Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Note to #meetingprofs : You have to experience the @encore @EncoreGlobal_ experience to spark your excitement about the possibilities for immersing your attendees in multi-sensory journies. A total of 11 new digital walls will enhance communication. IMEX22 pic.twitter.com/L1HkdcudyB. — JT Long (@SmartMtgsJT) October 11, 2022.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 26, 2024

An estimated 1,700 attendees passed through the West Hall doors at Los Angeles Convention Center the second week of December. A hands-on technology learning lab encouraged attendees to test their prompt prowess as AI collaborators and take new tech products for a drive. is an annual tradition. This year was no exception.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Among the most recent to receive Elite certification is SCP Hilo, a 128-room property with meeting space for up to 40 attendees, on the Island of Hawai’i. Across all of these, three tiers of overall certification can be awarded, starting with “Qurator Certified,” moving up to “Qurator Honored” and finally to “Qurator Elite.”

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 10, 2022

When most attendees make travel plans, they consider things like hotel amenities, nearby restaurants and fun attractions. Attendees can also explore the Indianapolis Museum of Art that lives in the same building. That is good news for meeting professionals relying on CVBs as the local experts for helping all attendees feel welcome.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 21, 2023

Improving Accessibility in the Events Industry Accessibility is a critical aspect of event planning that ensures all attendees can fully participate in and enjoy the event experience. This can include professional interpreters or even AI-translated speech, that can be accessed via the attendee’s own mobile phones.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Choosing Bellevue to Host Lenovo Tech World 2024 Meeting Attendee Needs Marty McCormack, destination sales manager, Visit Bellevue Bellevue is a major tech hub in the Pacific Northwest, which made it a top choice right off the bat. Even though we had attendees at many different properties, we were able to walk around.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 21, 2023

Improving Accessibility in the Events Industry Accessibility is a critical aspect of event planning that ensures all attendees can fully participate in and enjoy the event experience. This can include professional interpreters or even AI-translated speech, that can be accessed via the attendee’s own mobile phones.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Most meeting professionals manage the needs of a small subset of attendees who require food, wheelchair access, sound, language or sensory accommodations. Look at everything from the attendee perspective, reviewing your platforms and your registration site. Is it tabbable? Does it work with screen readers ? “A

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 10, 2024

During the summit, DI offered attendees resources such as the Global Accessibility Report , Workforce Diversification and Retention Industry Brief , 2024 Social Inclusion Lexicon , and Social Inclusion Resources Glossary. SM How does offering these resources improve the event experience for attendees and planners?

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Attendees can watch the panel and interact in the live chat, but there’s very little two-way communication available. Sessions can live on the very same event platform attendees used during the event, but when recorded on Zoom, planners need to find someplace to store it and deliver it to their audiences.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 25, 2025

Attendees at Visit California Outlook Forum 2025 at JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. To find out what the university is teaching future meetings and event professionals and what they gleaned from the two days of sessions and networking, we asked Ryan Becker, senior vice president of communications and strategy with Visit California.

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Dana Communications

MARCH 31, 2025

Pop-ups are a fun way to introduce people to the joys of your destination in a clever, seemingly spontaneous (to the attendee) type of way. Planned events where attendees can learn about your destination firsthand at an event that hits home for them is another integral experiential marketing venture. Team up with Dana Communications.

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Endless Events

APRIL 8, 2022

Chances are you’ve heard of asynchronous communication or learning before; the type of communication where participants don’t interact in real-time (at the same time). It seems that the asynchronous communication trend has also started making waves in the meeting and events industry , namely as asynchronous hybrid events.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 24, 2025

Providing marketing tools, such as attendee demographics and registration insights, helps exhibitors identify potential business opportunities and focus their efforts. For example, as only about half of attendees are decision-makers, exhibitors need clear data to set realistic targets and allocate their budgets effectively.

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Endless Events

MAY 5, 2022

It’s not just that technology appeals to our attendees. The Benefits Of Event Technology & Effective Communication. Technology has enabled us to communicate with virtually anybody anywhere at any time – both in our personal as well as professional lives. Event technology solves many common event planning pain points.

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Endless Events

AUGUST 8, 2022

While chatbots are helpful when engaging communities during events, they can also be an excellent tool if you want to implement the community model and engage your attendees all year. . Today, Will, Brandt, and Kyle discuss event chatbots in 2022 and the community model with chatbot expert Chuck Elias. Will agrees.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 17, 2021

Event planners, speakers and attendees all saw their calendars cleared out last March, returning slowly with virtual events and only now showing a glimmer of hope for the return of live conferences. Here are some ways you can make attendee experience a differentiator for your next event: Communication. A Killer Emcee.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 12, 2023

Looking into the desires of incentive travel attendees The term “incentive travel” is full of positive associations: Taking a trip abroad, creating memories with favored colleagues or exploring a culture you never would have otherwise. Communication It’s tough to keep employees privy to incentive opportunities if they don’t know they exist.

