EventMB

APRIL 4, 2023

It was meant to be the first in-person show since 2019. Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Skift Take: 65,000 attendees, 4,000 jobs, and $88 million in revenue won't be coming to Los Angeles in June, with leading video-game-industry trade show E3 canceled for 2023. Will other events follow suit?

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 27, 2020

Meeting and group travel, which is the last travel segment expected to return, plays a large part in hotel and destination travel recovery. The pricing and margins that facilities and suppliers enjoyed in 2019 will not fly in a world where conference organizers are only realizing 70% of their revenue goals. The Trickle-down Effect.

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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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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 5, 2022

It’s expected that meetings in Q3 or Q4 will outperform those held in the first half of this year. A lot of meetings operating in Q1 and Q2 ended up extending their early-bird deadlines multiple times. Attendees will not be motivated to save $100 for registering early when you have the same cancellation policy as 2019.

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EventMB

MAY 5, 2022

What were meeting planners discussing at the first in-person Global DMC Partners conference since 2019? The post Recovery of In-Person Meetings Proves Double-Edged Sword for Planners by Angela Tupper appeared first on [link]. It’s no secret that the pandemic has decimated many parts of the event industry.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

” — November 20, 2019 tweet. Participant-driven and participation-rich meeting designs incorporate a braindate’s purpose — one-to-one or small group connection around relevant content — organically into every session. So there’s no need to add a braindate process to a well-designed meeting. Time to end that.”

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 24, 2019

Software solutions built on older platforms and smaller companies with fewer resources are going to have a harder time meeting event organizers’ more stringent data-security requirements. #2. The level of difficulty is high. Overwhelmed by Big Data. Adapted from Dave’s Forward Thinking column in PCMA’s Convene.

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Velvet Chainsaw

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Although I normally eschew year-end reviews, top ten and in/out lists, I am moved to share a few observations based on the numerous events and clients we’ve worked with in 2019. Every meeting, conference, expo or convention can be refreshed, enhanced or innovated.

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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Most Q3 and Q4, 2021 conferences are reporting attendance numbers that are 40 – 60% below 2019. If your association is conducting board and committee meetings virtually, there is a good chance you can send fewer staff members to your large annual. Increased and Transparent Communications. Staff and Vendors.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Having written about the intersection of power and status at meetings , I appreciate what professor of African American studies at Princeton University Ruha Benjamin shares in this 2019 video: “ The New Jim Code? My 2013 Meeting Professional column described how existing meeting technology becomes invisible.

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EventMB

MAY 19, 2022

Let us explain … Since Skift acquired EventMB in 2019, we have witnessed a dramatic shift in the event industry. An era where meetings, events, technology and travel all play leading roles in defining and instilling organizational – and indeed industry – culture. We are now entering a new era of business. What Stays the Same.

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Endless Events

MAY 12, 2022

And to the Event Brew hosts, they often look identical to 2019. She notes that, indeed, some events look a lot like 2019 in 2022. The Powerful Return To 2019 Might Leave Some Behind. In his view, events look the same as they did in 2019. . ” How To Move Beyond 2019 When Planning Events In 2022.

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Lisa will join our team just in time for opening day – April 2, 2019 – as Executive Vice President, Conference Strategy & Design. She has also served on ASAE’s Meetings and Expositions Council and as an adjunct member of the ASAE Board of Directors. In 2013 she was awarded PCMA’s highest honor for lifetime achievement.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2019

This (slightly edited) interview by JT Long appeared in the March 2019 issue of Smart Meetings Magazine. I was an amateur in the meeting industry, and that led to some mistakes, but it also gave me a fresh perspective at a time when meeting design wasn’t really a “thing.”

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 15, 2022

In my experience, most large conferences this year are realizing about 80 percent of their 2019 revenue performance. For some of the major annual meetings we’re tracking, sponsorship revenue has been a bright spot when compared to exhibit revenue performance.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Two-thirds of meeting professionals have reported the recovery of the hospitality industry to more than half of 2019 levels and one-third reported having reached beyond recovery to 80% of 2019 levels, according to new research by IACC’s new report, Meeting Room of the Future Barometer Late—November 2022.

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EventMB

JUNE 21, 2023

Rising crime, homelessness, and high prices mean events are far from returning to 2019 levels. Miguel Neves and Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Skift Take: As travel returns to almost all major U.S. cities, San Francisco is a notable exception.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 20, 2020

My old friend Fiona Charles at UKSTARConf 2019 {bottom}. Being Schooled: Inside a Conference That Works “Mad blogger” Sue Pelletier of MeetingsNet has written an excellent article on her experiences at the four-day Conferences That Work format edACCESS 2014 annual meeting I convened in June. Did I mention it’s free?).

