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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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 11, 2024

She noted the number, quality and diversity of fringe events around the show. She described the dynamic as a partnership with the hosted buyer trade show as the strong heart making space for partners to create their lively activations on the show floor and beyond. MPI Foundation uses the $14.4

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 6, 2020

A conference rolled out plans for an all-women speaker lineup. And the Twittersphere erupted in fury and demanded change after a speaker shared how she was denied entry to a conference because she arrived with her still-breastfeeding baby. The Boston Consulting Group projects the global market for robotics to reach $87 billion by 2025.

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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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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 30, 2019

A conference rolled out plans for an all-women speaker lineup. And the Twittersphere erupted in fury and demanded change after a speaker shared how she was denied entry to a conference because she arrived with her still-breastfeeding baby. The Boston Consulting Group projects the global market for robotics to reach $87 billion by 2025.

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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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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 9, 2024

New Activities in Victoria, BC, Canada Miranda Ji Victoria Conference Center in British Columbia, a biosphere-certified and carbon-neutral venue, offers sustainable event options with tools and guides for planners. The challenge, which took place in Bayside B, just off the show floor, was exhilarating. Where’s the Plastic? “I

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The leader of the Exhibitions & Conferences Alliance, Tommy Goodwin, discusses the advocacy group’s priorities around taxes, workforce development, visas, and trade policy. Visas Another issue on ECA’s radar for 2025 isn’t new: visa backlogs. call a ‘tax cliff,’” said Goodwin. We obviously wouldn't want to see that change.”

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