Smart Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2025

Global meeting planners are exceeding expectations. Fred Dixon The global travel trends represent a significant milestonenot just recovering from the pandemic but building momentum for future growth, according to Brand USA President and CEO Fred Dixon. million in 2023. That number is up from 79 million in 2019.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 30, 2023

Siemens Digital Industries Software, which is celebrating 175 years, wove its technologies into a collection of four exhibit spaces at CES 2023, Jan. The post Siemens Spotlights its Sustainability Ventures in Four Interactive Exhibits at CES 2023 appeared first on Event Marketer. Powered by a new tagline—“Dream it.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2023

Where event profs hope to give event attendees a vibrant, appealing and informative session, it may come off more as an information dump for some. Smart Meetings spoke with several event experts whose main goal is to craft a personalized, engaging and educational experience. Make Your Attendees Feel Like Co-creators.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Webinar session, Joanna Pineda, CEO and chief troublemaker of Matrix Group International , and Jennifer O’Grady, senior director of Design Studio of Maritz Global Events , tackled the Secrets for Engaging Platform-agnostic Association Meetings. Time management and wellness is also a major factor for meeting guests today.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Neuroinclusion: Events for Everyone The term neuroinclusion builds on the concept of neurodiversitythe understanding that neurological differences are not pathological but simply differences in cognitionto incorporate the understanding that neurodiversity will always exist in an audience into event design. In 2023, U.S.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Higher air fares are replacing the flight delay challenges of 2023. The good news for event marketers, however: Despite the year’s travel speed bumps and forecasts, many events and trade shows (CES 2024, included) are reporting they are back to pre-pandemic attendance levels. percent increase in hotel rates.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Smart Meetings reached out to our esteemed editorial advisory board to ask what they are grateful for during this transition year and how they demonstrate it personally and professionally. Global General Manager, Maritz Global Events. We will be much stronger, more efficient and innovative in 2023 as a result!

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

A special message in advance of Global Meetings Industry Day 2023 As we approach Global Meetings Industry Day 2023 on March 30, we’re going to talk a lot about the economic value of meetings. We felt it in the surge of events flooding back in 2022. Don’t know everyone’s sentiments?

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 27, 2023

Before joining Aspen Hospitality, Azevedo worked as vice president of acquisitions and development for Loews Hotels and vice president of development for the Americas for Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. Rachel Riggs, CMP, DES, SEPC Riggs is general manager of environmental strategy for Maritz Global Events.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2024

A community of female leaders built on welcoming others emphasizes the power of belonging The announcement of the 2024 Smart Women in Meetings Award winners that went out Friday swelled the ranks of leaders honored to more than 1,000 strong. Hear what attendees said about the 2023 Smart Woman Summit. It is what Marin would have wanted.

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Attendease

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

SXSW typically has a strict no-refunds policy, but due to the unprecedented situation, they offered 2020 registrants badge deferral to the next three years of the festival, or 50% off a future walk-up rate ticket until 2023. In June, they launched “Collision from Home” a two-screen experience combining a desktop web app and a mobile app.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Whether physical or cyber, events without ample security not only makes events less safe, they also make the possibility of creating personal and professional connections much less likely, as attendees spend more time worrying about their physical safety or their sensitive information being breached. 10 Safest Places to Travel in 2022.

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Event Marketer

JUNE 20, 2023

CLIENT LIST: Partial list: Logitech, NICE, Renesas, Red Hat, Ping Identity, Masonite, EFI, Rapid Recon CLIENT CASE STUDY SNAPSHOT: We hosted Logitech’s annual global sales conference which featured over one thousand employees from more than 50 countries. Attendee satisfaction at 97% was the highest ever recorded for a Logitech virtual event.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 16, 2022

If the way you handle attendees’ information doesn’t meet the EU’s GDPR standards, it may not meet some U.S. state’s standards being enacted in 2023. meeting professionals changed their data practices if there was any chance an EU citizen would be among their attendees. RELATED: The Meeting Professional’s Guide to GDPR.

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Event Marketer

MAY 9, 2022

Despite the progress made in the return to in-person, event marketers are facing a new set of challenges related to meeting the expectations of changed audiences and fighting the urge to return to the status quo of pre-pandemic programming. Plans change and that’s OK—the important part is to have them.”. Hyper-target markets.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JUNE 6, 2023

Becky Balchin, head of project operations at global events and engagement agency Live Group , has been selected as a mentee for the 2023/2024 Fast Forward 15 (FF15) mentoring programme. Her expertise and leadership transform ambitious ideas into awe-inspiring events.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Maritz Global Events Wellbeing Leader Rachael Riggs reported that the sustainability challenge executed in partnership with Heka Health from IMEX Frankfurt was back on and very popular. Smart Meetings talked to some attendees who made careful plans to ensure they could stick to their goals and found welcome partners in the quest.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 4, 2024

A wine trade association does a post-Covid rebrand Like many in the world of face-to-face gatherings, 2023 was the first time in a few years that Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA) held its previously annual convention. The post Event Case Study: Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Event Marketer

