Endless Events

MARCH 9, 2021

While some adapted fast and organized extraordinary virtual events in 2020 , many are still grappling with the new reality. “As we look to 2021 from an engagement standpoint, we really have to think about doing things better. If you get that live engagement, it makes your sponsors happy and you can get more sponsored dollars.

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Techsytalk

OCTOBER 24, 2022

While the pandemic had many troubles for our industry, Ann chooses to look at the bright side – and think about how we can use this opportunity to rethink how to provide value to both sponsors and members. Ann Hollins, Chief Experience Officer, is often deemed the organizer, the proactive strategist, the creative thinker.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 26, 2021

It’s late January in 2021. Like everywhere, we in Australia have been hit hard by the pandemic, especially those of us who organize meetings for a living. ICMSA, one of the oldest and most established professional conference organizer in the country, has proven that over the past 16 months, we’re also one of the smartest.

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The Abbi Agency

MAY 19, 2021

While organizations around the world reeled from the effects of the events of 2020, The Abbi Agency delivered thoughtful and effective communication plans for its clients. The Abbi Agency is proud to announce our eight wins at the 2021 Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Sierra Nevada Chapter’s Silver Spike Awards.

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Endless Events

APRIL 19, 2021

Hybrid events offer the opportunity to expand an event’s reach, engagement, and return on investment for speakers, exhibitors, and sponsors. The main hub venue will act as the primary stage which will be the home base to the majority of presenters and leaders of an organization. But how, you may ask? It’s up to you!

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

After a slowdown from 2021, the use of streaming technology is steadily growing again, Alroy reported, citing a survey that found 68% of organizers plan to have a virtual component at their next in-person event. By the fall of 2021, a lot of Joanna Pineda’ global clients were saying they were done with virtual. The Back-up Plan.

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Meet Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

While in-person events started to come back in 2021, the Delta variant has caused a large percentage to convert back to virtual in the fall of 2021. Future-Proof Your Organization Now. It’s time for host organizations to work with key stakeholders to design the experience to be: Resilient. What Do We Know?

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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. — Stella Artois (@StellaArtois) March 30, 2021. social media wall). Co-marketing is all the more impactful when it revolves around an experience.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Funded through gifts and sponsors like Atento Capital, a Tulsa, Oklahoma-based investment firm, the NYU School of Professional Studies (NYU SPS) and Jonathan M. During the 2021 cohort, Bernardo Zorrilla founded Hotel+, an organization that offers “day use” passes, food and beverage options and other hotel amenities.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And of course, on the event organizer side, you’re not paying for catering in the case of a virtual event. ” “You can gamify paying attention in different sessions or going and talking to your sponsors. Our sponsors love it. Back in mid-2021, I had customers who said they’re going to be virtual in 2022.

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Bizzaboo

JULY 20, 2021

Here’s what you need to know about how the world’s top brands are approaching their own hybrid event strategies in 2021 and 2022. Right now, ZenDesk isn't going to be producing any physical events in 2021 (2022?). We are an incredibly in-person, face-to-face organization.”. Hybrid is a Spectrum. Hybrid is not one size fits all.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 6, 2020

And we developed a very thorough communication plan that had to be executed by each team, and talking to sponsors, to clients, to delegates, and to have a unified message for everybody”, she adds. We decided what we should communicate and with whom. Pivoting To Virtual Events: The First One.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Calendar year 2024 is already forecasted to show a healthy increase in group rooms nationwide, largely due to the number of meetings that had been on the books in 2021, 2022 and 2023 that were postponed or re-scheduled into 2024. Taylor continues, “I also wish planners would involve destination marketing organizations more.

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MeetingsNet

JULY 12, 2021

Sponsored by: The pandemic has ushered in a wave of innovation and exciting new opportunities in the event space. The overall event landscape may have evolved, but events continue to remain indispensable for generating growth and support for your organization. Forrester Study, 2021 ).

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Smart Meetings

MAY 23, 2022

The Asheville area focuses heavily on making a positive impact on its community through its many community service organization collaborations. The non-profit organization Riverlink also specializes in the restoration of areas in Asheville. In fiscal year 2020-2021, nearly 2,500 volunteers supported MANNA.

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MeetingsNet

MARCH 16, 2021

As a result, the umbrella organization for the meeting and convention industry has set its sights on a similar study, with a twist. Examine prospects for meetings and other events in 2021 and beyond, “including tactics and strategies being employed to accelerate the recovery.”.

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Bizzaboo

JULY 12, 2022

Although in Q4 2021, 75% of events on Bizzabo’s platform were virtual, only 30.6% 71% of event decision makers say that it’s difficult to make virtual events accurately mimic the IRL experience, with 2 in 3 (67%) feeling it’s difficult to articulate a brand narrative through virtual events ( BlueJeans and Forrester , 2021).

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DCI

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Since the advent of paid social media, destination marketing organizations (DMOs) have wondered if investing in organic social or paid social generates better returns, especially on a tight budget. But you may not have noticed that as these channels have become more saturated, organic posts reach fewer and fewer users.

