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Best of 2024: Event Safety and Security

Smart Meetings

At a private event in Las Vegas, a group of researchers found a hacking technique called Unsaflok, allowing hackers to open several models of Saflok RFID-based keycards, putting meeting planners and their attendees potentially at risk. Although the hack was discovered in 2022, researchers hadnt come out with the news until this year.

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More In-person Meetings in 2023, Says Amex GBT Forecast

Smart Meetings

This is expected to continue well into 2023, according to a new report, “ 2023 Global Meetings and Events Forecast ,” by American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT). Their top two ways of doing this are by using diverse and minority-owned suppliers and including diverse speakers and entertainment.

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Adventures in International Meetings

Smart Meetings

Meeting professionals are not just in the events business, we are in the business of helping people define who they are. That was a reminder from Greg Bogue, chief experience architect at Maritz Global Events and keynote speaker last week at Smart Meetings Incentive Experience in Riviera Maya at the all-inclusive Hotel Xcaret Arte.

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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

Koleen Roach, director of meetings and conference management at Securian Financial Group, led a panel of veteran explainers during Financial and Insurance Conference Professional ’s 2022 Annual Conference at Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport. His advice: “Give the whole picture rather than bringing decisions to a manager piecemeal.

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Global events and engagement agency Live Group launches AudienceDNA – a first of its kind audience profiling tool for the events industry 

Prestige Events Magazine

Take the test now for free: [link] Global events and engagement agency Live Group is launching a game changing audience-profiling tool for the events industry. The information also helped us to guide our speakers and presenters in building the right content and delivering an optimum engagement approach.

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UBQ Is Turning Garbage into Events

Smart Meetings

UBQ Materials, developer of the world’s first bio-based thermoplastic, is helping create the first global event built from landfill waste. In collaboration with Palram, manufacturer of thermoplastic sheets (moldable plastic, essentially), PLANETech World 2022 , to be held in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sept. UBQ at PLANETech.

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Get Ready for a Human-centered IMEX America 2023

Smart Meetings

Speakers include Dr. Eric Solomon talking about how to design events based on how the “human operating system” processes information and connections. Read More: IMEX 2022 Reached Net Zero Carbon Events Goals Humanity Meets Technology Endean explained that while technology keeps changing, often what is new now was new before. “I

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