Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 24, 2019

As the event-tech space continues to evolve with a number of mergers and acquisitions, I see four changes coming for larger annual conferences. #1. Conference organizers who jumped on the big-data bandwagon are drowning in so much information, they can’t make sense of what changes need to be made. Security is Expensive, but Critical.

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Eventmobi

JANUARY 7, 2025

Whether youre running a members-only workshop or hosting a conference, events are a core part of your outreach strategy. Emails in this stage would explain appealing aspects of the event a few months before, such as guest speakers and entertainment. or Just Announced: See the New Speakers for Our Event! Teaser-focused.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

workshop for Dutch professional moderators, I was interviewed by Otto Wijnen about speaker and presentation tips for making presentations more effective by incorporating active learning. Read the full article at Conferences That Work Related posts: Participate! The key to successful 21st century conferences Attend Participate!

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SpotMe Blog

JUNE 20, 2021

Audience engagement is supported by virtual conference ideas that enhance how your event attendees absorb information. This is especially true when combining an in-person audience with a remote, virtual audience for a hybrid conference. Another fact: Hybrid conferences and events are hard. We have good news for you.

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Attendease

DECEMBER 5, 2019

A collaborative campaign to get users to download and use the app before the event has proven to help boost the number of visitors and the general hype and anticipation surrounding an event. Conference & Event Mobile App Features. Conference & Event Mobile App Features. Speakers, guest and exhibitor Directories.

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Eventmobi

JULY 13, 2023

Think back: what do you remember about the event speakers from your most recent event? Getting the right speakers for your event can make or break the success of your conference, trade show, or seminar. But finding the perfect speakers can sometimes feel like searching for a needle in a haystack! Motivational speakers.

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EventTechBrief

APRIL 18, 2019

Event management software (EMS), which automates the tasks associated with planning a conference, has been available for at least a quarter century. Sava Events, for example, connects whole pages of conference content to the chatbot with a click. By Michelle Bruno. They are popular. Chatbots are not new for Spice Factory.

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Eventmobi

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Managing the conference badge design process for your in-person events is typically a complicated and costly process that requires outsourcing the design, wrangling spreadsheets, mail merge , and templates, followed by endless rounds of approvals. What’s the best thing about EventMobi’s conference badge software? EventMobi GoLive!

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Guidebook

JUNE 21, 2018

Download our free, 300-page workbook and handbook, the Professional Event Planning Guide. In this guide, five event pros from all ends of the spectrum — corporate meetings, boutique conferences, high-end agencies, and association events — weigh in on running an event from start to finish. Build a mobile event app.

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Attendease

AUGUST 7, 2020

Keeping attendees, speakers and sponsors engaged. Many event organizers will kick off an online conference or session either by talking on-camera or narrating over agenda slides; starting things off with a branded video or interactive overview of what attendees will learn is a great way to grab audience attention immediately.

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Eventmobi

JANUARY 7, 2021

Virtual conference engagement is here to stay. Conference live streaming technology has come a long way since the glorified Zoom calls of March and early April 2020; attendees expect more than a choppy, poorly lit, and unrehearsed webinar. Assess your virtual conference engagement needs. Are speakers using reliable mics?

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Download the Managing Attendee Energy White Paper Follow the Sun Celebrity neuroscientist and podcaster Andrew Huberman points out that our internal circadian rhythm is the engine behind our sleep-wake cycle. Its when the mind consolidates all the information it has learned during the day at the conference. Nature almost always wins.

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Attendease

JANUARY 6, 2023

Using third-party software shouldn’t act as an excuse to leave your branding behind: make sure you keep your brand consistent across all touchpoints with your audience, including the email invitation, the event website and registration process, the slideshow, and the web-conference itself. Networking/ Messaging Capabilities.

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Attendease

AUGUST 20, 2024

Think about it — a corporate executive searching for an industry conference has totally different needs than a music lover looking for the hottest local concert. How should the journey map differ for big events like large annual conferences versus smaller, more internal events? Here’s how to apply them to your next event: 1.

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

How are your conference attendees learning? We’ve got to confront the ineffectiveness of our conference education approaches! If we want to increase conference participant ROI and loyalty, we’ve got to just stop accepting speaker proposals, assigning speakers a time slot and then offering an exam for CEs to attendees.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Speaker recruiting? The latter has always allowed you to rename breakout rooms to a topic, issue, or group as desired.] • However, EVERYONE in the zoom room must have the latest version of Zoom downloaded or they won’t see the room options/topics. Mostly because my panelists are tech people and not always the best speakers????.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Content should be simple to download. Event technology company CadmiumCD built lead retrieval into its conference website technology, allowing attendee-to-attendee networking, downloading of speaker presentations and badge scanning using an existing Android or iOS phone. On-site check-in should be painless.

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Eventmobi

JANUARY 17, 2019

You do however have to ensure attendees download the event app, have a stable WiFi connection and know where to find voting and polling in the app. To increase engagement and adoption, share the in-app features with your attendees and have your speakers promote the app on your behalf as well. Q&A (aka Ask a Question).

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Eventmobi

JULY 10, 2023

More than a decade ago, when EventMobi launched, mobile apps for conferences were a revolution. These days, they’re a prerequisite for a fantastic conference experience. With the right conference app, you can: Enhance communication Streamline event management Personalize attendees’ experience And so much more. Networking!

