Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 30, 2021

Having an emcee at your event was a nice-to-have prior to 2020. Talk to any meeting owner who has managed a large virtual event this past year using a skilled emcee and he or she will tell you it made all the difference. An emcee’s role often extends well beyond hosting the event itself. Now it’s a must-have.

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Marketo Events

JUNE 2, 2020

For me, it was being part of the team for one of Adobe’s largest events – Summit. Being responsible for content strategy for virtual events means the 16-25 weeks prior to Summit are always jam-packed. We had about 25 days to tackle this and from an event-rush junkie point of view, it was worth it.

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Attendease

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The pandemic has fundamentally changed the way event organizers plan, run and measure the success of meetings and conferences. Here are some insights on what attendees expect and how event planners are adjusting to meet the challenge. PROS AND CONS of Virtual events. While virtual events are less expensive to run.

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GEVME

DECEMBER 16, 2020

SWITCH 2020 featured a unique hybrid format that combined a 24-hours/5-days online platform with satellite events around the world. Credits SWITCH 2020. Caption: Credits SWITCH 2020 Q&A with speakers from Gojek, Grab, Expedia, Facebook on Product Management. Caption: Credits SWITCH 2020.

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GEVME

MAY 15, 2020

The initial main purpose of the event industry, which is bringing people together and optimizing that process has been reconsidered due to the severity of the pandemic and the safety measures that have been put in place in order to further prevent COVID-19 from spreading. What is a Large Online Event?

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 24, 2019

Your guidepost for event-technology decisions should be to put your customer’s experience before your staff efficiency. As the event-tech space continues to evolve with a number of mergers and acquisitions, I see four changes coming for larger annual conferences. #1. Which of these event tech predictions surprises you?

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 8, 2020

Join us to: Explore virtual experience quality filters that will best position your event for participation, value and revenue. Discuss and evaluate emerging pricing models to consider for your Fall 2020 event. This topic is a burning issue and promises to be a more engaging experience than most.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 18, 2020

Living in Orlando (not the happiest place in the world today) provides a close-up view of the horrific impact the pandemic is having on people and businesses in the live-event, hospitality and travel industries. At VCC, we were tracking to have a banner year in 2020. Speaker coaching for virtual engagement.

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GEVME

DECEMBER 17, 2020

SWITCH 2020 featured a unique hybrid format that combined a 24-hours/5-days online platform with satellite events around the world. Credits SWITCH 2020. Credits SWITCH 2020 Q&A with speakers from Gojek, Grab, Expedia, Facebook on Product Management. Credits SWITCH 2020. Credits SWITCH 2020.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 30, 2020

If you’re inbox is anything like mine, you could spend a good portion of our day consuming webinars, virtual events and networking in Zoom or Facebook Messenger Happy Hours. As you select speakers or session leaders, you’ll want to get their commitment that the topic they are addressing at your conference hasn’t been presented elsewhere.

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Endless Events

MAY 19, 2020

Who would have known that 2020 would go down as one of the most influential years- if not the most influential year- for virtual events in history? Even as the highest-ranked event trends predictor in the industry, even we couldn’t guess this. Here we go as we make predictions on the hottest trends to hit virtual events!

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 10, 2022

Most of the event industry and our clients continue to assume that if you can make the meeting bigger it’s a good thing. The massive disruption of in-person events since March 2020 has shaken our industry to the core. We have also seen the emergence of new forms of online events, supported by solid business models.

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Event Marketer

JUNE 21, 2021

Dissecting TikTok: How Event Marketers Can Leverage the Short-Form Video App. What: Launched in March 2020, Clubhouse now boasts 10 million users, from celebrities and ceos to everyday people. What: Originally introduced to a small group in 2020, Twitter Spaces went public May 3 and is open, meaning anyone can join as a listener.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Business of Events is pleased to announce its first confirmed speakers and contributors ahead of its UK Policy Forum , which takes place on 8 th November at IET London: Savoy Place. She is the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Events and will share with the forum the view from Westminster.

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GEVME

JANUARY 29, 2020

With 2020 now in full swing, businesses around the world will be planning their events calendars for the year ahead – and what better time to start thinking about what we can expect to see in terms of changes to the events landscape in the next 12 months? A focus on location and transportation.

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GEVME

JUNE 15, 2020

In our first episode of Digital Event Series , we discussed how to start running a virtual event with Ed Nedin, the founder of Geekle.us , where Ed shared his first ever experience of organizing an event. Interesting, that Ed had never organized events before. Global Summit 2020. Global Summit 2020” event ?

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Just like that, we blinked and it’s time to talk about the 2020 event trends. This year we stepped it up and surveyed hundreds of #Eventprofs to weigh in on the hottest trends for 2020. Instead, we’re bringing you a curated list of the top event trends for 2020. 2020 Event Trends: Personalization for Attendees.

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Bizzabo

APRIL 3, 2020

The most authoritative list of 2020 virtual events and conferences on the internet. Virtual events are nothing new but—as we discuss in our comprehensive guide to coronavirus and events —we're seeing many organizers pivot from in-person to digital. Virtual Events & Conferences in 2020. March 4, 2020.

