Attendease

JULY 3, 2024

Sales kick-off meetings (SKOs) are vital for driving success in your company’s sales team. When done well, sales kick-off meetings foster unity, inspire confidence, and reignite the passion that fuels top performers. Keep reading for 13 creative event ideas to engage and inspire your sales force at your next sales kick-off meeting!

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Attendease

JULY 3, 2024

Sales kick-off meetings (SKOs) are vital for driving success in your company’s sales team. When done well, sales kick-off meetings foster unity, inspire confidence, and reignite the passion that fuels top performers. Keep reading for 13 creative event ideas to engage and inspire your sales force at your next sales kick-off meeting!

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Attendease

JANUARY 21, 2021

When we emerge from our government-imposed cocoons, we are less likely to find participants content with trends that meet pop culture standards but rather will shift and seek those that tie into the deeper values they have put to the test over this past year. This eloquently sums up what 2021 will need as we return to live events.

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EventMB

JULY 13, 2022

Skift Take: Delays and canceled flights are wreaking havoc on travel this summer. What should event planners do to ensure keynote speakers, VIPs, and others make it to their events on time. Paul Cook Read the Complete Story On Skift Meetings.

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Eventmobi

AUGUST 22, 2024

For a brief moment, virtual meetings became the center of the event universe pretty much out of necessity. Now, people are willing to travel to in-person events. You show up when the meeting’s supposed to start, if not a couple of minutes later,” she says. And nobody sticks around—you’re off to the next meeting.”

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Expo Pass

APRIL 18, 2022

Event speakers have the unique ability to inspire attendees and transform your event into a truly memorable experience. But how can organizers actually go about finding the perfect speaker for their event? So to get you started, here’s our top tips for organizers when finding speakers for their events. So it’s a big job!

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Eventmobi

DECEMBER 9, 2020

With their first hybrid event MEET THE CHANGE, the German meetings industry association MEET GERMANY needed to deliver an innovative event format. MEET THE CHANGE in Numbers. This required quite a technical set up: © MEET THE CHANGE pictures by Oliver Wachenfeld. The Experience on Site.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Economic, cultural, and technological issues are impacting who makes it onto the podium at meeting and conventions. The Speaking Industry Benchmark Report produced by AAE Speakers Bureau compiles data from both event organizers and keynote speakers to better understand the issues and trends affecting the speaker-booking process.

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MeetingsNet

AUGUST 4, 2023

With leisure travel strong and transient business travel well below pre-pandemic levels, the number of flights into and out of some big cities are being cut. But with the post-pandemic situation quite different, that business-traveler perk seems to be going away, at least temporarily. percent lower than they were in June 2019.

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Attendease

AUGUST 20, 2024

But how can you ensure every single touchpoint meets and exceeds expectations? It charts the full process of how attendees discover, register, prepare for, travel to, participate in, and follow up after your event. In-person events need to account for logistical details like venues, travel, accommodations, and the on-site experience.

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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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Attendease

JANUARY 5, 2021

In fact, the virtual event platform market is predicted to skyrocket, with Travel News Daily reporting how enterprises are now pivoting towards hosting virtual events instead of in-person ones to adapt to the changes brought about by the pandemic. Virtual events are part of today’s new normal. Check your tech.

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EventMB

AUGUST 26, 2024

Skift hosts 10-12 live events annually, including its flagship, Skift Global Forum , and Skift Meetings Forum , the premier gathering of meeting professionals. Skift’s live events take place worldwide and cover different aspects of the travel industry.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 21, 2020

Quite a few corporations and universities have instituted travel bans and/or are making major budget cuts. Many are holding off on speaker invitations until there is more positive news of the country reopening. . Good partners will lower the room block and release meeting space you don’t plan to use, sooner rather than later.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 31, 2023

The newest Speaking Industry Benchmark Report is out with details on this year’s hot topics, what speakers are charging (and what planners are paying), and more. Demand is hot for speakers who address diversity, equity, and inclusion issues. For speakers with more than 10 years of experience, the average fee is $16,659. •

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 26, 2023

On this episode of What One Thing Smart Meetings CEO and Founder Marin Bright is joined by Keynote Speaker and Author Ben Nemtin to discuss his storied accomplishments of creating a bucket list to attain his goals, finding purpose in life and his next big goal to go into space! Don’t Miss a Podcast Drop. The post What One Thing?

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Event Farm

JUNE 9, 2021

When it comes to venues, you are likely to see a 25% increase in meeting space expenses. Plus, when social distancing rules mandate less capacity in meeting rooms, you need more rooms and, therefore, more staff. If you need more meeting rooms, you need more equipment. 7: Travel and transportation – 111% increase. . #7:

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Eventmobi

JULY 26, 2020

Now, speakers at your virtual event can present in their mother tongue while attendees listen in their preferred language. With travel and cost limitations removed, it is now possible to invite speakers and engage attendees from anywhere in the world. A significant barrier, however, remains: language.

