Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

they’re equipped with the lighting, a camera, white backdrop and monitors so they can see the audience and interact with them in real-time. “[It] But as Cameron says, this is corrected for using holograms, getting the attendee onstage to be seen and heard right in front of the audience. “An Read More : It’s All About Engagement!

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 16, 2024

There’s encouraging news in the Freeman Trends Report: 2024 Attendee Intent and Behavior , released Tuesday, Jan. 16, by the global events company: Attendance at in-person events, which has risen as the worst of the pandemic has receded, is expected to hold steady over the next 12 months.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

But today, let’s take a few steps back and think about where do our events truly begin. Is it when your attendee walks through the doors of your venue or logs on to your virtual event platform? Or is it much earlier, at event registration? And they want to know that ASAP – when attendees register.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Read More : Make Hybrid Events Worth Every Dollar for Virtual Attendees All of it underscores a recognition that togetherness is an essential ingredient for success. Think then about how event experiences can advance that purpose through alignment with the commercial objectives. Get to know your audience on a deeper level.

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 6, 2022

Megan Finnell, CMP, director, meetings & conferences, MGMA, and Tim Simpson, brand & engagement chief strategist for Maritz Global Events’ Design Studio, speak to EduCon attendees Monday during their session. The data showed that half of the audience liked parties and half of them liked directed networking, she said.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 19, 2024

How can planners help their attendees to feel a sense of genuine belonging through their event design? Whats the business case for having consistent wellness programming in events? When Cvent CEO Reggie Agarwal shared in late spring 2024 that business events has become a $1.6 Is There a Formula for Happiness?

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The next generation of event attendees is bringing demographic changes and dramatic shifts in values compared to previous generations. By 2030, three-quarters of meeting attendees will be categorized as Millennials and Gen Z, he said. Last month, for the first time, the number of Gen Z workers overtook Boomers in the U.S.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 10, 2018

Then, try to really engage visitors to achieve your event goal: to get leads. And to max out your trade show engagement, we invite you to take our free audience engagement webinar and learn how professionals at the top of their game create and maintain engagement for their events. What You Can Do with a Personalized Event.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Now that compression is making available space an endangered resource and inflation is pushing up prices for even the most basic items while companies are hesitant to make binding decisions, the responsibility for explaining the realities of what is possible on both sides of the balance sheet falls to the event planner. Choices, Choices.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 9, 2024

Are you ready for the next crisis to strike at your event? What plan do you have in place to communicate important messages to your attendees? Crisis communication is an essential, if often overlooked, element for all events. You want to ensure you have more than one method to contact your audience if an emergency strikes.

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Endless Events

APRIL 20, 2021

Virtual, hybrid, or in-person – it doesn’t matter what type of an event we are talking about – the fact of the matter is that the attendees’ priorities have dramatically shifted. Before we even start considering the event tech side of things, for example, we have to go back to basics.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Neurodiversity, and how to properly create a positive experience for neurodiverse attendees, is another big-ticket item. The MPI course that equips event professionals with the skills they need to do so, Event Welfare Champion: Neurodiversity & Experience Design , is a product of a partnership with a subject matter expert.

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Traveler's Q

JULY 25, 2024

Understanding and respecting cultural differences can transform your events into memorable experiences that resonate with diverse audiences. In this blog, we’ll explore how to navigate cultural nuances and plan successful international events. Multilingual Staff: Employ staff who are fluent in the languages of your attendees.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Designing accessible events topped almost all meetings industry event agendas in 2024, but few planners understand what is required to make everyone feel welcome even as equal access moves from the desired to the required column in their job descriptions. Most have multiple impairments, and that includes the audience and the speakers.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 4, 2024

Given the free time the WSWA team had, the association chose 2023 as the year to introduce a rebrand and additional changes to its event. An excited 2,449 attendees took to Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Orlando over four days, a 5% increase in attendance from 2019, according to the association. “It

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 22, 2023

Next Gen Event Goers, as a group, are more likely to be female, are more diverse, and have higher levels of education than event goers over 45, the studies show. A new wave of event attendees is on the horizon and signals a paradigm-changing generational shift, according to a report released today by global event company Freeman.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2023

. – Technology and innovation – Trends and research – People and planet – Business practices – Experience design – Event marketing “That’s on purpose,” Endean said. “We Attendees will learn the use cases and what it means for real people. We’re not exponentially changing the world.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Slide by slide, tab by tab, line item by line item, I ensure they understand how we’re using every dollar to create an experience (or experiences, if we’re delivering a hybrid event) that is guaranteed to achieve their business goals and exceed their, and the attendees’, expectations. Save Money by Skipping Software You Don’t Need.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

But the truth is, as event planners, we all wish we could snap our fingers and make everyone in our target audience feel it. After all, it’s probably one of the best events out there, right? Our fantastic host Nick Borelli is ready to tell you all about how to create event FOMO through design experiences.