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Endless Events

JUNE 1, 2022

Consider adding one to your upcoming event and automate some of your event communications. An event chatbot is designed to answer questions about events and offer support to attendees. Chatbots can only answer questions that they have been taught , but what if attendees start asking questions planners didn’t anticipate?

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Share Every Detail Possible Before Attendees Arrive Pre-event meeting messaging tends to focus on where attendees can stay and what education sessions they should attend. However, for many attendees, those details aren’t nearly as important as being able to understand the nuances of the environment.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 15, 2022

Offering a hybrid format for your meetings and events may: Bring you more attendees, as well as greater community engagement between and with the virtual and in-person audiences. How are you delivering on the member or attendee value proposition? Reasons to Hybrid. Increase your membership. Get Strategic.

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Endless Events

JULY 22, 2022

Kyle thinks it’s also important to consider whether attendees funnel to a customer relationship manager (CRM). Understanding whether attendees return to your events is essential information. . After they’ve registered for the event, they’re going to push their attendees back into Hubspot and say this is a confirmed registrant.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

To ensure a consistent and evolving impact for your company and attendees, we recommend developing a three-year event strategy. This strategic planning enables us to tailor the event’s elements to not only engage attendees but also to keep the desired outcomes in focus.

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Bizzaboo

DECEMBER 4, 2024

What do your attendees think about your event? What was the experience like for in-person versus virtual attendees at your hybrid event? In this post, we’ve compiled 51 must-ask event survey questions that you can paste directly into your post-event surveys to gain crucial insights into the attendee, sponsor, and employee experience.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Read More: Public Art is Unifying, Function and Important How You Can Work Refract into Your Seattle Meetings Kris La Fata, Visit Seattle One of the great conundrums of planners in recent years: how do you get attendees engaged in new and exciting ways? Visit Seattle can also curate it to your attendee demographic.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There are different ways in which you can achieve your event goals and objectives, not to mention each event has a distinct set of attendees and stakeholders. Depending on your event, you might be interested in measuring attendee satisfaction, gross revenue, sponsorship satisfaction, NPS, or session analytics. Two birds with one stone!

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Read More: Public Art is Unifying, Function and Important How You Can Work Refract into Your Seattle Meetings Kris La Fata, Visit Seattle One of the great conundrums of planners in recent years: how do you get attendees engaged in new and exciting ways? Visit Seattle can also curate it to your attendee demographic.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 27, 2022

While we’ve talked a lot about how the pandemic affected planners and attendees, we haven’t focused on exhibitors’ experience all that much. ” “Here’s the salt in the wound that got me upset: the congratulatory emails event planners send out to attendees after the event,” he continues.

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Bizzaboo

JANUARY 6, 2025

Its about bringing all the moving parts together in a way that feels effortless to your attendees while ensuring nothing slips through the cracks behind the scenes. At its heart, its all about delivering a seamless experience that leaves attendees feeling engaged, valued, and eager to participate again.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

For example, they know how to deal with bad weather at events and how to build a crisis communication plan. However, according to Event Brew , many are yet to master planning disruption-proof events amidst the pandemic – or at least master the way they communicate the unavoidable uncertainty. Let’s get brewing!

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Whether you’re planning a company event or an exhibition, it’s key that attendees all have the ability to efficiently communicate with one another and engage with the content. It’s not just the attendee who saves some money, it’s also the event planner.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Read More: Public Art is Unifying, Function and Important How You Can Work Refract into Your Seattle Meetings Kris La Fata, Visit Seattle One of the great conundrums of planners in recent years: how do you get attendees engaged in new and exciting ways? Visit Seattle can also curate it to your attendee demographic.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Read More: Public Art is Unifying, Function and Important How You Can Work Refract into Your Seattle Meetings Kris La Fata, Visit Seattle One of the great conundrums of planners in recent years: how do you get attendees engaged in new and exciting ways? Visit Seattle can also curate it to your attendee demographic.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Read More : Event Crisis Communication Templates Worth Copying Given SFI’s priority is focused toward sustainability , Loews Atlanta wanted to ensure, even during a water boil advisory, that the conference’s attendees would remain committed to sustainability.

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The winners are attendees as well as event hosts. Fortunately for the events industry, Hanzlik returned to the fold eight years ago, leveraging that knowledge and experience to make meetings more effective for hundreds of companies and tens of thousands of attendees. Neurodiversity, though, is a somewhat misunderstood term.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

“People are thinking about virtual attendee engagement and looking at how can they make it more fun for attendees rather than have them just sit and watch a screen. ” “So you may have some of your attendees in-person again, but a lot of folks aren’t ready to travel or they are working from home.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 28, 2021

Do this: Place headlines at strategic places in your communications as a way to help someone scan your content. I interview possible attendees before a presentation to understand their questions and tailor your talk. Hyper empathy: Make everything about them. You can do this, too. Call on audience members where you can.

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