Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Read More : WEC 2024 in Louisville Lifted Spirits with a Tactical Chaser I spoke with Drew Holmgreen, chief experience officer of MPI, and dove into what attendees to EMEC events can look forward to, both now and in the future. Holmgreen impressed upon me the importance of MPI’s “idea incubator” approach, involving formats and education.

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Endless Events

JUNE 5, 2020

Our main goals here has been to educate planners everywhere on the subject – and make them realize just how cool and engaging virtual events can be. After you took the time to learn about mistakes to avoid , how to engage your audience , and sponsorship deals , we want you to think about how to entertain attendees.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 27, 2025

To educate meeting professionals about the companys curated wellness menus of catering and content options, gatherings are happening from Washington, D.C., The Business Case for Alert and Focused Attendees David T. Ask attendee as part of registration what wellness means to them and what they would like to participate in.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

AI, inclusive travel and an engaged workforce were top of mind in Lake Tahoe DMA West took to the new Tahoe Blue Event Center in Stateline, Nevada, this October for its 2023 Education Summit & Vendor Showcase. The post 3 Big Ideas from DMA West’s Education Summit appeared first on Smart Meetings. We’ve recapped them below.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

An expanded exposition floor at Mandalay Bay Convention Center was brimming with activity Tuesday as an estimated 10,000 people flowed through hosted buyer appointments, education sessions and nearly 400 booths representing more than 180 countries, venues, technology vendors and suppliers. IMEX22 pic.twitter.com/L1HkdcudyB. —

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 17, 2022

As meeting planners, you have the opportunity to not only educate and entertain, but to create a moment of experience that becomes part of attendees’ very selves. I have made enough money to be successful, but also enough mistakes to be educational. Abraham also put current dire headlines in perspective.

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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. On its website, Qurator’s vision statement is encapsulated as “360-degree education, helping us all learn from each other.”

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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

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

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The 2025 European Meetings & Events Conference (EMEC) gathered meeting professionals in Istanbul, Turkiye, for three days of education, exploration and networking in a city that blends old and new, East and West, business and pleasure. We love them.

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Endless Events

MARCH 12, 2021

Introducing this exciting tech into attendees’ lives circumvents many of the challenges posed by virtual events. David Whelan is the CEO of Immersive VR Education , which sells a VR training and collaboration platform called Engage. Amazing Examples Of VR For Virtual Events. We achieved everything we set out to do and more.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The 2025 European Meetings & Events Conference gathered meeting professionals in Istanbul, Turkiye, for three days of education, exploration and networking in a city that blends old and new, East and West, business and pleasure. We love them.

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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

JULY 10, 2020

Over the past few months, we’ve been focused on providing all the educational content we possibly could about virtual events. And this is why we’ll begin diving into educational content on the topic, alongside virtual events. How Do Physical & Virtual Attendees Interact?

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Endless Events

JANUARY 6, 2021

Now, there’s gonna be a lot less face-to-face attendees, period, at the very least. The purest design is design thinking, which can be applied down to the floor arrangements all the way up to strategic choices made in order to create the experience that you desire for your attendees”, he adds. The Stages of Design Thinking.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

The annual conference plays a key role in AERs broader strategy: strengthening its members, fostering ongoing education, and collectively developing innovative solutions for current and future challenges. The short talks on specialized travel drew strong interest, while the AI session filled the room with curious attendees.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 3, 2025

attract more international exhibitors and attendees, ECA strongly encourages policymakers to adopt the measuresthat will strengthen our industry’s competitiveness and ability to drive economic growth, support job creation, empower small businesses, and help solve our most urgent societal challenges going forward.

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MPI

APRIL 11, 2025

Look at what you’re already doing in your daily routine and find ways to enhance it,” says James, who will be presenting “Beyond the Booth: Designing Wellness-Driven Experiences” at MPI’s World Education Congress (WEC), June 18-20 in St. “But how can we make them more engaging?

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 16, 2021

In a world where experience costs and attendee expectations are rising, smart meeting planners will consider how to make the most of their content investment. Prior to Covid, learning content was increasingly recognized as a driver of the perception of value for meeting attendees. Think like an Educator.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 3, 2025

Travel empowers attendees, and by immersing them in the local culture and community, we can offer a comprehensive conference experience that truly embodies the essence of the destination. Im most excited about attendees forming deeper connections with a citys community and culture. What are you most excited about?

