Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

We asked Kailash Nagdev, senior vice president of sales and analytics for EXPO 2020 Dubai , to shine a light on the seven years of work required to coordinate input from 200 stakeholders in 191 countries with the goal of “driving innovation and inspiring action to deliver real-life solutions to real-world problems.”

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Endless Events

MARCH 10, 2020

So it really ramped up for 2020, one to two webinars or live summits a week. “We wanted to be very proactive about our 2020 schedule. What we found is that it really does us no good to source the speakers more than six months out because something will come up then they’re not able to do it. The Timing.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 25, 2021

So, 2020 was…a year. Will a good choice of platform suffice or must event profs look beyond that in order to present attendees with new and exciting opportunities? Speaker Training: Bigger & Better. Planners can’t continue to expect speakers to just figure everything out for themselves.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The self-proclaimed “48-hours of non-stop developer goodness” was Microsoft’s 2020 counterpart to its live conference. And it’s really no wonder that this 2020 conference dedicated to users of Google Sheets was a smashing hit. Tomorrowland 2020. The Adobe Summit 2020. Microsoft Build.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 2, 2022

Named one of the best inventions of 2021 by Time Magazine, KUDO is a real-time interpretation software company and virtual platform focused on providing language support for multilingual meetings. The software creates a platform from which real-time multilingual speakers interpret what’s being said at the event, for attendees.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 12, 2020

And boy, has 2020 proved itself to be quite a challenging year! Endless monologues from the speakers wasn’t something attendees loved with in-person, to begin with. In order to combat webinar fatigue, presenters and speakers alike must make a serious effort in order to establish a consistent, engaging dialogue with the audience.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

And now, we’re seeing this again with event platforms , only it’s over the span of 18 months.” ” In fact, Will and Brandt cover the M&As of event tech platforms in the most recent Event Tech Podcast episode. So let’s talk about all these platforms that exist! ” Event Platforms 101.

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Endless Events

MAY 14, 2021

As event planners were thrust into the throes of virtual events in early 2020, confusion and fear were the first things to settle in. The endless paraphernalia of virtual event software the entire industry was forced to adopt during 2020 offers a myriad of possibilities. And the same goes for speakers!

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Endless Events

APRIL 19, 2021

As we slowly transition into the new normal, event professionals must keep in mind the lessons 2020 taught us. The in-person audience(s) will interact with the digital attendees, and the experience will be designed to its fullest potential, in a capacity rarely seen before in a pre-2020 world. But how, you may ask?

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Smart Meetings talked to experts building the next generation of virtual meeting platforms to find out how the technology is changing to fit these new requirements and what predicted consolidation and continued layoffs may mean for meeting professionals. A More Customer-focused Virtual Environment. Plus, you can measure it.”.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Relive the 2020 ASAE Classic. In-person and online attendees accessing through the Intrado platform learned from author, activist and comedian Baratunde Thurston, “How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time.” . The Fellows class of 2021, new CAE credentials, the DELP class of 2020-2022 were recognized.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

And we’ve been doing it for about seven years, and 2020 has been a disruptive but exciting year. “We’ve been brought in for a 20-minute keynote where the client brings in some really powerful speaker or it’s the CEO. And I will say, we’re not the tech platform experts. They draw it out.

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Bizzaboo

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

We encourage every event planner to mark their calendars for the following 35 events and conferences in 2020. Besides access to great networking opportunities and innovative content, the following 35 events will also provide attendees with great speaker lineups and the chance to travel to amazing locations! International Confex 2020.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Parallel , a partner platform that works in tandem with Bluewater as one, unified support for entirely virtual events, says it isn’t about “[replacing] real-world events,” but extending them. Ford at 2020 Essence Festival; Photo credit: Bluewater Tech. Ford at 2020 Essence Festival; Photo credit: Bluewater Tech.

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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. Now, with the options to host a regular meeting, a webinar, or a special event, it is easy to get confused about which platform is right for you. Zoom Alternatives.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 21, 2022

Most planners didn’t even hear of them prior to 2020! You can have your speakers present against any kind of backdrop you can think of. Not only can you use live session recordings and make them available to your community through your chosen event platform , but you can also pre-record content in a hybrid event studio.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 31, 2021

Li Hayes of speaker management agency Go Leeward argued here in early August that hybrid is dead. Live events have come a long way since early 2020, as the technology has advanced, organizers have honed their skills and audiences have grown more comfortable with online participation. Clearly, the current environment is fluid.

