Smart Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2023

Where event profs hope to give event attendees a vibrant, appealing and informative session, it may come off more as an information dump for some. Smart Meetings spoke with several event experts whose main goal is to craft a personalized, engaging and educational experience. Make Your Attendees Feel Like Co-creators.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

It brings together event industry stakeholders from around the world including conference, exhibition and event organisers, convention bureaux, venues and other suppliers. The aim is to drive collective action from across the sector to meet key sustainability milestones.

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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. Jennifer C.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 26, 2022

More than 2,000 meetings industry folks gathered at Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center for the launch of Business Events Industry Week , a concentration of events designed to illustrate the Power of Purpose exercised when people come together. Read about all the meeting options available at National Harbor. .

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 27, 2021

But with news of the Omicron variant changing day-to-day, conference organizers and sponsors are using the skills they’ve acquired in Covid times: flexibility and leveraging virtual options to replace some face-to-face experiences. Hybrid meeting programs offer a silver lining. Health and Safety. Safe Travels.

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SpotMe Blog

MAY 17, 2023

Pharmaceutical meeting planning is a complex task often requiring months of detailed preparation and immense pressure to rigorously respect compliance regulations. And keeping HCP engagement high at the thousands of global events your pharmaceutical company runs every year is becoming ever more challenging.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Before 2020, I was designing and facilitating around a dozen in-person meetings and conferences a year. After COVID decimated the meeting industry, I focused on the design and facilitation of online meetings. He has stayed on top of new meeting trends and technologies for decades. In 2023, in-person is back!

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 15, 2022

Now that events are going back to in person, how can meeting professionals deliver the same level of detailed success metrics to the executive team about the range of value delivered on the investment? Two veteran meeting designers joined Smart Chat Live! Meet the Experts. Read More: 6 Ways to Measure Event Success.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 20, 2024

Globally, HaH is growing, too. A conference devoted to the model, the biennial World Hospital at Home Congress (WHAHC), is gearing up for its fourth edition — to be held in Vienna, Austria, March 27–29, 2025 — and is anticipated to be its largest yet.

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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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Event Industry News

MARCH 13, 2024

The Meetings Show 2024 has opened registration for its Hosted Buyer Programme and is inviting event planners from the UK and Europe to apply.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The return to in-person meetings has been trending over the last year. This is expected to continue well into 2023, according to a new report, “ 2023 Global Meetings and Events Forecast ,” by American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT). More Meetings. for conferences and tradeshows and 4.2%

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 18, 2021

Virtual meeting platforms are buying, acquiring, partnering and otherwise conjoining with in-person meeting producers to offer full-service, integrated hybrid capabilities. What will that mean for meeting professionals? See Defining the Future of Meetings below for more on Intrado’s approach to hybrid.).

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

ExCeL London has completed the first phase of its major expansion project, which is set to add to the venue’s existing world-class conference and exhibition facilities with a 25% increase to its 100,000sqm (1,076,000sqft) capacity.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 12, 2024

On April 11, Global Meetings Industry Day was marked by in-person educational sessions and meet-ups, a 12-hour virtual event, hundreds of social-media posts—and even an original poem. Image Alt Text: Poet.png Gallery Slide Headline: The Poetry of Meetings Published: Vegas 1.jpg Watch the video here.

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SmartMeetings

MAY 27, 2021

Even companies that canceled key conferences altogether in the chaos of 2020 have announced they are bringing back at least the virtual component. Facebook’s F8 developer conference will be a one-day streaming event in June “to celebrate, inspire and help developers grow.” The Day the Meetings Stopped.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It brings together event industry stakeholders from around the world including conference, exhibition and event organisers, convention bureaux, venues and other suppliers. The aim is to drive collective action from across the sector to meet key sustainability milestones.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Chilling tales from the front and how meeting profs saved the day. Do you ever feel like an icy snowball the size of a ballroom has fallen on your perfectly planned event, forcing you to scramble to protect everyone while making everything look perfectly natural? When a Deluge Almost Drowned Out an Operatic Event.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Three corporate-planning leaders weigh in on how to create an internal “center of event excellence” that draws interest from other departments and captures a critical mass of meetings. What does it take to build a dedicated meetings team that can be both cost-efficient and ROI-driven?

