Smart Meetings

JANUARY 14, 2022

Shaffer has also been association and corporate sales manager at The DeSoto Savannah in Georgia, sales manager for Embassy Suites by Hilton Charleston Airport Hotel & Convention Center and more. Lilly has been in hospitality, tourism, event management and sales for 15 years. Steve Maritz and David Peckinpaugh.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

When 684 meetings industry leaders met in Boston this week for Financial & Insurance Conference Professionals’ (FICP) 2022 Annual Conference, the theme at Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport was “Creating Our New History” and set milestones—they did. The 2023 FICP Annual Conference will be staged Nov.

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DECEMBER 19, 2024

Neuroinclusion: Events for Everyone The term neuroinclusion builds on the concept of neurodiversitythe understanding that neurological differences are not pathological but simply differences in cognitionto incorporate the understanding that neurodiversity will always exist in an audience into event design.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Now that compression is making available space an endangered resource and inflation is pushing up prices for even the most basic items while companies are hesitant to make binding decisions, the responsibility for explaining the realities of what is possible on both sides of the balance sheet falls to the event planner. By the Numbers.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Last month, Mastercard wrote about technology’s impact on travel planning, citing tech platform CWT’s Global Business Travel Forecast for 2024, which shows a 3-percent rise in “average cost per attendee, per day for meetings and events,” and a 3.6 percent increase in hotel rates.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MAY 10, 2023

Winter Gardens Blackpool also joins mia as a venue member Both Meet Blackpool and Winter Gardens Blackpool have joined the Meetings Industry Association (mia), one of the fastest growing associations in the conference, meetings and events sector, further cementing the town’s dedication to the global events industry.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Traveling for a conference is no longer an excuse to abandon your mental health and physical well-being goals. However, Stevens suggested that hotels could be part of the solution for many. Hotel rooms also play a major role in how attendees feel when they prepare to head over to their first meeting for the day.

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

Read on to see the hotel properties and convention centers these destinations offer. We spoke with Jill Blood, vice president of deputy general counsel for Maritz Global Events, about what these new laws could mean for meeting planners. Iceland took the top spot, followed by New Zealand, Canada, Sweden and Japan.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 7, 2024

As Chief Event Strategy Officer for the American Society of Hematology (ASH), Bill Reed, FASAE, CMP brings 30,000 meeting professionals from more than 110 countries together to share research about the causes and treatments of blood disorders. The post Lessons from a Global Medical Conference appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 18, 2020

Now a leading conference and events destination, the city is home to the state of the art ACC Liverpool conference centre situated on the city’s waterfront along with the breathtaking Liverpool Cathedral and the iconic Three Graces. Both hotels also have an array of event space options and functionalities.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The biggest events conference in the world is a marathon in itself with participants reporting that they recorded 10,000, 20,000 or more steps walking the floor and hoofing it to after-parties. Stevens is a four-time winner of Fittest male #Eventrprof and earned a Delos Wellness for Meetings and Events certificate.

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Event Industry News

AUGUST 28, 2020

Yesterday, the Events Industry Council issued the Health and Safety for Hotels Accepted Practices Guide. The task force’s hotel work group used the various guides issued by hotel companies as well as resources such as the AHLA Stay Safe program, and other global resources, as a starting point to develop a baseline.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 18, 2023

Significantly, 81% of event carpet was returned directly to inventory for reuse and the food court was uncarpeted, saving an estimated 4,184 pounds of CO2, earning MeetGreen Calculator’s Visionary designation. IMEX is not new to the quest for more sustainable events. A total of 14,557 pounds of food has been donated in that time.

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MARCH 4, 2024

Smart Meetings founder Marin Bright built her career in hospitality, first in luxury hotels at Mandarin Oriental and then in the meetings and events B2B publishing industry. The seeds of that powerful community were planted nine years ago in a ballroom at The Ritz-Carlton, Denver. She loved everything about the business.

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JUNE 5, 2023

Technology: Removing Friction from the Hotel Stay Marriott has been investing in the Marriott Bonvoy app since it was created as part of the Starwood merger in 2019. It now allows members to book hotel rooms, check-in, access mobile keys, “unlock experiences” and “have the world in the palm of your hand.”

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

UBQ Materials, developer of the world’s first bio-based thermoplastic, is helping create the first global event built from landfill waste. Tuviahu says UBQ is cooperating with conference organizers of PLANETech to donate their materials for the construction of the start-up booths. That doesn’t always come hand-in-hand.”.

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JANUARY 10, 2019

In May, he challenged the biggest players in the industry to sign The Ascent CEO Promise , a pledge to be more inclusive in their workplaces and events. So far, 130 companies, including Hyatt Hotels Corporation, Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau, Destinations international and National Restaurant Association, have signed on.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2024

With over 40 years of experience, he was a driving force in growing the Celtic Manor Resort into one of Europe’s premier destinations for golf, leisure, business and high-profile events, and the recent expansion of The Celtic Collection into Wales’s largest independent hotel group.

