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Sustainable Event Planning: Action Steps to Lasting Strategy

Smart Meetings

Becoming a sustainable event planner is a marathon, not a sprint. As the events industry continues to evolve in its sustainability journey, there are a lot of accomplishments to celebrate. But there’s no denying that sustainability is a very broad topic, and sometimes, you might feel left in the dust.

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B-to-B Dream Team 2025: Meet Valerie Strehle

Event Marketer

Valerie Strehle, Senior Director-Global Events, Workiva When an event organization operates under the code name GSD, or Get S**t Done, you know it has some serious momentum behind it. The team, created in January 2023, consolidated resources from marketing, sales, and EMEA to form the first-ever global events team at Workiva.

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Holograms Beam into Events

Smart Meetings

Hologram technology can increase engagement and attract hard-to-get speakers Meetings may be a mostly in-person experience but—as we learned during Covid, with the use of Zoom, Teams and other online video platforms—the use of communications technology has its place in the world of meetings and events. How do they learn?

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Building a Circular Economy in Events: How Two Major Meetings Reimagined Sustainability

PCMA Convene

Attendees volunteered in the Sustainability Hub at Greenbuild in Philadelphia, PA. Business events have long been designed with this one-off/single-use mentality. WCEF compensates or offsets the carbon foot-print of all its speakers travel and we encourage other participants to do so on their part as well,Sjstedt said.

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Personalisation, Sustainability, and Immersive Tech are Key Event Tech Trends for 2024

Prestige Events Magazine

3D Audio Beam forming – such as the HOLOPLOT speakers used at ABBA Voyage. In a conference environment, the speaker could be translated into a different language instantaneously in different parts of the room. Tech Trend #2 Sustainability Two examples relevant to the events industry were presented.

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More In-person Meetings in 2023, Says Amex GBT Forecast

Smart Meetings

This is expected to continue well into 2023, according to a new report, “ 2023 Global Meetings and Events Forecast ,” by American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT). Global in-person attendance is predicted to rise 3.3% Read More : WTTC Survey Assesses Cities’ Sustainable Tourism Growth. DEI Developments.

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The Demand for Sustainable Events is Heating Up

Prestige Events Magazine

Unless you haven’t heard, there’s been a pretty big sustainability conference taking place in Egypt this month , aiming to once again highlight the action (or lack of) on climate change over the past year. Managers in the events industry will be keeping a keen eye on progressions, as the conference couldn’t come at a more perfect time.