Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

How it impacts you: Automated back-end processes allow you to better manage speakers, sponsors, staff and meetings. Read More : Cvent Connect Lays Out Event Tech Roadmap to Meet Growing Hybrid Demand. The post Virtual and Hybrid Meeting Tech Updates You Need Now appeared first on Smart Meetings. Where to learn more: cvent.com.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 14, 2024

Augmented reality, 3D Visualization and AI add branding, logistics and meaning to programs Could event tech end up being a meeting professional’s best friend after all? Read More : Can Event Tech Save the World? Immersive 3D virtual walkthroughs of unique venues reduce surprises and saves time on travel for site visits.

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Prestige Events Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2024

More than 60 conference sessions have been confirmed for this year’s World Travel Market London , bringing together leading experts and ministers, helping WTM cement its reputation as the world’s most influential travel and tourism event. Emerging Technology’s Potential for Good in Tourism is this year’s theme.

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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. Check your tech. Virtual events are part of today’s new normal.

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Prestige Events Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2024

World Travel Market London is focussing this year’s Technology Track sessions around how sellers and suppliers of travel can address the ongoing headaches travellers face when they search, shop, book and pay for their trip. The Tech Track also features a start-up competition, scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Efforts to make the CodeMash tech conference more accessible to Midwesterners led to a more family-friendly event that includes attendees’ children. They were often too expensive and required extensive travel and time away from their families. KidzMash activities for attendees’ children introduce them to the world of tech.

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Stova

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Are you attending Event Tech Live (ETL) in London next week? What the Event Offers Event Tech Live has been the industry’s primary source of education and innovation in all things event technology for over 8 years, and with over 100 exhibitors and 100 sessions, this iteration promises to be one of its best.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 15, 2024

AI Event Tools Ruled The conference kicked off with announcements of new AI integrations—acquisition of Reposite AI sourcing, integration with FeedomPay for hotel reservation tokenization and a partnership with AMGiNE for automated business travel management. “AI

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

She noted that tech is the enabler of independent, or freelance, work, and that millennials are leading the way, with 47 percent of them freelancing. Related : Most Millennials View Business Travel as Perk. The post Smart Meeting Speaker: ‘Gig Economy’ Requires Multiple Ways of Engaging People appeared first on Smart Meetings.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The pop-up destination exhibits represented more than 200 countries with many adding to their presence when the United States opened travel from many of those destinations effective the day before doors opened. IMEX Group Chairman Ray Bloom reported that more than 3,300 buyers and 2,200 exhibiting companies attended.

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Coterie Spark

MARCH 24, 2025

Demographics: How tech-savvy are your attendees and staff? Certain AI solutions may be no good to you or your attendees if they cant be managed properly, so being honest about tech-savviness helps refine your AI choices further. Once these goals are set, however, aligning AI tools with your vision becomes easier.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 18, 2024

Along our journey through the trade show floor, we spotted some big brand names with tech-driven exhibits and some smaller booth footprints with noteworthy, original ideas. Many opted for modular cube seating over chairs, and nearby standing signage outlined the programming schedule and speakers. Read on for our take on HIMSS24.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The venue was perfect and the speakers top-notch. Now, companies are taking a harder line on travel. Speakers want to present remotely, and attendees and sponsors are starting to drop off. What if travel policies change, and speakers, attendees and sponsors start to cancel? You planned a spectacular event.

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Gallus Events

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Supporting conference speakers. Julius asked me to do a session that would help planners better understand and better support their speakers. The conference organiser impacts the content as much as the speaker. The conference organiser has a PROACTIVE role to help a speaker’s session to be memorable.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 26, 2023

For example, once a stalwart of conference engagements, the tech industry saw a 15% decrease in early registrations in 2023 compared to pre-pandemic levels. Networking Opportunities: Early access to networking events or one-on-one sessions with keynote speakers. This can be done through: Surveys asking for topic or speaker suggestions.

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SpotMe Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

This year, as global conferences and tech events must go on, we’ve put together some of the coolest digital conventions to attend within the tech space. Tech Events in 2021. Fully virtual events provide greater access to a wider audience, allowing more speakers and guests to join without the hassle of travel and lodging.

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Event Marketer

OCTOBER 18, 2021

They’ve traveled, taken time out of their schedules and often made an investment to attend, so think of each one of them as a qualified lead—and engage them accordingly. Rightsize expectations on speaker talent and specialists. We were able to tap speakers that we would probably never get in person,” she says. “We Toubas agrees.

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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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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

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Wilson’s Limitless Minds is a company focused on bringing out the best in people via coaches and public speakers from different backgrounds, such as clinical psychologist Julia West or Paralympic track and field athlete Lex Gillete. “In Beep vehicles are used to take groups on a tech tour around the 17-square-mile community.

