Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Hologram technology can increase engagement and attract hard-to-get speakers Meetings may be a mostly in-person experience but—as we learned during Covid, with the use of Zoom, Teams and other online video platforms—the use of communications technology has its place in the world of meetings and events. Holograms as Speaker Catcher “The No.

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Prestige Events Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

IBTM has revealed human connection specialist and award-winning author, Simone Heng , will be a keynote speaker at its flagship IBTM World event. Simone is part of an electrifying line-up of speakers at the leading global trade show who will amplify the unparalleled power of events to offer personal experiences.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 6, 2025

RX Global UK Managing Director, Kerry Prince, will explore the opportunities for the UK exhibition and trade show sector while some of the UKs leading business events destinations will contribute to a session, moderated by VisitBritain/Meet Englands Paul Black, on the changing role of Convention Bureaux.

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GEVME

JULY 23, 2019

Do you know how to plan a trade show? Use our guide to trade show planning and achieve memorable exhibitions that are organised in a highly successful way. About trade shows & exhibitions. Trade shows are a time-honored tradition among business-to-business (B2B) marketers and event organisers.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 18, 2025

Maybe it was that one conference you attended, where a speaker spoke to a part of you that you never even knew existed. In my earlier career, I planned more than 600 weddings (you could usually find me tearing up in the back as couples said their I Dos), then hundreds of corporate & nonprofit events, trade shows, and medical meetings.

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Prestige Events Magazine

MARCH 25, 2025

RX Global UK Managing Director Kerry Prince and Manchester Central CEO Lori Hoinkes will explore the opportunities for the UK exhibition and trade show sector, while some of the UKs leading business events destinations will contribute to a session moderated by VisitBritain/Meet Englands Paul Black, on the changing role of Convention Bureaux.

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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. The flashing cups are always such a hit that the Service Express team brings them to every trade show. Palo Alto Networks hosted live trivia at 3 p.m.

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Eventmobi

JULY 26, 2022

The conference is a mix of speaker sessions, networking, exhibitor booths, and evening social events. In addition, attendees now expect a seamless event experience, where they can access information whenever they want, network with other attendees and vendors, and provide feedback to session speakers and event organizers.

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Eventmobi

JULY 13, 2023

Think back: what do you remember about the event speakers from your most recent event? Getting the right speakers for your event can make or break the success of your conference, trade show, or seminar. But finding the perfect speakers can sometimes feel like searching for a needle in a haystack! Entertainers.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

After completing the journey, consumers could visit the concierge for a premium branded leather key chain. Partner: George P.

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 28, 2022

They assume that meetings will consist of sessions with speakers on a stage. The traditional bread and butter of a meeting planner’s job. Yes, all these logistical considerations are important and need to be done well! But when you’re spending all your time on these issues it’s easy to forget that they are not what meetings are about.

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Attendease

AUGUST 7, 2020

The shift from in-person road shows and trade shows to online programming has presented several challenges for event management professionals: Finding the right technology to support digital event management. Keeping attendees, speakers and sponsors engaged. Not all brand representatives are strong speakers.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In addition to Mackie, a New Orleans native, who is passionate about the environmental impacts of climate change, other guest speakers included J.B. We wanted to stay focused on ultimately what’s in it for the end user, the customer. Straubel, Teslas former chief technical officer and now ceo of Redwood Materials, Inc.,

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 18, 2021

My post Why don’t meeting conferences pay speakers? The other folks willing to speak for free are industry providers of goods and services, who may well have already paid to be at the event to staff their trade show booth or meet customers. When you pack your program with free speakers, it’s your attendees who suffer.

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Event Industry News

MARCH 24, 2025

A recent case involving a detained comic creator at the US-Canadian border has sent ripples through the events industry, raising serious questions about the risks event planners face when bringing international talent to conferences, trade shows, and corporate gatherings in the US.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 14, 2022

Predictions are that 40% of 2022 events are projected to happen online, there will be a 37% increase in companies’ virtual event spending, and 20% of trade shows will remain virtual. Plus visitors and speakers want a different way to engage with the event.”. But the reality is that 80% of virtual attendance is free.

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PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

An increasing number of organizations are planning for in-person events and trade shows in a living-with-COVID environment. Engaging employees and speakers who reflect your goals. Events represent a great opportunity for brands to demonstrate and spotlight their diversity and inclusion efforts, she said.

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Event Marketer

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

edition of Money 20/20, a fintech conference and trade show that took place in Las Vegas, Oct. –Kathryn Frankson, Global Director-Marketing, Money 20/20 Money 20/20 was designed to anchor “serious conversations in serious fun.” ” Sound-off virtual calls? No more, said the creators of the latest U.S.