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Convene by PCMA

MARCH 24, 2022

I find that in many cases, we have a bunch of delegates who do not speak English as a first language therefore offering real-time transcripts and post-event transcripts not only increases accessibility, but significantly improves understanding and knowledge transfer. Read more Catalyst questions and comments.

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Maritz Global Events

JUNE 27, 2019

Chances are good that your event is not the only one of its kind. That means your potential attendees may have to pick your event or another, which also means someone wins and someone loses. What goes into this decision-making process of your audience? No Swindling Your Attendees. The Takeaway. About Mitch.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The annual is the biggest global event of the many he produces each year and it holds a bounty of lessons for meeting professionals looking to scale up. One thing that helped was sharing messaging with attendees that they should request appointments before registration even opens to start the process and schedule interviews earlier.

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Maritz Global Events

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Trend #1: Post-Pandemic Attendees: What Do They Look Like Now? Our audiences are changing. Our attendees have become accustomed to living life on their own terms and are more comfortable communicating their boundaries. At Maritz Global Events, we are ready to embrace this shift.

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Endless Events

MAY 9, 2023

Not only will this give attendees more networking opportunities, but it’s also a great way to build a community around your event and brand. Every event planner wants community, but you need to match the right types of people together to form that community — and that’s no small feat. It’s a win for everyone.

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Stova

AUGUST 17, 2020

Virtual event software is becoming more and more sophisticated, enabling experiences that surprise and awe audiences. With this, organizers are doubling and in some cases, tripling their pre-COVID-19 events attendance, attracting international participants from across the globe.

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The MICE Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It was a great opportunity to see how corporate event teams operate, and to recognise their teamwork, creativity and originality. Event: SAP Sapphire Author: Tim Porterfield – SAP Global Events. Location of Event. This approach culminated in >20,000 attendees in 2019.

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Convene by PCMA

JUNE 12, 2023

(Whatever Media Group) Event organizers who are considering straining their budgets to hire celebrity speakers — or who feel pressure to do so — may want to think again. Ken Holsinger The takeaway, Holsinger said, is that meeting attendees want to hear from their peers, to be inspired, and maybe go to a concert or a standup-comedy act.

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The MICE Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

The experiential event format will showcase 150 professions and will allow attendees to engage directly with the employers and ask questions of current apprentices in the programmes. . The SwissSkills event targets a young audience. What considerations go into designing an event for young demographics?

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Convene by PCMA

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Tim Simpson and Liz Smith, both from Maritz Global Events, speak during their Convening Leaders 2022 session, “Transforming Event Experiences: How to Deliver Meaningful Human-to-Human Moments.”. Simpson hasn’t yet arrived at a standard definition of what human-to-human design means for the events industry, he said.

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Convene by PCMA

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Musician Ciaran Gribbin leads PCMA EduCon 2019 attendees in a song during a session about team building. Creating engaging future events will partly involve more active audience participation, says one events organizer. Co-creation — Henshall thinks we’re moving into much more active audience participation.

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

5 lessons from a Maritz brand-experience expert on catching the attention of potential attendees and getting them to act. Here’s why each element produces effective attendee-focused communications: Easy. Having too many possibilities overwhelms people,” Bogue told the IMEX audience. Attractive. Personalized. Personalized.

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Maritz Global Events

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Merely knowing what attendee churn is and why it happens isn’t enough. You need to be able to stop it from killing your event’s future. As we know, attendee churn is your event’s failure to retain guests year over year. Stop Attendee Churn from Happening in the First Place.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

People may put you in a box based on their notions of what you can and can’t do, but meeting professionals have to be box-breakers if they are going to have an impact for their audiences. Meanwhile, attendees worked with Impact 4 Good to support children struggling with food insecurity in Denver as part of a fun trivia and activity challenge.

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Bizzaboo

APRIL 3, 2023

Would you believe that 60% of leadership believe that events are the most critical marketing channel for achieving business goals? We’ve compiled a list of marketing and event statistics to inspire your event strategy or as fodder for your next event marketing presentation to get buy-in from key stakeholders.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

People may put you in a box based on their notions of what you can and can’t do, but meeting professionals have to be box-breakers if they are going to have an impact for their audiences. Meanwhile, attendees worked with Impact 4 Good to support children struggling with food insecurity in Denver as part of a fun trivia and activity challenge.

Insurance 130

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

People may put you in a box based on their notions of what you can and can’t do, but meeting professionals have to be box-breakers if they are going to have an impact for their audiences. Meanwhile, attendees worked with Impact 4 Good to support children struggling with food insecurity in Denver as part of a fun trivia and activity challenge.

Insurance 130

Insurance Sustainability Remote Contracts 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

People may put you in a box based on their notions of what you can and can’t do, but meeting professionals have to be box-breakers if they are going to have an impact for their audiences. Meanwhile, attendees worked with Impact 4 Good to support children struggling with food insecurity in Denver as part of a fun trivia and activity challenge.

Insurance 130

Insurance Sustainability Remote Contracts 130