Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The impact and importance of meetings for medical and pharmaceutical industry attendees is not only increasing, but the complexity of the events and what is expected of planners is more demanding as well, according to a new report from American Express Meetings & Events and a survey conducted by Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Avoiding wellness washing and incorporating holistic well-being into meetings Wellness is on every planner’s mind these days—with it, come concerns of “wellness washing.” A group of professionals with expertise in wellness—its nuances, scope and impact—gathered for a recent Smart Meetings webinar, “How to Avoid Wellness Washing.”

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Where better to celebrate the resiliency of the meetings industry than in Las Vegas , where 2 million sq. of meeting space was added since the beginning of 2020? Smart Meetings had its own bubble in the meeting center amid a whopping 250,000 sq. Meeting professionals who fly though the air together, do deals together.

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Attendease

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Virtual events are not a product of the pandemic, but the pandemic has definitely pushed many organizations to rethink the format they run their portfolio of events. Meet Attendease’s Virtual Studio. Our native solution provides engagement features, including chat, Q&A, poll, and more. How to get started.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

Event planners, speakers and attendees all saw their calendars cleared out last March, returning slowly with virtual events and only now showing a glimmer of hope for the return of live conferences. And fortunately, the experience is delivered by human beings for human beings, so by definition it will be unique. The Best Speakers.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2025

Stevens, of Olympian Meeting and the Return on Wellness podcast, and Dr. Jess Garza, Ph.D., of Legacy Mindset , joined Smart Meetings in the recent webinar, Elite Performance Tips for Managing Attendee Energy. How can you meet this need without depriving attendees of the content theyve come for? Definitely not.

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Eventmobi

AUGUST 16, 2018

Event speakers are essential to a successful event marketing strategy. And, for attendees to learn, they need someone to learn from, aka — your speaker! When sharing her event management tips, Cathy stresses the importance of relevant and engaging speakers, saying, “Speakers are critical to the event.

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Attendease

JULY 3, 2024

Sales kick-off meetings (SKOs) are vital for driving success in your company’s sales team. When done well, sales kick-off meetings foster unity, inspire confidence, and reignite the passion that fuels top performers. When executed poorly, attendees leave feeling deflated and uninspired— definitely not what you want for your people!

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Attendease

JULY 3, 2024

Sales kick-off meetings (SKOs) are vital for driving success in your company’s sales team. When done well, sales kick-off meetings foster unity, inspire confidence, and reignite the passion that fuels top performers. When executed poorly, attendees leave feeling deflated and uninspired— definitely not what you want for your people!

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Attendease

MAY 27, 2021

We’ve always had an online component, but it was definitely more of a take what we’re doing face to face, put it online, give a couple of offerings. With all of these concurrent sessions, we needed somebody in the room with the speakers to talk to them and do things like mic check, scheduling, details about the platform, etc. .

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 18, 2022

Today, we have capabilities to deliver live holograms of speakers with little to no latency for real-time interactions with an audience of any size and costs have been reduced dramatically,” shared O’Reilly in a recent chat. “If The post Event Holograms: Q&A with Larry O’Reilly appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Eventmobi

JULY 26, 2022

The conference is a mix of speaker sessions, networking, exhibitor booths, and evening social events. Meet the Person Behind the Magic. “We were searching for a flexible, robust event app that would meet our unique needs and could enhance our attendees’ experience.” ” — Rachel Lyon. ” — Attendee Feedback.

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Endless Events

JUNE 19, 2020

You’re either a planner eager to learn how you can set your virtual speaker up for success, or you’re a speaker looking to be trained in the art of virtual presentations. You might also just be a curious person, but for the sake of purpose, let’s assume you’re either a planner or a speaker.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, travel stressors are typically the kick-off to the meeting experience and can leave attendees drained and exhausted by the time they arrive at the destination. Here are my top three tips for adding thoughtful, yet simple, wellness elements to your next meeting program. Don’t Over Complicate It.

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Conferences that Work

APRIL 1, 2024

Paul Nunesdea : And hello, hello, dear viewers, this is a soft start of our third episode in 2024 of Talk to Your Meeting Doctors. As you probably know by now, we are pleased to entertain today our guest speaker Adrian Segar. Lovely to meet you, Adrian. That book came out in 2009, and suddenly I was in the meeting industry.

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GEVME

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

While many companies resort to software like zoom to have virtual conferences or meetings, how can one take an entire social group of thousands of people virtual, and how do you manage such an event? The team had to go through with the run down and instruct on which speaker would speak when.

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Event Marketer

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

EM: What is fundamentally wrong about meetings today and how they are being done? I think many meetings fail to make the attendees’ experience their top priority, which often leads to events that blast information and attendees who are not paying attention. Jeff: I’d echo all that.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

MGM’s Mike Dominguez presents deep dive into industry trends at Smart Meeting Southwest. MGM Resorts Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer Mike Dominguez was candid with attendees at Smart Meeting Southwest this week. Smart Meetings CEO Marin Bright. Mike Dominguez. And you may have to give up some control.”.