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Endless Events

JULY 24, 2020

Well, i n early 2020, the world as we knew it took an unexpected turn. Firstly, Chapter 3 will guide you through all the aspects that must be considered regarding virtual speakers. It’s finally here – the only virtual event guide you’ll ever need! How can they better engage with the audience?

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Endless Events

JULY 10, 2020

Everything you’d have to consider for an in-person event is still relevant – the venue, the speakers, the entertainment, the catering, and so on. And simultaneously, the production aspects pertaining to virtual events will also require attention – the platform, the engagement, and the technology.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 28, 2022

Event platforms with all their data insights offer a whole new world of possibilities for measuring event success. The Satellite model consists of small to medium independent venues (pods) with a small stage for regional speakers receiving the live stream feed. It’s as if before 2020, everybody was engaged 24/7!

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

“If there’s a little bit of feedback, audio technicians can get closer to the speaker. ” “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. They also help people get mic’d up.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In September 2020, for example, we had the opportunity to learn more about virtual engagement strategies with Sketch Effect. “We learned through acquisition experiences that adoption of these platforms is tough. We talk to somebody in marketing and we tee this up to meet your specific needs for that trade show,” he says.

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Endless Events

MAY 4, 2021

From choosing the right platform to delivering the best virtual content , we always first need to think about what kind of an experience we are providing for our virtual attendees. First, AJ talks about how they handled the dreaded year of the pandemic, 2020. It takes running multiple platforms to run this successfully.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 12, 2018

Music festivals have become the best platforms for events to showcase their campaigns, providing memorable experiences to hundreds of thousands of people. On the side of the audience, we’ll see more innovation related to getting attendees to interact with speakers and giving them an active learning experience.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 25, 2024

Insights resource Crunchbase estimated that in 2020 and 2021, more than $1.5 Over the last two years, event platform companies Bizzabo and Hubilo each laid off double-digit percentages of staff. From the vantage point of 2024, we can all see that the early 2020 predictions were the result of a Covid-hazy crystal ball. “I

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Smart Meetings

MAY 2, 2022

A robust bench of experts actively working on the biggest problems facing society today make short work of finding partners and speakers to help you deliver an event that leaves the world better than when you arrived. San Jose-based cloud video conferencing and event platform BlueJeans is not a Covid-come-lately virtual meeting company.

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The MICE Blog

AUGUST 11, 2021

In March 2020, when they had to shut down due to COVID-19, five days later, they developed the virtual experience. Virtual event tech helped to scale the business, ‘The virtual world started for us in March 2020, in a big way.’. ‘We What did you learn from 2020 and virtual events? . So, we brought that to the virtual world.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2022

Your speakers and emcees should also know about the experience you’re planning. If events are to create a lasting impact, marketers need to create a powerful story before the event itself, tapping into the attendees’ emotions and excitement with teaser trailers, persuasive copy, and messages in the event app or platform.

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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. Although in Q4 2021, 75% of events on Bizzabo’s platform were virtual, only 30.6%

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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. On the Bizzabo platform, 75% of events in May 2023 are scheduled to be in-person events!

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Stova

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

To make it happen, a data and AI technology company partnered with MeetingPlay to host their 2020 user conference on our virtual event platform. The 2020 Spark + AI Summit was a global, 5-day virtual event with 200+ sessions, 19 visionary keynote speakers, and dozens of other thought leaders. Goals of the Event.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

Attendees heard from speakers from two major associations, the PCMA and National Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Association. Champion, Conference and Events Director at the National WIC Association, spoke about how they were able to more than triple the number of their event attendees during the pandemic thanks to the Hubilo platform.

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Endless Events

MAY 18, 2021

She tells Sarah how Hilton pivoted in March 2020 and shares the resources they created to help their customers. Before Sarah and Kelly talk about hybrid event tips and tricks, they need to go all the way back to March 2020 when Hilton pivoted from in-person events to virtual and hybrid events. Pivoting To The New World Order.

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Social Tables

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Popular webinar marketing channels include: Groups and event pages Social media ad campaigns Search engine advertising Email marketing campaigns The brand/company website Cross-promotion with webinar hosts and speakers. Choose the right webinar platform. Choose a platform with a mobile app. Best practices during a webinar.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Afterwards, it moved the second edition to Interlaken in 2020, and in 2021, it moved the event to Bern. All speaker contributions are translated simultaneously into German or English, allowing all participants to follow the programme in the language they prefer. All aligned in order to keep it most engaging for the audience.

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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. Featuring examples from brands like Adobe, Google, and Qualtrics.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

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. Only one sponsor canceled its agreement when the 2020 in-person event was moved online.

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