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.”. Let them know what they will miss out on in terms of hotel blocks and speakers if they don’t act on a proposal right away and give a roadmap for what to expect in the months to come.”.

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SmartMeetings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

So, how are speakers preparing for the future of meetings and events ? Then, I wondered, what my speaker friends were doing in quarantine. Linda Byars Swindling says, “I created a webpage, Negotiating Tough Times with video interviews, webinars, articles and resources to help my clients and others right now get through this craziness.

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Endless Events

MARCH 10, 2020

So it really ramped up for 2020, one to two webinars or live summits a week. “We wanted to be very proactive about our 2020 schedule. What we found is that it really does us no good to source the speakers more than six months out because something will come up then they’re not able to do it. The Timing.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 14, 2021

Yes, today, we’ll be explaining exactly why virtual event rehearsals should be a non-negotiable. If there’s something 2020 has taught it’s that we can never be too prepared. Where speakers had years and years of experience of in-person engagements, they’re barely scratching the surface of virtual.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

If 2020 was a year of pivoting and learning about virtual events, 2021 was a year of putting that knowledge to the test. Building events since : 2020. Building events since : 2020. Feature : If fully immersive 3D is among your non-negotiables for your event platform, EXVO just might be the right fit for you. Albert’s Aha!

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Gallus Events

JANUARY 14, 2020

However…… If you had followed the COP 26 summit ( I carried out a sustainability review of the event which you can read here) you would have read that the agreed targets and actions to reduce climate-warming have been “postponed” to COP 27 in 2020. . Everyone, every industry and every country have to play their part.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 19, 2021

You might have booked a speaker, for instance, only for them to have a family crisis that means they’re unavailable. Plus, there’s a good chance that somebody—whether that’s you, speakers, or attendees—will have technical issues of some sort on the day. Even virtual events could be subject to disruption. Insurance Must-Haves.

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Event Leadership Institute

JANUARY 21, 2020

AV rental companies carry extensive inventories of hardware–displays, LED tiles, lighting, soundboards, speakers, projectors, cameras, and more. Your requirements and budget are modest; for example, you only need standard breakout room projector, screen, and speaker set-ups. Start Date: January 21, 2020. LEARN MORE.

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Bizzabo

MARCH 12, 2020

Speakers in previous years have included Jack Ma, a Co-Founder of Alibaba Group; Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple; and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's Chief Operating Officer. Whatever you do, make sure your events have amazing speakers. A "great speaker" is simply someone your attendees will recognize and be excited to learn from.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 31, 2020

The pandemic-related postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Games has given a George Washington University professor the opportunity to teach students who had planned to attend about crisis management for events. Her course will include guest speakers from the International Olympic Committee, Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee, U.S.

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Event Industry News

JULY 19, 2021

As the realisation that the pop-up bookshop we’d had in mind for summer 2020 just wasn’t going to happen sank in, our thoughts turned to online options and how we could best bring our extensive library of autism and neurodiversity content to the market in a new and innovative way. Our First Event. Connected by Autism.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

There’s no such thing as a virtual exhibition, said Jochen Witt during a Web Summit 2020 panel discussion in December. 4,400 exhibitors showcased tech innovations to 170,000 attendees in nearly 3 million net square feet of exhibit space in Las Vegas in 2020 — moved the event to a virtual platform in January. Illustration by SHOUT).

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Endless Events

MARCH 6, 2020

You might recall us mentioning it in our 2020 event tech trends #EventIcons. So the two were invited to speak at PCMA Convening Leaders 2020 – and what a session it was! “We’re still going to have to negotiate Wi-Fi with our venues. The topic of 5G and events is something we’ve tackled before.

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Conference Care

JUNE 4, 2020

As we began talking to our client about negotiations on the finer details of the venue contract for their Annual Trainee Conference, we established there was no plan B should they decide not to go ahead with a live event. Brief – Graduate intake and onboarding programme – Can we make ours work in this pandemic?

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Social Tables

JUNE 29, 2023

Operations managers negotiate prices, book vendors, place supply orders, and communicate vendor details between the planning team, venue, and benefiting organization. Revenue raised from peer-to-peer fundraising efforts grew 30% year-over-year from 2020 to 2021, according to PeerToPeer’s “Digital-First Peer-to-Peer Fundraising” study.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Entertainers are chomping at the bit to get back on stage and perform, so now is the perfect time to negotiate an incredible deal. More : Your 2020 Holiday Gift Guide. See our November cover story : Virtually Engaged: Ban Boring Events from Your Agenda. Step 4: Go Live. Smart Meetings CEO and Founder Marin Bright.