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Endless Events

MARCH 15, 2019

Event tech trends are evolving faster than ever before. The event tech trends we are listing today are being used everywhere at events and behind the scenes in planning. Below you can watch Will Curran of Endless Events , Alex Plaxen of Little Bird Told Media talk all about their favorite 2019 Event Tech Trends at GOWEST.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 23, 2022

And from March 11-20 after a three-year hiatus—the Texas-based event was canceled in 2020 and went all-digital in 2021—professionals from the tech, film, music and media industries gathered in person for the tentpole Q1 affair. Check Out Our SXSW Archives: Big Bets in Experiential at SXSW 2019, from Netflix to Sony to Lululemon.

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Event Marketer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

High-end retailer Saks , for example, talked about delivering a personalized shopping experience using Salesforce’s tech in an activation that blended a stylish retail front and touchscreens to explore the AI-powered logistics of luxury. Experts were on hand for guidance. And all of the meal packaging was 100 percent compostable.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 10, 2022

And what better way to kick off a new year than with an event tech predictions episode? Will and Brandt are joined by a regular guest on the Event Tech Podcast: Endless’ very own Kyle Kocinski. Event Tech Predictions For 2022: A Note On The Pandemic. Event Tech Predictions For 2022: A Note On The Pandemic.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Her role varied, however, including exhibitor, tech provider, speaker and tour guide. The idea is to take great speakers and push them in different directions,” she explained. Even though she wasn’t looking for another job, she was already embedded in the culture. “I

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EventMB

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The Skift Global Forum 2021, the premier global conference on the business of travel, took place last week in a hybrid format. With speakers and attendees joining in-person and online, we uncover the most valuable takeaways for event professionals.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2021

By tapping into best practices from the top intelligence agencies and organizations in the world, Spyex offers training courses such as “Turning Good Leaders into Great Leaders,” “Protecting Intellectual Property,” “Safeguarding Your International Business Travelers” and “How to Maintain Focus on Your Core Business.”.

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Event Industry News

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The benefits RFID Cards can bring to visitors travelling to events is the ability to receive guidance and advise from event staff located at nearby travel hubs. Event Staff, located at these travel hubs, can help visitors by scanning their ID Card. In this way on-going personalised communication can take place.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 11, 2021

Three perspective-changing speakers help turn the gathering into a springboard for post-event success. Robust leisure travel demand paired with postponed meetings is creating compression for the next three quarters. Tech is no longer scary,” he said. Lessons Learned. The downside of all that recovery? It is a “reverse recovery.”

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GEVME

MARCH 15, 2019

The Internet-based life is a wide field wherein crowds have their own favorite stages, tune in to fascinating sessions led by the speakers, and convert the group of onlookers into a potential client base. We simply cannot miss this gathering for splendid tech brains that will be held in Hong Kong this year. August 2019. September 2019.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 5, 2019

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to talk event tech on a budget! And if the Event Tech Podcast is your Bible on all things technology related to the industry, today we bring a brand new gospel. So this week, we’re covering the hot topic of event tech on a budget. Event Event Tech On A Budget: Where Are We?

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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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SmartMeetings

MAY 27, 2021

From around the world, announcements of dates and places for bringing tech minds together F2F have started to trickle in. Attendees from all over the world who couldn’t get in before because of size constraints or travel costs were able to experience the brand. Initially, Stevens turned all the planned speakers into webinars.

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Event Marketer

MARCH 15, 2024

Smart Meetings reports that The NPE: The Plastics Show this May plans to host an indoor/outdoor, 10,500-net-square-foot recycling center that will feature live demos, a Circularity Hub, recycling and sustainability zones for exhibitors, and a Sustainability Stage with more than 25 speakers highlighting solutions. Decarbonization? Waste-free?

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 17, 2019

Only people who live or travel to their location can attend. Expert sessions can be spread far and wide, increasing not only the reach of your brand or a particular speaker, but of the information itself. More speaker invitations?), Conferences are, by their very nature, limited in size and scope. More product purchases?

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Eventmobi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Instead, they act as virtual handshakes that welcome attendees, sponsors, and speakers, leaving them eager to experience the real deal. Your website should provide potential attendees with all the details they need to know about your event–from the schedule and session descriptions to speaker bios and information on how to register.

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Expo Pass

JUNE 26, 2024

Creating a fantastic speaker lineup is one of the most crucial parts of planning a successful event! The right speakers can draw crowds and inspire your audience, all while electrifying your event goals. In this guide, we’ll walk you through six essential steps in curating an engaging and impactful speaker lineup.

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