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Sustainable Event Planning: Action Steps to Lasting Strategy

Smart Meetings

Becoming a sustainable event planner is a marathon, not a sprint. As the events industry continues to evolve in its sustainability journey, there are a lot of accomplishments to celebrate. Smart Meetings’ October webinar, From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices , breaks it down.

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FICP Annual Elevated Conversation Around Meaning

Smart Meetings

Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. Learn More: From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices Topics included AI adoption, succession planning, contract negotiations, neurodiversity affordances, transportation management and sustainable sourcing.

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3 Extreme Accessibility Experts Share Their Accommodation Mandates

Smart Meetings

Designing accessible events topped almost all meetings industry event agendas in 2024, but few planners understand what is required to make everyone feel welcome even as equal access moves from the desired to the required column in their job descriptions. Let’s learn more. It’s a cultural fit.”

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Pandemic Planning 101 from Million Dollar Event Career Course

Smart Meetings

When the creative brief from your initial event strategy session calls for brand and reputational impact, how do you measure if you are successful? Read more tips for negotiating contracts amid Covid. . Event planners don’t always have time to go to a class or read a book. Contract and Negotiation Tips. Career Changers.

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A Unique Meetings Consolidation Model Grows

Smart Meetings

The acquisition of IME Connect follows the merger of Miami-based A-Plus Meetings & Events and Utah-based Columbus Travel into M-Plus Global Events earlier in 2022. The way companies join forces at this point in the recovery may not follow traditional models of hostile takeovers and mass mergers. Newest Acquisition.

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Omicron Event Cancellations Abroad, Travel Bans and Returning Resident Restrictions

Smart Meetings

Is it time to “lift and shift” events again? Still, and perhaps partially a result, many travelers have found themselves stranded since the weekend, hundreds of flights are suspended, and some events are already being canceled. But what does this mean for meeting planners and business travelers? but fears certainly have.

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FICP Annual Elevated Conversation Around Meaning

Smart Meetings

Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. Learn More: From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices Topics included AI adoption, succession planning, contract negotiations, neurodiversity affordances, transportation management and sustainable sourcing.

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