Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Smart Meetings reached out to our esteemed editorial advisory board to ask what they are grateful for during this transition year and how they demonstrate it personally and professionally. Global General Manager, Maritz Global Events. Director of Meetings, MGMA. Eduardo Chaillo. Megan Finnell.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 17, 2021

The announcement yesterday that London-based virtual streaming giant Hopin was purchasing the physical event services company Boomset was another step in the direction of an end-to-end hybrid meeting solution. Our goal is to empower event managers to succeed with any event format,” the company said in a post.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Meeting Professional Continuing Education Includes Sustainability Certification Meeting professionals are taking sustainability more seriously than ever before. Look to Events Industry Council (EIC), a leader in event professional continuing education. Riggs says, “It is more than just ‘greening’ a meeting.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Heike Mahmoud , CMP, was one of the first European meeting professionals to earn the Certified Meting Professional (CMP) designation through the Events Industry Council (EIC) in 2006. Now, she feels inspired as she sees the certification’s global spread. “It

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Attendease

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Highly anticipated in-person events like South By Southwest and Dreamforce have been canceled for 2020, leaving event planners scrambling to come up with online alternatives that can entertain and educate thousands of attendees, and grappling with questions like: How do you replicate the serendipity of networking online?

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Event Industry News

MARCH 25, 2025

Event professionals are urged to register now forThe Meetings Show2025 to gain access to an unforgettable experience. Exhibitors […]

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Editor’s Note: We asked Amy Calvert , CEO of Events Industry Council, to share her perspective on how meeting professionals are evolving to meet the needs of post-pandemic era events and why professional designations like CMPs are changing to support that shift. More : Smart U: Meeting Professional Online Classes.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 18, 2024

The sustainability program is designed to assist guests and meeting planners in developing a deeper understanding of their carbon footprint while traveling. Read More: Smart Moves: Access Appoints Three Female Co-CEOs The post Smart Moves: Marriott Marquis Washington, DC Appoints Sustainability Concierge appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 18, 2023

Working with the United Kingdom-based sustainability consultant isla , a total of 92% of event waste was recovered by diverting it into recycling, composting or donation channels, meeting the threshold for a zero-waste event. The post New Report: IMEX 2022 Reached Net Zero Carbon Events Goals appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 24, 2025

Even Smart Women in Meetings Award winners are constantly looking for ways to improve and leverage their skillsets. Elizabeth Sage is a certified personal coach, accomplished event strategist and speaker. Read More : Soundings CEO on Gen Z Meeting Planners Navigating Post-Covid Job Market What was your biggest “aha” moment?

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2024

With £130 million in funding from the City of London Corporation, it is delivering an expansive calendar of events, from open-air festivals to educational forums, whilst improving the area’s accessibility and pedestrianisation. Barbican’s Head of Sales, Jenny Waller, will represent the Barbican at IMEX America.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2023

Learning tracks cover challenges that keep meeting professionals up at night When what is expected to be the largest crowd ever for an events industry trade show arrives at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas in October for IMEX America 2023 , the focus will squarely be on connecting people in new, effective ways.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 4, 2024

It was great to see everyone, but also really exciting for me to see everyone experience the redesigned show,” says Kari Langerman, WSWA’s senior vice president of meetings and events, who has been with the association for more than 18 years. Nelly “The energy at our first show back was more than I have ever seen before.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 30, 2021

That starts with an expanded footprint at the new Mandalay Bay Las Vegas location, a change announced four years ago, before anyone could have envisioned a global pandemic would necessitate less density. The fortuitous shift allows IMEX to increase the size of education rooms and double the size of the hosted buyer area.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

Meet Blackpool has announced it has become a member of three key industry associations: the Association of British Professional Conference Organisers (ABPCO), beam and the Tourism Management Institute (TMI), further cementing the town’s dedication to the global events and tourism sectors.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It brings together event industry stakeholders from around the world including conference, exhibition and event organisers, convention bureaux, venues and other suppliers. The aim is to drive collective action from across the sector to meet key sustainability milestones.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 10, 2025

At Convening Leaders in January, we began the soft launch of two new AI-based initiatives Destinaitor, an AIpowered destination and venue search tool, which, like Spark, is being built in collaboration with the industry, and your feedback will ensure we develop a tech solution that meets your needs.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 14, 2022

Lilly has been in hospitality, tourism, event management and sales for 15 years. Lilly was previously owner of End-N-Mind Destination and Event Management in South Carolina. Peckinpaugh spent the last 11 years as president of Maritz Global Events and will continue to hold this role in addition to his next. Daniel Gibson.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Impact XM shares seven sustainable action areas for planning green meetings Global event and experiential marketing agency Impact XM believes that sustainability is not an end goal, but a practice. As part of its efforts to educate its employees, clients and industry, the company created a list of seven sustainable action areas.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Increasing Efforts on Client Education. I am dedicating more time to educating my clients than ever before. From our very first conversation, I am briefing my clients on the state of the industry and the impact that is currently having on event budgets in general. Read More : How to Budget Realistically for Hybrid Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 23, 2022

The 1,700 attendees checking in live at Meeting Professionals International’s World Education Conference ( WEC ) at Moscone Center in San Francisco this week were treated to a performance in three acts designed to provide “perspective,” “approach” and “action,” according to Paul Van Deventer, MPI president and CEO.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 25, 2022

This is just one of the examples from a new Million Dollar Event Planning Career learning course by former Google marketing Events leader and author of “The Art of Event Planning” Gianna Cardinale Gaudini. The refunded amount will be received by Company no later than (30) days after the last scheduled meeting date.”.

