Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 24, 2019

Your guidepost for event-technology decisions should be to put your customer’s experience before your staff efficiency. As the event-tech space continues to evolve with a number of mergers and acquisitions, I see four changes coming for larger annual conferences. #1. Which of these event tech predictions surprises you?

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Eventmobi

JULY 13, 2023

Think back: what do you remember about the event speakers from your most recent event? Getting the right speakers for your event can make or break the success of your conference, trade show, or seminar. But finding the perfect speakers can sometimes feel like searching for a needle in a haystack!

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Ask for Specifics Dominique DeWitt, CMP, senior event planner, Wounded Warrior Project Dominique DeWitt Dominique DeWitt grew up thinking about the importance of accessible travel accommodations. AV requirements can get pricey fast, as some speakers might not be able to hold a microphone or need assistance. “If

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Eventmobi

JANUARY 15, 2025

Cat Davidson is the Director of Customer Experience at EventMobi, bringing over a decade of hands-on expertise in event technology and planner success. For instance, you might gift a high-profile keynote speaker a tablet to thank them for their support, but that likely isnt feasible to give to all event attendees.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 18, 2020

Speaker coaching for virtual engagement. Professional speaker recommendations. Event technology solution advice. Here are some of the priorities we can provide virtual, micro-consulting for: COVID-19 decision-making and crisis communications. Team or service provider reorganization or consolidation.

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Eventmobi

JANUARY 7, 2025

Cat Davidson is the Director of Customer Experience at EventMobi, bringing over a decade of hands-on expertise in event technology and planner success. Consideration is when the audience learns more information about the event, which makes them think about signing up. or Just Announced: See the New Speakers for Our Event!

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 31, 2017

Over the past decade, there have been significant upgrades and newcomers in the event technology space. There are several hundred event technology providers competing to win your business. Most event technologies are considered a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform utilizing cloud-based technology.

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Attendease

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Event personalization is highly likely to continue impacting meetings and events in 2025. Trend #6 – Advanced event technology Event technology platforms continue to advance, and well see these new platforms and upgraded data-based technology used in events across industries this year.

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Event Industry News

JANUARY 20, 2025

EXPERIENCEit, the UKs leading celebration of experiential events, has unveiled speakers and global brand exhibitors for its 2025 event which aims to celebrate the rise in a desire for experiential, collaborative, and immersive events.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 13, 2025

Look for speakers with business growth expertise first who can apply AI as an accelerator, not self-proclaimed AI gurus. The Humalogy scale provides a visual tool for identifying the optimum balance for human effort (H) and technology (T) for each business process.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The Event Technology Awards (ETA) US & Canada are proud to announce Courtney Stanley as a judge for the inaugural stateside edition. Courtney Stanley is recognized globally as an award-winning keynote speaker, leadership coach, and host of the podcast for women in business, Dare to Interrupt.

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GEVME

MAY 27, 2021

Leading virtual events and events technology provider GEVME has announced the launch of GEVME Studios — an online media network dedicated entirely to virtual events. Virtual Experience Makers: Coming up with great ideas involves looking out of the box — and this applies to the events industry as well.

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Attendease

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Networking : When networking is one of the main goals of the event, seamless communication between attendees, partners, speakers and exhibitors can be a great feature to have. For example, you can help them navigate your event by providing the following: Clearly navigable maps of the event. Function room locations.

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Attendease

JANUARY 6, 2023

Virtual corporate event platforms like Attendease will allow you to keep your brand colors, fonts, images, and more, so you can keep control of your brand on a fully white-labeled experience. You can go an extra-mile and build a branded background for your speakers as well. Finding the Right Virtual Corporate Events Platform.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

With that in mind, event organizers need to marry the best of both of these worlds to create a hybrid event that is enriching and unique to attendees. Consider speakers for your hybrid event. With this in mind, consider invitation-only status to influential attendees and speakers for the in-person portion of the event.

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Attendease

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Whether some events may have gone completely virtual or are fully back to in-person, the common trend is that the event portfolio as whole is more diverse now with some meetings and events being hosted virtually, in-person, or hybrid – depending on the objectives in mind.

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Event Marketer

JUNE 21, 2021

Hosts can send requests to listeners to become speakers, or listeners can request permission to speak by tapping on the “Request” icon. Hosts can mute a speaker or all speakers at once or remove them from the space completely. Stage moderators are special speakers who can set a topic on the Stage Channel and open it.

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Attendease

JANUARY 22, 2020

With three exhilarating days already planned, this year’s Event Planner Expo will focus on building industry relationships, allowing top influencers to network with professionals from the industry. Boost your commercial reach with valuable opinions from marketing and event technology experts. What to look forward to -.

