Smart Meetings

APRIL 27, 2023

James Beck shares the power of creating lasting impressions by practicing service and giving In 2011, James Beck made the decision to give away all his personal possessions and travel the U.S. Read More : How to Serve Attendees Like a Pro Surfer “When you serve others, you can’t have any attachment to your time. You listen.

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Endless Events

JUNE 8, 2018

During the event itself, you need to accommodate VIP guests and influencers while also encouraging interaction among the other attendees. To achieve that, try the plenary format called “The Solution Room”, which has been making the rounds since 2011. As a bonus, here’s our free event planning checklist.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

and water withdrawal by 33% since 2011. Caesars and Meet AC announced sustainability highlights from its newly released 2021 CSR Report —in a Leed-certified Augustus Tower villa suite—and the news (and views) are great. On track to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 (or sooner). Reduced greenhouse emissions by 36.1%

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 13, 2017

We know that participants — people who are active learners — learn more, retain more, and retain more accurately than passive attendees. This is all very well, but it begs the question: what can meeting designers do to make it easier for attendees to participate more at meetings? How do we get people to participate at meetings?

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Endless Events

MARCH 9, 2021

” One challenge that Liz points out is how disjointed the attendee journey is. When mobile apps started coming out in like 2010, 2011, they were super popular and everyone was talking about year-round engagement. I think stuff is coming, but we are desperately needing some better technology right now.”

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

And while IMEX Frankfurt, the industry event launched by Ray Bloom in 2002, has been eclipsed in size by the IMEX America show that Bloom and his daughter Carina Bauer started in 2011, the European event held each May still draws more than 12,000 attendees and hosts 63,000 buyer-supplier meetings.

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Bizzaboo

OCTOBER 16, 2022

If your goal is to create incredible events that dazzle attendees, look no further. This list of events from leading brands like MozCon, Adobe, and SXSW are all prime examples of how to plan a memorable attendee experience. Today, it’s not enough to wow your attendees. What is the attendee experience? Source : Moz.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Well, this influential event prof will share insights to help you incorporate mobile technology, augmented reality, facial recognition, chatbots and more for better events to engage your attendees. Travel industry news is vital for event planners, whether it’s you doing the travelling, or it’s your attendees travelling to your events.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Ray Bloom, founder and chairman of IMEX Group, started IMEX America in 2011. For example, our sustainability targets, goals and efforts have steadily grown year-on-year, our wellness efforts have really caught on and our community efforts in Las Vegas and beyond have always been a big passion of ours and our attendees.

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Travel Daily Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The post Air Freight Asia returns in March 2011 appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. “Air Freight Asia 2011 will be one of the perfect environments for managers to capitalise on the sector’s rebound,” he said. Air Freight Asia 2011 will have a dedicated hall at AsiaWorld-Expo.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 23, 2022

The 1,700 attendees checking in live at Meeting Professionals International’s World Education Conference ( WEC ) at Moscone Center in San Francisco this week were treated to a performance in three acts designed to provide “perspective,” “approach” and “action,” according to Paul Van Deventer, MPI president and CEO. Forward Looking.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 27, 2022

in recent weeks, the cost of sending drive-in attendees to regional meetings and conferences is way up. The last time the agency made a mid-year adjustment was in 2011. Starting Friday, traveling by car to business meetings and conferences will get a bit more affordable. With average retail gas prices in the U.S. cents per mile.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 8, 2019

They persist in seating attendees in long straight lines whenever possible, ignoring the benefits of curved and circular seating at their events. Meeting planners typically default to squaring the circle when specifying room sets. See Paul Radde’s Seating Matters: State of the Art Seating Arrangements for more information.) The notes at the.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 19, 2021

Ever since my first encounter with the hybrid hub and spoke meeting topology at Event Camp Twin Cities in 2011, I’ve been a big fan of the format. Producing Event Camp Twin Cities 2011. Yesterday [see below], I realized that hub and spoke is a great format for purely online meetings too. But first….

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Endless Events

JUNE 6, 2018

Adding conference event apps to your next event will create accessibility with content, notifications, feedback, and everything else you will need to communicate with your attendees. adults (77%) say they own a smartphone, up from 35% in 2011, making the smartphone one of the most quickly adopted consumer technologies in recent history. ”

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Conferences that Work

MARCH 19, 2018

Do your conference programs include pre-scheduled sessions you belatedly discover were of little interest or value to most attendees? If so, you’re wasting significant stakeholder and attendee time and money — your conference is simply not as good as it could be. The key to successful 21st century conferences Attend Participate!,

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Mike Dominguez, MGM’s chief sales officer, has been immersed in the planning and executing of the company’s IMEX activities since the event began in 2011. How has MGM changed its approach to better serve attendees? Here are some of his insights in this, the first of a two-part interview.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Because of that, they’re also now the largest pool of potential meeting attendees. Since the meeting industry is shaped by attendee expectations, successful events have to cater to millennials. Attendees want more control over the meeting agenda. Letting attendees choose their path links them to the content at hand.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

