Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 22, 2017

There’s a place for sponsored content in conference programs, if you’re thoughtful in your approach. As more sponsors embrace content marketing or thought leadership as arguably the most powerful strategy for improving attitudes and perceptions of their brand, conference-speaking slots are increasing in value. Transparency.

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JUNE 13, 2022

Jerry’s resulting definition of leadership is “ the process of creating an environment in which people become empowered.”. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post The real job of leadership appeared first on Conferences That Work. That is the real job of leadership.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

“We’ve calibrated our research and confirmed our hypothesis: many organizers are operating on outdated definitions of attendee and exhibitor value. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Freeman’s Trends Report Q4 2024 is a must-read appeared first on Conferences That Work. The good news?

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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. Nostalgia definitely met whats next in tech here.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 18, 2021

Why people continue to speak for free at meeting industry conferences : Another issue of an occasional series— Dear Adrian — in which I answer questions about event design, elementary particle physics , solar hot water systems, and anything else I might conceivably know something about. My post Why don’t meeting conferences pay speakers?

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JUNE 29, 2020

The two relevant definitions of “virtual” in the Oxford English Dictionary [OED account required] are: “Not physically present as such but made by software to appear to be so.” ” “That may be so called for practical purposes, although not according to strict definition; very near, almost absolute.”

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Adding early morning running, yoga sessions or Tai Chi classes into conference agendas is becoming the norm. While separate training sessions are an excellent trend, exercise between and during conferences can be powerful additions. Screen-free zones have become popular at conferences. Create a Relaxing Off-Grid Zone.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Rachel Macaulay, head of conferences and events at Vue said “This event showed how a cinema setting amplifies hybrid events and takes them to the next level. Both venues complied to the latest Government guidelines.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 7, 2023

The conference is slated to return to Vegas in April for its 100th anniversary with an expected 65,000 people. People were hugging people and were definitely shaking hands—people were touching each other,” Brown said. The post NAB Conference Roars Back Strong Despite Covid Policies appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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MARCH 18, 2025

Maybe it was that one conference you attended, where a speaker spoke to a part of you that you never even knew existed. Over time, weve internalized these external definitions of success. Inspiration typically comes from well-placed catalysts in our lives. But its time to free ourselves from comparison and carve our own path.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

You pre-load it with information on the destination, information about the conference, the theme, sponsors, whatever you want. So we use it in a lot of our trade shows, because you definitely get the appeal of people want to come and be part of it and take the picture and show their kids.” You can make it AI to search the web….

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Event Farm

JULY 8, 2022

To ensure that your attendees return to your conference year after year delivering a memorable event experience is key. This is why “Reimagining the Conference” was the perfect topic for Part 4 of our virtual workshop series on Crafting the Event Experience. During this session, ??POP Use Safety Protocol as a Marketing Tactic.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

By definition, procurement is the structured process through which organizations acquire goods and services from suppliers. It should connect all the phases of conference planning, prevent unforeseen obstacles and set a solid foundation for the conference’s success. It’s about ensuring quality.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

On Tuesday, March 26, 2024 , I sat down with Martin Duffy and Paul Nunesdea on LinkedIn Live for an hour’s deep dive conversation about peer conferences: the participant-driven, participation-rich events I’ve designed and facilitated for over thirty years. Peer Conferences Unveiled—The Transcript! Here it is—enjoy!

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Meet the Experts Ellie Hurley, events director at Financial and Insurance Conference Professionals (FICP), has spent the past three years leading FICP’s event-specific approach to sustainability and social impact and also holds the Sustainable Event Professional Certificate (SEPC) from Events Industry Council (EIC).

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Event Marketer

APRIL 2, 2025

Breaking away from the usual conferences with a meetings and expo components, Shoptalk is part of the growing group of business events, think Money 20/20 and HLTH , that are rewriting the book on engagement, business facilitation, and the show floor experience. Definitely a first. Weve gotten flu shots at shows before, but an IV?

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Prestige Events Magazine

JULY 29, 2024

The Eastside Rooms launches platform to enable 24/7 online conference bookings In response to growing client demand, The Eastside Rooms has partnered with hospitality tech company Amadeus to implement their cutting-edge online booking platform, Delphi Direct, which delivers online conference room booking capabilities.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 28, 2016

The factors that influence loyal attendees to come to a trade show are quite different, in many instances, than organizers’ perceptions—factors used to select sites, sell to their exhibitors, and plan their conference education. At Velvet Chainsaw, we use a more stringent definition for loyalty – two out of three or better = loyal.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 11, 2021

What we think of as modern business meetings and conferences are hundreds of years old. The traditional top-down formats of meetings and conferences reflect the top-down structure of the institutions that still largely dominate our world. Wilson’s definition of humanity’s problem resonates for me.

