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High-Beam Insights for Applying AI

Velvet Chainsaw

This means that conference organizers who can help attendees lead the transformation for their own organizations will be highly valued. Conference application Incorporate AI strategy as a main room and/or leadership track. Conference application Dont create a standalone AI track. Pretty scary, right?)

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An Outstanding Year for Venues of Excellence

Prestige Events Magazine

2024 kicked off with our Annual Conference, The Power of Discovery , where we provided an insightful programme to support our members business strategies for the year ahead. With over 50 member venues, the Venues of Excellence consortium takes pride in representing the very best in independent conference and event venues.

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The Smart Meetings Incentive Experience Modeled Positive Behavior

Smart Meetings

of historic and modern conference center space offered something for attendees and their guests while they were meeting. Author, TEDx programmer, adventure seeker, speaker and proud father Joshua M. Author, TEDx programmer, adventure seeker, speaker and proud father Joshua M. Evans proposed focusing on perception.

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VUE CONFERENCES & EVENTS’ SHOWCASE BRINGS THE GLAMOUR TO HYBRID

Prestige Events Magazine

Recently 280 event organisers enjoyed the red-carpet treatment for a glamorous hybrid showcase featuring a screening of the recently released film ‘House of Gucci’ with speakers in two London locations and Leeds. Both venues complied to the latest Government guidelines.

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Sustainable Event Planning: Action Steps to Lasting Strategy

Smart Meetings

Meet the Experts Ellie Hurley, events director at Financial and Insurance Conference Professionals (FICP), has spent the past three years leading FICP’s event-specific approach to sustainability and social impact and also holds the Sustainable Event Professional Certificate (SEPC) from Events Industry Council (EIC).

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Looking into the Future of Event Tech

Velvet Chainsaw

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. Most event organizers reacted by significantly changing their rules around data governance and privacy to be in compliance. Security is Expensive, but Critical. Overwhelmed by Big Data.

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We Prefer Stories To Stats—The Dark Side of Stories

Velvet Chainsaw

As conference organizers this leads us to bad decisions when selecting speakers and programming where we promote sharing success stories over asking questions, verifying validity and understanding context. That bias guides our governing and managing process. Wonderful Word Of Stories.