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Endless Events

MARCH 5, 2019

For the second time ever, the International Live Event Association (ILEA) held the Global Events Forum in August 2018 in Denver, Colorado. The forum brought together 30 of the brightest and biggest influencers in the events industry to delve deep into issues, challenges, and opportunities facing the event industry today.

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 12, 2024

Here are some useful takeaways from the day’s educational sessions. Travel Association, which runs the Meetings Mean Business Coalition. Industry-wide conferences, local industry meet-ups, and online professional forums are good places to look. For an industry that often seems invisible, GMID is its annual coming-out party.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

UBQ Materials, developer of the world’s first bio-based thermoplastic, is helping create the first global event built from landfill waste. Events are an opportunity to really nurture that awareness if we want to be responsible and push sustainability to the limit.

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SpotMe Blog

MAY 17, 2023

Pharmaceutical meeting planning is a complex task often requiring months of detailed preparation and immense pressure to rigorously respect compliance regulations. And keeping HCP engagement high at the thousands of global events your pharmaceutical company runs every year is becoming ever more challenging.

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EventMB

JUNE 2, 2022

Among these was the Inspiration Hub, the show’s main education space that featured three education theaters themed after spaces in nature: Forest, Ocean and Canyon. The Maritz Global Events Sustainability Challenge gamified IMEX in Frankfurt sustainability initiatives using an app and a leaderboard.

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SmartMeetings

AUGUST 18, 2021

Virtual meeting platforms are buying, acquiring, partnering and otherwise conjoining with in-person meeting producers to offer full-service, integrated hybrid capabilities. What will that mean for meeting professionals? It will also accelerate the development of Intrado’s self-service virtual event offering.” (See

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Event Farm

DECEMBER 8, 2022

For our most recent virtual event, “Event Exhale,” we brought together four industry experts to pause and examine the true state of the industry as it is today. Educate them. Say, “Here’s what I’m seeing talking to all of my peers, doing the continuing education, making phone calls to vendors and hotels.

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Glisser

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Company-wide ‘town hall’ meetings are the format most likely to remain virtual as in-person meetings and events return but employers retain more flexible working patterns. That’s according to an audience poll during Glisser’s most recent webinar , entitled, ‘Running Successful Virtual and Hybrid Internal Company Meetings’.

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GEVME

JULY 16, 2021

Press Note: GEVME has announced the inaugural launch of a new Digital Event Management course, conducted in collaboration with Nanyang Polytechnic’s Center for Industry and Lifelong Learning. “As the events industry reinvents itself, the role of the event manager will evolve. .

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2019

“No economic good will be successful if we don’t have social good,” said Sherrif Karamat, PCMA president and CEO, in a small breakout room before the final speaker (more on actor Geena Davis later) took the stage to address the approximately 3,800 people who traveled from 36 countries to be there for the flurry of networking and education sessions.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

It brings together event industry stakeholders from around the world including conference, exhibition and event organisers, convention bureaux, venues and other suppliers. The aim is to drive collective action from across the sector to meet key sustainability milestones.

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Event Marketer

MAY 24, 2023

Reimagined B-to-B Event Strategies: How Mohawk Flooring’s In-person Roadshow is Impacting How it Exhibits in the Future Hussmann Steps Back from Trade Shows and Leans into an Educational Mobile Tour CURATED EXPERIENCES IBM is placing a greater emphasis on understanding why attendees are coming to its events.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

ICC Wales has been shortlisted for two prestigious meetings industry awards. The South Wales venue has been announced as a finalist for the ICCA Best Marketing Award and in the Best Legacy category at the ABPCO Excellence Awards for its work educating the global events sector on the upcoming Protect Duty (Martyn’s Law).

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

He grew up to become one of Events Industry Council’s (EIC) proud Certified Meeting Professional (CMP). But this profession isn’t too far off; he tells Smart Meetings that “the discipline, preparation and vision” present in the fighter pilots of Top Gun are “all essential when leading a team and planning missions – I mean, events!”

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

So, when Megan Finnell, director of meetings and conferences with MGMA, pinged me with an invitation to join Clubhouse , I jumped on it. Green called the platform a natural fit for meeting professionals and compared it to a convention center with many events inside. Moderators keep the conversation moving.

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