Conferences that Work

MARCH 18, 2024

On Tuesday, March 26, 2024, at 10:00 EDT I’ll sit down with Martin Duffy and Paul Nunesdea on LinkedIn Live for a deep dive into peer conferences : participant-driven, participation-rich events I’ve designed and facilitated for over thirty years. They’ve called it “Peer Conferences Unveiled: A Conversation with Adrian Segar” You will learn a lot from this free session if you’re a meeting industry professional and want to improve meetings.

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MARCH 18, 2024

Skift Take: Unlike many who found the events industry by happenstance, Nicola Kastner, founder of The Event Strategist, deliberately chose to enter this field, guided by a passion for creating events with clear business objectives.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 18, 2024

More than 35,000 health care professionals attended HIMSS24 in Orlando last week, March 11-15, to explore the latest innovations in health IT. Across the Orange County Convention Center’s miles of aisles, over 1,100 exhibiting companies showcased how their products, services and AI integrations can improve the digital health ecosystems of hospitals and medical centers.

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MARCH 18, 2024

Skift Take: Second-tier cities experienced the greatest growth in meetings and events in February with Louisville, KY. leading the pack.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 18, 2024

Julie Coates-Walker has been appointed as Group Head of Sales for conferences, events, and hospitality at Arena Racing Company (ARC), the UK’s largest racecourse group, which comprises 21 venues, including 16 horse racing venues.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 18, 2024

30 Euston Square and its caterer Searcys hosted the Planet Peach Sustainability Summit on 5 th March and brought together hospitality leaders to look at best practices, future-thinking, and the sustainable impacts of the sector. The award-winning venue was selected to host the event due to its shared outlooks and policies with the event organiser around the environmental, economic, and social impacts of in-person events.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 18, 2024

Grow-NY invites people to pitch their business in front of a panel of 30 agrifood and entrepreneurial experts for major prizes. No one understands the importance of proper cultivation better than those who work in the food and agriculture sector. It’s no surprise then that Grow-NY Summit — a regional two-day industry event with a pitch competition, expo, symposium, and networking opportunities that brings together international startups, investors, resource providers, researchers, entrepreneurs,

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 18, 2024

Using the power of events to connect the wider farming community Since purchasing Indoor Ag-Con in 2018, CEO Brian Sullivan and his team’s goal has been to push for more education about emerging technologies and budding trends around controlled environment agriculture (CEA). CEA demonstration “What the event is involved with is a lot of growing technology,” Sullivan says.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 18, 2024

Here’s how Aimee Misako Gabel will apply her experience at a fast-growing association to the newly established role of senior vice president, events and education, for U.S. Travel. On March 14, the U.S. Travel Association introduced Aimee Misako Gabel as the organization’s first senior vice president, events and education. “This new position will play a key role in shaping and transforming our signature events—including IPW, ESTO, Summer Summit, and Future of Travel Mobility—and also deliver new

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 18, 2024

Women are Making Events Industry History in Leadership Roles Access —the largest destination management company in the United States, and the only woman-owned and led National DMC—makes history with its appointment of three women as Co-Chief Executive Officers: Jennifer Miller, Danielle Phippen and Heidi Brown. The three of them are the first female CEOs of the 50-year brand.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 18, 2024

FIVE THINGS TO KNOW THIS WEEK This week’s hot takes on hot topics in experiential marketing cover mountaintop skincare at the Kiehl’s Ski Lounge, sexy 3D printing and St. Patrick’s day rainbow-hunting. KIEHL’S We’ve never hit the slopes only to find a skincare bar waiting at the bottom of the mountain, but consumers gliding through Wyoming’s Jackson Hole Mountain Resort earlier this month did.