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Attendease

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

That five day conference can now be shortened, still deliver the same bang for your buck, the same valuable content, but can be delivered in two to three days versus five. Without lighting and sound in any conference, it falls flat. But the pandemic has allowed us to shorten a lot of things. Hybrid Event Planning Considerations .

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

Meetings are more prevalent than conferences in the industry, with meetings generally being considered one-day events in which the group engages with themselves, while a conference is defined as an event with staging and speakers addressing an audience. Download your free copy of the Q1 Event Economy Tracker here.

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Eventmobi

AUGUST 5, 2022

Hero Conf: This two-and-half-day annual conference takes place in the US and UK. Audrey is a team of one and Jane-of-All-Trades, managing the planning and execution of Hanapin Marketing’s two annual conferences. To offer the best programming, Audrey needed to understand which topics and speakers were of interest to attendees.

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Eventmobi

MARCH 28, 2019

It might seem like conferences are an ideal place to do business, with so many people in attendance and the high potential for interpersonal interaction. But the reality is, very few deals or sales actually happen because of the lack of opportunity to build relationships from conferences. Conferences go by in the blink of an eye.

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IMG

JANUARY 24, 2023

Conference or talk series with different keynote speeches showcasing African-American leaders in your industry. Bring in speakers and create your own version of TEDx Talks) Community Event. Don’t limit your DEI efforts to February, Download your FREE copy of our DEI calendar!

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SpotMe Blog

JULY 25, 2021

The tricky part about hybrid conferences and events is making them equally as engaging and fulfilling for people who are attending remotely as it is to those who are physically present. Those attending in person can go to workshops, engage with each other, interact with speakers, and ask questions. Trade shows. Training seminars.

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SpotMe Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Organizing a medical conference that brings results can be stressful. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the best medical conference apps to ensure you come away with actionable HCP insights and invaluable connections to drive your business forward. Want to jump straight to the list of the best medical conference apps?

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Eventmobi

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Topics include: Top 5 Live Streaming Questions Explained 6 Live Streaming Platforms for Virtual Events & Online Conferences. They cover the key information every event organizer should know before planning a virtual or hybrid event with live speakers. Why Video Conferences Don’t Work Well for Large Audiences.

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Eventmobi

MAY 1, 2024

Download the Event Technology Buyer’s Guide for Associations now. members, non-members, sponsors, exhibitors, and speakers). She was also a great resource for creative ideas on how to best use the app to achieve our event goals.” — Rachel Lyon, Manager, Conference & Events, CSAE 16. Get the Guide 1.

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Eventmobi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Instead, they act as virtual handshakes that welcome attendees, sponsors, and speakers, leaving them eager to experience the real deal. Your website should provide potential attendees with all the details they need to know about your event–from the schedule and session descriptions to speaker bios and information on how to register.

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Eventmobi

JULY 13, 2022

Turn Your Annual Conference App Into a Year-Round Member Engagement Hub. Your annual conference app offers a prime opportunity to increase revenue that many associations miss out on. After your event ends, the conference app can serve as a persistent digital home for member networking, industry education and entertainment.

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Attendease

AUGUST 12, 2020

You can go an extra-mile and build a branded background for your speakers as well. Music can be used in a break between sessions and also before introducing each new session and speaker. There are a number of websites available to download royalty free songs, such as Bensound. Sponsorship Opportunities.

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Event Industry News

APRIL 27, 2022

Easy Speaker upload – Using a customisable email template, invitation emails are sent out to speakers, with unique links for each of their presentations or E posters, where they can upload presentation files. Showing which rooms each is assigned to, as well as the state of the presentation files for each; uploaded, checked, etc.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

It may be listening to a certain speaker, visiting a particular sponsor, connecting with colleagues, or attending a new product demo. Meeting planners will be able to track which PDFs were downloaded and how many times. Geoffrey Wellen is chief customer care officer of 6Connex , a provider of event and conference meetings technology.

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Eventmobi

JUNE 19, 2024

There are a few tried and true strategies: book top-level speakers, invest in an event app to increase engagement onsite, and provide them with plenty of networking opportunities. Karen recently helped plan the annual conference for the Association of Academic Surgical Administrators , which was held in Boston. You’re in luck!

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Event Marketer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

INBOUND, HubSpot’s annual Boston-based conference connecting business, marketing and sales professionals familiar with its marketing software, welcomed 11,000 global attendees Sept. A PDF version of the information was available for download as well if attendees preferred to digest the content in written form.

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SpotMe Blog

MAY 4, 2021

Virtual conferences aren’t a groundbreaking idea anymore, but event planners are continually learning how to use them in groundbreaking ways. Learn how virtual conferences work, which key components you need to include to really stand out in your field, and how going hybrid may be the trick in a post-pandemic world. Trade shows.

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Guidebook

DECEMBER 9, 2024

While conferences, festivals, and gatherings bring people together, they also have some hefty environmental consequences. ” Taylor Blair, 2021-2022 CIVSA President UPCEA Conference : In 2013, UPCEA partnered with Guidebook to create a mobile app for their conference, shifting from costly printed materials to a digital platform.

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