PCMA Convene

MARCH 10, 2021

After a year spent moving in-person events to digital platforms and monitoring the shifts in the feasibility of meeting in person, the timelines for holding safe in-person meetings in the future are slowly coming into focus. Virtual Site Visits. I’ve done a lot of Skype site tours. Leslie Zeck.

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SmartMeetings

APRIL 30, 2019

For meeting professionals, these nerve-pulsating newscasts could be creating extra stressors, as those items might also influence our conferences, such as weather that grounds planes or sicknesses that prevent travel. Starting with our site selection, we can begin the process of helping to keep our attendees safer.

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Connect Your Meetings

AUGUST 15, 2017

For many organizations, using meetings procurement companies (aka, third-party planners) like HelmsBriscoe and ConferenceDirect for site selection, contracts and other meeting planning functions is crucial to executing a successful event. Every day we are being educated. Their concerns are my concerns.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 27, 2017

As she presented a session at the Meeting Professionals International (MPI) most recent World Education Congress, titled “The Future of Healthcare Meetings,” Pat Schaumann made a telling comment. health-care events this year: It’s also affecting site-selection decisions for meetings scheduled over the next few years.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 9, 2019

Pamela Wike Boyd, CMP, 33, works in Silver Spring, Maryland, as senior manager of meetings and events at The Solid Waste Association of North America. I also manage the pre-show selection process, including contracting, site selection and visitation. My interest in meetings and expo grew very quickly.

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Event Leadership Institute

APRIL 30, 2021

The Event Leadership Institute’s Business, Design & Strategy Summit , held virtually on June 3, invites meeting and event professionals to chart their course for the future. So where does that leave you? Juliette Kayyem, former assistant secretary of Homeland Security and CNN national security analyst will share tips for moving ahead.

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Event Industry News

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tarsus Connect has today announced the purchase of BizBash, the iconic trade media company for event and meeting planners, further expanding Connect’s market leading position. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition of BizBash adds four premier events — including the BizBash Live in New York and L.A. Areas of interest.

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All Seated

JUNE 25, 2023

We’ve partnered with event expert, educator, and author, Dianne Devitt, to offer you the opportunity to earn your Certificate in the Business of Meetings and Events. Use CODE: ASCP1 to receive a 15% discount on our sponsored Module 3: Sourcing and Site Selection and/or Module 19: Fast Forward.

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Maritz Global Events

MARCH 3, 2020

With so many things to consider, site selection will challenge more and more and event planners. Industry professionals want to maximize socio-economic benefits and education. Rachel helps meeting planners grow their event attendance with results-driven event marketing strategies. Embracing Diversity.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 16, 2023

based global urbanist Greg Clark, who spoke at the IMEX Policy Forum in Frankfurt in May, told Joint Meetings Industry Council’s The Iceberg platform. If they have a challenge with a certain kind of education or skills level, they want to host conferences about that. As a result, “there’s a new era of choice emerging,” Clark said. “So

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Master the Event

JANUARY 9, 2024

Breaking into the meeting planning business takes a mishmash of education, experience and passion. It seems almost everyone I meet lately appears to have an interest in meeting planning and a meeting planner career. Immerse yourself in all things meeting planning.

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Capterra Event Management

APRIL 25, 2017

Venue Selection. Site Selection. Educational: More formal and information heavy. Includes conferences, meetings, graduations. For example, if white collar events are more suited to your style, then start with educational events. Topics: Budgeting. Wedding Planning Strategy. Aesthetics. Conferences.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

When Joe Bocherer took on the role of chief commercial officer of GWCC in 2016, he wanted to create a more structured customer advisory board (CAB) — one that could meet on a regular basis and take a bigger-picture view, exploring, for example, the expectations of the next generation of attendees. Experiential Education.

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Connect Your Meetings

JULY 18, 2019

As a planner, who is my main point of contact on-site during an emergency? Where are your evacuation meeting locations? Where are fire extinguishers, first aid kits and automatic electronic defibrillators (AEDs) located on-site? A few important questions to consider: Do they have a crisis/emergency plan in place?

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Unique Venues

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Those who are responsible for coordinating educational events, seminars, and training retreats have added challenges as event planners. They need a venue that is serious enough to promote an atmosphere of education and learning and has all the appropriate facilities to do so.