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SpotMe Blog

MAY 17, 2022

Our guide to the best virtual conference platforms helps you pick the right virtual solution. So we created this guide to the best virtual conference platforms to help you. So we created this guide to the best virtual conference platforms to help you. Virtual conference platforms. What is a virtual conference?

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Eventmobi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Some attendees are busy parents, or may run their own business, which can make it difficult to step aside for a few days to attend an in-person conference. It’s an expensive conference to fly across the country, perhaps—and then, hotel rooms, things like that. So it just became more accessible.” But it wasn’t just students.

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Eventmobi

JULY 31, 2024

I’m not going to be able to get to all of that content in a three-day conference—but I think that probably presents the opportunity now.” I think, as part of designing the event slightly differently, we have to think about the event not as this three-day conference where that education, that content, is kind of used up,” Webb says.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Read More: 4 Essential Planning Guidelines for Citywides Strategic About Size and Scale McCormack addressed the benefit of meeting in a smaller city, saying, “We definitely are a little bit of a smaller tier city, but we still have so much to offer, and it’s very easy to get around when a group the size of Lenovo Tech World comes.

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Expo Pass

JANUARY 25, 2023

An event planning conference! In this article, we share our list of event-planning conferences in 2023 that you won’t want to miss out on! In this article, we share our list of event-planning conferences in 2023 that you won’t want to miss out on! Event planning conferences are THE place to learn from influential people.

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Event Marketer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

5-7 at Chicago’s McCormick Place, the event will once again serve as the definitive destination for experiential marketing education, offering 60 sessions presented by 50 brand-side marketers (get all the conference details here ). EM: How is Cisco approaching its conferences in the year ahead? Taking place Oct.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 19, 2024

Forged ahead and wrote what eventually became a series of three books on conference design. However, I have a more flexible definition. license Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Paying it forward! appeared first on Conferences That Work. I think you will find, as I have, that it pays rich dividends.

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Eventmobi

JULY 26, 2022

The CSAE Annual National Conference. CSAE holds their national conference in a different Canadian city every October. The conference is a mix of speaker sessions, networking, exhibitor booths, and evening social events. CSAE has used EventMobi’s app over the past two years for their annual national conference.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 20, 2024

Improving Conferences That Work I designed and facilitated my first peer conference in 1992. Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love took four years to write. I’m still proud of how well Conferences That Work lays out the fundamental reasons for the importance and value of peer conferences.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Adding early morning running, yoga sessions or Tai Chi classes into conference agendas is becoming the norm. While separate training sessions are an excellent trend, exercise between and during conferences can be powerful additions. Screen-free zones have become popular at conferences. Create a Relaxing Off-Grid Zone.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

So that’s what made me think that journalism, properly conceived is a service.” — Interview of Jeff Jarvis by David Weinberger A new definition of journalism: “…convening communities into civil, informed, and productive conversation, reducing polarization and building trust through helping citizens find common ground in facts and understanding.”

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Eventscase Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

DOWNLOAD THE WHITEPAPER NOW About Eventscase The Eventscase platform helps event organisers manage corporate events, conferences, and trade shows, whether large, small, in-person, hybrid, or virtual. No technical skill is required at all.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The definition of “risk” has grown beyond the traditional definitions of financial, operational, reputational and security issues meeting professionals checked off their list as they prepared to bring people together in days of old. Defining Risk.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

Event planners, speakers and attendees all saw their calendars cleared out last March, returning slowly with virtual events and only now showing a glimmer of hope for the return of live conferences. And fortunately, the experience is delivered by human beings for human beings, so by definition it will be unique. So what’s left?

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Event Marketer

APRIL 11, 2024

–Sharon Yi, SVP-Brand Solutions, Future plc Four ways the brand evolved its annual Power Trip conference into the always-on Power Play platform A curated group of 100 women kicked off Marie Claire’s reimagined Power Play summit in L.A. Those were the nuances and definitions that we wanted to explore.”

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Attendease

MAY 27, 2021

We’ve always had an online component, but it was definitely more of a take what we’re doing face to face, put it online, give a couple of offerings. We know digital attendees register later, maybe the week of or day of a conference. We’re definitely always experimenting and learning.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 12, 2024

Read More: Salt Lake City is a Modern Meetings Magnet Tropical Turnout Conference center at Delta Hotels Orlando Celebration Delta Hotels Orlando Celebration wraps up a $35 million renovation, complete with a fully redesigned convention center. Now let’s get to the star of the show–the newly refreshed conference center offers 10,000 sq.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 2, 2020

“The problem is that democracy is by definition slow, messy and cumbersome. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Should meetings be efficient? appeared first on Conferences That Work. Imagine how good the music would turn out if all instruments were playing all the times. Alidad Hamidi. The pace is fast.

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