Smart Meetings

JUNE 21, 2022

Regis Atlanta, and entered the digital side of things in 2017 when he got into Ethereum (or ETH [pronounced “eeth”]). Farr says he believes conferences are a couple years out before it becomes mainstream. MH’s CEO Tommy Farr has been in hospitality and F&B for 14 years, starting at St. Convention center at Wrlds Resort and Spa.

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The MICE Blog

AUGUST 12, 2024

One memorable event at the hotel was a state visit coinciding with a major international lawyers’ conference. Whether it’s an intimate board meeting, a conference for up to 2,500 delegates, or large-scale exhibitions and banquets, the hotel’s extensive facilities and state-of-the-art technology can meet all event needs.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 4, 2021

Burks has also held conference service positions at Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta, The St. During her tenure at Coconut Grove, Sanchez was awarded 2018 Leader of the Year, 2017 Greater Miami and the Beaches Hotel Association Inn Key—Spa Hospitality Leadership Award and 2016 Five Star Employee of the Year. Ellen LaMaire.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 8, 2018

8, 2017, turned into an inferno when winds picked up that night. The historic 150-year-old mansion, which is undergoing renovations, and conference center were not damaged. Napa Valley Film Festival 2017 photo by Bob McClenahan. What began as an ordinary day in the counties on Oct. Silverado has 340 guest rooms and 25,000 sq.

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ADMEI

MARCH 19, 2024

She has been a member of the association since 2007 and attended her first ADMEI annual conference in 2008. Most recently, she has served on ADMEI’s Board of Directors as Director of Conference, Vice President of Strategic Projects, and President-elect focusing on marketing and communication outreach.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 19, 2018

MTV’s 2017 Video Music Awards would be the perfect inspiration. If you like to keep it simpler, you could take a look at last year’s In Good Company Conference. These slides give us an overview of how to make the stage a perfect focal point for any occasion. Are you willing to go ultra high-tech? Will Curran Click To Tweet.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 7, 2021

He has won several awards, he received Hilton Hotel’s General Manager of the Year award in 2019, Hilton Connie Pride Award in 2017 and 2018, and Conrad Hilton Award in 2019. Teusen serves on the board of trustees for Ohio Hotel & Lodging Association and is vice chair of the association’s membership committee. Stuart Maas.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Blockchain Ticketing: The distributed database transaction system developed around Bitcoin could be a boon for event professionals as counterfeit-proof ticketing would streamline operations for large events, making scalping and ticket fraud so 2017. Park MGM Ideation Studio.

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Social Tables

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Take for example, Salesforce.com’s annual conference, Dreamforce. The post Event Budget Trends 2017: Cloudy with a Chance of Inconsistency? Corporate leaders everywhere are looking to events as viable marketing channels, or as engaging platforms for internal initiatives. Today, Dreamforce is drawing upwards of 150,000 registrants.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

It was converted to a boutique lifestyle hotel in 2017. Visitors enjoy excellent onsite catering for any small to mid-size meeting, conference or event. The design upholds the characteristic historic architecture to create a breathtaking environment with wooden flooring, high ceilings, arched windows and cast-iron columns.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 13, 2022

Read More: NYU International Hospitality Industry Investment Conference Starts with Hopeful Vision of Return to Travel. Since 2017, it has acquired or launched six brands to add to its portfolio. Surrounded by fellow executives and top hotel managers, he praised the hard work of owners and the trust of guests. The Road to 6,000.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Visit Houston President and CEO Mike Waterman described the first months of 2017 as “bad ass.” On the conference front, Waterman immediately went into triage mode. As soon as the first one agreed to go through with their conference, we knew the others couldn’t object, and we were going to get through this,” he said.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 23, 2019

GCB created an online survey, running from September 2017 to June 2018, based on the question “What kind of attendee am I?” and pulled the results from the data collected from participants that attend conferences. The results of the survey informed meeting professionals what makes events successful and how to please their attendees.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 18, 2023

Since 2012, the conference has been tracking diversion, recycling and reuse and has averaged an 86% diversion rate. And 946 books have been donated since 2017. IMEX is not new to the quest for more sustainable events. A total of 14,557 pounds of food has been donated in that time.

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Bizzaboo

APRIL 19, 2019

Discover blockchain events and conferences happening throughout the world in 2019 and beyond. Today there are a plethora of blockchain conferences, blockchain networking events and more happening around the world. 2019 Blockchain Conferences. February 2019 Conferences. Your go-to conference for all things blockchain.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Before making Ethical Swag her full-time job in 2017, she had spent a 30-year career in variety of roles, from director of communications and marketing of the original bid committee of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games to head of a cyber-security company. That’s why I find companies are coming to us,” she said.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In 2017, she passed on her first try. At her first event for which she was lead planner, a 200-plus person conference in Louisville, she says, “I was a nervous wreck, and I probably held my breath through the entire three-day event.” Despite her doubts, in early 2016, she began studying for the exam anyway.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A company event , a festival, a conference? Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in October 2017 by Kaitlin Colston and completely revamped by Anja Grcar in September 2021. As our Event Tech Podcast host, Brandt Krueger likes to say about nearly everything in the events industry: it depends.

