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PSAV Acquires Encore Event Technologies: What It Could Mean for Event and Meeting Planners

Endless Events

If you are an event or meeting planner you’ve heard of PSAV. The news makes for shaky ground and uncertainty for meeting and event planners nationwide. October 2012. So why should event and meeting planners care?What In fact, it’s highly likely you’ve done multiple deals with them. Will this merger change that?

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Back to the Future: Revisiting Event Planner Predictions From 2012

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One event planner predicted in 2012 that that keynote speakers would give their presentation from the new orbiting space station in 2022. In 2012, Angry Birds was the most downloaded app, the iPhone was five, and Zoom was only a year old. What’s different?

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Here Are The 22 Best Event Platforms To Use In 2022!

Endless Events

The most common mistake we’ve noticed is that many event planners still plan their virtual or hybrid events based on an in-person-only format. We saw an incredible surge in event platforms , leaving many event planners confused. But here’s the situation: the events industry is not going back to how things used to be.

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Reduce and Reuse: Meeting Spaces Go Green

Smart Meetings

Inn by the Sea offers event planners 1,300 sq. Eventually, when the local farmer retired, Inn by the Sea started working with Garage to Garden, a community driven organization founded in 2012. of convention space, Oregon Convention Center actively encourages meeting planners to think green in their event planning process.

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Ocean’s Edge

Smart Meetings

When Ocean Casino and Resort opened as Revel in 2012 with Beyonce as its headliner, people got a sense that this was going to be something big. Planners whose clients don’t want to use the casino can come in and out and never walk through it or encounter the space, if that’s what they wish.

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Reduce and Reuse: Meeting Spaces Go Green

Smart Meetings

Inn by the Sea offers event planners 1,300 sq. Eventually, when the local farmer retired, Inn by the Sea started working with Garage to Garden, a community driven organization founded in 2012. of convention space, Oregon Convention Center actively encourages meeting planners to think green in their event planning process.

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Longtime Chairman, J.W. Marriott Jr.,to Retire

Smart Meetings

In 1972, he served as CEO before he stepped down and was succeeded by Arne Sorenson in 2012. After college, in 1956, he became a full-time associate for Marriott, and shortly thereafter, he was managing his first Marriott property. In 1964, he became president of the brand. s upcoming retirement. “On