Smart Meetings

MAY 25, 2023

Cvent has just published its list of Top Meeting Destinations and Top Meeting Hotels for 2023: Nashville and San Diego moving up to the second and third spots after Orlando. 1 ranked meeting destination in the U.S. 1 in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 Nashville was named No. 1 ranked meeting destination in the U.S.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 28, 2016

American Accounting Association 2016 Annual Meeting Aug. 6–10, 2016 New York Hilton Midtown and Sheraton New York Times Square New York City. CHALLENGES   This year’s meeting doubled as a centennial celebration for AAA. Jones, AAA’s senior director of meetings and programs. The bar has been raised significantly.”.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2016

American Accounting Association 2016 Annual Meeting Aug. 6–10, 2016 New York Hilton Midtown and Sheraton New York Times Square New York City. Our Annual Meeting attendance growth leaves us faced with sourcing ample space,” said Erlinda L. “Our

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SmartMeetings

JANUARY 9, 2017

In 2016, the Windy City experienced a record number of visitors. million travelers visited the city in 2016. “We had an incredible and record-breaking year in 2016, but we are not stopping there. . “We had an incredible and record-breaking year in 2016, but we are not stopping there. The increase of 1.5

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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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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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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Featured Guests: Elizabeth Ambacher is the Vice President, Meetings and Expositions for the National Apartment Association (NAA) and oversees the strategy, planning, logistics and execution for all NAA meetings and events. Elizabeth holds a CEM from IAEE, DES from PCMA and is certified in the Neuroscience of Exhibitions & Events.

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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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Event Industry News

MAY 9, 2017

Ashfield Meetings & Events, a full-service global event management company that specialises in serving the healthcare sector and part of UDG Healthcare PLC, has announced its results for the financial year ending September 2016.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JUNE 17, 2024

Event industry foundation Meeting Needs celebrated their best fund-raising result for eight years at their annual showcase event at the Radisson Blu Bloomsbury recently. Anyone can help their favourite charity to benefit from a grant.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The New Year is upon us and as we look at 2022 for our meetings and group gatherings, we gaze into the future with bright eyes and positive grins and think, what the heck is going on? Event safety has become a priority, if not for meeting planners, then for attendees. Meeting planners don’t need to be IT gurus.

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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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Attendease

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

You’d think that, given that the Oxford Economics and Events Industry Council reports that “meetings generated $1,294 of spending per participant,” event and meeting planners would be given budgetary free rein to produce the kinds of events needed to generate these economic returns. A Look Back at My 2016 Predictions.

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Gallus Events

JUNE 17, 2016

They used Meeting Design. The post Event Review: Event Strategy, London, May 2016 appeared first on Gallus Events. I would like to commend the organisers in their desire to do things differently: doing things differently is so much harder than following the crowd. They had a gender balanced speaker programme.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 27, 2023

meeting space. Inspired by his mother’s Kentucky-style Southern cooking, DC native Roger Sherman’s passion for BBQ is evident in every mouth-watering detail of the smoked meats served up by The District Pit BBQ Catering Company since 2016. The post Immersive Meetings at The Smithsonian appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 7, 2017

The most recent report, released last month, compares the 2016 results against those from 2015, and helps identify three key opportunities. . Respondents to the 2016 survey indicated that streaming content with an emcee is particularly effective in engaging the virtual audience. Tracking the attendee journey. More takeaways: .

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Smart Meetings

MAY 15, 2023

When the $520 million opened the first week in May, it was hailed by the meetings industry as a “game-changer.” Smart Meetings : Which came first: the PGA move to Frisco or the resort opening? How is Omni PGA Frisco Resort a game changer for meeting planners both in and beyond the world of golf? They are experts at that.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Coming off of two wins for Best eNewsletter and Best Trade Publication (for our October 2015 issue) at the Western Publishers Association’s 2016 Maggie Awards in June, Smart Meetings has racked up two more trophies at the 2016 Digital Nichee Awards, which were announced during the Niche Digital Conference 2016, held Sept.

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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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Gallus Events

JUNE 17, 2016

They used Meeting Design. The post Event Review: Event Strategy, London, May 2016 appeared first on Gallus Events. I would like to commend the organisers in their desire to do things differently: doing things differently is so much harder than following the crowd. They had a gender balanced speaker programme.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 2, 2022

In 2016, the Montreal-based entrepreneur created Piccles, an interactive online platform where users create and share computer-generated drawings, as an outlet for his own creativity. “The drawings are great,” Piccles founder Chris Bent has said, “but the stories are gold.”.

