Picatic by Eventbrite

APRIL 25, 2019

If you host a trade show, you’d probably be horrified to learn that attendees find your check-in process so cumbersome that they created their own. The post How One Trade Show Fixed an Outdated Registration Process appeared first on Eventbrite US Blog.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 24, 2025

EDPA will have additional presence across Event Marketers Exhibit Strategies content online, in field reports from top trade shows, and in additional community conversations and events to be announced. Expanded trade show-specific data will be presented at an exclusive main session at EDPA Access 2025. EventTrack + EDPA.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 9, 2020

The Conference Board has the best we’ve come across so far: May Reboot – quick recovery. In the beginning of this crisis, organizers of major conferences and trade shows were canceling with very little lead time. The post Conference Go/No-Go Decisions in a Pandemic appeared first on Velvet Chainsaw.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Key findings from the report include: Corporate events such as conferences, trade shows, exhibitions and product launches, generating £33.6 As the nation continues its recovery, the industry is paving the way for future growth and innovation.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Known as The Show for Shows, the education, trade show floor and networking brought together solutions and inspiration. and international conferences and found that from the main stage to the booths and in the hands-on labs, the focus was on taking real action based on what is happening in convention rooms today.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 18, 2023

Oakland event prioritized DEIB education MPI Northern California Chapter’s Annual Conference Experience moved to Oakland Marriott City Center from its traditional home in San Francisco this week with a new format. The post MPI NCC ACE: Less Trade Show; More Idea Exchanges appeared first on Smart Meetings. Make a commitment!

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Event Marketer

MARCH 26, 2025

Joe Sorrentino, chief events officer for the North American Veterinary Community (NAVC), says the organization is leaning more into experiential with engaging activations around the hall to separate VMX from the traditional medical conference format. Luckily, a dj was keeping the energy up.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 25, 2025

Conferences and trade shows in my industry are critical, and I was surprised how critical these shows were when I first got into med device, she says. If you dont do the shows, you may as well be invisible. so she is focused on driving brand awareness with her team of three.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 27, 2023

Reading two recent MeetingsNet articles about the value of trade show appointments reminds me of a story attributed to the wry 13th-century Sufi philosopher Nasreddin. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post You’re right! About trade show appointments.)

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Event Marketer

AUGUST 2, 2021

This fall, major user conferences, trade shows, music festivals and other gatherings are banking on attendees being ready to return to in-person events. After kicking off a return to big trade shows in June with World of Concrete, Las Vegas has a busy summer of events, to be followed by a busier fall.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

media partner of the EMMC, Event Marketer will continue to roll out new education, research and peer-to-peer initiatives for corporate event marketers working across business events, trade shows and consumer activations. As the official U.S.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 9, 2025

The displays felt more like a conference poster session but with enough white space not to be overwhelming. If youre standing still, youre going backward. Attendees actually spent time reading and took notes with pictures. Event Marketer and its Chief Marketer Network of brands is an Official Media Partner of CES 2025.

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Eventmobi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

If you’re an exhibitor at an upcoming trade show, congratulations! In this article, we provide 14 trade show booth ideas and tips for everything from selecting the perfect booth location and decorating your booth to attracting a crowd and building goodwill for your brand. What Are the Benefits of a Trade Show Booth?

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EventMB

MAY 22, 2022

In this extensive guide to trade show booths, we provide ten creative examples in each of the following categories: 1 Trade show booth ideas for small budgets. Trade show booth ideas that attract visitors. Creative trade show booth ideas. Trade show booth ideas: 10×10.

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Velvet Chainsaw

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Nearly every conference and trade show professional is searching for that perfect virtual platform or pricing model for replacing lost expo revenue. In the February 2019 issue of Convene, I wrote about Why the Sustainability of the Trade-Show Business Model is in Question. Virtual Expo Truths. Corporate Booth.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Do you need to find new monetary sources for conferences, conventions and trade shows? Research Finds Sponsorships Are Still Relevant According to a 2019 report from the Center for Exhibition Industry Research ( CEIR ) of 200 show executives and 728 exhibitors, sponsorships make up roughly 20% of B2B tradeshow revenues.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Jenny George, Sales Manager, Leeds Castle Kent shared her thoughts , ‘The London Summer Event Show is a great exhibition for us to connect with potential clients at the start of the year and to share with them all that Leeds Castle has to offer.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 17, 2025

It wasnt until Laura Nelson was invited to speak at a womens entrepreneurial conference on a wellness panel, that she realized she wasnt alone in her perception of alcohols role in events. She casually asked the audience for a show of hands of people who consider themselves non-drinkers. And so, it can be very hard for some people.

