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How Planners Are Celebrating GMID 2022

Smart Meetings

Global Meetings Industry Day (GMID), a celebration of everything wonderful about the meetings industry, is kicking off its seventh year with the theme “Meet Safe,” a redux of GMID 2021’s theme. While most events across the globe took place virtually last year, more events are now meeting in person.

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CalSAE Seasonal Spectacular Brought the Festive

Smart Meetings

The holiday spirit took over Sacramento’s renovated SAFE Credit Union Convention Center last week as 400 association meeting professionals came together during the return of CalSAE ’s Seasonal Spectacular event Dec. The gathering was equal parts hosted-buyer appointments, educational content, trade show and reunion.

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Discovering Indigenous Culture Through Crafts and Stories

PCMA Convene

At the many trade shows he had participated in throughout his career, Forgette — a French Algonquin member of the Apitipi Anicinapek Nation in northeastern Ontario, Canada — noticed a significant lack of Indigenous representation and presence. Did I want to jump back into another sales role in our industry?”

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Denzil Rankine: ‘We Have an Extraordinary Journey in This Industry’

PCMA Convene

Did you anticipate that we would be at this stage in terms of vaccination distribution, variants, and other COVID-related impacts in the first quarter of 2021? What would you say is the biggest challenge for a traditional association meeting planner? We’ve seen a number of major trade shows collapse, COMDEX, and so on.

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Ready, Willing, and Able – The Return of Association Events

StraussCA

I am one of the optimists; I believe that Canadians will see the safe return of association events in the fall of 2021. As associations consider when to bring members together, they must consider that members must be ready, willing, and able to do so. However, I realize that not everyone is in the same place. Not Yet, but Soon….