Prestige Events Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Next week, the Barbican welcomes the prominent Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat International Conference (CTBUH) 2024. CTBUH is the international body and world’s leading nonprofit in the field of tall buildings – including skyscrapers, and sustainable urban design – and the future of cities.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 15, 2024

Questions about sustainability in booth design often trigger two responses: We’ve been doing it for a while (aluminum structures, rentals, recycling carpet) and Clients don’t want to pay for it. The resulting recommendations on sustainable booth design are due later this year. At the GCSAA Conference and Trade Show in Phoenix (Jan.

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Guidebook

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Sustainability is a critical and essential factor for events today. While conferences, festivals, and gatherings bring people together, they also have some hefty environmental consequences. Thats where sustainable event practices come in. Gamification for Sustainability Want to make sustainability fun? Event apps

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Eventmobi

MARCH 19, 2025

For example, after a chaotic start to the first day of your conference, you may need to bring in additional staff to support the check-in process for day two. Diversify Your Revenue Streams Imagine you secure a significant sponsorship eight months before your next conference. Exhibitor fees. Event app advertising.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 24, 2024

For annual conferences, this is best accomplished by identifying and adopting a combination of leading and lagging performance measures. Anchor exhibitors — If you have an expo floor, its future sustainability will be a direct result of anchor exhibitor retention. Not all metrics can give you the insights you need right now.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Attendees volunteered in the Sustainability Hub at Greenbuild in Philadelphia, PA. Greenbuild International Conference & Expo, organized by the U.S. WCEF compensates or offsets the carbon foot-print of all its speakers travel and we encourage other participants to do so on their part as well,Sjstedt said.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 18, 2025

by Simon Hainsworth, Managing Director of Corporate & Sporting Events [CSE] Whether the focus is badminton or business, each new year sees a plethora of sporting events and conferences take place across the globe. The future is greener Sustainability is not a new concept, but it remains as relevant as ever in 2025.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The team also partners with internal sustainability teams to invest in carbon offset programs for employees’ travel to the events. And how about this for efficiency and experience: George Clooney was the Amplify keynote speaker, and also took part in the Leadership Forum during an exclusive, closed-door VIP session for the attendees.

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Eventmobi

JANUARY 15, 2025

For instance, you might gift a high-profile keynote speaker a tablet to thank them for their support, but that likely isnt feasible to give to all event attendees. Pro-tip for offering physical gifts: Prioritize sustainability. This is a perfect idea if your conference attracts a large out-of-town audience. Local food baskets.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 8, 2020

Over the past 30 days, the VCC team has helped dozens of conference and show organizers with their decisions on how to respond to the pandemic. Don’t underestimate the value of affiliation and act in good faith to sustain long-term relationships. Provide the value your members need now without trying to profit. Unlikely Allies.

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GEVME

JANUARY 27, 2020

Events and gatherings happen in all sizes, at all kinds of social and commercial environments — whether it is a Christmas party, a large scale conference or a business event. While people love spending their time in such places, the organizers do not really place sustainability as the anchor of organizing such events.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 28, 2018

There is one debt every conference organizer must face and vanquish. It can cripple a conference. Organizational debt—the interest your conference pays when its structures, policies, procedures, practices, committees and leadership roles stay fixed and accumulate even as the world around it changes.* What is this debt?

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

Sustainability specialists, Greengage Solutions announced the winners of their 2024 Sustainability Awards at its annual sustainability conference held at the QEII Centre on 11 January.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

ICC Wales will welcome more than 1,900 delegates, 320 exhibitors and 90 speakers when the venue hosts the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Annual Conference and Exhibition in October 2025.

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The MICE

MARCH 27, 2025

The AER Annual Conference 2023 marked a new beginning after two years of planning under pandemic conditions. Held in Amsterdam, this event for the Alliance of Independent Travel Agencies (AER) brought together 500 travel agencies and 400 specialized tour operators, with a large portion focused on sustainable travel.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The banner New York City anniversary event was a record attendance for the organization and the content reflected the golden anniversary moment and the pivotal time for the industry as it faces the challenges of sustainability, economic uncertainty and changing demographics. million was invested in 105 projects, touching 16,000 people.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

That’s why more event planners are shifting their strategy to sustained events programs. A sustained events program refers to hosting multiple smaller events throughout the year rather than putting all your resources into one major event. Why The Shift Towards Sustained Events In Modern Event Planning Strategies?

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Smart Meetings

MAY 2, 2022

California innovators are actively inventing a more sustainable future in and out of the ballroom. It is a model for a sustainable economic future. Let’s look at the legacy of sustainable innovation, where it is going next and what it means for meeting professionals. Sustainable Meeting. A Green Legacy.

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GEVME

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Following we will discuss how companies can have sustainable hybrid events within and outside their organization. A hybrid event can be of many types; it could be a conference, a seminar, meeting, etc. This team ensures that the speakers’ timing, the presentation, the audio, the camera set-up, etc.

