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The Rise of LinkedIn

Convene by PCMA

After Slido was acquired in 2021, Holub cofounded Remote People, a consulting and training company for remote teams, based in the U.K. Julius Solaris ‘LinkedIn Changed My Life’ Julius Solaris, founder of consulting firm Boldpush, started a group for event professionals on LinkedIn in 2008, when the platform was only five years old.

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Answering Hybrid Event Production Questions We Hear the Most

Meeting Tomorrow

Although we’ve been producing hybrid events since 2008, they’ve exploded in popularity since 2020. A few examples of VIP options: Create an exclusive Q&A roundtable with your top speakers where virtual members get to ask their questions. A few of our speakers can’t make it in-person. Can they still be part of a panel?

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Virtual Meetings Lower Costs … and Interaction

Conferences that Work

Could businesspeople be persuaded to stop traveling to meetings, to sit instead in comfortable local studios hundreds of miles apart, handsomely equipped with cameras, microphones, screens, and speakers that magically allowed them to meet as well as if they were all in the same room?

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How We Pivoted to Produce Virtual Events

Meeting Tomorrow

Would their speakers be able to present remotely? Clients were turning to us because we’d been producing virtual events since 2008, and also brought a deep understanding of live events. Our event managers learned how to adjust agendas and train speakers so they feel prepared. Would people even show up?

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How Event Professionals Can Think Like Futurists

Convene by PCMA

Switzerland-based futurist Gerd Leonhard is a keynote speaker at global events. And if we aren’t doing that, then we should be working remotely.”. 2008 rolls around, the Great Recession, and lo and behold, there was a banking crisis. It’s more important to be imaginative and insightful than to be 100-percent right.”. Guess what?

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The Complete Guide to Event Marketing 2023

Stova

Simply listing speaker names and features for your event (100 exhibitors, 20 keynote speakers.) The same pretty much happened in 2008 when social media came along. Many, many tools offer private live streaming channels to involve remote attendees in a secure way. How will it bring value to the customer?