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St. Gallen: Your Complete Guide to a Top Business Event Destination

The MICE Blog

Gallen city and region and that also facilitate innovative events formats and deliver on creating unique experiences for attendees. Galler Kantonalbank Hall, which is one of the most modern exhibition halls in Switzerland and increases its capacity to 12,000 attendees. Here are the venues available for hosting events in St.

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Immersive Meetings at The Smithsonian

Smart Meetings

Hosting an event against a backdrop that compliments the depth and nuance of such details can place attendees in an educational headspace, eager to analyze and absorb new information. And a bit of entertainment doesn’t hurt either.

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The Future of 5G at Events – Event Tech Podcast

Endless Events

3G took the world by storm in 2003 with speeds up to 4 times faster than 2G. You were also now able to download a picture but at these speeds, it took forever, WhistleOut reports “w hen 2G came out, the speed was about 9.6kbit/s. If you wanted to download a nice picture, it would take about 3 minutes.” . Beginnings of a Smart World .

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Portland’s Most Livable City Designation Reflects Steps to Ensure Public Safety

Smart Meetings

And we know as you’re working on behalf of your clients, they’re going to ask you questions about how safe attendees will be, what type of livability situations they will be walking into and we want you to know I’m really happy with the progress we have made.”. Next-level Meeting Venues. Portland held it’s first Rose Show in 1889. “We

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Event Budget Trends 2017: Cloudy with a Chance of Inconsistency?

Social Tables

With the goal to educate and inspire customers, the first Dreamforce event brought together just over 1,300 attendees in 2003. Take for example, Salesforce.com’s annual conference, Dreamforce. Today, Dreamforce is drawing upwards of 150,000 registrants. The event itself has become a considerable revenue driver.

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How This Sustainability Leader Found Purpose In Her Field

Convene by PCMA

Green Building Council (USGBC) in 2003. After spending the early part of her career working in corporate America as part of the incentives and recognition division for telecommunications company MCI, she found her purpose in the world of sustainability when she was offered the opportunity to join the U.S.

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Help Out Your Exhibitors

Convene by PCMA

Exhibitors care less about how many people pre-registered — they want to know how many attendees actually showed up. While this is more costly for the show organizer, it supports the desires of the exhibitor and can improve the attendee experience. If you have lots of students, they want those separated out.

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