Smart Meetings

APRIL 27, 2021

She continues, “This new hybrid model is really fostering a much deeper engagement set between both of those audiences, by way of more evolved event technology and online event platforms. Then there are your sponsors and exhibitors. Both of these experiences are done purposefully and neither one takes more or less of a priority.”.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Fast forward to 2020, I was a strategy director. One of the biggest problems I saw was involving your exhibitors or sponsors. Do you need to address sponsor churn? We have the community manager and the platform; what other things should people think about ?” “I spent the first 20 years of my career as a global strategist.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 18, 2022

But in 2020, the pandemic forced us to take our events online. . Event marketers understand that their community members need to have a chance to interact with their brand year-round, and that’s where event platforms come into play. But thanks to event technology solutions, such as event apps and platforms, that has changed.

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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. For a platform that, as far as I know, I don’t want to say unlimited attendees, but close to it. The Timing. I would say it takes about two hours per speaker that you have.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 12, 2020

And boy, has 2020 proved itself to be quite a challenging year! Many platforms offer features that allow you to monitor the attendees as the event is taking place. Attendees crave better experiences each time they tune into a virtual event, something that is on par with the technology we have available in the year 2020.

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Endless Events

MARCH 11, 2022

They’ve risen from relative anonymity to stardom in 2020. When built upon innovative event technology solutions , they can drive more value for stakeholders, sponsors, exhibitors, and attendees alike. Delight Your Sponsors & Exhibitors. Sponsors and exhibitors can also greatly benefit from hybrid events.

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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

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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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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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Meet the 2020 Planners of the Year. The personalized meeting platform specializes in guiding meaningful conversations—just the right touch for an award-winning group. It was also sprinkled with impactful branding for sponsor partners, and pictures of children who had been helped by the group. Meet the 2019 Planners of the Year.

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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. Then omicron and the culture wars hit. “We

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Endless Events

MAY 12, 2022

“I planned a conference in 2020 that got canceled. But I still think that there are ways to add value with event platforms that would make us stronger on the whole. Every time I see virtual, all I can think of is another opportunity to add more sponsor eyeballs and more money coming in, evergreen.”

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Endless Events

AUGUST 24, 2020

However, when it comes down to sponsors and exhibitors, the name of the game is hardly the same. 2020: The Shift & What It Created. “But I think as we’re moving forward, we’re seeing 3D trade show platforms where you can have a virtual version of your stand and things like that. Well, not anymore!

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Smart Meetings

MAY 26, 2023

In 2020, it was (and still is) all about platforms. Today, platforms are like the new Event Operating Systems. Radius : A platform that allows attendees to receive digital content based on their physical location. The platform allows attendees to see accurate directions based on their location.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 6, 2022

CES , formerly the Consumer Electronics show, is going forward as planned at the expanded Las Vegas Convention Center with some sponsors, including Amazon and Meta, participating virtually. Staying the Course. Las Vegas Convention Center. Live sessions will be available on-demand within 24 hours for 60 days following the event.

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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. You can have a pod in any region, country, or continent where your speakers and sponsors are. When virtual events took over in 2020, event platforms became the new venues.

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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. It had to be easy to attend so we chose the simplest platform, Zoom. Why SITE NITE all NITE? When IMEX Frankfurt was cancelled this also meant SITE NITE Europe would be cancelled, again. Bonus Lesson.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2022

Highlight your sponsors in organic ways. Think of ways you can join forces with your sponsors and have the attendees interact with both your products at the same time. Evergage’s 2020 research shows that 92% of customers are expecting to have a personalized experience with a brand. social media wall).

