PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When we invited event professionals to participate in this Annual Meetings Market Survey in November, the U.S. Similarly, the chief indicators of the business-events industry continued to reflect a healthy economic environment, with mostly positive increases. percent in the 2016 survey. percent in the 2016 survey.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Last week I shared five ways explicit communication improves meetings. The meeting schedule changes mid-event. As a facilitator I sometimes change the processes I’m using to meet uncovered participants’ needs. Not surprisingly, many attendees got lost and were late for sessions during the meeting.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 17, 2017

At Convening Leaders 2017 in Austin, Texas, Amanda Marijanovic interviewed Stephanie Brown, vice president of education and conferences for the American Wind Energy Association , where Brown talked about how she reinvented the organization’s 2016 trade show.

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Canadian Special Events

DECEMBER 28, 2016

International Live Events Association (ILEA) Vancouver joined together with the BC Chapter of Meeting Professionals Intl (MPI) for a holiday event of epic proportions. The theme of the event truly echoes the co-operative and supportive working environment that the event and meeting industry in BC is proudly creating.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2016

So, as we — Convene ‘s five on-staff writers and editors — looked back over 2016, we asked ourselves this question: What’s one meeting trend we’ll be keeping an eye on next year? . I expect that high-tech events themselves will help transition the rest of the events space into using next-gen tools.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Hybrid meetings typically operate in silos. At its 2017 Annual Meeting at the New Orleans Ernest N. 10–14, the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) debuted a new virtual-meeting ambassador program to create a stronger connection between the different environments. The American Academy of Ophthalmology Lobby.

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Event Farm

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Linder works with organizations to understand and absorb their mission, helping them produce innovative and experiential events that not only engage and inspire attendees, but also provide actionable and measurable results. Rachel Dobroth, Director, Meetings and Events at Social Tables. eventfarm !

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 25, 2019

At her tour company, Big Foody PDX, which she founded in 2016, Morgan organizes truffle-foraging expeditions at a forested Willamette Valley vineyard and walking tours through neighborhoods in east Portland that include conversations with the artisanal food producers who have helped put the city on the culinary map.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 17, 2017

In the interview, Brown talked about how AWEA integrated education and exhibitions for the organization’s 2016 meeting. And for more about managing sound at meetings, see Convene’s “Complete Guide to Noise at Meetings.”. .

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

The meetings industry is not so simple anymore. Today’s intense focus on key performance indicators, event-tech stacks and designing brilliant experiences has made the need for advanced education—from a university, association or DIY commitment—almost a requisite for getting hired…and for thriving. Certified Meetings Experts.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 5, 2016

More of my experiences and takeaways for event professionals from the wonderful five-day improv and mindfulness workshop Mindful Play, Playful Mind , held June 8-13 2016, at Mere Point on the beautiful Maine coast — followed by their relevance to event design ( red ). Here’s Part 1.). The YOU game. Near Atlanta?

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

Event Details. National Association of Medical Examiners 2016 Annual Meeting. 7–13, 2016 Hyatt Regency Minneapolis Minneapolis. Prior to NAME 2016, “Sunday afternoon had been devoted to a scientific field trip,” Aiken said. INITIATIVES.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 30, 2023

March will be a big month for the meetings and events industry to demonstrate its collective weight and influence both to government officials and the wider business world. On March 8, an event called Showcase, co-managed by PCMA and DI, will also bring together planners and suppliers for idea-sharing and networking.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 31, 2017

They’re enough a part of modern life that they have their own event: Emojicon 2016, co-founded by journalist Jennifer 8 Lee and tech-communities expert Jeanne Brooks, and held at Bespoke, a combination co-working, tech-demonstration, and event space at a downtown San Francisco shopping mall.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2018

But Laura Metcalf Jelinek, CAE, associate vice president of meetings and travel for the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), helped make both concepts work together at the association’s annual Osteopathic Medical Education Conference (OMED). The 2016 OMED conference, held in Anaheim, Oct. Letter Perfect. Letter Perfect.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Care to join us for some stimulating conversation about multi-hub meetings? Because this week’s episode of Event Tech Podcast is all about this up and coming, exciting topic. Everyone who works in the event industry knows the power of meetings. And who says we have to stop at single-hub meetings?

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Plan Your Meetings

MAY 29, 2019

Meetings are necessary. But what is not a given is an effective meeting. But often, we are faced with meetings that are either poorly managed, unnecessary or a huge time suck. But often, we are faced with meetings that are either poorly managed, unnecessary or a huge time suck. How much time do you spend in meetings?

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In 2016, a suite of galleries and meeting rooms opened as part of the growing MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology). The attic of the former Armenian church in Amsterdam’s Nieuwmarkt neighborhood has been converted into meeting space by MMousse, a genre-defying Amsterdam design collective — and it certainly inspires.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In 2016, a suite of galleries and meeting rooms opened as part of the growing MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology). The attic of the former Armenian church in Amsterdam’s Nieuwmarkt neighborhood has been converted into meeting space by MMousse, a genre-defying Amsterdam design collective — and it certainly inspires.

