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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Endless Events

APRIL 8, 2022

But this is no easy feat; research shows that 46% of event organizers say that speakers struggle to simultaneously engage a virtual and in-person audience. A great asynchronous hybrid event case study is IBTM 2021. Event marketers have confirmed that implementing event platforms helps them prove event ROI and save time.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 21, 2021

“ASAE is proud to have debuted a meeting model for its 2021 Annual Meeting that was all about creating more choices for our members, partners and other stakeholders,” said ASAE President and CEO Susan Robertson , CAE. — Greater Columbus Convention Center (@cbusconventions) August 18, 2021. Checkout their recording.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

“Being able to go ahead and be experts at using these platforms has dramatically changed since the beginning. There’s the in-person mobile app for your in-person attendees and the virtual platform for your virtual attendees to have a great hybrid experience. That virtual element is still so important.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Rather than having a regular conversation about event technology, Will and Brandt are sharing the contents of a session they led at the FICP Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona back in November 2021. And now, we’re seeing this again with event platforms , only it’s over the span of 18 months.”

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Hybrid events comprise many little parts, such as choosing the right event platform, developing a COVID-compliance strategy , and of course, taking care of the production and AV side of things. When reviewing the production of the PCMA Educon 2021 (a well-executed hybrid event!), Today, we’ll focus on the latter.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In a Livestorm survey conducted in 2021 , 68 percent of respondents reported increased use of video conferencing in the past 12 months, in everything from internal meetings to conferences and tradeshows. Leading video conferencing platforms are starting to incorporate these features in order to combat screen fatigue.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 10, 2022

As the mastermind behind the top 22 event platforms to use in 2022 , he has a great grasp of where things are going in the ever-evolving world of event technology. ” Before he lets Kyle take the wheel and talk more about the community model, Will explains how event tech platforms are changing their business model.

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Endless Events

APRIL 30, 2021

While pre-COVID considerations also play into the decision-making process, the event landscape of 2021 brings more complexity to the table. Source: ESNS 2021. Over the past year, everyone learned just how important the virtual ‘venue’ – aka virtual event platform – was. So let’s get to it!

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Select your venue, virtual platform, and major vendors. The same goes for virtual platforms : find one that best supports your goals. Other important vendors that need to be booked well ahead of your event include your AV team, entertainment, and speakers. Gather speaker biographies and confirm details.

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The MICE Blog

AUGUST 11, 2021

As a serial entrepreneur and highly in-demand speaker, he experienced some of the most iconic events and organised his own. The casting of the keynote speakers and the panels will be focused on subjects such as NFT, the current status of Tik Tok, influencer marketing and direct-to-consumer brands. It’s something to think about.’.

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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. On the other hand, spokes will enable smaller groups of attendees, speakers, exhibitors, and staff to convene. Most speakers presented live across four main stages (…).

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Smart Meetings

JULY 24, 2023

He also noted the downside of not having the platform available in Europe, having it so tied to Instagram (you can’t delete without deleting Instagram), that it lacks identity and has a weak algorithm that shows you a lot of random posts. That would be asking for trouble the way the platform has shifted to trolls today,” she said.

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Madison Butler, founder of HR and DEI consultancy Blue Haired Unicorn, wrote a LinkedIn post that became a directory of Black speakers, the Black Speakers Collection website. Black speakers and Black speaker recommendations started flowing in. At that point, there were 28 speakers. The next day, on Dec.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 6, 2020

So maybe the platform wasn’t perfect or the few hundred talks that we had to record were not the best quality or as perfect as we would have liked. So if you make all the effort to actually get to the destination and be there and listen, you would really require something out of those speakers. Conclusions.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 31, 2021

Corporations, universities, government agencies and associations abruptly began rethinking the structure of their conferences and team-building events for the remainder of 2021. Li Hayes of speaker management agency Go Leeward argued here in early August that hybrid is dead. The primary barrier is return on investment,” she wrote.

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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. ” Experiential Virtual Events In 2021. Sarah then asks AJ what are some other ways that she’s looking to elevate in 2021.

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Bizzaboo

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The most authoritative list of 2021 virtual events and conferences on the internet. Planners have already made their intentions clear, with 93% of event marketers already planning to incorporate virtual events into their strategy in 2021 and beyond. Note: As 2021 goes on, we plan on updating this post regularly. IMPACT 2021.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 1, 2022

The repositioning of Encore as more than just an AV equipment supplier is being championed by a new senior team working with President and CEO (and 2021 Smart Meetings Catalyst Winner ) Ben Erwin. Now a menu of choices includes streaming, hologram speakers and microphones on each table. The whole dynamic of meeting has changed.

