Smart Meetings

MARCH 27, 2025

Travel Association has designated April 3 as Global Meetings Industry Day, an annual international event celebrating the major impact meetings, conferences, trade shows and exhibitions have on people, businesses and communities. This years event locations are Toronto, Ottawa, Halifax, Greater Edmonton and Calgary.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 25, 2025

Event Marketers 2025 B-to-B Dream has been unveiled. Conferences and trade shows in my industry are critical, and I was surprised how critical these shows were when I first got into med device, she says. If you dont do the shows, you may as well be invisible. Fun Fact: Michelle Martins biggest pet peeve?

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Event Marketer

MARCH 28, 2025

Interactive Creative Sessions EMS 2025 will kick off in style with an interactive morning keynote delivered by global creativity expert and author Phil Hansen. Lets explore all the ways youll connect, discover and charge up for your big bold future in events at the Summit. Youve come to the right place. Often imitated, never duplicated.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The show enables us to promote events we can host all year round from our conference spaces, team building activities and experiences, to spaces for dinners and receptions. We love the show’s creative approach and how both attendees and exhibitors are well looked after at the show!

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Known as The Show for Shows, the education, trade show floor and networking brought together solutions and inspiration. and international conferences and found that from the main stage to the booths and in the hands-on labs, the focus was on taking real action based on what is happening in convention rooms today.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

media partner of the EMMC, Event Marketer will continue to roll out new education, research and peer-to-peer initiatives for corporate event marketers working across business events, trade shows and consumer activations. As the official U.S.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 26, 2025

Around the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL, 735 exhibits drew attendees in with crafts, paintings, photo ops, swag, animal meet-and-greets and relaxation areas, all mapping back to the shows Festival of the HeARTS theme. Attendees could wait in a long line to chews a Gard Yard design to print on their own custom t-shirt.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 17, 2025

It wasnt until Laura Nelson was invited to speak at a womens entrepreneurial conference on a wellness panel, that she realized she wasnt alone in her perception of alcohols role in events. She casually asked the audience for a show of hands of people who consider themselves non-drinkers. And so, it can be very hard for some people.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 17, 2025

The 2025 HIMSS Global Conference & Exhibition brought more than 28,000 healthcare and tech leaders from around the world to the Venetian Convention & Expo Center in Las Vegas, March 3-6, to explore the latest in healthcare innovation and the future of digital health.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 6, 2024

Long wait times and inflationary pressure linger at in-person-only medical meeting The arrival in Seattle of 11,631 attendees for the 2024 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology ( ARVO ) conference in May was the culmination of a logistical struggle to return to bringing the world of eye doctors together at 2019 levels.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The Business of Events, the leading Think Tank and Advocacy Network for the business events sector, has announcedRX Globalas the headline partner of its signature 2025 Global Policy Forum.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Here, we offer a preview of what we’ll explore at the show—tactics and trends that are helping event marketers to level-up their events, campaign strategies, revenue and careers this year. THE EXPERIENTIAL EXHIBIT Trade show strategies, exhibit portfolios, on-the-floor booth experiences—they’re all changing.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 7, 2025

The first visual we laid eyes on at Toy Fair 2025 in New York City, held at the Javits Center, March 1-4, was a larger-than-life Rubiks cube suspended in the air and surrounded by disco lights and bumping music.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 2, 2022

Several years ago, the Freeman leadership team established a vision for where we wanted to be in 2025, a strategic road map with very specific imperatives attached to each objective. Editor’s Note : This opinion piece is a version of an article first posted on LinkedIn. Bob Priest-Heck, Freeman CEO.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 7, 2023

Christian Savelli Hospitality industry watcher Chris Meyer, who recently returned from SISO CEO Summit Conference in Las Vegas, agreed that conference organizer executives who attended were largely upbeat even though they are looking at the same recession indicators—an inverted Treasury yield curve, shrinking manufacturing and buying power.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Meet the Event Industry News team at this year’s Event Sustainability Live, the Event Industry News Hub will be your go-to spot to connect, plan, and explore the full potential of digital marketing and advertising for your brand in 2025 and beyond. This is your opportunity to book a meeting with our team, discuss upcoming […]

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Exhibitor Magazine

MARCH 6, 2025

The 2025 Annual Women In Experiential breakfast event will be held at EXHIBITORLIVE, The National Conference and Exhibition for Trade Show and Corporate Event Marketing, on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Meeting Professionals International (MPI) powered Smart Monday and morning keynotes as part of a 20-year partnership that was formally extended through 2025. More than 1,600 people participated in MPI education over the course of the event. meetsmart #ireland pic.twitter.com/1Dua0ypRxJ. — SmartMeetings (@SmartMeetings) October 13, 2022.

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Eventtia

JANUARY 15, 2025

Instead of just telling people about your product or service you can show them. Whether its a conference, a seminar, or a workshop, the goal is the same: create a memorable moment that builds trust and excitement around what you do. Participating in trade shows gives your brand direct access to interested buyers.