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Eventmobi

MARCH 6, 2024

The best event management software will act as your partner throughout the event management process. Whether you need an all-in-one solution or a tool for specific event needs, you can use event software for any aspect of managing your next conference, trade show, association meeting, workshop, or fundraising event.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 17, 2021

The announcement yesterday that London-based virtual streaming giant Hopin was purchasing the physical event services company Boomset was another step in the direction of an end-to-end hybrid meeting solution. Our goal is to empower event managers to succeed with any event format,” the company said in a post.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Even for planners at the top of their game, the current meeting climate has created new levels of stress—the result of severe hotel booking compression, high turnover in supplier staff, and short meeting lead times. Post pandemic, a lot of faces have changed; a lot of meetings have changed. We have new internal stakeholders.

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Skift

JANUARY 15, 2020

Marriott International Skift Take: China has become a hot spot for global business travel and its secondary cities are evolving to accommodate larger conferences and conventions. What should event planners know? Marriott has a joint venture with Alibaba. Andrew Sheivachman Read the Complete Story On Skift.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 18, 2019

What’s the purpose of meetings and what’s their role in organisations’ communications mix? The GCB (German Convention Bureau) and its research partners are currently diving deep into that question as part of the “Future Meeting Space” (FMS) innovation project, launched in 2015 and now in its third phase. Innovation Catalogue Reloaded.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The Barbican, London’s internationally renowned arts and conference centre, will champion the City of London’s Destination City to buyers from around the world at IMEX America 2025. Today, the Barbican offers a vibrant venue for corporate and association events, conferences, meetings, and entertainment.

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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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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

So, when Megan Finnell, director of meetings and conferences with MGMA, pinged me with an invitation to join Clubhouse , I jumped on it. Green called the platform a natural fit for meeting professionals and compared it to a convention center with many events inside. Moderators keep the conversation moving.

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Eventscase Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) play a pivotal role in shaping the meetings and events industry. This blog explores the significance of ethics and CSR in events, highlighting their impact on event planning and the overall event experience.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Heike Mahmoud , CMP, was one of the first European meeting professionals to earn the Certified Meting Professional (CMP) designation through the Events Industry Council (EIC) in 2006. Now, she feels inspired as she sees the certification’s global spread. “It

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Eventinterface

JULY 11, 2017

As we speak with meeting and event professionals for our Interviews with Planners series, we continue to be amazed by the variety of books that help these talented professionals in their jobs as planners. See what other meeting planners read to help them excel in their careers.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 27, 2023

Before joining Aspen Hospitality, Azevedo worked as vice president of acquisitions and development for Loews Hotels and vice president of development for the Americas for Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. Rachel Riggs, CMP, DES, SEPC Riggs is general manager of environmental strategy for Maritz Global Events.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. To meet these evolving challenges, a record number gathered at the reimagined Sheraton Denver Downtown for the 2024 FICP Annual Conference this week.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 5, 2020

Meeting planners also learn by watching others doing. That is why, in this time of repackaging grand destination programs to fit onto confined computer screens, a great way to avoid mistakes is to study how our peers are shape-shifting to meet COVID-era standards. Good Event Design Still Matters.

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Unique Venues

JANUARY 6, 2022

Five Associations Professional Meeting Planners Need to Know. Have you recently entered the events industry and are looking for associations to join that will help you learn the tricks of the trade? Are you an experienced event planning professional and searching for new associations to become a member of?

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PCMA Convene

JULY 1, 2016

We’ve talked about the Brexit from the perspective of a global events company headquartered in Geneva , but how about one based in the UK? I recently talked with Graham Johnson, managing director of UKIP Media & Events, a magazine publisher and conference organizer based in Surrey, about 20 miles outside London.

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Hubilo Blog

JUNE 16, 2020

Event planners and managers have been left with no choice. Scheduled events and conferences have been cancelled/postponed. Virtual conferences – COVID19 impact and disruption. Virtual conferences – COVID19 impact and disruption. – Quoted by Will Curran, Endless Events. And when? .

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Event Industry News

JULY 31, 2019

Ashfield Meetings & Events and its sister brand, SPARK THINKING, (part of UDG Healthcare plc) held its annual conference, The Lab, at The Hilton Birmingham Metropole. Through ‘the power of us’ we’re able to create exciting and memorable meetings and events for our clients.”. Brand Events. Conferences.

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