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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. Should Meeting and Conference Planners Care About Event Technology? See the studie here.

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Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 24, 2016

We’ve been looking forward to Connect Marketplace 2016 all year, and now it’s finally here! And don’t forget to download the app: It will provide answers to many of your questions (search “Connect Meetings” in the app store). The post Thursday Preview: Connect Marketplace 2016 appeared first on Connect Association.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 30, 2016

Botany 2016 July 30–Aug. 3, 2016 Savannah International Trade & Convention Center Savannah, Georgia. CHALLENGES  Botany 2016’s organizers were looking for new ways to avoid holes in their education programming. 2016: Savannah. There was an abundance of food, and the band was really great.” 1,200 a ttendees.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 4, 2017

million visitors during 2016. The post How Houston Smashed Tourism Records in 2016 appeared first on Smart Meetings. Marriott Marquis Houston’s lazy river. Boosted by hosting Super Bowl LI and several other factors, Houston welcomed 20.5 The city’s 17.3 million domestic travelers and 3.2 billion to the local economy.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 16, 2016

&Meetings are proud to be the UK’s leading provider of flexible meeting room & training room solutions, with a portfolio of venues across London and Southern England. The post &Meetings shortlisted at the 2016 London Venue Awards appeared first on Event Industry News.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners 2016 Annual Meeting Nov. 13–16, 2016 La Quinta Resort and Club La Quinta, California. Malloy, CMP, CAE, NARUC’s director of meetings. “We To keep attendance stronger, we changed Wednesday’s start time from 9 to 8:30 a.m. We now plan to end at 11 a.m.,

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 30, 2016

National Association of Medical Examiners 2016 Annual Meeting Sept. 7–13, 2016 Hyatt Regency Minneapolis Minneapolis, Minnesota. CHALLENGES   In spite of what prime-time television would have you believe, the world of forensic pathology is a relatively small one — which can mean slim pickings for academic sessions.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 30, 2023

Meeting and event planners need to be aware of the values their organizations, companies, and clients want to demonstrate to their stakeholders. The venue continues to launch new initiatives with its goal to make meetings as responsibly sustainable as possible. Are you doing your part to lighten the carbon load? The best part?

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Capterra Event Management

APRIL 26, 2016

Lucky for you we have compiled a list of event statistics and trends that will be important to your events and attendees for 2016 and beyond! Airfare prices are estimated to be about 15% lower in 2016 compared to 2015 due to drops in oil prices and increased competition. A large new supply for meeting planners.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Meetings don’t look how they used to. But when it comes to trends, where should meeting industry professionals put their focus? Here are five meeting industry trends that are changing the game. In 2016, millennials became the largest segment in the U.S. Attendees want more control over the meeting agenda.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2016

Fewer meeting professionals received raises compared with year before, and those increases also were significantly smaller than the previous year. All material © 2016 by PCMA. This survey, conducted in March 2016, was completed by more than 400 respondents. But only one-third of respondents were unhappy with their paychecks.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

When we invited event professionals to participate in this Annual Meetings Market Survey in November, the U.S. 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 compared to +4.9

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Social Tables

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Meeting and event planners across any industry are looking for new and exciting venue types. Here are our top five best event venues and top five best overall set design at New York Fashion Week 2016. . The post Fashion Event Design: What We Learned from New York Fashion Week 2016 appeared first on The Social Tables Blog.

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SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Brexit Will Not Stop Innovative Meetings in London. Brexit will, eventually, have a substantial impact on European travel, but that’s not to say it will halt meetings there. In fact, London is more equipped than ever to handle high-tech meetings, marketing itself as the Silicon Valley of Europe. 15 Items Hotels Could Eliminate.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Group gatherings in conference meetings spaces are great. Group gatherings in meeting spaces with a haunted, scary story behind them are better—or, at least, more adventurous. Meeting profs need not deal with spiritual maids or gamblers when planning an event in the property’s 11,000 sq. Congress Plaza Hotel. The Stanley Hotel.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Change is imminent — and in the meetings industry, it’s upon us. Here’s how the meetings industry is changing the game. In 2016, millennials became the largest segment in the U.S. With that, they’re also now the largest pool of potential meeting attendees. Millennials are the decision makers now.

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