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CES 2025: Engaging Activations

Smart Meetings

Timekettles booth featured a Spanish speaker and an English speaker having a conversation in real time while their words were translated live. Segway Segway is a creator of personal transportation, power station and mowing products for individual consumers and businesses.

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3 Extreme Accessibility Experts Share Their Accommodation Mandates

Smart Meetings

Her mother is a full-time wheelchair user who traveled and sometimes would show up as the keynote speaker, but not have a room available with an accessible shower. AV requirements can get pricey fast, as some speakers might not be able to hold a microphone or need assistance. “If

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5 Financial Management Tips for Association Event Organizers

Eventmobi

These include fixed costs, such as venue rental and entertainment, and variable costs, such as catering, that depend on the number of attendees. Higher tiers will be more expensive and have more promotional opportunities for the sponsor, such as shout-outs from event speakers or a sponsored welcome video for a virtual event.

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Conquering industry challenges: The key to successful events in 2025

Prestige Events Magazine

Welcome one and all Technology can be used to partially overcome the current industry challenges around accessibility and inclusivity: whether its using translation apps to assist foreign-language speakers, or navigation voiceover functions which can help individuals with a visual impairment navigate the event space.

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Mastering Event Contracts: Essential Negotiation Strategies for Meeting Planners in 2025

Smart Meetings

Negotiating contracts is the first step before confirming speakers, color themes or catering options. Ask the venue to provide a breakdown of all fees. Transportation Cost and Risks “Gas prices fluctuate, so we see changes in surcharges in transportation contracts, said Warner.

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Competent logistics are the new meeting minimum

Conferences that Work

As I prepared to review the venue’s meeting spaces, room set options, and traffic patterns, I thought about how, today, competent logistics are the new meeting minimum. They assume that meetings will consist of sessions with speakers on a stage. The traditional bread and butter of a meeting planner’s job.

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Venues From National Geographic’s List of Most Breathtaking Places in the World 

Smart Meetings

The buildings are surrounded by a wide variety of hotels and restaurants and are within walking distance of robust public transportation options. The 17 meeting rooms allow potential customers to host a speaker talk in the Crystal Ballroom or break out into smaller groups. The recently expanded 1,139,854 sq. of meeting space.

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