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The Smart Meetings Incentive Experience Modeled Positive Behavior

Smart Meetings

Smart Meetings made history by convening top meeting professionals in an iconic location fresh off an almost $200 million renovation to experience the best motivational practices employed today. of historic and modern conference center space offered something for attendees and their guests while they were meeting.

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Mastering Event Contracts: Essential Negotiation Strategies for Meeting Planners in 2025

Smart Meetings

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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UKEVENTS showcases the £61.6 Billion Value of the UK events industry at exhibition in Parliament

Prestige Events Magazine

Many were unaware of the sectors challenges, such as trade friction, complex visa regulations, and a lack of recognition for business events, but were eager to explore how the government could support the industrys growth. We asked to be a platform for the Governments agenda to support their narrative while promoting ours.”

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Sustainable Event Planning: Action Steps to Lasting Strategy

Smart Meetings

Smart Meetings’ October webinar, From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices , breaks it down. As planners learn more about practical best practices and work to implement them in their meetings, before they know it, the scope and scale of sustainability don’t seem nearly so daunting.

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Meetings Recovery Continues Upward Trajectory, According to New Report

Smart Meetings

Two-thirds of meeting professionals have reported the recovery of the hospitality industry to more than half of 2019 levels and one-third reported having reached beyond recovery to 80% of 2019 levels, according to new research by IACC’s new report, Meeting Room of the Future Barometer Late—November 2022.

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Mastering Your First Annual General Meeting: A Guide for New Board Chairs

StraussCA

Stepping into the role of a Board chair and hosting your first association Annual General Meeting (AGM) can be a daunting task. Recognizing the AGM’s multifaceted importance is the first step in preparing for a successful meeting. Keep AGMs strictly focused and move strategic discussions and guest speakers to “town halls.”

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3 Tips for Shifting to an Architectural Model for Meeting Design

Smart Meetings

Real meetings are all about content,” he says. 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.”. “You The power of meetings depends on the human dynamics they are capable of unleashing. “The