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Velvet Chainsaw

JULY 10, 2017

Here are the steps involved: True Attendee Definition — Certain attendance categories should be removed from the core audience analysis to get to what we refer to as “true attendees.” The first heat map shows the percent of loyal attendees by region, who tend to go anywhere your meeting is being held. A Road Map.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The Event Tech Podcast is back with its third and final installment on the best virtual speaker gear. It’s one thing in a meeting environment, in a social environment where it’s a fun thing, and it’s a social activity. When it’s even remotely a work meeting or something along those lines, I’m not a fan.

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GEVME

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Wee Min spoke about how mixed reality as this emerging technology can definitely bring the industry to life. A digital booth is where it’s a truly immersive 3D experience where you can go inside the booth, you can experience the booth, you can probably even meet with the people. We now see its practical usage.

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Eventmobi

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

If there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, such as in a personal office, closed meeting room, or private residence, live streaming your event without permission is a no-go. Not having control over the content that’s being instantly transmitted to your trusting followers and potential leads is definitely something to consider.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

North Charleston, South Carolina, is the definition of history and southern charm. of meeting and exhibit space adjusts to a banquet or theater style. A stone’s throw and a free shuttle ride from Charleston International Airport (CHS), Northern Charleston Marriott boasts a meeting space of 12,380 sq. of meeting space.

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Velvet Chainsaw

AUGUST 22, 2017

A good working definition might be: An organization, person or firm that writes a check and receives stage time on the conference program as one of the benefits. Sponsors/education champions don’t have to buy stage time in order to meet their thought-leadership objectives. Underwrite a keynote speaker or sponsor sessions and tracks.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 14, 2022

Plus visitors and speakers want a different way to engage with the event.”. He also shared a new definition of “Leads as a Service,” evolving from Software as a Service (SAAS). The post Reinventing Business Models for Events appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Steering clear of these common pitfalls is key to ensuring that your event not only meets its goals but also provides a memorable and gratifying experience for everyone involved. A major drawback of not having a direct decision-maker in such committees is the ensuing lack of definitive direction.

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Event Marketer

JULY 26, 2021

A few things all of our panelists agreed on: You have to meet your attendees where they are. And so we were thinking about, how are our customers doing and how are our partners handling this and how can we meet them where they are? We also have ready-to-use virtual platforms, YouTube livestream and Google Meet.

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GEVME

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The Institute of Technical Education (ITE) and GlobalSignin (GS) have come together to foster the next generation of event managers and to build Singapore’s meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions (MICE) industry capabilities. The number of participants for a digital event would definitely be more than that for a Live event.

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Event Marketer

APRIL 11, 2024

The summit, presented by Merrell, was designed as a respite for the cohort of hustlers, and offered a series of conversations; high-profile panels and speaker talent like Courtney Cox, Sophia Bush and Tina Knowles; a rooftop soiree; and purposeful activations and thought leadership sessions delivered by sponsors. How can we facilitate that?

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Conferences that Work

JULY 29, 2019

The speaker said, this will be interactive because no one wants to listen to me talk for four hours. Speakers (and the folks that concoct conference programs) decide to jazz up the description of a broadcast-style session by calling it a workshop. Last week, my friend Traci Browne wrote to me about a workshop that wasn’t.

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GEVME

APRIL 12, 2021

None of us envisioned then that we would ever want to sit behind a screen and meet people on the other end of it. We have concluded that while digital events have been able to make a space for themselves in the industries, physical events will definitely not disappear completely. But go to the bathroom after 5 minutes in a meeting?

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 19, 2023

SITE CEO Annette Gregg analyzes incentive travel for 2023 and predicts trends for 2024 Annette Gregg, CEO of Society of Incentive Travel Excellence (SITE) , was the speaker at this December’s Smart Meetings’ Smart Chat Live!

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 19, 2023

SITE CEO Annette Gregg analyzes incentive travel for 2023 and predicts trends for 2024 Annette Gregg, CEO of Society of Incentive Travel Excellence (SITE) , was the speaker at this December’s Smart Meetings’ Smart Chat Live!

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Conferences that Work

JULY 8, 2024

Who here could you enlist as an ally or speaker or support person? We also had them confirm any facilitators or speakers during this creating time, which made the voting/scheduling piece easier for us.” What are the things you wouldn’t change, that you really appreciated about the Annual Meeting? Why does it matter?

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GEVME

JUNE 15, 2020

Since our last meeting, Ed held his second grander event, Node.js We choose the best speakers and help a person to “choose a favourite store” for the ‘tastiest food’. . Gratitude from the participants and the speakers. How many speakers did you have? Interesting, that Ed had never organized events before.

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Gallus Events

MARCH 22, 2016

3 Use meeting design to create the framework for great content. With these first two steps covered: bringing together the content expert and the programme expert, the next step was to add some meeting design. Across the three morning speakers 90% of attendees responded that they remembered the speaker’s key messages!).

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 22, 2024

Badge scanning tech is common at meetings. It’s saying being confused about the definitions of two types of technology is similar to being confused about legal and moral concerns of the use of such technologies. I’d describe this section of Moutafis’s response as deliberately misleading. Advance notice we love.

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