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Prestige Events Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The Meetings Show , the UK’s leading event that brings together the world’s meetings and events community, is calling for innovators and industry experts to submit their game-changing ideas and insights for the 2025 show. The speaker form and FAQs for submissions and providing further details can be accessed here.

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Eventmobi

MAY 23, 2024

Oftentimes, conferences include keynote speakers and workshop sessions, each designed to educate attendees. This kind of conference often features multiple speakers, who each present information on related topics. There’s no lead speaker. Because of this, summits usually feature influential speakers.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 23, 2023

McGee, senior fellow for aviation and travel, American Economic Liberties Project, told the Committee that “the nation’s airline industry is broken.” Any travel credit if accepted in lieu of a refund should never expire. Meeting Planners Takeaway U.S. The post Meeting Profs Travel Report: Can ‘Broken’ U.S.

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IMG

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Virtual event happened October 19, 2022, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM PDT Diversity Makes us Better: Best Practices to Build a Culture of Diversity and Inclusion Speakers: Carolina Veira Carolina Veira is an authentic leader, financial strategist, and Diversity and Inclusion champion, with a passion for the advancement and empowerment of BIPOC communities.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

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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GEVME

DECEMBER 3, 2020

A mixed-reality stage can even make a presentation come to life through interactive displays, helping us bring the audience closer to the presentation’s content, enabling the speaker to have real-time interaction with the audience and the subject matter on the screen. Meet with the exhibitors, download the relevant collaterals.

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Eventmobi

AUGUST 5, 2020

Speakers have a unique opportunity online to have an intimate experience with guests since they are right up close and personal in an attendees office, living room, etc. The most important for me has been having a dynamic speaker that can evoke emotion through the audience, either with compassion or humor – humor being my favorite of course.

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Eventmobi

MARCH 9, 2022

You need to think about who your audience is, what speakers you’ll have, how you keep your attendees engaged, and how you’ll host the live and virtual components of the event. With an in-person event, your audience is limited to only those who can travel to your event’s location. There’s a lot to consider when planning a hybrid event.

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Endless Events

MARCH 21, 2022

Remo is a map-based virtual event platform that has been building events and meetings since 2018. “ Remo is a map-based virtual meeting and event platform. We have universities that want to do their football stadium on a map and you come and have a meeting in the stadium. Introducing Remo, A Map-Based Event Platform.

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GEVME

JULY 28, 2021

Do not mistake a virtual conference for a virtual meeting. A virtual conference typically runs for multiple days, has keynote speaker sessions, live entertainment, educational sessions, product demos, product training, panel discussions, and more. You will also not have to bear their travel and accommodation expenses.

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Eventmobi

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Hybrid events were designed around the in-person experience, with live streams of speaker presentations tacked on as a bonus feature. Physical event attendance will continue to face limitations in terms of venue capacity and travel restrictions for at least the first of half of 2021. Safety Concerns.

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Social Tables

JANUARY 14, 2022

2021 also brought about many exciting developments in hospitality technology, digital marketing, hotel services, and changes in travel trends. Cvent’s annual hospitality conference brings together professionals from the hospitality, meeting, and event industries that are interested in engaging with the latest in hospitality technology.

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GEVME

JULY 12, 2021

Shweta Jain , Head of Business Development at Amazon Web Services and Sheila Berman , Global Marketing Lead at She Loves Data, a not-for-profit organisation with the mission to empower women, were the guest speakers for this episode. Snapshot of the speakers during the event. Missed the episode? You can watch it on-demand here.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 13, 2020

And at the same time we being tasked with making our meetings more engaging, so why are so few of us asking ‘how do we make content/learning more engaging’ – as opposed to looking at those two concepts as different things. And to hear what you are doing in this online world to make your meetings more engaging. Playing on….

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Eventmobi

JUNE 23, 2020

Once we resume a sense of normalcy post-COVID, the advantages of saving on travel & accommodation expenses; and the ability to have more delegates and attendees by offering a hybrid event of both Virtual and physical (In-person) attendance will be surely capitalized upon.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 15, 2024

At the annual user conference Cvent Connect for a record 4,000 attendees in San Antonio this week, the event technology company which was purchased by Blackstone last year announced new products and acquisitions designed to better meet the needs of meeting professionals, whether planning simple events or complex hybrid affairs.

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Eventmobi

APRIL 14, 2020

Your event flow and interaction between attendees, speakers, and sponsors will be dictated by the capabilities of the virtual event platform you choose. You should also be able to use the same platform to pivot to a hybrid or in-person format as travel and health restrictions change. Virtual Event Type: Internal Meeting.

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SpotMe Blog

AUGUST 25, 2022

These are events where all speakers are physically present at the event venue. These are events where all speakers are physically present at the event venue. These are events where speakers and attendees are physically present at multiple venues (i.e. Participants can also interact with speakers. Live hybrid events.

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EventMB

JUNE 7, 2022

Making Event Travel & Transport Greener and More Affordable. The project includes plans to double train capacity , along with adding the necessary infrastructure for high-speed rail, to position the city in a prime spot for the next generation of travel. Filling the Speaker List With Local Business Leaders.

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