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EventMB

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

With speakers and attendees joining in-person and online, we uncover the most valuable takeaways for event professionals. After pitvoting to virtual in 2020, the 2021 Skift Global Forum was, for the first time, […].

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 18, 2021

If you didn’t produce or attend a virtual event in 2020, are you really an event marketer? But as in-person experiences make a comeback, many event professionals are tasked with a new challenge: shifting the virtual events they developed during the pandemic into real-world experiences. Time to reinforce the ranks.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 5, 2022

Before March of 2020, pacing data was a useful tool for predicting final attendance and revenue. Use these five tips to develop a plan for optimizing registration for your major event in quarters 2, 3, and 4. If you were pacing behind, you could make midcourse corrections. They provide the social proof needed to drive action.

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Attendease

JANUARY 28, 2019

Back in 2015, I introduced five trends I expected would have a major impact on making events stand out. Did mobile event apps, iBeacons, event analytics, interactivity, or gamification have the impact I’d predicted they would? What new trends have eclipsed them in the event space? Mobile Event Apps.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 21, 2021

I was excited to attend PCMA’s Omnichannel Convening Leaders event last week. Applause to PCMA for engaging the global business events community and for the diversity of speakers and formats offered during CL. This, by design, was the most truly global event in our industry and the participation from so many outside the U.S.

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Eventsforce

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Want tips on running successful virtual events? The sudden shift to virtual events has created many challenges for planners – especially when it comes to managing remote speakers. But, just how difficult is speaker engagement when it comes to virtual events? 1) Co-Create Speaker Content .

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Attendease

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The novel coronavirus outbreak has had a significant impact on the events industry, from venues and vendors to speakers and sponsors. How do you turn a speaker’s spare room into a stage? This year, over two days, we drew more than twice as many speakers and more than twice the number of attendees. What SXSW did to adjust.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Sponsorships are the lifeline that keeps the events industry sustainable. An important aspect of event management is finding the right sponsors who can provide the right financial assistance needed to pull off a big event, in exchange for brand exposure. Why Event Sponsorships Are Valuable. What's an event planner to do?

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Event Marketer

AUGUST 9, 2024

In January 2020, Bloomberg Media launched Bloomberg Green, a multiplatform editorial brand focused on climate change news, analysis and solutions, with the first Bloomberg Green event at Davos 2020 and plans to continue incorporating programming into other Bloomberg Live events throughout the year—until they were put on pause due to COVID.

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Bizzabo

JUNE 27, 2020

This list provides a comprehensive view of LGBTQ events to attend throughout the year. 2020 marks the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, a key historical event for the LGBT rights movement in the US. 2020 marks the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, a key historical event for the LGBT rights movement in the US.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Welcome to another episode of #EventIcons, and this time around we’re talking 2020 event tech trends! If you know Endless, you know we love talking about event tech. So now it’s time for the 2020 event tech trends to shine! We’ve lived in data silos for the last 30 years of event technology.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Speaking to planners and suppliers at The Jung Hotel , Mizrahi—an instructor in digital marketing at the University of California, Irvine CE—said that surveys show that the independent workforce, which now consists of some 27 percent of the American population, could increase to 50 percent by 2020.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

ExpoPlatform is a leading online networking and management platform for live, hybrid and virtual events. It’s AI-powered web and mobile-based solutions empower event organisers to enhance attendee engagement, generate quality leads and drive ROI. Contact here ! Sponsored Content.

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Eventmobi

DECEMBER 15, 2020

One of the benefits of virtual events is that they offer great opportunities to put your brand front and center. To help inspire you, we have compiled some of our favorite examples of great virtual event designs created on the EventMobi virtual conference platform over the past year.

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Eventmobi

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Zoom has seen a huge rise in popularity during 2020, to the point where its name has become synonymous with video conferencing. So for many event planners looking for the right tool to host a virtual conference, Zoom is the first thing that comes to mind. Custom branding.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Event management has gotten a lot more complicated in the past few years. There’s a constant need to reinvent events, all while trying to increase productivity and work more efficiently. Needless to say, this complicated discipline of event marketing is powered by productivity. Events have become increasingly analytics-based.

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Attendease

MAY 27, 2021

Caitlin has been with PCMA for nearly six years and has created and managed the digital event experiences for PCMA flagship events, and has also been planning and producing some of PCMA virtual and hybrid experiences pre-pandemic and throughout the pandemic. Now, of course, that all changed last year with 2020.

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Attendease

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

In today’s article, I will cover the main differences between GDPR and CCPA, and what you need to know to be compliant by the deadline of January 1st 2020. More importantly, we will discuss specifics of GDPR and CCPA for the events industry. What is the impact of CCPA and GDPR in the Event Industry?

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Guidebook

MARCH 12, 2020

In recent days we’ve seen some of the largest conferences and summits in the world decide to move to virtual events. Thinking about converting your upcoming event into a virtual format? We believe virtual events are a smart way to inform your audience – but we also believe moving to virtual requires adjustments. Great idea!

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