EventMB

APRIL 2, 2025

Skift Take: The sales kickoff is a huge opportunity to pump up the sales force and unquestionably a companys most important meeting of the year. Barbara Scofidio Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings

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Conferences that Work

JUNE 3, 2019

At the time, I had no idea that what I instinctively put together for a gathering of people who barely knew each other would lead to: a global design and facilitation consulting practice; over 500 posts on this blog, which has now become, to the best of my knowledge, the most-visited website on meeting design and facilitation; three books (almost!)

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 25, 2019

Kate Fairweather (right) and Amy Blackman present results from “The Future of Meetings and Events” report at Convening Leaders 2019 in Pittsburgh. We believe they are going to be disruptive in every category, but have certain implications that will be important for meetings and events.” This means designing with the end user in mind.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 22, 2020

Virtual meetings require careful design to keep attendees engaged and deliver value for the hosts. But how do you translate the energy and insights from a face-to-face meeting through a computer screen? One of the main reasons for business events or meetings is to deliver some kind of information.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Before 2020, I was designing and facilitating around a dozen in-person meetings and conferences a year. After COVID decimated the meeting industry, I focused on the design and facilitation of online meetings. He has stayed on top of new meeting trends and technologies for decades. In 2023, in-person is back!

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SmartMeetings

MARCH 31, 2017

A similar disconnect exists in the meetings industry, according to a new Wellness in Meetings and Incentive Travel Study from the Incentive Research Foundation (IRF). The study measures the prevalence of wellness initiatives in incentive travel and meeting programs.

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PCMA Convene

JUNE 1, 2017

Attendees who want more from their meetings don’t want to sit and listen passively to a formal presentation. Welcome to the era of disrupted meetings, in good company with other industries and institutions whose established norms are being taken down to the studs. They have expectations of involvement.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 4, 2019

After a highly successful debut in 2018, three Meeting Professionals International (MPI) Chapters — MPI Toronto , MPI Montréal/Québec , and MPI Ottawa — have again joined forces to provide cutting edge, innovative, experiential education at The EVENT. I’m excited to present my Participate! Lab at The EVENT , April 4-6, Montréal!

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Stova

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Hybrids will likely see widespread adoption as F2F meetings reemerge from the pandemic for a number of reasons: Some attendees may not wish to travel to the event for fear of contagion or other health and safety concerns. There will likely be reduced travel funds available for event attendance due to economic downturns.

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SpotMe Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Strategic meetings management is a concept that’s over 20 years old but has recently taken on a new form. The meetings and events industry has evolved, and planners now have a seat at the omnichannel table, where data-driven insights and attendee experiences are top of mind. The time for strategic meetings management is now.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 26, 2019

Here’s a teaser: the introduction to my new book Event Crowdsourcing: Creating Meetings People Actually Want and Need. The social and cultural differences that shaped our frequent meetings fascinated me. Interested? Then buy the book ! I’ve always been curious. I’ve always wanted to understand the world I found myself living in.

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 1, 2019

Attendees who want more from their meetings don’t want to sit and listen passively to a formal presentation. Welcome to the era of disrupted meetings, in good company with other industries and institutions whose established norms are being taken down to the studs. They have expectations of involvement. FLIPPED LEARNING.

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PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The multi-hub format, with multiple connected venues like this meeting with 18 hubs in Spain, combines the benefits of both. As efforts to contain the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus by restricting travel ripple across the globe, a growing number of event organizers are opting to move meetings online as an alternative to canceling them.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2017

Oklahoma City is using influencer marketing in the form of a travel-writing team who will highlight the city’s leisure attractions — and is also bolstering its meetings portfolio with a new convention center. But despite all of these shiny new additions, the one thing the CVB keeps hearing from meeting planners is, why Oklahoma City?

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PCMA Convene

MAY 24, 2019

Convene ’s own look at the attitudes toward homelessness in the meetings industry show that a number of meeting professionals are bucking that trend: Thirty-five percent of those who responded to a survey last August reported they had organized CSR activities to benefit homelessness in the destinations where they hold meetings.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 25, 2019

Travel Portland). What she hadn’t expected, she told Convene , was that so many of the people looking for that kind of connection to the city and its surroundings would be business travelers. One way to genuinely experience this place is by connecting travelers with the human beings behind the products,” she said.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 4, 2019

Travel Portland). What she hadn’t expected, she told Convene , was that so many of the people looking for that kind of connection to the city and its surroundings would be business travelers. One way to genuinely experience this place is by connecting travelers with the human beings behind the products,” she said.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 6, 2022

A meeting designer used a carbon-dioxide meter in all the spaces he moved through while attending a recent conference. In late May, Adrian Segar attended a meeting-industry leadership summit in San Juan, Puerto Rico. First, Segar noted the CO2 concentrations his portable meter measured during his air travel.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Care to join us for some stimulating conversation about multi-hub meetings? Everyone who works in the event industry knows the power of meetings. And who says we have to stop at single-hub meetings? An entrepreneur since he was only 18 years old, Maarten has over 35 years of experience in meeting design.