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Event Leadership Institute

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

This apprenticeship model is pretty much how any trade is learned, from being a blacksmith in the middle ages, to today’s event planner, until the educational system creates a curriculum for teaching the trade in a uniform way. In the beginning, people who are self-taught are skeptical of the value of such an education.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 25, 2018

Content Summary: The Event Essentials: The Digital Guide to Enhancing Meeting and Event Success from etouches outlines a four-step process, including the essential tips and tools you need to create and run your event, engage attendees, and grow your meeting. workspace://SpacesStore/093441ac-df66-406f-961d-093f67612b90. Download here.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

In participating in the nominating process for our Best in Show awards program this year, DeBolt, director of meetings and events for PLM World, singled out Roberta Tisdul, CMP, senior convention services manager for Visit Indy, in our Convention Services/CVB category. Then she had more to say. Teamwork seemed to be a theme this year.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Fair had analyzed a number of factors such as cultural community fit, quality of life, and recreational opportunities to make a well-educated guess at where Jeff Bezos would take his disruptive company. Meeting and event organizers can apply a similar lesson in thinking about what they want to accomplish with their event.”. “In

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Capterra Event Management

JULY 19, 2016

The blog from popular enterprise event software Cvent is divided into categories so you can peruse based on your interests: social media, site selection and budgeting, association tips, meeting and event intelligence, planning how-tos, and strategic meetings management. Smart Meetings. Successful Meetings.

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Capterra Event Management

JANUARY 31, 2017

All of these skills—and surrounding required education—stemmed from the same internal push that’s benefitted me since I was little: I just wanted to learn something new. I looked at curriculum, reputation, and student testimonials to guide me in my selection process. Courses are ranked by extensiveness of educational content.

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Unique Venues

JULY 13, 2022

The professionals at the Convention and Visitors Bureau can help you navigate them all, and their helpful staff will help educate you about the region and its offerings. The hotel houses more than 25,000 square feet of flexible meeting and banquet space, perfect for your large wedding!

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PCMA Convene

JULY 3, 2017

It was March 31, 2016, and ACA’s Governing Council was meeting in Montreal as part of ACA’s 2016 Conference & Expo. If the bill were to become law, it would be no small thing for ACA members practicing in Tennessee — who offer counseling in every area, from mental health and wellness to education and career goals.

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Bizzabo

DECEMBER 19, 2018

AlliedPRA creates local destination experiences for meetings, incentives and events that move hearts, minds and businesses forward to deliver unforgettable moments. BCD Meetings & Events. Notable clients: adidas, Daimler Trucks North America, Kaiser Permanente, KinderCare Education, Tillamook. San Diego, CA. New York, NY.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

His new idea of convening— which we previewed in our November issue — does not involve collecting education credits for professional certifications, touring trade-show booths, or attending cocktail receptions. Courtney Spence and her father, Roy Spence (center), meet with a Watford City resident to understand the community’s challenges.

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Plan Your Meetings

JUNE 27, 2016

If you’re like many corporate meeting planners, planning meetings and events may only be part of your job and you learn as you go, without formal training. But if planning meetings and events are a passion of yours and you want to become a meeting professional, there are 33 skills you need to master. J: Marketing.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 13, 2024

Most meeting planners have likely discovered the benefits of ChatGPT and other generative-A.I. produces over time could become increasingly unoriginal—the opposite of what event planners need in their educational and promotional content. While touted as a time-saver, generative A.I.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 12, 2025

Space projects are all international and that community needs to travel, meet, and share. Which region had a strong commitment in academy, education, and research? Major actors in the world of events, like PCMA and ICCA, have helped me a lot in enabling meetings and brainstorming with other cities. They need support in doing so.

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PCMA Convene

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The first strategy meeting was with the city and the city leaders,” said Colette Jones, Destination Cleveland’s vice president of marketing. that February to present to the Republican National Committee’s Site Selection Committee. You’re dealing with a lot of hotels that are great partners, but they don’t have meeting space.”.

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Plan Your Meetings

JULY 2, 2018

and how it impacted significant meetings and, arguably, may have hindered important dialogue in the field of HIV/AIDS research. The following originally appeared in The Meeting Professional , March 2017. for more than two decades, despite repeated appeals from professionals actually educated in the field.

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