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The Abbi Agency

MARCH 30, 2021

While the iOS 14 user-experience enhancements were released in Fall 2020, the privacy policy patch has yet to roll out due to developer and marketer pushback. It simply forces marketers and platforms to reexamine how they operate. There are a multitude of potential solutions at both a platform and personal level. Not at all.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

A revamped Associations Solutions Marketplace at Music City Center convention complex featured more than 300 sponsors and acted as a one-stop destination for finding the right products and service providers to help their associations achieve success. The two took up where longtime CEO John Graham left off when he passed away in 2020.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The final 10 statements of The Bangkok Manifesto were then crowdsourced with the full conference assembly using Slido, the online, audience engagement platform. The Vancouver Manifesto will be crafted at SITE’s annual conference in January 2020. More : PRA Orlando, Destinos India Among Winners of 2018 SITE Crystal Awards.

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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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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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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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Social Tables

JUNE 1, 2023

Bonus tip: Add direct links to sponsor pages, speaker profiles, and other participating business sites to further expand the event’s reach. Social media event marketing ideas With more than 53% of the world’s population on social media, marketers who fail to utilize the platform may be falling behind.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 2, 2022

San Jose-based cloud video conferencing and event platform BlueJeans is not a Covid-come-lately virtual meeting company. in 2020, they were bought by Version and now leverage the power of incorporating 5G and mobile edge computing in its flexible, easy-to-use platform.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 16, 2019

.” But in fact when Slack ruled out because they were offering such a… it was just a beautifully designed platform and because it did it so much better than all the other platforms that we had, people adopted it rapidly. That’s all of the things that they’re selling, not just simply a messaging platform.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 11, 2022

While meetings and conventions took a pause in 2020 due to the pandemic, Columbus didn’t stop working to ensure that when the time came to return to in-person meetings, planners and attendees had all the tools they needed for a successful event. Plan with Confidence.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 2, 2021

While meetings and conventions took a pause in 2020 due to the pandemic, Columbus didn’t stop working to ensure that when the time came to return to in-person meetings, planners and attendees had all the tools they needed for a successful event. Plan with Confidence.

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Travel Daily Media

MARCH 18, 2020

The post Associations Round Table at AIME 2020 reimagines model through creativity appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. The post Associations Round Table at AIME 2020 reimagines model through creativity appeared first on Travel Daily.

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MeetingsNet

DECEMBER 2, 2021

However, it’s also clear that the industry is in a better position to ride out a Covid surge without the full-scale disruption that plagued much of 2020 and 2021. Until more is known in the weeks ahead, event planners and their hospitality partners can expect to see more impacts. Venue standards have been established.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

Christel Sieling, Director of Operations at Odyssey, shared how they’ve pivoted their live hackathon, called Momentum, into a virtual format in 2020. The visual platform was built for mass collaboration and is an integrated open 3D world that turns collaboration on challenges into a unified, effective and playful experience for everyone.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This year’s event featured a new format and platform, and for the first time, gave attendees the opportunity to curate their experience by adding sessions to their calendar around five content tracks: business and tech; climate; culture; health and race; and identity and politics. “We Upping the production and experience. We are at 1.5

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 26, 2020

In the face of rising sponsor withdrawals and attendee concerns, the organizers behind the Barcelona-based Mobile World Congress became some of the first to make the tough decision to cancel for the safety of attendees. Original Event Date: February 24 - 27, 2020. Cancellation Announcement Date: March 17, 2020.

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AltexSoft Travel

MARCH 26, 2021

In April 2020, the hotel occupancy in the US dropped to its lowest level ever — the bewildering 24.5 In this article, we will explain what metasearch engines are, how they work, and how hotels can connect to main platforms and get the most out of this partnership. What is a metasearch engine? How metasearch engines work.

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Eventtia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Attracting many attendees to an event won’t really bring too much value if they aren’t a good fit for the event, your business, and your sponsors. It’s no secret that the event industry has been heavily affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, causing many live events to be cancelled or postponed.

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 4, 2020

Here’s how to confidently communicate with your attendees, sponsors, and partners. February 25, 2020 Today, the City of San Francisco declared a State of Emergency to begin preparations around any future coronavirus outbreaks. Here’s an example of how SaaStr’s founder updated attendees on Twitter: [link] 2020 is a GO!

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