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Event Marketer

AUGUST 9, 2024

The media company has since picked up the momentum, hosting several sustainability-focused programs, including the hybrid Bloomberg Green Summit in New York and its global Sustainable Business Summits. Still, Bloomberg had never hosted an all-encompassing sustainability event, an idea from the vertical’s 2020 launch.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 26, 2025

As a keynote speaker on future trends I spend much of my time at events, yet Im an industry outsider. Instead of simply aspiring to do today’s jobs quicker and easier, what if your audiences could generate genuinely useful outputs during their next industry conference or company meeting? Hes right, but he didnt go far enough.

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Gallus Events

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The UN Climate Conference took place in Madrid in Dec 2019. I decided to travel down from Barcelona to find out how sustainable was COP 25? . So what exactly is the business of events, doing to showcase a sustainable future for our industry? The UN Conference on Climate Change was a massive event, by anyone’s standards.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

With sustainability, impact and legacy top of the events agenda, the panel discussed and responded to audience questions on how each saw these goals affecting the meetings industry and those working in it. There’s been a huge change in how conferences are organised. Sustainability is pivotal.

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Expo Pass

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Biodegradable badges, eco-friendly venues, sustainability-minded vendors – these are just a few of the ways events can directly help the environment! Sustainability can be a bit of a buzzword. Of course, you want your event to be sustainable. Here are a few of our favorite ways to plan sustainable and eco-friendly events.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 17, 2017

I’ll admit that in 2011, when the Virtual Edge Institute (now called the Digital Experience Institute) first co-located its conference with the Professional Convention Management Association’s Convening Leaders, the experience fell flat for me. and encouraged and vetted questions to ask of the speaker at the appropriate times.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The Green Events and Innovations Conference (GEI17) will once again bring together global innovators and sector leaders to share, network, and accelerate environmental and social actions to make impactful changes in all kinds of events.

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Prestige Events Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Targetted at hospitality, events and travel professionals “No Planning, No Planet” aims to provide food for thought on how the industry can pro-actively adapt to promote a more sustainable approach. Sustainability is rising to the top of the corporate agenda for UK organisations.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In the report, consisting of 580 global event professionals from five continents and 23 countries, it was found that all aspects of the meeting sector are increasing, including interest in sustainability, attendance, meeting spend and diversity, equity and inclusion. for conferences and tradeshows and 4.2% Sustainability Concentration.

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Social Tables

JANUARY 14, 2022

Many hospitality conferences and conventions were virtual or hybrid events , while others were forced to cancel altogether. As a result, many industry professionals are wondering what to expect from the top hospitality conferences of 2022. Check out what 14 of the most popular hospitality conferences of 2022 have in store: 1.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

On Tuesday, March 26, 2024 , I sat down with Martin Duffy and Paul Nunesdea on LinkedIn Live for an hour’s deep dive conversation about peer conferences: the participant-driven, participation-rich events I’ve designed and facilitated for over thirty years. Peer Conferences Unveiled—The Transcript! Here it is—enjoy!

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 23, 2024

Quinn Conyers was the keynote speaker to kick off the event, driving home her message of self-presentation and “luxury language to be an effective leader.” The presenters included Capital One , Verizon The Ridge Hotel , Swedish Meetings, FLIK Conference Centers , De Vere Hotels and Thrive Meetings!

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Quickmobile

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

When hosting conferences on cruise ships or other unique venues , one has to bear in mind that the daily things we take for granted are likely not going to be available to you. The planner/conference host needs to be sure that they have covered all their bases and prepared for any and all situations. What does this mean? Temptations.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The SportAccord World Sport & Business Summit 2024 in Birmingham, West Midlands has announced its first wave of high-profile speakers for sport’s most influential industry gathering. This is the first time the conference has been held in the UK for over a decade, and the last host – Australia’s Gold Coast – secured the 2032 Olympic Games.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Unless you haven’t heard, there’s been a pretty big sustainability conference taking place in Egypt this month , aiming to once again highlight the action (or lack of) on climate change over the past year. Managers in the events industry will be keeping a keen eye on progressions, as the conference couldn’t come at a more perfect time.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 7, 2023

Melbourne’s star as a top global destination for medical conferences shines brightly, with a massive 48 medical conferences set to take place within the next five years, attracting around 38,000 delegates. This non-profit healthcare association blazed trails in sustainability at their global conference in Melbourne.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2024

3D Audio Beam forming – such as the HOLOPLOT speakers used at ABBA Voyage. In a conference environment, the speaker could be translated into a different language instantaneously in different parts of the room. Tech Trend #2 Sustainability Two examples relevant to the events industry were presented.

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Attendease

JANUARY 21, 2021

We have seen experiences from fabulous speakers to 24-hour extravaganzas bringing global teams to shared moments. Jennifer Glynn, CITP - Managing Director Meeting Encore and Intuitive Conferences & Events, Immediate Past President SITE global. Sustainability is not a buzzword and climate change is real. Shift: Regeneration.

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