Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Event Marketer, the leading information resource on face-to-face marketing, announced today it would be extending its media partnership with the industrys leading authority on event measurement and analytics, the Experiential Marketing Measurement Coalition. As the official U.S.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 31, 2020

Please stop treating adults like children at your conferences. The key cultural reason why broadcast methods remain firmly embedded in our children’s education is the sheer quantity of knowledge that society — for whatever reasons — is determined to cram into young heads during formal education. Five minutes of Post It!

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 26, 2025

Event professionals are urged to register now for The Meetings Show 2025 to gain access to an unforgettable experience. We are expecting this year to be no exception, especially as we have some exciting new features that will enhance the experience, so I encourage event professionals to register now to ensure you can attend with ease in June.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 6, 2025

Deboards company allows planners to create virtual event spaces as well as customized experiences. In addition to travel, we extend our virtual touring capabilities across numerous sectors such as news, healthcare, education, sports, events, and real estate. In news, we enable virtual access to significant events and locations.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 30, 2020

If you’re inbox is anything like mine, you could spend a good portion of our day consuming webinars, virtual events and networking in Zoom or Facebook Messenger Happy Hours. The dynamics that we’re seeing impact conferences and their business models are very similar to the Freemium movement we experienced way back in 2009.

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

– Brand to Launch S Guide as part of wider ESG Conversation Lime Venue Portfolio will be bringing a Kitchen Disco concept to International Confex (26-27 February) as it looks to continue a conversation with event organisers around ESG, and specifically around social and community impact programs at events.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 8, 2025

The annual event offered a wide range of education sessions on sustainability, connection, F&B, leadership and so much more. Mark Cooper Smart Meetings Compared to last year, what made this year’s event different? SM How do you decide on the themes and sessions for the conference? Its all connected.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 10, 2024

MPI, the largest association within the MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) industry, has announced it will hold its 2025 European Meetings & Events Convention (EMEC) in Istanbul, the site of the EMEC 2014. With 1,000 members and 10 chapters and clubs, MPI has the largest presence at the conference.

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Eventmobi

MAY 23, 2024

A well-planned and executed conference will do wonders for your organization. A conference can help you achieve these things—if you host it correctly. To ensure your conference is a smashing success, invest in conference management. Keep reading this comprehensive guide to learn: What is a Conference?

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 26, 2024

For many meeting professionals, taking a well-deserved breath after a year of planning large conventions, attending the International Association of Exhibitions & Events (IAEE) Expo! Known as The Show for Shows, the education, trade show floor and networking brought together solutions and inspiration. is an annual tradition.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 24, 2025

The new partnership gives EDPA members expanded access to the experiential marketing industrys top buyers and provides Event Marketer an elevated position from which to serve EDPA members with content and data. EDPA + Event Marketer Content. The partnership includes: EDPA @ Experiential Marketing Summit. EventTrack + EDPA.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 29, 2024

Since 2009 I’ve maintained an informal calendar of peer conferences (aka unconferences) on this site. It’s informal because I only list events I hear about, a minuscule fraction of the unconferences people hold every day. Even so, the calendar lists hundreds of events. Currently, I add a few peer conferences a month.

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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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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2024

One of central Londons leading sustainable events venues, 15Hatfields , has recorded its best trading quarter to date. year-on-year increase in revenue for September, October and November 2024, thanks to its live business meetings and events bookings being up by 11.68%. 2025 is already shaping up to be our best year yet.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Meetings and conferences are perhaps one of the most important fundamental ways in which people come together and change happens. So I’m pleased to discover an academic research article paper about unconference — especially since its title is: The Future Of Conferences Is Unconferences !

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 21, 2025

Both are former Davis Events Agency clients who loved the teams work so much they joined the agency. He was a member of the board at Innovate Dublin, serving as the organisation’s chairman for two years, and was lead lecturer in event management at the Fitzwilliam Institute for the last 17 years.

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Attendease

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Whether you’re hosting an in-person, virtual, or hybrid event, your nonprofit’s fundraising events rely on audience engagement to succeed. Your engagement approach likely focuses on participants—after all, you’ll only hit your fundraising goal if they register for the event and have a good time! Let’s dive in! A call to action.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It didn’t always go by the name Leaders Conference. Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) is hosting its annual 2023 conference at Nashville’s Music City Center with a change in how it approaches the in-person event. What about that line staff who are no longer in the Leaders Conference?