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Guidebook

DECEMBER 19, 2024

With Guidebook’s evolution to support Event Registration and Ticketing in 2025, we’re excited to make people’s lives easier and provide one unified platform for them to work from. Things are constantly changing, and they’re being asked to do more with less each year. Get Started Today!

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 2, 2025

Read More : Event Contracts: What to Watch in 2025 Nurture Your Network Planners know the value of bringing people together; it only makes sense that planners get better and brighter when they gather, too. This article appears in the March 2025 issue. You can subscribe to the magazine here.

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Ins'Tent

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Trade shows are great business opportunities to drive brand awareness and acquire new customers. Trade shows are expected to be more competitive than ever, so it’s essential for businesses to thoughtfully plan their presence. What is a trade show?

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 28, 2021

Italian Exhibition Group, key international expo and conference player, with its Rimini and Vicenza expo venues in Italy and offices in Milan, New York, Las Vegas and Dubai and listed on the Screen-based Share Market (MTA) organised and managed by Borsa Italiana S.p.A,

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Event Industry News

JUNE 19, 2019

Shane Hannam, portfolio director at IBTM, commented: “Launching a new event for the Asia Pacific market is not only exciting for the IBTM brand, it is also supported by the fact that the region’s business events industry is expected to see the highest growth rate in the world to reach $441.1bn by 2025.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The day inspires events that range from panel discussions and press conferences to pizza parties and photo opps, and last year, which was largely virtual, saw more than 40 million impressions from 8.5 It has also looked further ahead, with GMID dates set for April 11, 2024, and April 3, 2025. million people.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

How meetings can beat the loneliness epidemic In my first full year as a member of the meetings and events industry, I’ve had the immense privilege of attending numerous events, conferences and trade shows. Many conferences now host activities like yoga classes, for example, to work in that connection piece. Her vision?

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 4, 2024

She then drilled down on the previous year’s attendee feedback for CREB’s other marquee event: the housing-market forecast conference held each January. From that, she found opportunities to improve. For instance, “people said they wanted compelling content but didn’t want to run around to so many breakout sessions,” she says. “So,

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Meeting Professionals International (MPI) powered Smart Monday and morning keynotes as part of a 20-year partnership that was formally extended through 2025. More than 1,600 people participated in MPI education over the course of the event. SmartMeetings (@SmartMeetings) October 13, 2022. JT Long (@SmartMtgsJT) October 12, 2022.

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EventMB

AUGUST 15, 2024

Swoogo is defined by flexibility; a product that scales from easy, repeatable field dinners to multi-thousand person conferences. The Miami Beach Convention Center The Miami Beach Convention Center (MBCC) is the cornerstone of Miami Beach’s meetings, conventions, and trade show industries.

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Courtesy r.World) The stackable, takeaway-style coffee cups that show organizers introduced last spring at WasteExpo 2024 , the largest waste and recycling trade show and conference in North America, weren’t meant to be thrown away, composted, or recycled.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 2, 2025

Read More : Event Contracts: What to Watch in 2025 Nurture Your Network Planners know the value of bringing people together; it only makes sense that planners get better and brighter when they gather, too. This article appears in the March 2025 issue. You can subscribe to the magazine here.

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Event Industry News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In addition, the Vision 2025 conference has announced that it will be delivering a series of industry briefings examining context and new research from leading experts and organisations on the afternoon of Wednesday 20th October. The conference is open to all Showman’s Show attendees.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Talia Bender Small FQ started when Shelley Zalis, now CEO, attended the Consumer Electronics Show in 2013 and felt “ tired of being an only and lonely ,” so she invited other female attendees at the conference (an estimated three percent at the time) to walk the trade-show floor with her.

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Unique Venues

APRIL 24, 2024

Unrivaled Venue Options When it comes to venue options for your next conference, trade show, training, or retreat, Dallas is home to an impressive collection of venue choices to suit every meeting planner’s vision. Not every city can successfully blend the old with the new, but Dallas can certainly pull off this feat!

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PCMA Convene

JULY 22, 2024

During COVID, people tried virtual trade shows and organizers saw revenue streams rapidly disappearing if that became the way of business going forward. If it’s a trade show, there’s a lot of stuff that moves in and out. That’s when the site selection contracts end — that’s now 2025,” Hansen said.

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Unique Venues

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The good news is that planners and individuals are booking camps , conferences , meetings , and events at record levels, making up for lost time. Leverage relationships with the Chamber of Commerce and CVB to add local corporate and association contacts or attend regional and national trade shows and capture the attendee list.

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Event Marketer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Setting a new attendance record, more than 41,000 attendees explored the booths of 1,100-plus exhibitors, divided into 10 themed pavilions, including rides and equipment, family entertainment center, and show production and design.

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