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 21, 2021

Fan seating at Petco Park in San Diego serves as session seating for attendees of Warrior West 2021, a military resource and training expo. The event, Warrior West 2021 — a military and first responder resource and training expo organized by military gear and tactical equipment company ADS, Inc. — Photos by Daniel Snyder.

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Bizzaboo

APRIL 3, 2023

We’ve come a long way from Q4 2021 when a mere 16.8% We’ve come a long way from Q4 2021 when a mere 16.8% We’ve come a long way from Q4 2021 when a mere 16.8% We’ve come a long way from Q4 2021 when a mere 16.8% We’ve come a long way from Q4 2021 when a mere 16.8% of events on Bizzabo’s platform were in-person.

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Marketing Marketing Trends Virtual Events 105

Eventtia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Many organizations have been embracing events as an effective way to market their business and products/services. 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. Better-quality attendees. Monetize your event with sponsorships.

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The two-part CEMA webinar series, “Planning an Annual Conference in 2021, The Before & After,” reviewed what worked and what didn’t at Workiva’s Amplify virtual events. In that same spirit, I tuned in to the two-part CEMA webinar series , “Planning an Annual Conference in 2021, The Before & After.”

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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. Not surprisingly, the uncertainty has led to recent event postponements and cancellations. Here are four reasons the meetings industry is more resilient than ever.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 22, 2021

The third annual corporate-events research report from Germany-based meetings organization In-House Corporate Events (ICE) in conjunction with Cvent revealed several interesting trends as corporate-meeting departments coordinate events for 2022.

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Bizzaboo

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

But let’s talk about the elephant on the trade show floor: sponsorship and sponsor ROI. With the rise of virtual conferences and the influx of in-person events, one thing is sure: growth and scalability will rely on event sponsors. . However, sponsorship remains one of the biggest challenges for the most seasoned event organizers.

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 10, 2022

The Capital Chapter’s committee is busy identifying which bills to advocate, their sponsors and supporters, and reaching out to members from other PCMA chapters to help in the advocacy efforts, said Marcus Eng, Capital Chapter president. In 2021, 112 PCMA members from all over the U.S.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 2, 2022

Pre-Covid, Dreamforce attracted more than 170,000 people and included a major headliner concert, but it was a smaller, hybrid affair in 2021). a way for companies to track their greenhouse gas emissions—to help organizations accelerate their own journeys to net zero emissions. “In 24th annual Independent Games Festival Awards.

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Courtesy of ASA) Convene editors reached out to a handful of organizations to see how they are incorporating lessons learned from the ways the pandemic affected their audiences, stakeholders, and members into their go-forward strategies. That’s what we tried to do in 2020 and to an extent in 2021, because we didn’t know where to stop.

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Bizzaboo

AUGUST 3, 2023

The pandemic accelerated the need for solutions to help event organizers plan, execute, and measure the success of virtual, in-person, and hybrid events. But which event management platform is the best for you and your organization? In Q4 2021, 54.4% Are there options to promote sponsors and exhibitors?

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Best Corporate Events

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Best Corporate Events has been a proud sponsor of the Clearwater Jazz Festival for the past four years. This fantastic organization hosts an annual four-day music festival that incorporates fundraisers for music programs and also facilitates outreach events year-round. ? ? ? ? ? ? Clearwater Jazz Holiday October 14-17, 2021.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 30, 2024

The San Jose McEnery Convention Center’s culinary team sources local ingredients within a 150-mile radius to create fresh, organic and customized meals for meeting professionals who bring their events to the more than 360,000-square-foot convention center. to 12:30 p.m. to help with planting, weeding, transplanting and other essential tasks.

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 26, 2020

At the beginning of March, we published an in-depth guide on what event organizers need to know about COVID-19. In this guide we covered how event organizers can and have adapted their event strategies to COVID-19. Being a non-profit, the event especially relies on sponsors to make their event possible.

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Bizzaboo

APRIL 19, 2023

Not being able to communicate the value proposition through your marketing efforts is a sign that the event content must be better organized and articulated. Coordinate event co-marketing initiatives with sponsors Just as attendees can take part in the event marketing plan, sponsors can also collaborate to create co-marketing strategies.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Event organizers can decide which of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals Decide which of those 17 goals are most within their reach to accomplish and aligned with the mission of their organizations. 2, zero hunger, as a key element of its 2021 event, held July 19-23. Courtesy UN).

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ITA Group

JANUARY 26, 2021

This will require highly interactive and collaborative features to support audience engagement and community building as well as the investment of sponsors/exhibitors. Virtual office hours and chats allow flexibility in an attendee’s day to reach out to a sponsor and setup some one and one time to collaborate.

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Event Technology Technology Technology Sponsors 96

MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

You’ve been organizing and leading strategy for TED conferences for just under three years. Events were starting to come back in 2021, but TED didn’t come back until 2022 virtually. We had the chance to sit down with Ruff-Bell at the inaugural TEDNext , a new future-focused conference series held Oct.

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Bizzaboo

JUNE 15, 2022

Unfortunately, you can’t just decide to put on a user conference and automatically assume the event will be a game-changer for your organization. Consider sponsors and vendors. One way to add more star power to your conference is by joining forces with the right sponsors and vendors. Tips for User Conference Planning.

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