GEVME

JULY 28, 2021

With the advent of the pandemic, virtual conferences became a popular go-to option for many event organisers. Even while at the time of writing, some parts of the world are returning to normalcy, virtual events , particularly virtual conferences, are here to stay. What You Need to Know About Virtual Conferences.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JANUARY 14, 2020

Imagine how you might do your job differently if your performance and compensation were evaluated based on overall session attendance and industry presenter ratings at your annual conference. While this notion may seem a bit extreme, conference education systems need increased accountability, which in turn leads to a competitive advantage.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

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. Both venues complied to the latest Government guidelines.

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SpotMe Blog

JUNE 20, 2021

Audience engagement is supported by virtual conference ideas that enhance how your event attendees absorb information. This is especially true when combining an in-person audience with a remote, virtual audience for a hybrid conference. Another fact: Hybrid conferences and events are hard. We have good news for you.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Mandy Jennings, CEO and Owner of Venues of Excellence reflects on 2024 and the power of the sales and marketing consortium for independent venues. As 2024 draws to a close, Mandy Jennings, CEO, reflects on the incredible progress and achievements of the past 12 months for the consortium and its member venues.

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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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Attendease

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Whether you’re organizing a corporate conference, a product launch, a holiday party, or a training seminar, this handy tool turns overwhelming project timelines into bite-sized, actionable steps. Starting venue research ? Venue contracts take weeks to finalize? This is where an event planning workback schedule can help!

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Eventmobi

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With so many moving parts to juggle, planning a conference can seem like a daunting task. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll walk you through how to plan a conference from A to Z. We’ll cover everything from budgeting and marketing to finding sponsors and speakers to reporting and analytics.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 15, 2022

In actuality, it was a forward-thinking dinner, gallery and performance experience activated by Hygienic Dress League (HDL) during Vox Media’s inaugural Pivot MIA conference, an event based on its “Pivot” podcast that addressed the intersection of technology with nearly all aspects of life. Welcome to the “museum of the future.”.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 13, 2020

How can we entwine content and connection during an online conference? During a MeetingsCommunity (MeCo) discussion thread “ Networking at conferences ” last week, Sharon Fisher posted this. As it happened, I’d just completed facilitating an online conference that I think did entwine content and connection.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Academic Venue Solutions (AVS), the UK’s only consortium dedicated to academic venues, hosted its annual conference on the 7 th -8 th December at The Jubilee Hotel & Conferences, Nottingham Venues. If you are an academic venue and want to find out more visit our website at www.academicvenuesolutions.co.uk

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2024

The Power of Discovery The Venues of Excellence Annual Conference 2024 – will be held at Alton Towers Resort & Conference Centre. The aim of the event is to provide motivation and inspiration from an excellent range of industry speakers and informative sessions all focused on helping venues strive for continued excellence.

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Prestige Events Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Venues of Excellence (VOE) has hosted its 2024 Annual Conference at the award-winning Alton Towers Resort sponsored by Oyster Recruitment. The theme for the conference was titled ‘The Power of Discovery’ and was attended by 143 delegates and supported by 21 exhibitors.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 28, 2022

As I prepared to review the venue’s meeting spaces, room set options, and traffic patterns, I thought about how, today, competent logistics are the new meeting minimum. They assume that meetings will consist of sessions with speakers on a stage. And good event design is about how a conference works. No related posts.

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Eventmobi

JANUARY 7, 2021

Virtual conference engagement is here to stay. Conference live streaming technology has come a long way since the glorified Zoom calls of March and early April 2020; attendees expect more than a choppy, poorly lit, and unrehearsed webinar. Assess your virtual conference engagement needs. Are speakers using reliable mics?

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Attendease

MARCH 30, 2020

With the global impact caused by the novel coronavirus in the world of events , turning your in-person conference into a virtual summit may be a good strategy to keep your event running, rather than canceling it. Why Run a Virtual Conference. The average conference produces 4.17 Cost effective (for both planners and attendees).

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EventMB

AUGUST 20, 2024

A conference focused on female founders would seem like an accepting place for babies, wouldn’t it? Elena Brandt, the founder of a market research startup called Besample , was excited to attend the Y Combinator Female Founders Conference 2024 , in August. The conference featured successful female speakers that I wanted to hear from.

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Eventmobi

JANUARY 10, 2024

Without a doubt, conference apps are a must-have tool for any event organizer. However, with so many different event apps for conferences on the market, it can be tough to know which one is right for you! What Is a Conference App? Before we dive into providers, you need to know what a conference app is.

