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Picture this: You’ve just landed your dream role in event planning, and your first major project is right around the corner. The excitement is real, but so is the pressure to deliver a great event. With countless moving parts, deadlines, and stakeholders to manage, where do you even begin? This is where an event planning workback schedule can help!
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Speaker: Aja Bradley Kemp, Founder & Chief Experience Officer at Conversate Collective
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Love stories like Jennifer and Kelvin’s remind us of the magic that weddings can bring. This beautiful couple tied the knot in an enchanting tented ceremony at the historic Graydon Hall Manor , a venue that offers unparalleled elegance, romance, and luxury. With its sprawling gardens and stately architecture, the venue was the perfect choice for Jennifer and Kelvin’s special day.
The Formula 1 United States Grand Prix is known for serving up a quintessential Texas experience, with cowboy hats and boots sported in the stands, barbecue cooking on the grill, drivers riding horses into the paddock and the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders performing on track ahead of the race start. An estimated 400,000-plus fans attended the race weekend, Oct. 18-20, at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA), and beyond taking in the 20 racecars going full send for 56 laps, they ventured out to take
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Speaker: Alexa Acosta, Director of Growth Marketing & B2B Marketing Leader
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The outdoor event destination introduces a new end-of-year festivities offering for businesses Center Parcs Conferences & Events announces the launch of its first ever end-of-year festive event package for business clients – Festive Meetings in the Forest – available at both its Woburn Forest and Sherwood Forest venues. Bringing together companies for away days and team building activities in the forest since 1987, Center Parcs’ introduction of festive packages for businesses marks a s
Take Your Event Marketing to the Next Level – Discover Proven Strategies to Drive Early Registrations and Maximize ROI With event registrations trending later in the planning cycle, event professionals are facing unique challenges: securing room blocks, finalizing F&B, and meeting attendance goals with limited time and budgets. In this on-demand webinar, industry experts share the latest marketing tactics that not only increase attendee numbers but do so when it matters most —early in the p
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Lauren Shoaf Pace Lauren Shoaf Pace, Destinations International Pace is appointed vice president of marketing at Destinations International (DI). With nearly 20 years in the travel and tourism industry, Pace has held positions at numerous destination organizations at both the state and local levels and spent over a decade with Visit Florida. In her role with DI, Pace will be responsible for the strategic development and implementation of all of the association’s marketing initiatives.
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The greats learn from the greats. Set yourself and your team up for success with tried and tested strategies and insights from event marketing geniuses at Vanta, Partnership Leaders, Quantum Metric, Rocketlane, and Explori.
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Skift Take: A recent Cvent webinar revealed top trends for meetings, including choosing booking patterns that allow attendees to extend over a weekend and warm-weather destinations so they can be outdoors.
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October has been a busy month for Eventscase, with a calendar full of events and opportunities to showcase our platform and strengthen industry ties. Here’s a summary of our milestones and collaborations this month. VDS 2024 We were proud to be part of VDS (formerly Valencia Digital Summit) which took place at the iconic City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia.
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