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Endless Events

MARCH 26, 2021

Delivering educational and relevant material to an actively engaged audience has never been as important as it is now. The age of digital and hybrid experiences got the wheels turning in everyone’s heads, and many still struggle with the matter of how to deliver the best virtual content to their attendees. Don’t Dump Away.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 27, 2025

of vibrant, distinct meeting space at La Fonda on the Plaza attendees made brilliant connections and took part in an experience that both refreshed and inspired, heading home with elevated understanding and ideas of how to incorporate wellness into their own events, for all of their own attendees. Across the breathtaking 20,000+ sq.

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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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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Personalization allows each attendee to get exactly what they need.” If you work in the field of education, you may have heard about the collaborative learning movement, where forward-thinking educators are reinventing the way in which students around the world learn. What are collaborative learning spaces? Source: e180.

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Endless Events

JULY 15, 2021

Will, Thuy, and Nick revisit PCMA EduCon 2021 and share three different perspectives: one of a co-host, one of a virtual attendee, and one of an educated outside observer. ” Thuy was also a part of the PCMA EduCon 2021, as an attendee. I’m glad I attended it from a digital attendee standpoint.”

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Meeting Professional Continuing Education Includes Sustainability Certification Meeting professionals are taking sustainability more seriously than ever before. Look to Events Industry Council (EIC), a leader in event professional continuing education. It includes education around social responsibility and inclusivity.”

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Endless Events

JULY 24, 2020

My sister is a teacher in northern Nevada, and there are so many education problems that revolve around hybrid solutions. Even though the issue feels a lot like this: So we were both in positions to have an educated conversation on the topic. It’s not just a trend for events or education.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Freeman research indicates that event attendees are looking for specific opportunities to connect around personal interests. What’s the biggest disconnect between how organizers program networking at their events and what their attendees actually want?

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 21, 2023

What to consider when planning an event at an all-inclusive resort Meeting Professionals International (MPI) CEO Paul VanDeventer likes to say that when planning the association’s World Education Congress (WEC), MPI takes chances so members don’t have to take on the risk. And then just as luckily, it all came back up online,” he said.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 5, 2022

With so much young talent entering our industry, we wanted to create an easy and free way for our clients to train new team members and to provide continuing education for more experienced planners,” said GDP President and CEO Catherine Chaulet in a press release. Read More : Sustainable Hotel Certification, Explained. “As

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MeetingsNet

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The winners are attendees as well as event hosts. It’s not often that a business-event planner has a formal education and professional background in change management. In her role at BCD Meetings & Events, Hanzlik creates strategies for accommodating neurodiversity across the meeting experience for hundreds of clients.

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Endless Events

APRIL 28, 2020

Focus on providing educationals yet engaging content with enough balance between words, text, video, and attendee engagement tricks. #2 Just because we live in the 21st century and technology is pretty much ubiquitous, that doesn’t mean every attendee is tech-savvy. 9 Neglecting Attendees Post-Event.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 24, 2024

Drone show at “Unlock the Block” opening celebration at Sparkman Wharf The night prior had seen attendees gather in Sparkman Wharf for a night brimming with excitement amongst local bites and drinks, alongside that spectacular drone show. What does Destinations International hope attendees return home with having gained?

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 6, 2024

Long wait times and inflationary pressure linger at in-person-only medical meeting The arrival in Seattle of 11,631 attendees for the 2024 Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology ( ARVO ) conference in May was the culmination of a logistical struggle to return to bringing the world of eye doctors together at 2019 levels.

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Endless Events

MARCH 10, 2020

And learn how to plan a successful virtual event that your attendees will never forget! “Live webinars in addition to the summits where we do three hours of education, we now teach the majority of all of our certificate sessions online. And those programs are sometimes six hours long, and I facilitate and teach most of those.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 4, 2024

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 Attendees enjoyed the new elements of our show and the closing night party with Nelly as our performer was amazing.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As guests entered the convention center, they saw attendees dressed in festive red and green garb all around, from ugly Christmas sweaters to stylish holiday patterns. 13 and welcomed over 1,000 attendees and exhibitors. This year’s Seasonal Spectacular took place from Tuesday, Dec. 12 to Wednesday, Dec. in their official welcome. “The

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