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Plan Your Meetings

JANUARY 15, 2018

Creating a space design where the atmosphere and physical set-up immediately embraces the participants with a feeling of comfort and safety is the best start to a meeting that you can give your participants. The design of the physical meeting space should also be seen as the body language of a meeting.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 6, 2016

This was our registration desk at a travel show. We’ve done our best to stay away from traditional meeting rooms. Meeting Design allows us to think very differently about the content we have at our event. How is your brand reflected outside of the meeting? These little things are statement pieces I suppose.

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PCMA Convene

JULY 22, 2020

The panel members — a corporate planner, two association planners, a meeting-design expert, and a hotel executive — discussed the viability of hybrid events. The hybrid meeting model is the best way forward, she said, at least until attendee trust in traveling and meeting in person safely has been restored.

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Conferences that Work

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

For example, meeting rooms, specialized support staff, and travel budgets are often plentiful and generous. A few years ago, I and a group of meeting designers spent a day looking into how we could improve the annual UN Climate Change Conference meeting process in order to better meet the challenges of the climate crisis.

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Event Industry News

JUNE 6, 2019

Ahead of his discussion at The Meetings Show, ‘The future is hybrid, are you ready?’ he gives the lowdown on hybrid meetings and outlines the benefits involved in hosting them. What is a hybrid meeting? Any meeting that offers a way to participate online can be considered a hybrid meeting.

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Event Leadership Institute

APRIL 30, 2021

The Event Leadership Institute’s Business, Design & Strategy Summit , held virtually on June 3, invites meeting and event professionals to chart their course for the future. So where does that leave you?

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PCMA Convene

AUGUST 4, 2022

In addition, the multi-hub approach has been a particularly effective way of navigating the pandemic by bringing small groups together — 20-30 people in each small meeting room — instead of hosting a mass gathering, she said, and having the program delivered at hotels afforded better access than at hospitals during COVID. “I

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 16, 2018

When FRESH18 — which bills itself as the first annual conference focused exclusively on meeting design — gets underway Feb. 27-28, it will be showcasing its own solution to a common event-design problem: getting the audience to participate. It is a chance to meet people from your industry with similar interests.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 29, 2023

Meeting designers and facilitators like me get plenty of practice at this balancing act.) Black holes Thankfully, unless faster-than-light travel becomes possible, you’ll never have to interact with a physical black hole. If you do, there’s more learning needed.

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PCMA Convene

DECEMBER 7, 2020

When the think tank conversations got underway in Long Beach in January, meeting rooms and airplanes were full. million direct jobs globally and generated more than $1 trillion of direct spending and business events-related travel — numbers radically changed by COVID-19’s impact. From Where We Started to Now.

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 25, 2019

Blackman’s experience in Pittsburgh came up — a lot — when she met with the multidisciplinary panel assembled to talk about future trends for the “The Future of Meetings and Events” report, she said. “We Blackman previously managed bands, traveling all over the world, she said. More Meeting Trends. Ben Petchel).

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Hubilo Blog

MARCH 7, 2020

With more than a decade of experience as a professional speaker, Dahlia founded The Meeting Pool , a great source of information for event professionals. She’s a past president of Meeting Professionals International, Chicago and has been named as one of the 40 under 40 in the meetings industry by Connect magazine in 2015.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 27, 2020

Pre-pandemic, I traveled fairly frequently for my work as a consultant on meeting design and facilitator of meetings, and would try to run a couple of miles every day, wherever I was. I live in rural Vermont on a moderately hilly dirt road that’s quiet enough for me to run a couple of miles daily.

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SmartMeetings

JUNE 19, 2019

Important insights into health-care professionals (HCPs) and tips on how to host an event that will attract and retain them were among the highlights of Jocelyn Cote’s recent Smart Meetings webinar. They just can’t get enough education, and meetings play a vital role in HCP’s career-long quest for education,” she says.

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Event Industry News

JULY 27, 2021

Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI), a leader in luxury hotel sales for meeting incentives, conventions, and exhibition (MICE), welcomes the addition of Silvia Zamora to the ALHI executive team. With over 25 years of experience in the meetings and events industry, Zamora honed her skills with positions at Motorola, the Henry B.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Meetings & Events. Tahira Endean tweets about the intersection of experiential, immersive meeting design and technology. meetingsnet If you’re looking for thought-provoking articles and news related to all things meetings and events, look no further than MeetingsNet’s Twitter. TahiraCreates. EventsUncovered.

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Gallus Events

APRIL 6, 2016

This was our registration desk at a travel show. We’ve done our best to stay away from traditional meeting rooms. Meeting Design allows us to think very differently about the content we have at our event. How is your brand reflected outside of the meeting? These little things are statement pieces I suppose.

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SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Now you have been tapped to plan an offsite for the executive team, a quarterly all-staff meeting or a new product activation. We asked some of the people creating meeting magic today alongside the massive influx of new meeting designers that have come to the industry since Covid for tips on what to ask your partners and when to get started.

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