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Blue Spark Event Design

AUGUST 16, 2021

They quickly became overwhelmed with the additional planning, execution, and branding involved with a virtual event, and they literally ran out of time to train the lifeblood of the conference – their virtual speakers, and panelists. When they called us in a panic to help them train over eighty virtual speakers, our team was ready.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

That was a reminder from Greg Bogue, chief experience architect at Maritz Global Events and keynote speaker last week at Smart Meetings Incentive Experience in Riviera Maya at the all-inclusive Hotel Xcaret Arte. Go through the registration platform yourself to test it out. pic.twitter.com/D0OzLJU7CJ. —

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

So for example, this is the sales deck that we’re going to use for 2021 that you need to roll it out to all 7,000 of our salespeople and make sure that it’s consistent across all of them. “We learned through acquisition experiences that adoption of these platforms is tough. This then leads to the second product.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 25, 2024

Between 2021 and 2022, I committed the error of typing the phrase “the future is hybrid” not once, but seven times and even titled an early 2023 story “ The Future is Hybrid-ish.” Insights resource Crunchbase estimated that in 2020 and 2021, more than $1.5 Read More: Can One Virtual Meeting Platform Rule Them All?

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The speakers shared their own definitions of wellness. The speakers all established the common understanding that meeting professionals must take care of themselves. Natural light was one of the most important elements to the speakers. The speakers all agreed that self-care means different things to different people.

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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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Social Tables

JANUARY 14, 2022

Hospitality professionals saw the industry undergo tremendous changes in 2021. 2021 also brought about many exciting developments in hospitality technology, digital marketing, hotel services, and changes in travel trends. Detailed event schedules, session details, speaker lists, and other event information will be released soon.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

The international community of bedload specialists met in Interlaken in late 2021 to address current and future issues regarding the implementation of restoration measures in Switzerland. These two platforms offer opportunities for experts to network and exchange on experiences from practice. About the organiser: Wasser-Agenda 21.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 31, 2022

Circular Economy Entrepreneurs 2021. Afterwards, it moved the second edition to Interlaken in 2020, and in 2021, it moved the event to Bern. Circular Economy Entrepreneurs 2021. Since 2006, Kursaal has been a member of the climate platform of the city of Bern and has had 21 different projects there. About the organiser.

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Endless Events

JUNE 15, 2022

. — Stella Artois (@StellaArtois) March 30, 2021. Your speakers and emcees should also know about the experience you’re planning. Have Event Staff Support Your Event Concept. Make sure your event staff is familiar with the concept of your experiential event and instruct them to make people feel a certain way.

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Bizzaboo

JULY 12, 2022

. ~1,000 events with at least one paid ticket option launched over the last three months on Bizzabo’s platform, marking a 30% increase compared to the previous 12 months. Although in Q4 2021, 75% of events on Bizzabo’s platform were virtual, only 30.6% 655 is the average ticket price for paid events. Bizzabo , 2020).

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The MICE Blog

JULY 26, 2021

In the past 18 months, we’ve seen a rapid evolution of virtual events regarding event technology platforms and online experiences. It had world-class online entertainment by Drag Taste, prominent industry and non-industry speakers, with the headline speaker Gary Vaynerchuk. Then, just start testing. Does this sound familiar?

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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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Bizzaboo

APRIL 3, 2023

On the Bizzabo platform, 75% of events in May 2023 are scheduled to be in-person events! We’ve come a long way from Q4 2021 when a mere 16.8% of events on Bizzabo’s platform were in-person. 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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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In many ways, 2021 felt like a series of false starts. Last April, Anderson shed light on this topic during the “How Online Community Has Changed in 2021” Association Chat episode hosted by L’Italien (see video above). L’Italian cautions planners to avoid rushing to commit to a platform before a strategy is set.

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ITA Group

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

91 Invaluable Sales Training Resources for 2021. Best-selling author, entrepreneur, and sales leader Anthony Iannarino has built a successful international career as a consultant and speaker. 4 Essential Body Language Tips From a World-Champion Public Speaker | Dananjaya Hettiarachchi. Why Managers Matter | Victor Antonio.

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 29, 2022

Reed outlined the approach the 2021 ASH Annual Meeting, held Dec. For the 2021 event, the registration price for face to face and digital was the same, and the event produced equivalent content for both audiences. With an in- person speaker, the audience is engaged. Data Driven.

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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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