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Competent logistics are the new meeting minimum

Conferences that Work

The deficiencies of meeting planning textbooks and education. In my opinion, meeting planner education is deficient. Planners could be educated so they can help their clients with meeting design. And good event design is about how a conference works. The traditional bread and butter of a meeting planner’s job.

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Are Family-friendly Conferences in Your Future?

Smart Meetings

This could mean places with fun attractions such as theme parks, zoos or historic sites. Select a hotel or conference center with family suites. When completing site visits or going on a FAM trip, determine if the hotel provides a childcare service onsite or can offer a listing of sitters who can come to attendees’ rooms.

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4 Top Tips for Picking a Safe, Secure Hotel Site

SmartMeetings

For meeting professionals, these nerve-pulsating newscasts could be creating extra stressors, as those items might also influence our conferences, such as weather that grounds planes or sicknesses that prevent travel. Starting with our site selection, we can begin the process of helping to keep our attendees safer.

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The Women (and Men) Tell All: Third-Party Planners Edition

Connect Your Meetings

For many organizations, using meetings procurement companies (aka, third-party planners) like HelmsBriscoe and ConferenceDirect for site selection, contracts and other meeting planning functions is crucial to executing a successful event. It can take one hiccup in the planning of a meeting or conference to spark doubt from a client.

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Health-Care Event Planners Adapt to a Shifting Landscape

SmartMeetings

As she presented a session at the Meeting Professionals International (MPI) most recent World Education Congress, titled “The Future of Healthcare Meetings,” Pat Schaumann made a telling comment. health-care events this year: It’s also affecting site-selection decisions for meetings scheduled over the next few years.

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2019 40 Under 40: Pamela Wike Boyd, CMP, The Solid Waste Association of North America

Connect Your Meetings

I also manage the pre-show selection process, including contracting, site selection and visitation. How I got here: I started with SWANA as a training coordinator for our education department. What I am working on now: I’m gearing up for our annual WASTECON conference in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Tarsus Connect announces acquisition of BizBash

Event Industry News

“It is a marriage that will inspire collaboration not only in the meeting, event and event marketing industries but will have an impact on the 60 million people who attend the events, conferences, festivals, meetings and gatherings planned by our diverse organisers.” Conferences. Areas of interest. Brand Events. Exhibitions.