Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The 2016 salary survey, launched in April this year, was contracted to survey specialist Explori. The post AEV publishes 2016 Salary Survey appeared first on Event Industry News. Rachel Parker, AEV director explains, “The survey was carefully designed to understand the earnings and […].

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Planning Pod

JANUARY 17, 2017

That was a period when conferences were being cancelled, meetings dramatically cut back and weddings put on hold, and since then clients and promoters have generally taken a more judicious and measured approach to event budgeting and spending. Negotiate contracts with ferocity. Here’s a great post on writing headlines and names.

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Eventinterface

AUGUST 15, 2016

Mia Monroe is an award-winning certified special event, meeting and government meeting professional, speaker, author of trade articles and the conference and event manager for NASA Johnson Space Center’s Human Health and Institutional Management contract for Florida-based AllPoints, LLC. Conference and Event Manager.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 3, 2020

Karishma Vaswani, Asia business correspondent of BBC World News, chairs the session Asian Capital Going Global during the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference (BFA) in Boao, south China’s Hainan Province, March 24, 2016. Credit: Yang Guanyu/Xinhua/Alamy Live News. How else can your speaker add value during the event?

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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. Here are some highlights of the results: Size of 2017 convention/meeting budget vs. 2016 convention/meeting budget — -1 percent compared to +1.7

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 5, 2018

As it turns out, the notion of an inclusion rider — a clause that an actor can insist be inserted in his or her contract requiring that the cast and crew on a film meet a certain level of diversity — was first floated at a conference. the presenters and speakers) engage audiences with captivating stories.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 17, 2019

GL events has raised its target for annual growth following the announcement of five new contracts in Europe, South America and Asia, representing a total value of €70 million in sales. Two further contract wins will see the group provide large-scale audience seating grandstands.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 24, 2018

When Marriott acquired Starwood in September 2016, it added 11 new brands—including Sheraton and Westin—that contained some of the leading hotels in the world. The Westin Copley Place, Boston. The purchase strengthened Marriott’s presence in many locations, and has been a total game-changer in some places, such as Boston.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 13, 2018

The announcement of two new contracts to deliver the event ticket sales and support service for the Witcombe Cider Festival 2018 and Noisily Festival 2019, coincides with the first-time delivery of their ‘On Sale to On Site’ service for Sunflowerfest in Northern Ireland. TheTicketSellers has scored a hat-trick when it comes to new clients!

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PCMA Convene

JULY 20, 2020

One of the 9,000 tweets during the Allied Genetics Conference included art created by the attendees. For the Genetics Society of America (GSA), the stakes were even higher: The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC) , which was scheduled for April 22-26, 2020, in Washington, D.C., Most of the tweets, organizers say, were positive.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 9, 2019

I also manage the pre-show selection process, including contracting, site selection and visitation. Impressive stats: Since the implementation of both events in 2016, our Training@HQ program has brought in more than $50,000 per year. What I am working on now: I’m gearing up for our annual WASTECON conference in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 6, 2016

The Senior Planners Industry Network is doing something unprecedented this fall: it is waiving the typical registration fees for SPINCon, its 7 th annual conference taking place November 13-15 in Ft. The Call for Speakers for the annual conference generated three times the normal amount of session submissions.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 8, 2020

Martin Conference Center. Metrock has hosted a series of meetings on voice activation in different industry sectors since 2016, around the time of the launch of Amazon’s “Alexa” device. Because Score Publishing’s events are geared to audiences of 100 to 800, Metrock doesn’t contract for room blocks. Registration Cycles.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Out and about in Dublin at LavaCon 2016. Jack Molisani has produced an annual event for senior-level content managers, LavaCon Content Strategy Conference, in cities throughout the United States for the past 15 years. So Molisani organized LavaCon in Dublin in 2016. So I signed the contract with Croke Park, yay.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 31, 2020

Founded in 2016 by former MeetingRooms.com CEO, ?Caleb As with other Newable workplaces, Bold will be offered to hotel investors and asset owners through franchise and contract agreements. Caleb Parker?,

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

am, walking 25,000 steps at conference and rated by Forbes as the fifth most stressful job. It’s no secret that there are examples where the agency which has submitted the most “competitive” bid has had to walk away from the contract in less than a year, as they have been unable to deliver on the work.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 8, 2021

As a conference organizer you may want to be more proactive than that. Hotels understand this, but what planners need to have is language in their contracts that the facilities will hold harmless and will defend the planner in any suits resulting from the service of alcohol,” he says. A Tipsy ‘New Normal’?

