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Smart Moves in Albuquerque, Maui and More

Smart Meetings

Craighead has won several accolades, including the Planner of the Year Award by Smart Meetings in 2020 and the Show Manager of the Year Award in 2015 from the Expo Group and Trade Show News Network. Patrick Lacassagne. Lacassagne joined NoMo SoHo in New York City as general manager. Carl Pratt and Daniel Birnstiehl.

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5 Meeting Industry Trends That Are Changing the Face of Events

Social Tables

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. New research from the Experience Institute shows that 78% of attendees indicate destination is a top driver in the decision to attend.

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5 Ways the Meetings Industry is Changing the Face of Events

Social Tables

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. New research from the Experience Institute shows that 78% of attendees indicate destination is a top driver in the decision to attend.

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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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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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Big Plans for the Meetings Mean Business Initiative

MeetingsNet

Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, leaders of the Meetings Mean Business coalition—which showcases the tangible value that face-to-face meetings, conventions, and trade shows provide to people, businesses, and host communities—revealed what coalition co-chair Julie Coker Graham called the group's "activation strategy" for 2019.

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AIME Marks A 30-Year Milestone At The Opening

Travel Daily Media

Just as the Australian Open is the first tennis grand slam of the year, AIME is the first international trade show of the business events sector and now the top business events trade show in the Asia-Pacific region. It is the 30th anniversary.