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EventMB

AUGUST 2, 2022

Skift Take: New data predicts a steady recovery for trade shows globally with almost all markets reaching two-thirds of 2019 revenue by the first half of 2023. Face-to-face meetings remain a priority as we overcome the direct impact of the Covid pandemic. Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 29, 2022

Event organizers, according to Annette Suriani, CMP, CFMP, DES, principal and chief meeting strategist at AMS Meetings Solutions and executive director of the Association of Meeting Professionals (AMPs), should also be doing their part to help suppliers work more efficiently to help save their own budgets. John Rissi.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

With major airlines’ daily flight volumes shifting to better accommodate leisure travelers, some meetings might benefit from a change in schedule. This keeps the Sunday-to-Wednesday pattern attractive—but also brings into play a Monday-to-Friday or Wednesday-to-Friday meeting pattern that could make attendees’ travel easier on both ends.

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Eventmobi

AUGUST 22, 2024

For a brief moment, virtual meetings became the center of the event universe pretty much out of necessity. If you haven’t compared an Apple keynote from 2019 to a more recent Apple keynote , you owe it to yourself to see how dramatic the shift really was. And nobody sticks around—you’re off to the next meeting.”

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 24, 2023

With more employees working from home and the costs for all elements of meetings increasing, 65.3 percent of planners responding to a recent survey say that they are coordinating more one-day meetings than ever. Throughout the second half of 2022, etc.venues saw consistent growth in meetings bookings across its U.K. Further, 53.5

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 14, 2021

For expo deposits paid in 2019 for 2020 events, it remains to be seen if those funds will return to budgets for 2021. Facilities and event suppliers will need to adopt and implement new safety protocols and consult their customers on how to meet safely and will have to carry the burden for most of these expenses.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

If your meetings budget has kept up with price increases over the past few years, you’re among the lucky. The results: Most key meeting expenses are up well over 20 percent even as inflation across the economy has fallen. For its Industry Trends Report, October 2023 edition, Maritz Global Events crunched numbers from the U.S.

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EventMB

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

MWC Barcelona 2023 is seeing a solid increase in overall attendance, but it is still far from 2019 levels. Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings Skift Take: Increased business travel from Asia is good news for global trade shows. Meanwhile, IMEX reports strong buyer demand from Korea and China.

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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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Conferences that Work

MAY 18, 2020

You can find the most detailed implementation in Chapter 18 of my 2019 book, Event Crowdsourcing. Frequent and well-designed small group work is the key to creating active learning and connection at any meeting. Zoom allows facilitators to speedily split a meeting into up to 50 separate sessions. Learn about The Three Questions.

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EventMB

JANUARY 11, 2023

Skift Take: Chris Nassetta, CEO of Hilton Hotels, a featured speaker during PCMA Convening Leaders, predicts the business events industry will exceed the high water mark of 2019 this year. Andrea Doyle Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

At Mobile World Congress 2024, the rapid advance of artificial intelligence is on display through “spatial computing” applications that will affect meetings, including augmented reality, virtual reality, and 3D teleconferencing. Are Real-Feel Virtual Meetings Almost Here? See image below.

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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 2, 2019

We need to raise the bar higher and meet the needs of the experienced and advanced practitioners. With this set up, a meeting room will have three or four distinct seating areas scattered around the room. Challenge your education team and/or program committee to make wisdom the goal when developing tracks or breakout sessions.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

In a survey conducted by EventMB in 2019, it was revealed that over 70% of event professionals who spent over $5 million on events in the 2019 budget plan to spend even more on event technology in 2020. The scale of the budget needed to meet event tech requirements. Why Event Sponsorships Are Valuable. Pitching Event Sponsors.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 24, 2019

Most meeting organizers invest a significant amount of time creating the educational programming for their annual conference. Committees are having fewer conference calls and preset meetings. Models vary, but most include a 15- to 20-person conference committee (slotters) and army of reviewers (graders). How to Better Keep Score.

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 23, 2023

New figures show that the meetings market is hot. In both November and December 2022, the number of business meetings and events in the U.S. was about three percent higher than during those same months in 2019, according to the most recent industry analysis from Knowland. And education and meetings are just that.”

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Even as in-person meetings continue to reemerge with a vengeance, virtual meetings have taken a primary position in the event professional toolbox. Yes, hybrid meetings are more complicated and costly, but virtual is here to stay without a doubt,” he said. Now all variations of meeting delivery are on the table.

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EventMB

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

With many conferences still struggling to reach 2019 numbers, Web Summit is bucking the trend. Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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EventMB

MAY 17, 2022

Buenos Aires is gearing up to reclaim its position as a top destination for meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions – the MICE market – in South America. About 2,500 people signed up, including 81 international buyers, of which half set up meetings with Visit BA.

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