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Picatic by Eventbrite

JUNE 13, 2022

A cultural event, professional conference, trade show, or home and garden show can attract both local attendees and visitors. For an event creator, it’s important to tap into current travel trends in the event industry, including what attendees want to see when they travel to an attraction.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Many professionals attend two or more conventions, or trade shows, a year in various locations throughout the United States and the world. Select a hotel or conference center with family suites. The post Are Family-friendly Conferences in Your Future? Choose a family-friendly destination. Ask about licensed childcare.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 18, 2021

Why people continue to speak for free at meeting industry conferences : Another issue of an occasional series— Dear Adrian — in which I answer questions about event design, elementary particle physics , solar hot water systems, and anything else I might conceivably know something about. My post Why don’t meeting conferences pay speakers?

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 18, 2025

Maybe it was that one conference you attended, where a speaker spoke to a part of you that you never even knew existed. In my earlier career, I planned more than 600 weddings (you could usually find me tearing up in the back as couples said their I Dos), then hundreds of corporate & nonprofit events, trade shows, and medical meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

You pre-load it with information on the destination, information about the conference, the theme, sponsors, whatever you want. So we use it in a lot of our trade shows, because you definitely get the appeal of people want to come and be part of it and take the picture and show their kids.” Guest line up for it.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 24, 2022

Following are 12 steal-worthy strategies, from conferences, to festivals, to trade shows, to hospitality experiences. And while, at this stage in the game, it seems like every event marketer has become a broadcasting wizard, it never hurts to jog the memory and draw a little inspiration from past virtual event wins.

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Velvet Chainsaw

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Organizations are making tough decisions about how to–or even whether to–move forward with their upcoming conferences and expos. Learn what worked and what didn’t from two event pros who held major in-person conferences in late August and early September, from Covid compliance to the on-site vibe.

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Event Marketer

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

( Partner: Avenge Creative, fabrication) Photo credit: Line 8 Photography TECH WORLD ATTENDEES MEET AN ‘AI JOURNEY ACCELERATOR’ “Smarter AI for All” was the event theme at the Lenovo Tech World ’24 user conference in Seattle last month, but the host didn’t just want attendees to learn more about AI, it wanted them to interact with it.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 18, 2021

Leading learning firm Tagoras has launched another round of its virtual conferences survey , the results of which will be compared to its last round, conducted near the beginning of the pandemic. The report helps to raise overall visibility for virtual conferences and the results will be freely shared in a new report.

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Eventmobi

JULY 26, 2022

The CSAE Annual National Conference. CSAE holds their national conference in a different Canadian city every October. The conference is a mix of speaker sessions, networking, exhibitor booths, and evening social events. CSAE has used EventMobi’s app over the past two years for their annual national conference.

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Event Marketer

MAY 31, 2023

The annual event put on by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) is one of the biggest gaming conferences to falter in the headwinds of an industry-wide trade show evolution brought on by pandemic-related interruptions and strategy shifts by headlining brands. Georges agrees.

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The MICE

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The Frankfurt Airport Marriott Hotel and Sheraton Frankfurt Airport Hotel & Conference Center represents the first dual-brand concept for Marriott International. Additionally, Frankfurt Airport Marriott Hotel and Sheraton Hotel & Conference Center stand out as large conference venues in Europe.

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Event Marketer

JANUARY 22, 2025

As the lines blur between corporate event teams and corporate trade show departments, we know this partnership provides a win-win-winfor EDPA members, for end-user clients, and for the industry overall.

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

While there are a number of disruptive forces that will impact the future of trade shows, the biggest risk has to do with how much buyers and sellers will trust the environments we create. When we think about conferences and expos, trusting the idea scores strong. Adapted from Dave’s Forward Thinking column in PCMA’s Convene.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 28, 2025

Content Just For You Whether youre a brand-side marketer, trade show exhibitor, agency leader, conference planner, experience designer or logistics specialist, EMS has content designed just for you. You can search by keywords and add sessions and experiences to your personalized agenda in the EMS app.

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Velvet Chainsaw

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

We recently convened a roundtable of senior-level conference organizers to discuss risk tolerance and the forces that are shaping their 2021/22 event strategies and decisions. Three primary risk categories are emerging as organizations weigh their options for major conferences in 2021: Mitigating financial risk.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 28, 2022

And good event design is about how a conference works. Read the full article at Conferences That Work The post Competent logistics are the new meeting minimum appeared first on Conferences That Work. The traditional bread and butter of a meeting planner’s job. Steve Jobs said, “Design is how it works”.

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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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Event Age by Swapcard

JULY 1, 2024

Attendee engagement is critical for building meaningful relationships, boosting brand visibility, and driving business results at your trade show, exhibition, or conference. High engagement levels translate to more leads for your exhibitors, increased ROI, and a memorable event experience for all participants.

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