Conferences that Work

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) has published some useful lessons learned from organizing six online scientific meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Online meetings improve access and attendance. Online events make it easier for them to attend. Check it out for full details!

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

. “Before the pandemic, you just had registration. People understand how to staff registration sufficiently. ” “Pre-2020, we were starting to go down the road of more in the room experiences with event technology, including polling and second-screen experiences,” says Brandt.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 28, 2022

Yet, event professionals have the opportunity to create visionary events and plan meetings that replicate the vibrancy and liveliness that existed in person while enjoying the flexibility and safety that a hybrid/online event provides. Read more: How to Tell When You Online Meetings Are Not Engaging Enough-And What to Do About It.

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Endless Events

JUNE 29, 2020

Well, amidst the backdrop of COVID-19 fears and the spread of it, mega-events such as the 2020 Olympics, F8 for Facebook, Ceraweek, Zoom, and Zendesk have canceled their events. The second half of 2020, however, looks positive. Events are tactile and offer opportunities that cannot be replaced using electronic mediums. .

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 6, 2024

Last Minute Registration Shuffle Lancey Cowen A recent Maritz study showed that 45% of attendees from 30 trade shows register within four weeks of the event date. Cowan canceled her May 2020 event, allowing researchers to upload their abstract presentations to a library.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 6, 2022

In 2020, we saw everything from mass cancellations to virtual-only events, as the world tried to grapple with the new reality of Covid-19. Some moved their events online, while others got creative with hybrid event models that combined in-person and virtual components.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2022

And what better place to create an emotional setting for your event than your online community ? Evergage’s 2020 research shows that 92% of customers are expecting to have a personalized experience with a brand. Building a strong community around your brand has become a big trend in the events industry.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Go to them, see as many online events as you can, and talk to your colleagues.” You can do it at registration as well. They were already working on adding the video capabilities before March 2020.” . “You need to know your stakeholders and then decide what event platform you’re going to use.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Just like countless other event profs, Stephanie had to pivot to virtual events in March 2020. I had never actually done what would now be considered a virtual event or an online event. We looked at what that would look like in an online environment.” Let’s start in the beginning.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 9, 2021

The pandemic may have shifted meeting to remote channels in 2020, however, organizing and inviting people virtual events still requires time and careful planning if it is going to be successful. Let’s discuss how you can write the perfect invitation email for your virtual event to drive more registrations in 2021.

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Social Tables

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A 2020 Bizzabo report showed that over 80% of B2B marketing professionals ranked event engagement as an important KPI for determining an event’s success. Prepare for and market event registration. Outline the entire registration process in great detail. Utilize social media. Coordinate a countdown.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 30, 2021

In fact, just one month after registration went live, hosted buyer demand was higher than at the same point in 2019. There is only so much you can do online, and the last time I was there was January of 2020,” she explained. “We Visitor buyers are also markedly more senior (by role) than at the same point in 2019.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 17, 2021

Meanwhile, the 800-pound gorilla in the streaming meeting space, Zoom, announced this month that it is launching Zoom events, an all-in-one platform that will include a “build your own event hub,” ticketing and registration and a management dashboard for multi-day and multi-track conferences.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

With online events, they’ve cut that time down to a few minutes, and no one understands this better than today’s #EventIcons guest, Arianna Black. In this episode, Arianna will share what led her to events, her thoughts about digital attendee arrival, and some of her best tips for creating online experiences.

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Social Tables

JUNE 1, 2023

Use SEO to boost search results SEO, or search engine optimization, is the process of optimizing online content to improve how high it ranks in search engine results. Link online event resources Connect all of your event pages and content together to widen your audience reach and keep track of online engagement.

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Convene by PCMA

MAY 17, 2022

As conferences — in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) and economics fields —moved online during the pandemic, one silver lining was that far more women participated virtually than in person. and compared them with registration numbers from those same three conferences after they moved online in 2020.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 13, 2021

In 2020 we hosted a 2-hour event featuring the talent found within SITE , our first in what would become a series of digital events. We put it on our chapter calendars in February and launched registration 2 weeks prior, recognizing that with digital events this is when a majority register anyhow! Why SITE NITE all NITE?

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 25, 2024

Insights resource Crunchbase estimated that in 2020 and 2021, more than $1.5 From the vantage point of 2024, we can all see that the early 2020 predictions were the result of a Covid-hazy crystal ball. When event professionals say their event is hybrid, they mean they have a version of the in-person event available to watch online.

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 4, 2020

These usually have to do with speaker cancellations, unexpectedly long registration lines, poor WiFi, and other last-minute challenges that may seem like a big deal in the moment but absolutely pale in comparison to the global buzzkill that is coronavirus. March 3, 2020. Below is an example from the PDAC 2020. SaaStrAnnual.com?

