Attendease

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Lets take a look at the top event trends that will shape 2025! For instance, capturing attendee data at registration , sessions, networking events, etc. Details like job title, industry, areas of interest, and engagement levels are extremely useful for segmentation and future event planning!

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Lime Venue Portfolio has introduced its first-ever ‘E’ Guide on Environmental Event Planning, kicking off a new series of practical resources focused on ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) for event organisers.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Meeting planners are responsible for the success of corporate events, conferences, and incentive programs. Hotels, CVBs, and destinations looking to attract more group business, need to understand the top pain points of meeting planners. Attendees now expect more interactive and engaging events.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2024

HeadBox, the UK’s fastest-growing B2B meetings and events platform, is proud to announce the release of its latest whitepaper, “How AI is Solving the Event Industry’s Biggest Challenges.”

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 15, 2023

Unless you plan events for a booming industry, your reality working for professional and trade associations is that revenue from your 2022 and 2023 meetings is 15 percent (or more) lower than 2019. Annual conference budgets are usually finalized 12-plus months prior to the event.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 11, 2024

This year, Smart Meetings published a repertoire of sustainability content geared especially around how-tos and making sure everyone has access to the knowledge and resources to feel confident talking about sustainability and implementing it into their business practices. Working with partners can help take much of the load off.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 9, 2024

Canada, our neighbor to the north, packs a hefty offering for event planners looking to entertain and entice guests. Big Meetings Love Canada Following Covid-19 pandemic, Canada is seeing the return of U.S. Big Meetings Love Canada Following Covid-19 pandemic, Canada is seeing the return of U.S. association customers.

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Event Planning Travel Hotels Airlines 261

EventMB

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Skift Take: Using artificial intelligence to plan events is no longer a dream, it's a reality. Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 3, 2023

“Similar to marketing, Visit San Antonio’s Experience team provides a comprehensive experience for our meeting planners that focuses on the five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch,” she says. Event planning] is so fast-paced and everything’s changing.

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Event Farm

MAY 5, 2021

As pandemic conditions continue to change, do you feel that you must wade through wave after wave of information to seek answers and solutions to plan safe live events? Tracking event, venue, and vendor staff. The post Introducing the 2021 Event Planning Playbook appeared first on Event Farm.

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Attendease

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Our team at Attendease got together to share our favorite resources for event professionals, so you can learn the latest trends and ideas from industry experts. This list was part of a larger guide that we launched: 10 Survival Skills for Corporate Meeting & Event Planners in 2021. Meeting Minds Podcast.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 21, 2024

JT Long, vice president and content director of Smart Meetings, has an insightful conversation with Edward Perotti, an award-winning meeting designer and principle of EP Events and Experiences. From Order-Taker to Strategist: Navigating the World of Event Planning with Edward Perotti appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Our team at Attendease got together to share our favorite resources for event professionals so you can learn the latest trends and ideas from industry experts. This list was part of a larger guide that we launched: 10 Survival Skills for Corporate Meeting & Event Planners in 2023. You can get the full guide here.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 6, 2022

The post What Event Planning Best Practices Are Here to Stay? appeared first on Smart Meetings. There is always a solution so get creative and communicate with your partners on the best path forward. Shannon Licygiewicz is general manager of the Albany Capital Center in New York.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Even as in-person meetings continue to reemerge with a vengeance, virtual meetings have taken a primary position in the event professional toolbox. We live in a hybrid world where almost every major event has a virtual component, even if we don’t call it that,” said Bizzabo Chief Marketing Officer Alon Alroy.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 2, 2024

On this episode of Meeting of the Minds, Smart Meetings is joined by Jaclyn Bernstein, president and owner of Empire Force Events, and Alexis Dick, an event planner at HARDI. The post Meeting of the Minds: Discover Professional Growth Secrets appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 12, 2022

While 2022 is in full swing, the meetings and event industry is continuing to navigate best practices regarding safe meetings and social gatherings during the Covid-19 pandemic. One trend that we are continuing to see is that of outdoor meetings. The benefits of hosting a meeting in nature are many. Keep It Down.

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Event Farm

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Event planning has changed drastically since the COVID-19 pandemic—from cancellations and postponements to the new wave of virtual and hybrid events, event planners had to pivot quickly in order to stay afloat. Couldn’t join us for Event Exhale? Check out the session recording!

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SpotMe Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

New to hybrid event planning? A hybrid event can be a great investment for your company – in fact, 86% of B2B organizations that host one see a positive ROI within 7 months. But, to get to that ROI, you first have to know how to plan a hybrid event – and that’s where it gets tricky. What is a hybrid event?

