Smart Meetings

JANUARY 5, 2022

The global event marketing agency Hamilton has been recognized with an EDDIE award for an exceptionally smart move in February. The company transitioned from immersive brand events to vaccination events. Event on Ivy Tech Community College campus in Sellersburg; Photo credit: Courtney Cantor.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 16, 2021

In partnership with Oxford Economics, EIC announced a new research initiative on March 16 that will quantify the global events industry’s economic impact and, for the first time, the total losses experienced in 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Articulate how meetings and events can be a catalyst for economic recovery.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Topics covered include how to build your event story; the difference between your marketing message and your PR hook; and how to leverage existing data to build your story. 52eight3 is a highly skilled marketing and PR agency focused on getting technology and suppliers seen, known and loved by event organisers.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

A sampling of how the leading independent planning companies execute every sort of event, from user conferences to exotic incentives. The 2020 CMI 25 list is out, with profiles of the 25 largest independent meeting planning companies serving the corporate market in North America. Gating level. anonymous user. DataTable subpages.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The Events Industry Council (EIC) today announced the 2020 Hall of Leaders inductees and Social Impact Award recipients. EIC’s Hall of Leaders award is the premier recognition and programme in the events industry recognising a lifetime achievement for those that have had a legacy impact on global business events sector.

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Bizzabo

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

We encourage every event planner to mark their calendars for the following 35 events and conferences in 2020. We know how hard it can be to find great events to attend, so we’ve made it easier for you. AIME is the leading trade event for the meetings and events industry in the Asia Pacific region.

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Event Leadership Institute

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

CloudBees originally planned DevOps World 2020 for September 21-25, 2020, in Las Vegas. and international audience limited to travel combined with national and international guidelines regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, CloudBees realized it wasn’t going to be possible to hold DevOps World 2020 in-person.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Tim Simpson and Liz Smith, both from Maritz Global Events, speak during their Convening Leaders 2022 session, “Transforming Event Experiences: How to Deliver Meaningful Human-to-Human Moments.”. Simpson hasn’t yet arrived at a standard definition of what human-to-human design means for the events industry, he said.

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Event Marketer

JULY 25, 2023

Community building is more important than ever for annual events to thrive today, and web-based design platform Figma has found success in not only supporting the community but letting the community take the reins of its five-year-old user conference, Config. And it’s paying off. The submission process doesn’t only benefit the program.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

“We are basically project managers, but unlike technology projects, you can’t move the deadline and unlike before 2020, you can’t let contracts sit.”. Meetings consultant Jeff Calmus, a former vice president of global event management for MetLife, agreed about the importance of managing up. Choices, Choices. Tell a Story.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 8, 2022

The Sustainable UK Events Industry 2050 – A reality or just a dream? The global events industry was valued at USD 886.99 Billion in 2020, and the industry is expected to double in value by 2028 (Verified Market Research 2020). So how do we get there?

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Event Industry News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

AMR International has released its annual “ Top 20 exhibition organisers ”: the global ranking based exclusively on exhibition organising revenue. The ranking takes into account 2020 revenues. Informa Markets remains number one, followed by RX (formerly Reed Exhibitions). Comparison between 2019 & 2020.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 5, 2020

The judging panel for the awards is a stellar line-up of experts and we’d like to introduce them to you in our Meet the Judges series, this week we present Aleksandra Panyukhina, head of event marketing at Userlane. How long have you worked in the events industry and what keeps you interested in it? Best (and worst?)

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 11, 2022

These constant challenges and budget fluctuations can be both time consuming and overwhelming, but with the right pre-planning you leave the total budget overhaul in 2020, rather than have it be an ongoing, everyday need. Here are my top 5 tips to effectively managing my budgets in the current event landscape. Melissa Park.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

The ambitious Economic Significance Study comprises four insight streams to examine the global events industry’s economic impact and, for the first time, quantify the cumulative losses experienced in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For more information on the Events Industry Council, visit: [link].

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Before 2020, I was designing and facilitating around a dozen in-person meetings and conferences a year. ” — Jessica Connolly , Head of Global Events, Meltwater The above program was interspersed with interesting visits to venues and fun activities (e.g. I’m looking back on 2023. 2023 in review I slowed down in 2023.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 30, 2021

We’re mindful of both protecting and leveraging the show’s strong business legacy while making sure we offer the market an event experience that’s fit for the times we’re all working in,” Bauer continued. There is only so much you can do online, and the last time I was there was January of 2020,” she explained. “We

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 17, 2021

Meanwhile, the 800-pound gorilla in the streaming meeting space, Zoom, announced this month that it is launching Zoom events, an all-in-one platform that will include a “build your own event hub,” ticketing and registration and a management dashboard for multi-day and multi-track conferences. The future of events is changed.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 13, 2020

52eight3, the experienced tech, venue and supplier marketing and PR agency, has seen exciting growth in 2019 with the acquisition of several exciting new clients. 52eight3 has also announced that the team will be exhibiting at International Confex for the first time in February 2020, marking exciting expansion and continued success.