With that, they’re also now the largest pool of potential meeting attendees. In an industry shaped by attendee expectations, successful events have to cater to their wants and desires. Control over the meeting agenda is moving to attendees. Millennials are the decision makers now. labor force at 35%.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 14, 2019

Are you tired of attendees making statements during question time? Related posts: Participation techniques you can use in conference sessions Here’s the summary handout for my workshop on participation techniques you can use in conference sessions that I’ll be leading at MPI’s World Education Congress 2011.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

In 2011, the Swiss Water Act was updated and under the new revision, all hydropower operators are obligated to refurbish their installations until 2030. Networking features, which allowed attendees to exchange direct messages with each other during the Zoom ‘meeting’ format. In Switzerland, this topic is critical. Challenges.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 2, 2022

At a time when many are reacting to changes in climate and attendee expectations, the golden state’s hospitality sector is leading the way to a future that will continue to welcome change-makers for decades to come. You may even inspire attendees to do better while you are at it. Sustainable Meeting.

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Meet Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

IMEX America has always taken the leadership position since the show’s inception in 2011 and this year was no different. Menus Helping Attendees Choose Carbon Friendly Choices. Sustainability criteria for menu items shared with attendees. Do you want to see sustainability in action? Educational Tour. How We Meet DOES Matter!

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 21, 2019

I think about status at events as the relative levels of proclaimed or perceived social value assigned to or assumed by attendees. Apart from my first book , I haven’t written much about status at events. It’s time to revisit this important topic. There are two key kinds of event status — let’s call them old-school and real-time.

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Bizzaboo

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Bizzabo Event Experience OS is a data-rich open platform that allows Event Experience Leaders to manage events, engage audiences, activate communities, and deliver powerful business outcomes — while keeping attendee data private and secure.

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Social Tables

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

I started planning community service events for Magazine in 2011 at an Inc. CEO Conference in which attendees mentored military entrepreneurs. Team building events can deepen the relationships and friendships of co-workers, association members, and conference attendees.

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Conferences that Work

JANUARY 16, 2017

At traditional conferences, attendees choose from predetermined sets of sessions chosen by conference organizers. We saw ourselves giving him some control. He may have seen us as taking it away.” ” —Naomi Karten, The Importance of Giving Others a Sense of Control. Think about your experience of such events.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 8, 2016

For over 25 years, I’ve been designing and facilitating Conferences That Work : successful, innovative, highly interactive, participant-driven events that leverage attendees’ expertise and experience to create just the conference that participants want and need. The attendees are still here talking to each other!

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 17, 2018

The convention center would give attendees views of St. The $241 million project was first proposed in 2011, designed in 2014, approved in December 2016 and finally broke ground July 19. It will be able to accommodate up to 2,000 attendees. Johns River and Riverwalk. Monroe Convention Center currently houses 24,000 sq.

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The MICE Blog

JANUARY 11, 2021

There are products made from recycled materials, and attendees can visit the factories of these products or a national park to become involved in corporate volunteering. Between 2009–2011, the property was completely refurbished and reopened in 2011. It’s a country that’s easy to get to and move around by public transport.

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Conferences that Work

MAY 14, 2018

Mythodology: We know what our attendees want to learn about. At least half the sessions programmed at traditional conferences are not what attendees want. Trick: Stuff your program if you must, but give attendees explicit permission to take their own downtime when they need it.) Here are nine mythodologies about conferences.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Founded in 2011 in Washington, DC, Social Tables offers the world’s largest database of to-scale function space with 4 billion square feet available through its search engine. The Cvent Hospitality Cloud partners with hotels and venues to help them drive group and corporate travel business.

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This seems to be the norm, because when you talk to attendees you find they set a low bar for satisfaction, e.g. “I t’s OK if I learn one new thing a day, oh, and if I make a useful connection or two that would be great! I’ve been attending conferences for over forty years. Most of them are dull and largely irrelevant.

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Related posts: Participation techniques you can use in conference sessions Here’s the summary handout for my workshop on participation techniques you can use in conference sessions that I’ll be leading at MPI’s World Education Congress 2011. Sources for additional information. I’m excited!

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 13, 2022

At a time when many are reacting to changes in climate and attendee expectations, the golden state’s hospitality sector is leading the way to a future that will continue to welcome change-makers for decades to come. You may even inspire attendees to do better while you are at it. Sustainable Meeting.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Since its development in 2011, the design team at Maritz Global Events has continued to refine their design methodology and practice. To date, more than 120 clients have moved through at least one Design Lab, emerging with actionable ideas they can immediately apply to enhance attendee experiences.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 29, 2019

.” Skilled leaders know to uncover the wants and needs of participants at the start of the session, and use the information to build a workshop that’s optimized for the attendees. In my experience, attendees prefer well-designed workshops to almost any other session format. This sounds more difficult than it usually is.

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