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Event Marketer

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Here, we offer a preview of what we’ll explore at the show—tactics and trends that are helping event marketers to level-up their events, campaign strategies, revenue and careers this year. THE EXPERIENTIAL EXHIBIT Trade show strategies, exhibit portfolios, on-the-floor booth experiences—they’re all changing.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 26, 2025

As a keynote speaker on future trends I spend much of my time at events, yet Im an industry outsider. Events Reimagined: From Consumption to Co-Creation Events have historically been one-way streets, with speakers on stage talking to largely passive audiences. Hes right, but he didnt go far enough.

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Endless Events

JUNE 26, 2020

?? The Best of the Best: Engaging Your Audience: Virtual Event Speakers – The Ultimate Hacks For Success. One of the posts that I am sharing today is about speakers and the critical role that they play during events. It got me thinking about what exactly makes a great speaker compared to a mediocre one. Make sure you do.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Industry Trade Show. If your brand is up-and-coming, or your industry has a history of running pillar events, consider launching your product at a trade show to capitalize on the larger buzz and media reach available to you. . Regardless of your industry, plenty of opportunities exist at trade shows.

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Attendease

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Industry Trade show. Launch your product at an industry trade show and piggyback on someone else's event. To maximize opportunities, consider sponsoring the trade show to guarantee a speaking opportunity and to generate larger brand exposure. Build your event website. Pre-Launch Promotion.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 31, 2022

Just because you’re hosting a trade show in an exciting new hybrid format doesn’t mean you can’t rely on traditional virtual event elements. One of the big benefits of hosting a hybrid or virtual trade show is that it’s easy to increase accessibility. Pick the low-hanging fruit. Account for accessibility.

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 19, 2021

” The name AVIXA may not ring a bell with you, but you’re likely familiar with InfoComm, the largest professional audiovisual trade show in North America. It got pushed to June and now is going to this localized, fragmented event instead of being in Barcelona with the normal trade-show presence.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 12, 2021

The free portal to monthly conversations, speakers, networking and some fun surprises is powered by Swapcard. We want to extend the content, conversation and the connections that happen at a physical show through the digital experience,” said Bauer. “We

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2023

Learning tracks cover challenges that keep meeting professionals up at night When what is expected to be the largest crowd ever for an events industry trade show arrives at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas in October for IMEX America 2023 , the focus will squarely be on connecting people in new, effective ways.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MARCH 6, 2017

We aggregate speaker proposals. From registration to trade show to contracts to BEOs to room set efficiencies to audio visual equipment, your attention is on the perfected particulars, the stuff, the objects. We also strive to offer something for everyone at our event. This means you need to refocus on your conference strategy!

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Day two kicked off with a keynote speech from author and public speaker Lisa Braithwaite, M.A., Her book, “Presenting for Humans: Insights for Speakers on Ditching Perfection and Creating Connection,” addresses this in depth.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 3, 2024

Topics addressed include sales savvy and creativity; leading a team through tough challenges; building accountability between stakeholders; creating better communication; overcoming the inevitable times when “shift happens”; creating alliance partners for better outcomes; and getting the most out of buyer/seller trade shows and events.

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GEVME

DECEMBER 19, 2019

If we look at trade shows (trade fairs or exhibitions, if you prefer) over the past decades, the reality is that not much has changed. Take a look at the following picture of a trade fair back in 1979: National Tire Dealers and Retreaders Association Conference & Trade Show 1979.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The venue was perfect and the speakers top-notch. 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? What if you and your audience and speakers lack experience with hybrid events? Know your audience.

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Event Marketer

AUGUST 9, 2024

We had 102 speakers, 14 performances across three stages, moderated by 28 members of the Bloomberg News media and philanthropy staff. We had speakers including Jay Inslee, Stacey Abrams, Gina McCarthy, Jim Coulter—incredible names on that main stage. So that gave us real science, real inspiration and real conversations that evening.

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Velvet Chainsaw

APRIL 24, 2019

While there are many associations that successfully process meeting registrations using their AMS, there are very few that have a highly integrated exposition- or speaker-management system. It’s a significant customization that is unlikely to ever deliver a return on total cost of ownership (TCO).

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 17, 2021

Three and a half months prior to my client’s largest annual trade show, we were notified that the San Diego Convention Center would be unable to host the program due to it being used as a temporary Emergency Intake Site. Ballpark jumbotron for speaker and branding. We got lucky.

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GEVME

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Online Trade Shows and Exhibitions – The equivalent of traditional trade shows that can incorporate webinars, virtual demos and virtual booths etc. Online Workshops – They’re ideal for businesses looking to provide skill-based training. They’re best with fewer attendees to allow greater interaction.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 15, 2024

“It’s gonna create an ‘easy button’ that you can click, and boom, it will analyze years of unwieldy data, build an event based on those insights with suggested locations, amount of space, speakers, content, length of time for sessions and all the marketing materials you need to promote it. All of these things that take time goes away.”

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