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JULY 27, 2021

Before joining Yotel, Greenwald worked as director of sales for AC Hotel by Marriott Boston Cleveland Circle and AC Hotel by Marriott Boston North. Greenwald also was account director of new business development for Starwood Hotels & Resorts’ six Boston properties. White is general manager for Hu Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.

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MARCH 7, 2025

This puts the spotlight on the force majeure clause to protect an event host from this distinct possibility. Control What You Can Brittney Cobb, director of global events with INNOV8 Meetings + Events, tried to take an optimistic approach. She sees her job as more than sourcing hotels.

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JUNE 23, 2022

The 1,700 attendees checking in live at Meeting Professionals International’s World Education Conference ( WEC ) at Moscone Center in San Francisco this week were treated to a performance in three acts designed to provide “perspective,” “approach” and “action,” according to Paul Van Deventer, MPI president and CEO. Forward Looking.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Business events have long been designed with this one-off/single-use mentality. Greenbuild International Conference & Expo, organized by the U.S. Is it walkable to hotels? How can we adopt more of a reduce, reuse, recycle approach? Plus: We explore why we need to rethink swag and reclaim trash.

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EventMB

JUNE 21, 2022

For Courtney McGee, president and CEO of Event Logistics, challenges began just before 3,000 attendees were set to arrive in Nashville for a convention. To her dismay, she learned that none of the bus drivers handling transfers to the hotels would be touching any of the luggage on the buses. The hotel was very grateful.”.

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JUNE 17, 2021

Vice President and General Manager Eric Spadafora said he is seeing requests for conferences for 100,000 or more people. These are not just big video conferences, but actual events,” he said. Lawrence Coburn, CEO and co-founder of twine , compares the intricacies of designing an engaging event to construction in the real world.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Leadership with Financial & Insurance Conference Professionals (FICP) wanted to set an example. For the group’s 2021 FICP Annual Conference in Arizona, they put a stake in the desert early on that they would hold an in-person event at JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa for 500 fully vaccinated people Nov.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

Meet Blackpool has announced it has become a member of three key industry associations: the Association of British Professional Conference Organisers (ABPCO), beam and the Tourism Management Institute (TMI), further cementing the town’s dedication to the global events and tourism sectors.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

– In addition to membership the venue has attained AIM Secure accreditation – The Celtic Manor Resort, part of The Celtic Collection , has joined the Meetings Industry Association (mia), one of the fastest growing associations in the conference, meetings and events sector, cementing the venue’s commitment to the global events industry.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The Green Events and Innovations Conference (GEI 15), the foremost conference for sustainable events is delighted to announce the first speakers for the 15th edition, which will take place on 28th February 2023 at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London. .

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JULY 3, 2024

This collaboration also includes conferences and professional events, integrating economy, research, and education. For medium size events and conferences, where the Olma Messen might be too big, the Würth Haus Rorschach is a suitable alternative. Built-in translation booths: cater to international and regional events.

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SmartMeetings

OCTOBER 26, 2020

David Stevens, director, Global Events , San Francisco Bay Area-based data company Alation , adopted a wait and see approach in March about his incentive planned for the end of May. Two Everest-level planners shared their solution to this 16,000-ft. Flexible Luxury. Stevens asked himself.

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APRIL 25, 2019

Experient EnVision attendees participate in a guided meditation session at a Mindfulness Centre created for the conference. You want to find an area that isn’t in a noisy part of the venue but still easily accessible to attendees, said Karen Watson, senior director of strategic events at Maritz Global Events. “We

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Bizzabo

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

National Parks Turned Conference. Photo source: WM Events. A corporate hotel management company threw an intergalactic party for guests in a glass-ceilinged atrium to set the mood. social media impressions—this event theme was a raging-success ( source ). Photo source: First Global Events Agency.

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JULY 26, 2021

Mark Henneberger , Vice President of Events Solutions at Walmart. Cameron Mercer , Head of Event Marketing, EMEA, APAC and Workplace at Facebook. Andrea Schwartz , Head of Global Event Marketing, Ripple. Teresa Terasaki , Program Manager for Brand, Experience & Events at Google Open Source.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Investing time to learn how to find the perfect location at any stage of the event planning process is a smart and cost effective solution. There’s obviously no sure-fire way to guarantee a perfect location for your conference, but by having a more refined search plan clever event managers can skyrocket their chances of success.

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MARCH 7, 2019

Looking to attend an AI event or two this year? Below, we've listed 20 of the top machine learning conferences in 2019. Some of these events focus specifically on machine learning. So without further ado, here are the top 20 machine learning conferences in 2019: 1. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

A sampling of how the leading independent planning companies execute every sort of event, from user conferences to exotic incentives. Gallery Slide description: Personalized conference bags, handed out at an arrivals block party organized by Maritz Global Events , enhanced networking by showing each guest’s favorite things.

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Event Marketer

MAY 17, 2023

The festivities continued into the evenings with an Opening Reception and Happy Hour sponsored by Ev&Ex Agency, the Ex Awards Gala presented by Freeman, inaugural inductions into the Hall of Fame, Sparks’ Women in Events Ladies Night at AREA 15, and The EMS Networking Dinner at Mott 32.

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