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Competent logistics are the new meeting minimum

Conferences that Work

The traditional bread and butter of a meeting planner’s job. When meeting planner textbooks gloss over the key ways that meetings can be made much more effective and useful for all stakeholders, planners remain ignorant, and traditional broadcast-style meetings continue to be the norm.

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4 Ways to Think About Heat Waves and Your Events

PCMA Convene

Rhanee Palma Rising global temperatures impact not only the health and safety of participants, but meeting design and site-selection strategies, said Rhanee Palma, CDME, operations and events manager for the Davis, California–based UC Davis Air Quality Research Center (AQRC).

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Get Ready for the Future of Events at ELI’s Business, Design & Strategy Summit

Event Leadership Institute

Other sessions will address positioning your company for post-COVID growth and how the work-from-home culture and decrease in business travel will affect in-person meetings. Juliette Kayyem, former assistant secretary of Homeland Security and CNN national security analyst will share tips for moving ahead.

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The 33 skills meeting and event planners need to succeed

Plan Your Meetings

Transportation plans help planners identify how they’ll manage the movement of participants from the airport to hotel to meetings and offsite venues and if additional requirements, such as visas, might be required for attendee travel. Select crowd management techniques. I: Site management. Design site layout.

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16 Event Resources to Plan Your Next Great Event

Capterra Event Management

The blog from popular enterprise event software Cvent is divided into categories so you can peruse based on your interests: social media, site selection and budgeting, association tips, meeting and event intelligence, planning how-tos, and strategic meetings management. Gallus Events.