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MeetingPlay and Aventri Merge as First Big Event Tech Deal of 2022

Smart Meetings

Event platform MeetingPlay and meeting management SaaS provider Aventri announced today that they will merge to create a full-service event software company. Aventri, which was founded in 2008, had grown into a global provider of data-driven solutions for event sourcing, marketing, registration, onsite technology, data security and reporting.

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Now is the time to rethink and restart the events industry: Interview with Angeles Moreno, Managing Partner at the Creative Dots

The MICE Blog

You had an event management agency during the 2008 crisis and lost 50% of your business in one week. I went through the dot-com crisis, 9/11 and the financial crisis in 2008, which impacted us significantly in 2009. I went through the dot-com crisis, 9/11 and the financial crisis in 2008, which impacted us significantly in 2009.

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What is Event-Led Growth?

Endless Events

Mark is the CMO of Airmeet , a leading virtual and hybrid event platform. My journey started pre-HubSpot when I was a Hu bSpot customer in 2008 or 2009. Sean asked, “How do we use virtual platforms to encourage in-person attendance?” . Mark comes to us today with no shortage of experience in event-led growth.

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ADMEI Welcomes Denise Malo, DMCP, as New Board President

ADMEI

She has been a member of the association since 2007 and attended her first ADMEI annual conference in 2008. As the essential global resource and platform for Destination Management companies, ADMEI plays a significant role in the hospitality industry. Denise will continue to foster this charge as her platform for “Learn, Grow, Teach.”

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Top 8 Hospitality Platforms for Events and Consumer Experiences

Eventtia

However, that’s impossible without using hospitality platforms for events. Whether managing events logistics, booking accommodation, or arranging transportation, hospitality platforms are necessary for planning and hosting results-driven events. Eventtia has a particular focus on developing solutions for consumer and luxury brands.

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Taking a Lesson From Lego

Convene by PCMA

By creating platforms for open dialogue and idea exchange, associations can tap into this collective knowledge. The Lego Group stands as a testament to this, according to the four MIT Sloan Management Review authors/business school professors, who have spent four years studying the company’s open-innovation platforms.

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The Rise of LinkedIn

Convene by PCMA

Long considered the duller, nerdier counterpart to platforms like Facebook and Twitter, the 20-year-old business-oriented social-media channel was ranked as one of the top 10 fastest-growing brands in the world in 2022. The platform, which has reported that it adds a new user every three seconds, now has 950 million users in 200 countries.