MAY 17, 2023

More than 1,000 members of the event marketing community convened at Caesars Palace Las Vegas for the 21 st annual Experiential Marketing Summit, May 9-11. WORKSHOPS AND KEYNOTES Kicking off EMS 2023, The Moth Storytelling Workshop and the Data and Measurement Workshop were standing-room only, with highly engaged participants.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Maritz Global Events released its Industry Trends Report at IMEX America with some eye-popping data on the rising cost of hotels, airfares, F&B, and other event-budget elements. If your meetings budget has kept up with price increases over the past few years, you’re among the lucky.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 18, 2023

Working with the United Kingdom-based sustainability consultant isla , a total of 92% of event waste was recovered by diverting it into recycling, composting or donation channels, meeting the threshold for a zero-waste event. The post New Report: IMEX 2022 Reached Net Zero Carbon Events Goals appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 19, 2024

She has a proven track record of driving revenue growth and orchestrating sales strategies to attract meetings and events. Steve Bailen Steve Bailen, MGME Global events agency MGME appoints Bailen as client development director. Smith brings over 15 years of experience to her new role as director of sales and marketing.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Meeting Professional Continuing Education Includes Sustainability Certification Meeting professionals are taking sustainability more seriously than ever before. Throughout the program, participants use a digital workbook to customize a roadmap for their own sustainable event. So, what’s next? What is the SEPC?

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Prestige Events Magazine

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The Business of Events is pleased to announce the launch of the Global Destination Report Survey , a collaborative effort with IBTM World and Meet in Ireland. Destinations and convention bureaux are invited to complete the survey by 2 nd October 2023.

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Event Marketer

MAY 24, 2023

“People are coming back face-to-face, but they’re doing it differently, and we had to adapt to that,” Colleen Bisconti, vp-global conferences and events at IBM, described ahead of IBM Think 2023. “A It’s about how do we get the right people because we have crafted this experience that we think meets these needs.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

When 684 meetings industry leaders met in Boston this week for Financial & Insurance Conference Professionals’ (FICP) 2022 Annual Conference, the theme at Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport was “Creating Our New History” and set milestones—they did. Squeglia , CMP, independent contractor with RLC Events, will serve as immediate past chair.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

UBQ Materials, developer of the world’s first bio-based thermoplastic, is helping create the first global event built from landfill waste. Events are an opportunity to really nurture that awareness if we want to be responsible and push sustainability to the limit.

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EventMB

JUNE 2, 2022

All the indicators suggest that 2023 and 2024 are going to be very good years for our industry. The Maritz Global Events Sustainability Challenge gamified IMEX in Frankfurt sustainability initiatives using an app and a leaderboard. Next year’s IMEX in Frankfurt will take place 22 – 25 May 2023.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 23, 2022

The 1,700 attendees checking in live at Meeting Professionals International’s World Education Conference ( WEC ) at Moscone Center in San Francisco this week were treated to a performance in three acts designed to provide “perspective,” “approach” and “action,” according to Paul Van Deventer, MPI president and CEO.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JULY 12, 2024

The event professionals behind these activations were also recognized as the Best Team of the Year , sponsored by SEC, which went to the BBC Studios Global Events Team. The Best Agency Collaboration , sponsored by ACC Liverpool, was picked up by Deloitte for its UK Partner Meeting 2023 – 27Unlocked.

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Attendease

JULY 5, 2024

Event planning and management is still growing and evolving as an industry. Research and Market’s report on the global events management market projects that it will reach $1.76 billion in 2023. This type of organization and task assignment is easily completed using corporate meeting planning solutions.

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Attendease

JULY 5, 2024

Event planning and management is still growing and evolving as an industry. Research and Market’s report on the global events management market projects that it will reach $1.76 billion in 2023. This type of organization and task assignment is easily completed using corporate meeting planning solutions.

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SpotMe Blog

MAY 17, 2023

Pharmaceutical meeting planning is a complex task often requiring months of detailed preparation and immense pressure to rigorously respect compliance regulations. And keeping HCP engagement high at the thousands of global events your pharmaceutical company runs every year is becoming ever more challenging.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 4, 2022

She positioned the show as a bellwether event, offering a picture of business volume and pipelines that could be realized in 2023 and beyond. Make plans to visit Smart Meetings in booth F933 and get yourself on the magazine cover. The post Focus on Sustainability at Largest IMEX America Yet appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 4, 2022

She positioned the show as a bellwether event, offering a picture of business volume and pipelines that could be realized in 2023 and beyond. Make plans to visit Smart Meetings in booth F933 and get yourself on the magazine cover. The post Focus on Sustainability at Largest IMEX America Yet appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 7, 2024

ASH collaborated with government agencies, airlines, venues and partners to advance medical science based on robust data When the goal is to produce the 66 th anniversary of the premier event in classical and malignant hematology, then doing whatever it takes to get the best in the world to the general session is job one. It’s getting better.”

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Event Farm

DECEMBER 8, 2022

For our most recent virtual event, “Event Exhale,” we brought together four industry experts to pause and examine the true state of the industry as it is today. These increased costs create a real puzzle that event planners are left to put together. Then, if they can’t meet that budget, you have a point to move from.

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