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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SevenEvents

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

When it comes to International Womens Day (IWD) and the growing presence of women in leadership and the corporate world, securing female speakers adds an extra layer of relevance and inspiration. Her talk highlighted the significance of strong leadership, resilience, and the role of women in politics and governance.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Featuring top industry speakers addressing key trends and challenges, alongside a diverse range of exhibitors showcasing essential services and products for the hospitality sector, the conference was a resounding success. Our Enquiry Service and Venue Find service has gone from strength to strength and we have doubled our sales from 2019.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 21, 2025

Avoid pitfalls and protect your event Contracts are the lifeblood and backbone of the meetings industry. Negotiating contracts is the first step before confirming speakers, color themes or catering options. Warner also advised using force majeure clauses to deal with any issues arising from government funding cuts.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 25, 2025

Sir Chris Bryant MP, the Minister of State for Media, Tourism and Creative Industries, will open next week’s Global Policy Forum on behalf of The Business of Events.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Hargrove sets an example for planning events that go off without a hitch through their government shutdown contingency plan After the venue booking, event design, attendee lists, emails, emails and more emails, your event is all ready to go—finally! government may face a shutdown on Oct 1, the final day of the festival.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Recently 280 event organisers enjoyed the red-carpet treatment for a glamorous hybrid showcase featuring a screening of the recently released film ‘House of Gucci’ with speakers in two London locations and Leeds. Both venues complied to the latest Government guidelines.

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GEVME

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Informa plc is pleased to announce that after hugely successful runs of The Special Event USA and the Middle East Special Event Show, The Special Event Asia 2019 (#TSEA19) will be launching its Asia’s edition from 18-19 November 2019 at Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore. Sukumar Verma, #TSEA Managing Director .

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. There are certain minimum things that they would expect or not expect to see at an event.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The Business of Events is pleased to announce its first confirmed speakers and contributors ahead of its UK Policy Forum , which takes place on 8 th November at IET London: Savoy Place. She is the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Events and will share with the forum the view from Westminster.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. There are certain minimum things that they would expect or not expect to see at an event.

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Eventsforce

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Want tips on running successful virtual events? The sudden shift to virtual events has created many challenges for planners – especially when it comes to managing remote speakers. But, just how difficult is speaker engagement when it comes to virtual events? 1) Co-Create Speaker Content .

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 18, 2019

The government shutdown is causing headaches in the business events industry at conferences where government employees who were set to attend or speak are no longer allowed to do so. Then came the partial government shutdown. And while this government shutdown may be lengthy, it’s not an uncommon occurrence.

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Prestige Events Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

The Esports Summit presented by London & Partners, the business growth and destination agency for London, in partnership with the Science Museum will take place on Tuesday 27 th February 2024 and will feature keynote speakers and panel discussions that will share insights into esports in London. What does London’s competition look like?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. There are certain minimum things that they would expect or not expect to see at an event.

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Prestige Events Magazine

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The SportAccord World Sport & Business Summit 2024 in Birmingham, West Midlands has announced its first wave of high-profile speakers for sport’s most influential industry gathering. If we want to keep hosting the world’s biggest sporting events then showcasing our region to sport’s global decision makers is mission critical.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2021

These people can distill tens of billions of dollars’ worth of government training and development and pass on the key practices.”. Our speakers are experts who have worked at the highest levels of security clearance and lived through mind-blowing experiences,” Paul says.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. There are certain minimum things that they would expect or not expect to see at an event.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. There are certain minimum things that they would expect or not expect to see at an event.

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Attendease

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

More importantly, we will discuss specifics of GDPR and CCPA for the events industry. What is the impact of CCPA and GDPR in the Event Industry? In today’s article, I will cover the main differences between GDPR and CCPA, and what you need to know to be compliant by the deadline of January 1st 2020. What you need to know about CCPA.

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Event Marketer

AUGUST 8, 2022

Actress, producer and entrepreneur Issa Rae led a keynote discussion at this year’s event. Flash forward to 2022 and that original objective remains steadfast, but the event strategy has evolved with the times. More SMB Event Strategies: Content Design: Facebook’s Event Marketing Manager on the Brand’s ‘Boost’ Program.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. There are certain minimum things that they would expect or not expect to see at an event.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. There are certain minimum things that they would expect or not expect to see at an event.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In 2021, when asked about the percentage of events that would incorporate a virtual element, 30% of venue operators said 90% or more of their live events offered access to a virtual option. Despite this, the report makes clear that the availability of hybrid has saved many events from not having its original speakers.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. There are certain minimum things that they would expect or not expect to see at an event.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. There are certain minimum things that they would expect or not expect to see at an event.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. There are certain minimum things that they would expect or not expect to see at an event.

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MeetingsNet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The head of a major speakers bureau provides insight on hot topics, interesting formats, and rising cost concerns for keynoters and other featured speakers. MeetingsNet: Now that the post-pandemic business landscape has some stability, what is different in what corporate groups are looking to get from their speakers?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. There are certain minimum things that they would expect or not expect to see at an event.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. There are certain minimum things that they would expect or not expect to see at an event.

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Sustainability Hotels Events Meetings 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. There are certain minimum things that they would expect or not expect to see at an event.

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Prestige Events Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The Business of Events has just announced that Lord Syed Kamall, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Civil Society, Heritage, Tourism and Growth at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport will be the key note speaker at its 2022 UK Policy Forum, which will take place on 02 November at the QEII Centre, Westminster, London.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. There are certain minimum things that they would expect or not expect to see at an event.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 12, 2023

Only 1 percent of respondents to a Freeman survey said they preferred celebrity speakers to those who had something relevant to say to their groups. Whatever Media Group) Event organizers who are considering straining their budgets to hire celebrity speakers — or who feel pressure to do so — may want to think again.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 30, 2019

For the last 25 years, a former drama teacher from The Netherlands has been advocating for taking a similar approach to event planning. You can skip just about any other part of a meeting—a venue, a meal, even a speaker and still be productive, but if there isn’t relevant content, then it isn’t a meeting.”.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. There are certain minimum things that they would expect or not expect to see at an event.

Sustainability 130

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. There are certain minimum things that they would expect or not expect to see at an event.

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