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The other day, a client booked an hour with me to discuss how to make their conference better. Thinking about our conversation afterward, I realized that all my recommendations involved six fundamental processes that, when implemented well and appropriately, will make any conference better. The notes at the.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 7, 2025

The Great Yorkshire Events Centre has appointed Manchester-based consultancy Catch the MICE as their UK Representation as part of its ambitious strategy to showcase and grow its meetings, incentives, conferences, and events (MICE) offering. Its a privilege to bring our network and expertise to such a forward-thinking venue.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 16, 2025

Annual conferences can be an valuable platform for helping your attendees and their organizations develop and retain future leaders, aka hi-pos. Here are three ways to get started: Emerging Leaders Ideally this is a year-round program with the greatest benefits delivered in person at your conference.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JULY 17, 2024

The Hospitality Professionals Association has revealed early details of its 2024 HOSPACE event, which is set to bring together some of the industry’s leading minds at its annual conference this November.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Virtual and augmented reality for event previews, AI-powered event apps, and seamless hybrid event solutions will differentiate successful venues. Customers expect venues and events to cater to their specific needs, whether through curated delegate journeys, personalised digital interactions, or bespoke on-site services.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Gamification “makes about as much sense as chocolate-dipped broccoli” Education professor Amy Bruckman , coined this analogy in a 1999 paper on game software design: “Most attempts at making software both educational and fun end up being neither. Which makes about as much sense as chocolate-dipped broccoli.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 27, 2023

On Monday, University of Leeds Conferences and Events (formerly MEETinLEEDS) officially launched its new city centre venue – Cloth Hall Court. Located on Quebec Street, opposite Leeds Railway Station, the Grade II listed building is a multi-purpose corporate and private events venue for up to 300 delegates.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 3, 2025

One warm summer day in 2024, Eming and I locked ourselves in the conference room to hunker down and figure out how we could bring our podcast to the forefront of the meetings industry. Tyra Dyson, CMP, DES Chief Events Strategist, TCD Events & Hospitality See her speak in Smart Start: Better Together: Championing Women in Events.

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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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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 6, 2025

CHS Leeds is set to continue its impact on the meetings and events industry with the launch of its Hosted Buyer Programme and the announcement of more elite exhibitors to help event industry professionals fulfil their RFPs and put together their event programmes.

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

UKEVENTS hosted a special exhibition in Parliament to highlight the vital contribution of the UK events industry to the national economy, 3-6 February. With over 700,000 people employed in the sector, the UK events industry plays a crucial role in economic growth. Expansion of the VisitBritain Business Events Growth Programme.

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Conferences that Work

OCTOBER 21, 2024

.” Fall 2024 Freeman Syndicated Survey of Event Organizers. Copyright Freeman 2024 Why you should read this Freeman report Read this report to discover if you’re doing what’s needed to improve your events for your attendees. Only a quarter of event organizers are constantly evolving their event designs.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

ABPCO, the Association of British Professional Conference Organisers is delivering its flagship educational event of the year. The Festival of Learning is a 2-day educational event that delivers […]

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 4, 2024

During a 1992 conference, I created the first of what I now call spectives. Over the last 32 years, I’ve led hundreds of spectives and introduced the format to many event professionals and facilitators. the 2015 PCMA Education Conference ) and small (e.g. the 2023 BizBash Leadership Summit ) conferences.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These events usually last three to four days, and when you add on travel time, attendees may be gone from their families for a week or longer. Select a hotel or conference center with family suites. Allow the family to attend social events. A Winning Combination Families can pair a vacation with the event.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The global professional organization officially launched 50 years ago in 1973 in that very city and has since grown to include more than 2,000 members, delivering research, education and networking. New Foundation President Hamish Reid, MICE Consultant with Hills Balfour, shared that between 2016 and 2022 alone, more than $1.7

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 28, 2022

The deficiencies of meeting planning textbooks and education. A “creative” event design is one with a novel venue and/or decor and lighting and/or food and beverage. Consequently, planners restrict the entire focus of creative event design to novel visual and sensory elements. I have a pile on my desk as I write this.

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The UKs largest charitable social enterprise leisure provider – GLL – will add Westminster Boating Base to its portfolio of unique and first class event venues when it takes on management and operations on behalf of the Westminster Boating Base charity from 1 March 2025, following an agreement struck with the charitys trustees.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 14, 2025

Its business as usual at the 2025 SXSW Conference & Festivals in Austin, but the 38 th annual event, March 7-15, may mark the end of an era for the tentpole. Early results showed that 3,500 people stopped by during the two-day event. billion renovation that wont be complete until late 2028.

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