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Circularity: The Biggest Shift for Trade Shows in 2024 

Smart Meetings

Trade shows have been a crucial aspect of the business world for centuries. Jack Macleod For the last 15-20 years, green meetings and organized gatherings aimed at minimizing negative impacts on the environment have been a concept, but in 2020, after the Covid-19 pandemic, they became a widespread topic in the events industry.

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Booked and Busy: The Best Event Planning Reads You’ll Actually Use

Smart Meetings

As an Amazon affiliate, Smart Meetings earns from qualifying purchases. I still have that bookits under my bed with a stack of old Smart Meetings magazines. Additionally, the content seems more suited for planning niche events rather than large-scale occasions like trade shows or weddings. We appreciate your support.

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Winners Announced: The 2021 Ex Awards and EDTAs

Event Marketer

Campaign: Loblaw National Kickoff 2020. Campaign: Best of the American Black Film Festival Awards 2020. Campaign: GMS Un-Summit 2020. Campaign: GMS Un-Summit 2020. Campaign: Tech Summit Digital 2020. Campaign: 2020 National Sales Meeting. Best Trade Show Activation. 2021 EX AWARDS.

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The Challenge of Virtualizing Trade Shows and Exhibit Halls

PCMA Convene

Trade shows are the lifeline of many associations but their nature makes them challenging to virtualize — and then monetize. There’s no such thing as a virtual exhibition, said Jochen Witt during a Web Summit 2020 panel discussion in December. Illustration by SHOUT). It’s nonsense. It does not exist.

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Conventions Return to Indianapolis and Las Vegas

Smart Meetings

saw a decline of $211 billion in business travel spending in 2020, with $97 billion of that loss due to the cancellation of professional meetings and events related travel spending. Read More: Meetings and Conventions Are Back in 2022-Here Are 4 Ways They’re Changing. Indianapolis. Las Vegas hosted an estimated 2.2

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2020 Offers New Thinking on Technology For These 6 Meeting Types

SmartMeetings

Meeting Type Research. According to the 2020 Global Meetings Forecast Report by American Express Meetings & Events, here is the breakdown of the types of meetings and the percentage of time they take place in North America. Meeting Type. Internal Meeting or Training. Conference or Trade Show.

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Your Guide to Events This Year: 12 Ways to Get Your Conferences and Trade Shows Right

CadmiumCD

We put a page together that makes it easy to review all the pieces of your event puzzle for your 2021 conferences and trade shows. We got in the habit of doing weekly webinars in 2020 (sometimes more), and there’s no end in sight. We’ve put more resources together for planning events in 2020 than we ever have before.