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Bizzabo

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

This is a great resource packed with tips and tricks for event organizers on topics anywhere from gender inclusion and experiential design to negotiating contracts and live streaming your first event. Outside of the podcast series, EventLAB hosts a number of in-person events and a flagship two-day conference.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Adrian Ott (from left), Clare Melton, and Ori Lahav discuss the rising costs associated with planning conferences and events at Convening EMEA 2023. The suggestion to co-locate smaller and larger events in the same location and negotiate venue and hotel contracts together came from an audience member.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 28, 2016

But neither brother showed any early promise as a high achiever, they told the audience at the opening keynote at ASAE’s 2016 Annual Meeting & Exposition , held at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City on Aug. Participants created their own sessions using Open Space techniques. Zero Tolerance’.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 31, 2016

“We’re walking the talk,” said Julie Tonroy, CMP, ILFI’s director of conferences and events. Living Future 2016 , which was held at the Westin Seattle on May 11–13, brought together more than 1,000 architects, engineers, city planners, contractors, and others in the building and construction trades.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

At your next conference, your Millennial, Gen-X, and Boomer attendees will get to choose the sessions that best suit them — but they’ll all be together for the opening reception and closing party. ” Rorman and Owen both urge planners to pay close attention to contracts. ” What is important to look for in a contract?

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Capterra Event Management

JULY 19, 2017

There are many event types , big and small, such as conferences, seminars, meetings, team building events, trade shows, business dinners, networking events, product launches, and award ceremonies. Will you provide in-house catering services or contract out for catering? Not every event planning business is the same.

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Social Tables

MAY 14, 2019

But for larger events like a conference or a community-wide event, the attendee pool is likely to be a lot more dynamic. At a recent conference hosted by the company, planners put some of these personas to use in their own planning to create unique experiences for each. In most cases, the details of the proposal aren’t set in stone.

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Connect Your Meetings

MAY 4, 2017

What I do: I started my business, Z—Factor, two years ago with the goal of providing tools to help hotels and conference centers increase their revenues. Demandoutlook.com, our conference benchmarking tool, is one of our most successful. About two years later, I’m hiring around 60 people on contracts.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 9, 2019

I have a combined deep industry knowledge with experience design and project management, while maintaining excellent stakeholder relationships to elevate customer engagement in my company’s annual conference. When I moved to the Washington D.C.

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Social Tables

DECEMBER 13, 2016

So, let’s say you are tasked with planning a small conference in a foreign country perhaps on another continent. APEX may also be a good reference point when it comes to contracts, however, the quality and availability of equivalent resources for other regions is inconsistent. Where do you start? Research the Culture. Click To Tweet.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 30, 2022

The campaign to eliminate single-use plastic from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which hosts corporate and group events, began with a conversation in its gift shop in 2016. The initiative, however, spread from Monterey throughout SSA, which has contracts with more than 75 cultural attractions across the U.S.,

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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 We had one client whose procurement department planned a conference, and we handled everything for them,” Owen said. “I A detailed scope of work may be the best weapon in the quiver.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 30, 2019

In an opinion piece for The Dallas Morning News, Sam Merten, a member of the Opportunity Dallas board of directors and the City of Dallas Citizens Homelessness Commission, took issue with Jones’ salary, calling it “a staggering compensation of $670, 317” in 2016. billion budget and 13,000 employees, earns $395,000 annually.”.

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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. This is always evolving.

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Plan Your Meetings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Be candid with the venue and build the option to scale down to a smaller room into your contract. Build the option to move to a more affordable sister property into your contract. In fact, build this into your contracts. When the event was cancelled, Aaron Kaufman, Liz King and Dahlia El Gazzar conferred online.

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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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The Planner's Lounge

MARCH 21, 2024

Veronica, Association of Bridal Consultants [00:05:43] Our World of Weddings conference is the top thing that brings people in. Love that I have been to so many conferences. I was cleaning my office and found notebooks full of conference notes that I was like, oh yeah, that was a good idea. I don’t even have a contract.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

In fact, a frequent comment voiced by meeting planners responding to Convene ’s 2016 Salary Survey was that they wished they were allowed to work from home more often. One day I was on the phone in the Chicago office for eight hours straight, door closed, on conference calls all day long with no face-to-face meetings,” Malone said.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2016

An entrepreneur and author who previously collaborated with LinkedIn cofounder Hoffman on The Startup of You , Casnocha will discuss the realities of managing people in the free-agent era during a General Session presentation at the PCMA 2016 Education Conference in St. Louis next month. If talent is your No.

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