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5 Meeting Industry Trends That Are Changing the Face of Events

Social Tables

Today, planners are racing to adapt to trends that make conferences and events more engaging and dynamic than ever before. since 2009, but the total number of attendees at these meetings has grown by 22.7%. So they’re boldly blending the two when they travel to exhibitions and trade shows.

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5 Ways the Meetings Industry is Changing the Face of Events

Social Tables

By creating “journey maps” at a recent conference, the team was able to outline completely different experiences for attendees based on their personas. since 2009, but the total number of attendees at these meetings has grown 22.7%. So they’re boldly blending the two when they travel to exhibitions and trade shows.

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Which meeting design books should I buy?

Conferences that Work

Unlike older books, it covers the impact of digital technology (apps, online meetings, and social media marketing) on the meetings world, includes a healthy dollop of the relevance of learning theory to meeting design, and manages to squeeze in trade shows, accessibility, and wellness in a fairly short book.

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Big Plans for the Meetings Mean Business Initiative

MeetingsNet

At this week's PCMA Convening Leaders conference at David L. Designed to continue the progress and momentum of the first 10 years of the group's advocacy work—the coalition came about at the start of the Great Recession in early 2009—this year's plans focuses on four areas.

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Is the Party Over?

Smart Meetings

It happened in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2009,” Juliane Farinazzo, co-founder and events director of Bijou Events, remembers as if it were yesterday. I am not keen to restart show-floor happy hours where too many people crowd into the booth,” adds Lisa Grogan, who manages events, meetings and trade shows at Canadian tech company Matrox.

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The New Economic Significance Study: Making Sense of the Numbers

MeetingsNet

The newest study from Oxford Economics on the economic significance of the meetings industry is out, illustrating the size and impact of meetings, conferences, incentive travel programs, and trade shows. First the new numbers…. In the U.S. in 2016, there were: • 1.9 million meetings • 251 million meeting participants.

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Anne Daly Heller, Publisher and Executive Editor of USAE Passes Away

Convene by PCMA

As an adjunct activity, she always provided without charge numerous pages of USAE advertising to promote industry events such as ASAE, MPI, PCMA, and IAEE’s annual conventions, NYSAE and Association Forum’s one-day trade shows, HSMAI’s Affordable Meetings and DI’s Destinations Showcase events.