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Mass shootings, cyberattacks, contagious diseases, sickness and disease: All these occur frequently enough that they should be at the forefront of any event planner’s mind whenever an event, large or small, is held. And this goes beyond meeting planning. But it’s a big problem in the meetings industry.”.

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Eventmobi

AUGUST 8, 2024

They’re often built around specific locations or causes, with a narrower focus than you might get at an annual meeting. But ultimately, chapters offer a focused peer collaboration opportunity—with events at the center. They are the grassroots—where the goals of collaboration and engagement are turned into action.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 11, 2022

Just as virtual meetings can’t replace in-person events, the Metaverse won’t replicate real life. Both digital solutions bring advances that can teach real-world lessons to meeting professionals looking to improve their experiences. People are looking to participate in meetings in a more exploratory fashion,” she said.

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Prestige Events Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2024

The changing dynamics of the workplace and the role of AI in the business meetings and events industry are among the topics being discussed at the miaSummit 2024. MIA chief executive, Kerrin MacPhie, said: “Our flagship annual conference has a pedigree stretching back more than a decade.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2023

Where event profs hope to give event attendees a vibrant, appealing and informative session, it may come off more as an information dump for some. Smart Meetings spoke with several event experts whose main goal is to craft a personalized, engaging and educational experience. Make Your Attendees Feel Like Co-creators.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Allianz Stadium, Twickenham, has released research on the importance and understanding of ‘Event Flow’ for successful meetings. In collaboration with Kelly McCormack, The Event Psychologist , the venue looked to understand how best to create momentum and productivity amongst delegations, using movement.

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Picatic by Eventbrite

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Earlier this year, Eventbrite put out a call to entrepreneurs, innovators, trendsetters, and anyone else interested in building or growing an events business.

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Attendease

MAY 16, 2024

But can this new tool benefit the meticulous world of event planning? The answer is a promising yes, with some considerations event planners and managers should keep in mind. Hands-Free Communication Miscommunications can throw a wrench into your plans, causing disruption in the event planning process.

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Attendease

DECEMBER 3, 2024

GO DEEPER : 5 Ways to Streamline Your Corporate Event Planning Is Event Software Worth It? But an all-in-one event management platform like EventUp Planner eliminates these drains on company resources while driving greater ROI. Save hours of manually building and revising your event schedule.

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Data The meetings and events industry is projected to flourish in 2025, with meeting professionals expressing confidence in its future and noting planned increases in meetings budgets, as revealed in the 14th Annual Global Meetings and Events Forecast by Amex GBT Meetings & Events.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Trend #4: Elevated Menus QR code menus aren’t going anywhere in the hospitality and restaurant industries, but the current trend in the event planning industry requires looking above and beyond the expected. Design-forward and elevated menus are in style for 2024 events.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 2, 2022

Planning an event in multiple languages can be a challenge for meeting planners. Innovative virtual language interpretation software is making attendee accessibility a reality for everyone involved in creating inclusive meetings. The program makes its virtual services impartial to any particular meeting platform.

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EventMB

APRIL 2, 2024

Skift Take: In this episode of the Skift Meetings Podcast, Gianna Gaudini offers a glimpse into the methodologies that have kept her at the top of the game — from cultivating calm in the center of chaos to speaking C-suite lingo that gets the green light on ambitious projects. Miguel Neves Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 28, 2023

That is why Smart Meetings gathered top meeting professionals F2F in Virginia Beach, Virginia, for three days this week at Smart Meetings Extraordinary Experience Mid-Atlantic to learn about the industry and each other. The sight was awe-inspiring and as Smart Meetings CEO Marin Bright put it, it made everyone feel safe.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 14, 2022

He could have been talking about meeting planners’ determination during 2.5 years of Covid, jumping back in with the energy of a T-Rex and making meetings happen again. Read More : Need an Event Venue That Wows? Gallery experiences with the dinosaurs can be included as part of the event.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Whether you are a company already hosting a screening event, planning to visit for the first time or simply there to see more people, with this new MIP market our aim is to complement existing events by providing additional opportunities to meet, showcase or discover content across the week.

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Venues Entertainment Hotels Marketing 258

Smart Meetings

MARCH 3, 2022

In the podcast, Zuckerberg touched on one thing event professionals hold dear: that feeling of presence in meetings. This is something virtual meetings try to replicate, yet falls short. Hence the excitement of getting back to face-to-face meetings. Virtual Meeting, Real Feel. More Not So Small Advancements.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Shannon Copeland The seamless coordination of countless logistics required to produce a productive and enjoyable meeting or event is a Herculean task. In today’s world, you cannot overlook the possibility of Mother Nature becoming an unwanted attendee at your meeting or event.

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