Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

MPI Academy shares insights into how planners can master their continuing education journey Ah, the continuing education conundrum. Continuing Education with MPI Academy Tim Luepke, director of MPI Academy Once an event producer himself, Luepke now dedicates his time to giving back to the industry with education and advancing careers.

Education 278

Education Certification Planner Trends 278

Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Event planners worry about meeting growing attendee expectations while dealing with rising costs, reduced staffs, and smaller budgets. Conducted between August and September, the DCI study includes the responses of 173 global event planners, 57 percent of whom have more than 20 years of experience in the events industry.

Planner 52

Planner Publishing Site Selection Trade Show 52

Smart Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2023

One major aspect is the engagement among attendees. Where event profs hope to give event attendees a vibrant, appealing and informative session, it may come off more as an information dump for some. Make Your Attendees Feel Like Co-creators. Make Your Attendees Feel Like Co-creators.

Meeting 245

Meeting Remote Events Audience 245

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Becoming a sustainable event planner is a marathon, not a sprint. As the events industry continues to evolve in its sustainability journey, there are a lot of accomplishments to celebrate. Planners, partners and attendees are more aware and invested than ever. How are you reporting out on this?

Sustainability 130

Sustainability Event Planning Certification Events 130

Traveler's Q

JULY 25, 2024

In this blog, we’ll explore how to navigate cultural nuances and plan successful international events. Understanding Cultural Sensitivity in Global Events Cultural sensitivity is a crucial aspect of global event planning. However, language barriers can pose significant challenges in international event planning.

Culture 130

Culture Logistics Events Audience 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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 Remote Sustainability Contracts 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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 Remote Sustainability Contracts 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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 Remote Sustainability Contracts 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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 Remote Sustainability Contracts 130

Bizzaboo

MARCH 15, 2023

We’ve compiled a list of websites for event planners so some of the hardest-working professionals can complete every task on their list. Skift Meetings (formerly EventMB) Formerly known as EventMB, Skift Meetings was founded in 2007 as one of the first blogs for event professionals. Ready to dive straight in?

Website 98

Website Planner Certification Publishing 98

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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 Remote Sustainability Contracts 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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 Remote Sustainability Contracts 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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 Remote Sustainability Contracts 130

Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Now that virtual events are fairly normalized, it’s never been easier to access a global audience. 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. Here’s Why.

Virtual Events 317

Virtual Events SEO Events Speakers 317

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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 Remote Sustainability Contracts 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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 Remote Sustainability Contracts 130

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? Event Registration Basics. Browsing is limited.

Registration 316

Registration Events Event Technology Sponsors 316

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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

Endless Events

MAY 9, 2023

Human effort is still very much a part of the event planning process. In fact, AI is one of the fastest-growing technologies event planners trust to plan, promote, and analyze their events. Check out these five tips to use the combined power of AI and data to make your next event a smash hit.

Event Planning 177

Event Planning Automation Social Media Panel 177

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. Let’s learn more. It’s a cultural fit.” It’s ugly and scary.

Registration 130

Registration Speakers Transportation Contracts 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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

Social Tables

APRIL 16, 2019

19 Event Trends for 2019 19 Event Trends Shaking Up Group Business & Meetings in 2019 from Social Tables An annual Social Tables tradition, our event trends report predicts the biggest changes to hit both planners and venues in the year ahead.

Planner 120

Planner Management Marketing Marketing 120

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

While a live shooter may be what comes to mind first when considering worst-case scenarios, today’s planners also have to be on the lookout for a mistimed social media post or optics that are not aligned with the DEI or sustainability goals of the company. Another “soft” risk that needs to be addressed: the changing needs of attendees.

Rehearsal 264

Rehearsal Social Media Insurance Incentives 264

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Impact XM shares seven sustainable action areas for planning green meetings Global event and experiential marketing agency Impact XM believes that sustainability is not an end goal, but a practice. We are trying to organize it to help event planners think about just seven. Now multiply that by every attendee.

Sustainability 263

Sustainability Transportation Production Venue 263

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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 Benefits 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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 Benefits 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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 Benefits 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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 Benefits 130

Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Financial and insurance industry meeting planners face complex demands. Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. 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 Benefits 130