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EventMB

MAY 26, 2022

The New York-based company was founded in 2016 and previously specialized in easy-to-join 3D online collaboration spaces. After seeing tremendous growth in its non-headset offerings, Spatial is now pivoting to focus on metaverse cultural events, in particular NFT exhibitions. 20 July, 2021 ($5B valuation, including debt). June 3, 2021.

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The MICE

MARCH 1, 2022

I interviewed the event organiser, Dr. Carlos R. Wyss, Project Manager at Wasser-Agenda 21, who gave insights into the event design process. Wasser-Agenda 21 provides a platform for the stakeholders to meet and exchange about current and future water management challenges, aiming to provide solutions.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

After taking Think to the Australia and New Zealand market in 2016 and 2017, GPJ wanted to kick things up a notch for 2018. When we started the journey in 2016, we set out to challenge our audience to think differently about what was possible when technology and humanity came together. Data Capture.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

FoST participants travel to the meeting by private ferry. One of the things people comment about FoST is that they meet people who they’ve never met before, but who they somehow have something in common with.”. In 2016] I think we have 35 different pieces,” Melcher said. Everybody gets the chance to become a star.”.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 22, 2018

When ASAE President & CEO John Graham, FASAE, CAE, announced a bold, new registration-payment model for next year’s Experience Design Project (XDP) event during the Opening General Session of ASAE’s Annual Meeting in Chicago this past Sunday, the audience of around 6,000 attendees erupted in applause.

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Social Tables

APRIL 15, 2019

We’ve rounded up 20 of those innovative event theme ideas here, so you can spice up corporate events and social get-togethers alike — all summer long. Choosing a theme for corporate events? Corporate meetings such as conferences, trade shows, and other professional networking events are far from stuffy these days.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 8, 2016

Halfway through 2016, the demand for meeting space has reached levels “we have never seen in our lifetime,” says MGM Resorts International Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer Michael Dominguez, CHSE. What’s a planner to do?

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2017

After posting 25 consecutive quarters of year-over-year growth, the Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR) revealed that overall performance of B2B exhibitions declined in the final quarter of 2016. “We percent annual growth rate in 2016 was relatively sluggish, CEIR estimates that the trade-show industry will grow by 2.4

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2017

Humber, CGMP, GVEP, is no slouch when it comes to meetings. As special-event coordinator for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) at Harvard University, Humber has access to some of the most technologically advanced venues in the United States. Hackathons are a good way to accomplish both.”. “We

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Endless Events

MAY 19, 2020

Without question, personalized content is more effective a Demand Metric Study from 2016 found that 80% of people found personalized content more effective than content that hasn’t been personalized.” . Receiving personalized content improves attendees’ overall opinion of your event. But it doesn’t just stop at site visits! .

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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. Meanwhile, the average number of attendees in 2007 was 4,400, while in 2016 it was 5,201. .

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PCMA Convene

MAY 13, 2016

Morial Convention Center — which hosted Collision 2016 on April 25–28, right in the middle of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — was nothing but collisions. Here’s an edited version of our conversation with Murphy: What made you pick New Orleans for Collision 2016? Hall H of the New Orleans Ernest N. Absolutely.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 7, 2017

In addition to data about quantifiable things like the size, frequency, costs, and types of meetings, our Annual Meetings Market Survey also captures a wealth of data in the form of comments in response to a series of open-ended questions. Last week we published comments about the meeting industry’s biggest challenges.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Without question, personalized content is more effective a Demand Metric Study from 2016 found that 80% of people found personalized content more effective than content that hasn’t been personalized.” . Receiving personalized content improves attendees’ overall opinion of your event. 2020 Event Trends: Plan Events Virtually.

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Decibel Management

AUGUST 9, 2021

For the 2016 Rio Olympics, we got to see high-definition video playback of all our favorite events. The post Tokyo Olympics – By the Numbers (for Event Geeks) appeared first on Decibel Event Management. The Highest Quality Images Ever.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 27, 2017

At Convene , we’ve made it a year-end tradition to ask ourselves this question: What’s the one meeting trend we’ll be keeping an eye on next year? . As I worked on our January cover story on medical meetings, I took a deep dive into how AI is expected to disrupt health care over the coming years.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 26, 2016

By Special Events. We've got this year's ranking from our sister magazine, Special Events. See who made the list, and read about the trends DMCs are watching, including longer booking windows and higher customer expectations. read more.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

Convene has written a lot about groups that are consolidating their meeting portfolios—the American Society for Microbiology combining two annual conferences into one, the Consumer Bankers Association going from eight down to one—but the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) is going in the other direction.

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