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Endless Events

JULY 5, 2018

According to International Meetings Review, a small poll in 2017 found that almost half of event organizers aren’t considering virtual attendance for their events. That’s why we’re going to jump in and explore the potential virtual participation has for the event industry, from small conferences through to live sporting events.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 28, 2017

Here’s a real-life example of how to crowdsource a conference program in real-time. In May 2017 Liz Lathan, Tom Spano, and Nicole Osibodu invited me to design and facilitate the session crowdsourcing at the first Haute Dokimazo unconference in Austin, Texas. Read the full article at Conferences That Work.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 21, 2022

While growth factors such as sports arenas, festivals and large conference spaces can “enhance the positioning of a destination,” of equal importance is the city’s ability to increase ease of access and accommodation availability, both of which are significant factors in shaping a city’s visitation numbers. million visitors.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 6, 2022

When the expansion was announced in 2017, the convention center was known as Washington State Convention Center, but the new name and differentiated buildings better reflect the location, funding and profile of the venues, Jeff Blosser, president and CEO of Seattle Convention Center shared. of event space (205,000 sq. of exhibit space).

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Travel Daily Media

JUNE 2, 2023

The post Prague Retained International Congresses and Conferences in 2022 appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. Postponing the large association congresses and conferences has led to the fact that in 2022 Prague welcomed the most events of this type in the last five years. of events vs. 8.1% in 2019) and Asia (0.7%

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Winners of the prestigious 2018 Crystal Awards were honored at the SITE 2019 Global Conference in Bangkok in January. Program: US Foods President’s Cup 2017. SITE Crystal Awards are awarded to impactful and memorable incentive programs around the world. Below are the award winners and their contributions to the industry.

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Social Tables

JULY 25, 2018

So much so that the idea was the theme of IMEX America 2017, arguably the pinnacle of events for the industry at large. The annual user conference in San Francisco brings together industry pioneers, thought leaders, and IT professionals from all over the world — all with an experiential spin on the traditional conference format.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 3, 2019

I am beaming, thrilled to be at the finishing line to bring world-class conferences here,” said Jon Kimball, area general manager for Marriott International. Later, Mayor Ed Lee took up the cause of expanding and modernizing so the city could continue to compete for large conferences and serve the needs of a growing tech community.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Today, planners are racing to adapt to trends that make conferences and events more engaging and dynamic than ever before. As Janet Sperstad’s white-paper Purposeful Meetings: How to Plan With Deeper Meaning, Innovation, & Insight shows, the concept of “purposeful meetings” became the theme of IMEX America 2017.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley is home to Mather Redwood Grove Amphitheater, Julia Morgan Hall and a greenhouse conference center. A post shared by Army West Point Athletics (@goarmywestpoint) on May 27, 2017 at 2:35pm PDT. Or, hold your event in an urban forest. University of Central Florida, Orlando.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 25, 2019

October 2017. PSAV President and CEO, Mike McIlwain stated in the press release “The addition of SAV is an important step toward PSAV’s goal of being the ultimate local resource for corporate, association, and event planners around the globe.”. PSAV acquires Hawthorn Theatrical, LTD. January 2018.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 3, 2018

This spirit of partnership was evident on a larger scale following the mass shootings in Las Vegas from a room at Mandalay Bay just before IMEX America 2017. We didn’t call a press conference. How did everyone come together?

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Endless Events

JANUARY 25, 2018

Editor’s Note: This was originally published in May 15, 2017 and has been completely revamped and updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness. .

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 6, 2018

By creating “journey maps” at a recent conference, the team was able to outline completely different experiences for attendees based on their personas. But make no mistake, the networking is there: over 3,000 face-to-face meetings were scheduled at C2 2017 alone. C2 is pushing the envelope for event experiences.

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Crowdriff

OCTOBER 14, 2017

CrowdRiff was pleased to be invited to present a session at the Caribbean Tourism Organizations’s 2017 State of the Tourism Industry Conference (SOTIC) in sunny Grenada last week.

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Conferences that Work

JULY 17, 2017

Over time, Conferences That Work grew into a website with ten million page views per year. Here’s a graph of my follower count over time: Read the full article at Conferences That Work. But as 2016 drew to a close I noticed that something was changing in the Twitter world. No related posts.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 24, 2020

Amidst the myriad books on creating and running events, Intentional Event Design , by Tahira Endean and published in 2017, stands out. Conferences That Work: Creating Events That People Love ( ebook , paperback , or both ). In Conferences That Work I lay out four key assumptions that lurk behind the traditional meeting format.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 26, 2023

Our team has its eye on Collision , a high-growth technology conference from Web Summit that has become a can’t-miss industry event. Since 2017, she has overseen the acquisition and integration of eight agencies, positioning The Opus Group as a global leader in experiential marketing.

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Conferences that Work

AUGUST 14, 2017

I’m doing a little research for my next book — working title The Little Book of Event Crowdsourcing Secrets — and I’d love your answers to a short (5 minutes maximum) survey of your personal experience of conference satisfaction. Entrants must be over 18 and have attended at least three conferences in recent memory.

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