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Eventmobi

JANUARY 27, 2021

While no one can dispute the impact of face to face meetings, virtual events have opened new opportunities and in many ways have created a new medium for organizations to communicate with and engage their employees, customers and members. However, not all of these online events over the past year were successful.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

More than 40 speakers and industry leaders were also expected to attend. Our role at TravelMarket was basically to produce the entire event turnkey,” says edgefactory President and CEO Brian Cole. “We Still, many attendees, exhibitors and speakers were still on site. What lessons does Cole draw from the experience?

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 21, 2023

This should be separate from training for speakers. Use intro music or countdown timers to keep a virtual audience entertained and informed until the start of the event. Speaker timing is everything. Speaker timing is everything. Don’t put the best speakers first thing in the morning or right after lunch.

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Eventmobi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

If the last year has shown anything, it’s that event technology can help attendees stay connected, even when meeting in person isn’t possible. To meet this demand, event organizers need to balance carefully planned in-person meetings with year-round online engagement. Build Connections with Events & Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

More than 40 speakers and industry leaders were also expected to attend. Our role at TravelMarket was basically to produce the entire event turnkey,” says edgefactory President and CEO Brian Cole. “We Still, many attendees, exhibitors and speakers were still on site. What lessons does Cole draw from the experience?

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Eventmobi

MAY 23, 2024

Oftentimes, conferences include keynote speakers and workshop sessions, each designed to educate attendees. This kind of conference often features multiple speakers, who each present information on related topics. There’s no lead speaker. Because of this, summits usually feature influential speakers.

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Socio Events

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Coordinating and managing content from speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors can be a tedious and time-consuming task. The current manual process of collecting and integrating this content into your event app can take up valuable resources. Sign up for free to check out speaker and sponsor collaboration for yourself!

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Eventmobi

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This chart shows an overview of the most common expenses for meetings and events. Note that event technology can be incorporated into all of these common expenses. For example, an event tech app can help with marketing and promotion by allowing event planners to push notifications about keynote speakers and registration.

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Attendease

MARCH 10, 2022

Your event registration platform of choice may also need to provide the flexibility to create separate, optional add-on sessions such as gala dinners or pre-conference education sessions. Communicating Your Event Registration. Sometimes people drop out of the registration process due to design flaws in your event registration forms.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Regardless, it seems likely that planners will be asked to do more with less in 2019, which makes selecting the right event technology tools even more important than before. Event Personalization. An increasing number of events are adopting non-traditional layouts and session formats as part of their personalization efforts.

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Attendease

OCTOBER 4, 2022

With sessions, breakouts, panels, discussions, networking, and more – it can be challenging to squeeze it all in, especially when you are managing a complex event, with multiple venues, simultaneous sessions, or even speakers who are joining multiple sessions. 1- Have the event goal in mind. 2- Call out for speakers.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 1, 2022

The bottom line is that event technology is more important, even in person. In the past, much of the event technology was standard. Now a menu of choices includes streaming, hologram speakers and microphones on each table. Now a menu of choices includes streaming, hologram speakers and microphones on each table.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 24, 2025

A recent case involving a detained comic creator at the US-Canadian border has sent ripples through the events industry, raising serious questions about the risks event planners face when bringing international talent to conferences, trade shows, and corporate gatherings in the US.

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Attendease

JULY 14, 2023

If you can create great event websites, you’ll stand out from the crowd with engaging visuals, informative agendas, captivating speaker lineups, and eye-catching event themes. When done right, a great event website can really help hype up your event, turning a casual browser into a committed and loyal attendee!

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 17, 2017

At the time, a mere six years ago, the fledgling for-profit entity that wagered its future on the potential of virtual meetings staged sessions that were too heavily weighted toward the online audience in the verbal communication and moderation by the speakers. The Switch On. Fast-forward to January 2017. Hybrid at its Best.

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Event Marketer

AUGUST 9, 2024

Jessica Webber: Our team builds live journalism events, so we’re connecting people to our best journalists and editors, who act as moderators. We had 102 speakers, 14 performances across three stages, moderated by 28 members of the Bloomberg News media and philanthropy staff.

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Event Industry News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The Green Events and Innovations Conference (GEI17) will once again bring together global innovators and sector leaders to share, network, and accelerate environmental and social actions to make impactful changes in all kinds of events.

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Event Marketer

MAY 5, 2022

Yep, the energy was as high as the Las Vegas temps at the milestone event, April 27-29 at the MGM Grand, where the industry gathered with an extra spring in its step as it cautiously eyed the light at the end of this two-year tunnel.

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Attendease

MARCH 10, 2022

Your event registration platform of choice may also need to provide the flexibility to create separate, optional add-on sessions such as gala dinners or pre-conference education sessions. Communicating Your Event Registration. Sometimes people drop out of the registration process due to design flaws in your event registration forms.

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