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 7, 2025

Control What You Can Brittney Cobb, director of global events with INNOV8 Meetings + Events, tried to take an optimistic approach. We made it through 2020, but the world hasnt exactly settled down since then. Clearly, we are treading into uncharted waters and need to brace ourselves for the challenges ahead, she said.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Impact XM shares seven sustainable action areas for planning green meetings Global event and experiential marketing agency Impact XM believes that sustainability is not an end goal, but a practice. Smart Meetings spoke with Heather Griffin, vice president of marketing at Impact XM, to learn more.

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Maritz Global Events

JANUARY 1, 2020

A recent Forrester report caught our eye, as it touched on several business trends that will also impact the event strategists and the industry: PREDICTIONS 2020: On the Precipice of Far-Reaching Change. This article will help you get a jumpstart on conquering this challenge: Successfully Climbing Your Mountain of Event Data.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 27, 2021

Greenwald is director of sales and marketing for Yotel Boston. Francis recently worked as general manager for Radisson Blu Minneapolis Downtown, where, in 2020, he earned the General Manager of the Year award. Julia Greenwald. Alex Francis. Radisson Blu Mall of America in Minneapolis appointed Francis general manager. Andre Brose.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 6, 2021

FTSE 100-listed Informa INF, 6.22% said in a trading statement that it had extended the postponement for physical events outside of mainland China to late spring, but added that 90% of non-Chinese exhibitions planned in the year are now scheduled to run from June onward. “As Originally published by MarketWatch on 06 Januray 2020.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 14, 2021

This move is the first step in Swapcard’s answer to the biggest challenge organizers are currently facing: finding one technology partner that can run all their virtual, hybrid, and face-to-face events throughout the year. Starting in the spring of 2020, Swapcard and Avolio, have collaborated on a multitude of virtual events.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

But, even though event professionals have had it rough these past couple of years, we’ve proven to be an incredibly resilient and versatile community, not willing to let a £70 billion industry disappear. In fact, according to a report by Allied Market Research, the global events sector is expected to reach $1,552.9

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 23, 2022

The tradition of consolidating the show into three days that started with MPI 2020 in Grapevine, Texas, during the pandemic continued based on positive feedback, a reality that led to consolidating closing ceremonies at San Francisco City Hall with the Rendezvous fundraiser. Said Van Deventer at the introductory press conference.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Thanks to pent-up demand, decreased competition and the roll-out of coronavirus vaccines, Festicket and Event Genius Marketing Director Luis Sousa explains why there is no better time than now to go on sale for 2021. 2020 has been a turbulent year to say the least for the events industry.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

It will allow organisers of large-scale events to monitor attendance. CEO, Chris Newlands, told Event Industry News: “Spelfie aims to positively disrupt the $144 billion events marketing and sponsorship industry, allowing brands to increase revenues by driving event attendees, influencers and their traffic directly to the brands’ websites.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2021

2020 forced us all in events to press both PAUSE and FAST FORWARD at the same time. But now we have better tools now to integrate more effectively, too demonstrate ROI in Live Event Marketing. They don’t expect us to be carbon-neutral overnight. Just measure and demonstrate commitment. An oxymoron for us all.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 16, 2021

Learn more about Global Events Collective’s Moments That Matter documentary project. In 2017, when the market changed and the company offered buyouts , she decided it was the ideal time to create those sorts of moments for more companies that were open to creative collaboration. “I “It was truly magical and poignant.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 20, 2022

Hubilo Technologies Inc, the world-class leader in virtual, live, and hybrid event management technology, recently announced the appointment of Sophie Ahmed as senior vice president of market strategy.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 13, 2021

Sponsored virtual events are now the second most popular lead generation tactic for B2B marketers 73% of B2B marketing professionals cite virtual events as highly effective 79% of marketers plan to sponsor six or more virtual events in 2021 Access the report “The State of Marketing Acceleration”.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The pandemic has pushed the association business model to the breaking point — and that’s good news, Don Neal, founder and CEO of marketing, strategy, and experience agency 360 Live Media, wrote in May. The events were created by YPO event chairs, “driven to share resources and information in a virtual environment,” Mason said.

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Endless Events

JUNE 29, 2021

Kristin Horstman is a senior director at Salesforce and has been on our show just recently , Johnnie White is the CEO of the American Society of Appraisers, and Rachael Riggs is a WellBeing Leader at Maritz Global Events. Health & Wellness In Events In The New Normal. And what does this panel have in common?

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 15, 2022

Dunnell joined Identity in 2020 and brings phenomenal global experience to the agency’s worldwide project delivery capability. CEO, Michael Gietzen said: “To steer the agency through this new era of global events we have evolved our leadership team. Joining the board of directors is Simon Dunnell.

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Maritz Global Events

JANUARY 3, 2020

As PCMA Convening Leaders 2020 kicks off in San Francisco, we got a behind-the-scenes look at the insights they are using to transform their conference. “Sometimes, you lose perspective on what’s really happening at your event,” said Kim. Are you willing to do that for your event? About Mitch.

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