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Bizzaboo

APRIL 3, 2023

What’s more, Verified Market Research , a leading global research and consulting firm, expects the global events industry to bring in a whopping $2.194 trillion by 2028 — quite the uptick from the $887 billion the market commanded in 2020. Bizzabo , 2020) The logistics of virtual events challenges 52.5%

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The company has a long history of producing webinars and online programs. In 2020 and throughout this year, their Amplify Event Series digital events offered continuing education credits for finance and accounting professionals which have been content-driven, meaning no expo, no networking. Virtual blew up our stats,” Strehle said.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 11, 2021

The global pandemic forced event planners to think differently and to embrace technology to offer an engaging online experience. Event planners must now find a way to meld best practices from online events with in-person to ensure access for all while rebuilding personal connections. Lisa Delpy Neirotti, Ph.D., Naomi Clare Crellin.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Held in late February 2020 in Orlando and attracting 17,000 attendees, Global Pet Expo “snuck right in” before the pandemic shut everything down, said Christopher Bonifati, CEM, director of attendee services at the American Pet Products Association (APPA), which co-produces the event. Data Insights.

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 21, 2021

The Data + AI Summit North America 2021, presented by software company Databricks, held its second fully virtual event May 24-28, building off insights gleaned from its first virtual conference in 2020 to create a more intuitive and engaging experience for its 65,000 registrants. Debbie Seabloom. “I So, nothing was really ‘broken.’

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 29, 2022

The American Society of Hematology (ASH) is aiming to restore its pre-pandemic in-person participation at the same time it cultivates a larger online audience. In 2020, like many other organizations, ASH’s Annual Meeting was fully virtual. Programs ran simultaneously for online and in-person audiences with livestreamed content.

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Bizzaboo

JULY 12, 2022

What’s more, Verified Market Research , a leading global research and consulting firm, expects the global events industry to bring in a whopping $2.194 trillion by 2028 — quite the uptick from the $887 billion the market commanded in 2020. The average number of sessions per virtual event is 12 ( Bizzabo , 2020). Bizzabo , 2020).

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 26, 2020

Some organizers have had to postpone their events others have decided to take theirs online with a virtual solution , others yet have had to make the very tough decision of outright cancelling their events. Original Event Date: February 24 - 27, 2020. Cancellation Announcement Date: March 17, 2020. Women in Cybersecurity.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Steal These Ideas Make virtual event registration complimentary by getting it sponsored. Each registrant is a lead for the sponsor. If your audience earns continuing education hours for attending your events, ask them how they want to earn those hours — i.e., how much content do they want to consume online and how much in person.

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Tembusu Events and Communications

APRIL 28, 2021

Virtual events can have a comparative advantage to physical events, with a greater online presence, virtual events Singapore can source a larger following and more sponsorships while reducing costs for the organising committee as traditional overheads like rental, set-up and tear-down costs and manpower need not be accounted for.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

While COVID forced the event online in 2020 , and it was well received by attendees, the organization — which represents more than 38,000 emergency physicians, emergency medicine residents, and medical students — was strongly in favor of returning to a face-to-face event. Where: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center and online.

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Convene by PCMA

APRIL 14, 2023

But you can envision [thinking], “Wait a minute, I’ve gone to this event before, I’ve attended these kinds of sessions, those sessions have this metadata or these tags along with it, when I go into an online experience, I’m going to get [served] something similar.” Coming into 2022, we were about 50 percent down from where we were in 2020.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

When the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) was forced to switch its in-person meeting scheduled for May 2020 to a digital conference just 60 days out due to the emergence of COVID, its small team of organizers had “no idea” what to expect, Mary Pat Cornett, CAE, CMP, chief strategy and operations officer for ASN, told Convene at the time.

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MeetingsNet

JUNE 24, 2020

For Clif Knight, MD, FAAFP, senior vice president of education for the American Academy of Family Physicians, 2020 was supposed to be about a gradual reshaping of the organization’s CME portfolio. The partnership gives us the ability to try some different formats of online learning in order to meet the needs of our learners.

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The MICE Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This interview took place in December 2020 and is available to watch on YouTube. It tells you how people are talking about your event online, and it can set specific goals for this, such as ‘We want to have 500 positive reviews on Instagram after the event’. This blog post has been edited for brevity and clarity.

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Bizzaboo

AUGUST 7, 2022

” While “value” could be the revenue generated from registrations, it could also include sponsorships and partnerships, leads added to the sales pipeline, the number of people who attended the event, the satisfaction of attendees, and more. . Increase Event Registrations. # of Registrations. Business Goals.

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Conferences that Work

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Before 2020, I was designing and facilitating around a dozen in-person meetings and conferences a year. After COVID decimated the meeting industry, I focused on the design and facilitation of online meetings. And , dear reader, get 20% off my ebooks until the end of the year! 2023 in review I slowed down in 2023. And, you know what?

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Online poster presentations “just seem to fall short of the in-person experience” at meetings of the Genetics Society of America, said Suzy Brown, GSA’s senior director of meetings. online — breaking new ground for the GSA. This is one in a series of stories from the January/February issue of Convene.

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