult.”. Most IT organizations are overloaded,” Sands says.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 2, 2023

In 2016 I wrote about what I call the New Year’s Resolutions Effect. [My Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Resolutions rarely work appeared first on Conferences That Work. Sadly, resolutions rarely work. In this post, I’ll share a couple of additional perspectives about making resolutions.

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