The MICE Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

This heritage offers event planners unique opportunities to create memorable experiences that incorporate the automotive theme. For event planners, the museum offers three meeting rooms, with the largest accommodating up to 350 seated guests. It was originally built in the 1950s and extensively modernised in 2020.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 19, 2021

On March 11th, 2020, the events industry changed forever. Planners were inundated with information about masks, sanitizers, and social distancing. While it’s important to emphasize that no event is risk-free, event planners can implement many safety processes that ensure the safety of their attendees, exhibitors, and staff.

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Endless Events

MAY 24, 2021

What happened in 2020 and where are they going? As soon as attendees get access into the platform, they’re able to see what sessions would be most interesting to them based on how they signed up in the registration process. “A lot of events in 2020 were only open for a short period of time. ” he asks Kyle.

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Endless Events

MARCH 15, 2021

Before the pandemic hit in 2020, the events industry was a well-oiled machine. Then came March 2020, and with it, huge changes. From 2020 To 2030 In 10 Months. ” Things started changing in March 2020 when many companies lost their in-person business. Virtual and hybrid events were nowhere near as common.

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Endless Events

MAY 28, 2021

After a bleak start to 2020 and an unexpected turn towards digital experiences, vaccination rollout is the light at the end of the tunnel we were all waiting for. And while many planners and attendees alike are more than ready to return to live events in full swing, there are a few things to consider. Slow & Steady Wins The Race.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 25, 2021

So, 2020 was…a year. Several planners and tech companies already see hybrid as the certain future of our industry. Planners can’t continue to expect speakers to just figure everything out for themselves. How can planners prepare for and make sure they meet these demands in a post-COVID world?

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Endless Events

MAY 12, 2022

What would the Brew Crew have event planners do to plan better events? Will says that it seems as if event planners haven’t learned anything from the COVID-19 pandemic. “I planned a conference in 2020 that got canceled. ” But on the other hand, there are many events with low registration numbers.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Now that we’re making a return to in-person events , we can start talking about many event-planning topics we had no use for since March 2020. Our Chief Einstein, Will Curran, recently gave event planners some really sound advice at his talk at Untethered 2021. Let’s start this conversation with the basics: event layouts !

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Endless Events

JANUARY 28, 2022

Event trends 2022 are here and let us tell you, it’s an exciting year for event planners who dare to dream big. Others, however, might seem a little bit too daunting for a novice planner, but they’re just what innovative and tech-savvy planners are looking for. Most trends in our guide are beginner-friendly.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In 2020, that theory went out the window and you learned how to write a virtual meeting AV RFP. We have many planner friends who say the toughest challenge is planning two meetings in one. It’s how one team planned in 2019 for live and how one team planned in 2020 for virtual. You can double the registration income.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 12, 2020

And boy, has 2020 proved itself to be quite a challenging year! So planners everywhere are wondering – how can I combat webinar fatigue? Use registration forms with targeted questions to your advantage and continuously improve the process with each virtual event or webinar you plan. New year, new challenges.

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Endless Events

MAY 5, 2022

And as event planners were somewhat forced into a technological era of event planning, many of them started seeing the benefits of event technology. Prior to event apps and platforms, event planners relied on pre-event and post-event surveys to measure event ROI. Planners can even plan on going completely paperless.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

A Survey Exploring the Motivations and Values of Independent Planners Might Help Lean Planning Teams Elevate Events The future of events is a little unpredictable, to say the least. Allowing meeting professionals to maintain their productivity and find balance helps the planner and companies reach their goals.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 24, 2022

It all started in 2020 and continued with full steam head in 2021: we saw huge investments in event platforms and multi-billion dollar valuations of some of the largest players in the field. It’s the one-stop shop for event planners – and they like that. I can just cut one check at the end of the day.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It’s a topic that he’s talked about in the past, from dissecting AV proposals at the AV Audit to giving useful AV audit tips to planners at Whiteboard Wednesdays. “Before the pandemic, you just had registration. People understand how to staff registration sufficiently.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Event safety has become a priority, if not for meeting planners, then for attendees. Meeting planners don’t need to be IT gurus. Can my IT folks prevent a hack or act in case a virus invades your onsite registration system? It’s not just Covid-19 (C19) and it’s much more than F&B , room blocks and hotel contracts.