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Eventtia

APRIL 12, 2023

The mobile app can also provide real-time information about the speakers, event agenda, sponsors, and more. Hopin Hopin is a relatively new player in the event management scene, with the London-based company only being started in 2019 and the software, Hopim Events, only being launched in February 2020.

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Eventtia

DECEMBER 16, 2021

While hybrid events have been relatively popular in the past half-decade or so, it’s no secret that the COVID-19 global pandemic has further accelerated its popularity throughout 2020 and 2022. If you want, you can also invite speakers and talents to perform at the event virtually.

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Eventtia

APRIL 12, 2023

The mobile app can also provide real-time information about the speakers, event agenda, sponsors, and more. Hopin Hopin is a relatively new player in the event management scene, with the London-based company only being started in 2019 and the software, Hopim Events, only being launched in February 2020.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 3, 2020

According to the Fall 2019 Pulse Survey, conducted by Financial and Insurance Conference Professionals (FICP), only one-third (33 percent) of planners planned to grow the size of their meetings in 2020, and just 14 percent planned to expand their incentive programs. Work with Partners—and Haggle. Content Matters.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

So, just in case our episode about controversial speakers wasn’t enough, we’re going after the money. Event planner salaries in 2020, how do you stack up? And what do we do better than anyone else here in Event Brew? We talk about the sensitive topics that everyone is too afraid to tackle. Let’s Look At The Data.

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Eventsforce

JANUARY 14, 2021

But 2020, we saw some truly significant changes due to the dramatic impact of the Covid-19. Sales, Persuasion and Negotiation . We are all persuading and negotiating with each other throughout our day to day activities. Event professionals had to deal with a lot of change and disruption in 2020. Let’s take a look.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 21, 2020

Many are holding off on speaker invitations until there is more positive news of the country reopening. . Any event that does move forward in 2020 will need to revisit their attendee and exhibitor cancellation and downsizing penalties. Everyone is planning to add late-breaking topics to help their profession recover and evolve.

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Endless Events

MARCH 16, 2023

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic devastated events across the globe. 2020) Diversity in Events with William S. As someone who could digitize and convert quickly, I noticed, in 2020, that it was mostly the events industry that wanted to go back, especially folks in roles that didn’t translate or have the resources to re-skill quickly.”

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Endless Events

JANUARY 12, 2018

Still heating up is the ongoing battle of women against sexual harassment in the entertainment industry and the lack of female keynote speakers for one of the biggest consumer and tech trade shows. Controversies won’t die even for the latest Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea because of its proximity to North Korea.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 23, 2020

Planners Salary Survey 2019” And then the last one is “Study Finds One in Four Tech-Conference Speakers are Women” Hurricane Dorian Affects the Bahamas Unevenly. Self-fulfilling in some ways, for our industry because it affected so many planners and I think it’s going to totally change 2020.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 29, 2022

Her AV provider rented equipment from the in-house company and negotiated pricing on their own. Use just a spotlight for your speakers. We have a production company, but they did not bring any of their own equipment, because they didn’t want to have to truck it.” John Rissi. Annette Suriani. Roberta Sumner. Valerie Sumner.

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The MICE

JUNE 3, 2022

And now with live events returning and many companies rescheduling events which had been postponed in 2020, 2021 and 2022, and planning for 2023, this timely interview focuses on providing tips on how to plan an incentive trip with confidence, and with safety protocols built into it. So we negotiated, in case we also have other challenges.

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Velvet Chainsaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It will also limit your ability to imagine things differently — the root cause of organizational failure cited by a thousand motivational speakers during “normal” times. We are making educated guesses, based on the cards we can see, about what will come up next in the 2020 deck. Or something else altogether. Lead with your value.

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Event Leadership Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Mind your money with battles over escrow deposits to suppliers and more room to negotiate venue commissions. You have no idea what really would have happened in 2020 if there hadn’t been a pandemic.”. The remote audience can have dedicated content from a speaker in a studio, rather than from the same stage as the on-site audience.

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