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ePly

MARCH 18, 2024

Even simple events can have multiple moving parts, making event planning an intense exercise in logistics. More than throwing parties, event planning considers all stages of the event cycle. From conception to post-event marketing, the planner has to be ready for nearly anything. Here, we look at how you can coordinate and manage the elements of how to plan an event.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 18, 2024

Johnny Martinez, a recent addition to the CrowdComms Account Management team, has been appointed Chair of the APEX Commission. The Event Industry Council has recognized Johnny’s invaluable contributions since 2020 and his new leadership role is set to amplify Johnny’s impact on the global events industry.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 18, 2024

Lime Venue Portfolio have agreed a partnership with Stress Matters that will see the organisation develop a series of toolkits, workshops, and learning resources that will encourage better experiences for delegates. The resources will be aimed at better catering to guests who are neurodivergent and to both celebrate and support inclusivity in event spaces.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 18, 2024

The Event Technology Awards (ETA) US & Canada is thrilled to unveil the finalists for its highly anticipated inaugural edition. The entrants showcase the remarkable achievements and innovations driving the event technology industry forward in North America.

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EncoreAPAC

MARCH 18, 2024

Think lighting your event means simply flipping on a light switch? Think again. Our event lighting experts share how you can make your event look stunning with the use of pinspot lighting technology. What is pinspot event lighting? A Pinspot light is an individual computerised table light that can change colour, patterns and position throughout the event.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 18, 2024

Just a stones throw away from Event Industry News HQ, last week the team was invited to experience the grand re-launch of Center Parcs Conferences & Events venue nestled in the heart of Sherwood Forest. The team kicked off the day with a scrumptious breakfast, setting the tone for the adventures ahead.

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MPI

MARCH 18, 2024

MPI’s monthly wellness spotlight brought to you by When it comes to a focus on employee wellbeing, many companies come up short because leaders consider wellness-related activities or practices to be on the fringe, according to Kristine Iverson. “In reality, these practices and activities could save costs on healthcare and improve performance by recognizing and valuing the well-being of their employees and granting opportunities for mental and physical health breaks and self-care pra

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Event Industry News

MARCH 18, 2024

Evolution Dome, manufacturer and supplier of inflatable temporary structures, has announced today that it has become a FFAIR Recommended Supplier, meaning exhibitors can now order its range of indoor structures and products for events that use FFAIR’s award-winning exhibitor management platform.

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MPI

MARCH 18, 2024

Who’s who in the zoo? Chances are the answer to that question has changed dramatically for us in the meeting and event industry over the past couple of years! The pandemic saw a massive departure of great talent, and a huge influx of excited and energetic professionals. Now, more than ever, it’s time we took stock of our networks and invested in growing our networks with the right people.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 18, 2024

Welcome to Cheltenham Racecourse, where every event is imbued with the magic of stunning views, beautiful surroundings, and an unmistakably unique setting that adds the perfect touch of wow factor.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 18, 2024

The New York-based meeting-management platform now makes it simpler for attendees to book rooms and for organizers to track pickup. Bizzabo’s Event Experience Operating System has a new integration with cloud-based, room-block management platform Resiada, which allows attendees to link directly from a meeting’s registration page to a site for booking a hotel in the meeting’s room block.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 18, 2024

Lime Venue Portfolio have agreed a partnership with Stress Matters that will see the organisation develop a series of toolkits, workshops, and learning resources that will encourage better experiences for delegates. The resources will be aimed at better catering to guests who are neurodivergent and to both celebrate and support inclusivity in event spaces.

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Skiddle

MARCH 18, 2024

Calling all aspiring music professionals: our latest industry event, Inspired By Music , is just two days away. We’ve been working hard alongside our good mates at GigPig to get everything in order, and we can’t wait to deliver it to you on Wednesday 20th March. But ahead of the event, we thought we’d take a look at why Inspired By Music is essential for aspiring music professionals.

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The MICE

MARCH 18, 2024

The Munich Marriott Hotel City West is the most important hotel opening of 2023 in the city. This is because of the large room and event space capacity. The hotel, with 398 rooms and 1580 sqm of event space spread across 18 event spaces, can accommodate large events. The Munich Marriott Hotel City West hosted the Grand Opening to celebrate this big milestone for the Marriott brand.

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Special Events

MARCH 18, 2024

Part 4 in our annual State of the Industry (SOI) report

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Exhibitor Magazine

MARCH 18, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI), agility and sustainability are key issues facing the life sciences supply chain, according to LogiPharma's highly antici.

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MARCH 18, 2024

Engagement Trends Emerging in March/April 2024

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