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Key Takeaways from MPI Northern California ACE 2025

Smart Meetings

1 2028 is Poised to Spur a Significant Market Shift With the demand for meeting space continuing to soar, event planners are increasingly feeling the pressure to lock in venues ASAP. When considering speakers for your next meeting, remember that thinking outside the box can majorly pay off. #4

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Off the Grid and Out of My Mind: Finding Sanity in an Industry That Never Stops

Smart Meetings

If there is one thing Ive learned over lo these many years of booking and representing speakers, its that someone always needs something. trillion (yes, with a T) valuation by 2028 (TrueList). Christa Haberstock is the founder of See Agency , a leader in speaker management with nearly three decades of expertise.

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How Planners Can Manage The “Easy Button” in Events

Smart Meetings

Third party legwork can consist of registration, promotional items, air manifest, air bookings, transportation, food and beverage, audiovisual production, collection of information, collection of speaker notes, agendas, and on-site logistics. Compression of the market is huge. The larger groups are booking out at three to five years now.

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Must Know Virtual Event Statistics For Your Event Marketing strategy

Nunify

By 2028 global virtual event market could reach $500+ billion ( Global news wir e, 2021). It is easier to manage mute, focus on speaker, presentations considering laptop & phone screen sizes. Event Industry Trends. Event Professional’s Outlook. Virtual Event Platform & Feature Usage. Virtual Event Engagement.

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The 10 Best Event Management Presentations for Planners & Marketers

Social Tables

21 Ways to Boost Your Event 21 ways to boost your event from Cyriel Kortleven Author and TEDx speaker Cyriel Kortleven breaks down a number of ways that planners and presenters can create event concepts that provide engaging and inspiring experiences.

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Reed Travel Exhibitions launches new experiential marketing conference & expo

Event Industry News

It will also act as a platform to network with an opportunity for one-to-one meetings and to share best practice and learnings.

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Is it time to switch to an event app in 2024?

Guidebook

It is predicted that the event app market will keep on expanding in 2024 on its way to the expected $2,6 million growth in 2028. Remove the Abundance of Communication Channels An event app enables attendees, speakers, organizers, and vendors to communicate in an all-in-one channel. And it will happen for a reason.