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Eventmobi

APRIL 14, 2020

When you remove the physical venue from the mix, your event experience design will require a rethink —but it may actually make it easier for you to create the perfect flow with the right mix of content and interactivity. In an in-person format, technology is often peripheral to the hustle and bustle of the on-site activities.

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Eventmobi

AUGUST 9, 2022

For their annual ‘Spotlight on HR’ conference, the Meeting Expectations management team wanted to set a new record for member adoption and engagement on their Event App. 2014 was the kickoff year for Meeting Expectations’ annual HR conference, and they knew they wanted to incorporate an event app to help engage their audience.

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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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Attendease

AUGUST 20, 2024

Think about it — a corporate executive searching for an industry conference has totally different needs than a music lover looking for the hottest local concert. The executive may prioritize networking opportunities and educational sessions, while the concertgoer cares most about the lineup, venue experience, and merch.

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Social Tables

JANUARY 27, 2021

Many event planning conferences were canceled or postponed, and most of those that weren’t took place virtually. While 2021 may still look a little different than normal, expect to see many conferences back and ready to help industry professionals navigate the massive changes in the way they do business.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2023

Venues of Excellence (VoE) has hosted its 2023 Annual Conference at Silverstone International Conference and Exhibition Centre , and Hilton Garden Inn Silverstone. The annual conference titled ‘Fast Lane to Excellence’ was attended by 128 delegates, including 20 exhibitors and sponsored by Oyster Recruitment.

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Attendease

JANUARY 28, 2019

Back when I first wrote this article, I predicted that “it’s a good bet event apps will be the tool with the largest impact on the conference industry in 2015.” Do you need the ability to heat map your venue? One other area where I’ve noticed increased interactivity recently is through the use of real-time speaker feedback gathering.

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Prestige Events Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

Events: Matters Arising’, organised by Meet Cambridge at King’s College and attended by 99 event professionals – both organisers and venues – included a panel session, with high-profile industry players debating issues facing the sector.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 20, 2024

Scott Frankel Attendees to Smart Meetings’ Culinary Experience, hosted at Paris Las Vegas, were treated to a free learning session led by Scott Frankel, president of Animatic Media LLC & Conference-On-Demand + LIVE. Whichever direction you head in, both require a thorough needs assessment that goes beyond venue specs.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 17, 2021

” Shortly after the notice from the Convention Center, Andrea flew to San Diego with an open mind willing to redesign the whole event to fit in the available venues. We did site inspections of the available venues such as; Petco Park, The Shell, Port Pavilion and various hotel ballrooms. We got lucky.

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Prestige Events Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The official bureau for conferences and events in Cambridge and the surrounding area is seeing the culmination of five years’ preparation as partner to the organising committee for one of the world’s largest medical conferences in its field. who were appointed as the PCO for the conference. “We

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Eventmobi

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Just because it’s your event doesn’t give you the right to use the venue, copyrighted material, or individual’s likenesses to profit from. Capturing the Venue. If you’re not on company property, you’ll likely need to get a location release from the property owner in order to legally broadcast the venue space.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As we head into the final days of 2023, Venues of Excellence, reflects on its most successful year ever, welcoming 12 fantastic new independent venues into the UK’s leading sales and marketing consortium. Over the past two months, the consortium has welcomed three new venues.

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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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Prestige Events Magazine

JULY 29, 2024

The Eastside Rooms launches platform to enable 24/7 online conference bookings In response to growing client demand, The Eastside Rooms has partnered with hospitality tech company Amadeus to implement their cutting-edge online booking platform, Delphi Direct, which delivers online conference room booking capabilities.

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Eventmobi

JULY 10, 2023

More than a decade ago, when EventMobi launched, mobile apps for conferences were a revolution. These days, they’re a prerequisite for a fantastic conference experience. With the right conference app, you can: Enhance communication Streamline event management Personalize attendees’ experience And so much more.

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Attendease

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

That five day conference can now be shortened, still deliver the same bang for your buck, the same valuable content, but can be delivered in two to three days versus five. Without lighting and sound in any conference, it falls flat. Also reconsider the venues that you’re working with. Look at what is already built in.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The venue was perfect and the speakers top-notch. Speakers want to present remotely, and attendees and sponsors are starting to drop off. What if travel policies change, and speakers, attendees and sponsors start to cancel? What if you and your audience and speakers lack experience with hybrid events?

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