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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. These days, however, meetings are far from going back to the pre-2020 status quo. How Covid-19 Impacted Large-Scale Meetings and Conventions.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2022

This is great news for event marketers and planners who can plan experiential events – events that aim to evoke positive emotions in attendees and resonate with their values. Whether event planners intentionally design them or not, attendees will have had an experience at an event. In a sense, all events are experiential.

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Endless Events

MARCH 9, 2021

While some adapted fast and organized extraordinary virtual events in 2020 , many are still grappling with the new reality. I heard so much in 2020 about prerecorded content and simulive, but people don’t like that. That has never been proven more true than what we’ve seen in 2020. It has to be more interesting.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 2, 2021

That would be a 60 percent increase from the same weekend in 2020, but still 6 million fewer than in 2019. million Americans were planning air travel over the three days, according to AAA statistics, six times more than in 2020, but 750,000 fewer than the same time in 2019. Conventioneers Return. Proven Safe. Mike Massari.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Fast forward to 2020, I was a strategy director. I think the number one issue I hear from planners is, how do I drive engagement. You can drive registration but there’s also organic revenue that comes from proper engagement. “I spent the first 20 years of my career as a global strategist. Then covid hit.

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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. Will the old ways of working seem outdated, or will it simply snap back to business as usual?

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Smart Meetings

JULY 28, 2022

Propelled into the national spotlight in March 2020, Zoom quickly capitalized on the opportunity to be the frontrunner in the new era of virtual meetings and events. I would say to the event planners, we are still in the correcting phase of finding where we are going to land on this pendulum. Zoom Meetings vs. Webinars vs. Events .

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MeetingsNet

JANUARY 30, 2023

The agenda includes the revival of an ASAE event called Springtime, which ran for 40 years but was discontinued by ASAE in 2016 in lieu of an event called the Xperience Design Project, which ran until 2020. There is a cost to attend most events, though the Showcase event is free.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

“Remember the days when planners thought that they didn’t need event apps ? You can do it at registration as well. Then, the planner can decide what kind of groups they want to create based on how people answer those questions. They were already working on adding the video capabilities before March 2020.”

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 12, 2021

Planning and planning for weeks on end, getting everything in order—vendors, speaker, planners, F&B, those little odds and ends. Bohrer’s organization has a detailed of duty of care that is a part of the registration process, where attendees opt in and learn what Covid-related requirements there will be on site. “We Katie Bohrer.

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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. Not all will survive,” he warned.

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Social Tables

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Expert planners know that event engagement is vital to an event’s initial success, as well as the success of potential future events. 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. But what is event engagement?

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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. Lisa Delpy Neirotti, Ph.D.,

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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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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We are trying to organize it to help event planners think about just seven. Conservation: Power and Natural Resources Terra Sustainability Pavilion at the EXPO 2020 in Dubai Conservation is all about reducing how much you use of any resource. There are a lot of areas,” she says. “We Now multiply that by every attendee.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

To ease the rush of registration, attendees were urged to print badges at home and grab a lanyard in the hall. The country has hosted a number of large-scale events since reopening in June 2020. For the love of lanyards. thatwaseasy #IMEXcited @IMEX_Group pic.twitter.com/S1rHxJroIP. — JT Long (@SmartMtgsJT) October 11, 2022.

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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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Smart Meetings

JULY 21, 2022

Most clients engaged his tools for registration and apps at their in-person meetings prior to March 2020, then they immediately swapped to the company’s live-streaming capabilities, and as variants moved through the populations, undulations in types of services being accessed were visible in the data.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Which webinar best practices do the most successful virtual event planners and organizers follow? We cover a variety of webinar best practices that can help new organizers and seasoned virtual event planners alike. GoToMeetings reports that email drives 57% of webinar registrations. Use an intuitive event registration website.

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Endless Events

MARCH 5, 2020

Before we dive straight into TSE and Catersource 2020, let’s take a little trip down memory lane. “There was someone who was a wedding planner and then turned into a wedding planning trainer. . And now you see that a lot in different corners of the industry”, Nick explains. And so that’s what I did.

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