Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. SM Your guide addresses a wide variety of topics in meetings like DEI. How and why are they connected?

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Business event planner respondents to Convene s 31st Annual Meetings Market Survey shared their biggest work challenges in open-ended responses, which fell into similar categories as the 2023 responses, but with budget woes taking the lead. Inflation is a widespread issue that exacerbates planners struggles.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Hybrid formats blur the lines between in-person and digital experiences, inviting remote and on-site attendees into shared moments, where everyone feels like they have a seat at the table. Similarly, inclusivity in 2025 will go beyond checking boxes; it’s about creating spaces where attendees feel free to show up fully as themselves.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 27, 2025

When it comes to incorporating healthy experiences in events, the saying meet people where they are was the touchstone for a series of seven Caesars Entertainment Meetings & Events Wellness Roadshows crossing the country. The Business Case for Alert and Focused Attendees David T. His advice?

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Take a moment to improve your mental health and your meetings will reap the rewards Meeting professionals are some of the busiest people out there. If you’re a hardworking meeting professional, chances are that you experience stress more than you’d like to. For many, being busy means being stressed. A little stress is fine.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. SM Your guide addresses a wide variety of topics in meetings like DEI. How and why are they connected?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By working with Visit Bellevue, the planners for Lenovo Tech World 2024 show the transformative power of partnership. Lenovo Tech World is the global technology company’s annual event, and as events at this level go, it’s an enormous undertaking for the planners organizing it. They really took over the city while they were here.”

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The MICE Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It is offering attendees insights into leading industries and innovative research. To promote sustainable travel within the city, free public transport tickets are provided for attendees who book their hotel stays through Stuttgart Marketing. Casino room, attendees have panoramic views of Stuttgart’s landmarks.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 30, 2024

How the gig economy is impacting the events industry In honor of Labor Day, Smart Meetings chatted with Tracy Judge, founder and CEO of Soundings , to get the latest scoop on the trends currently emerging within the freelance meeting planner gig economy. SM What types of freelance meeting planner roles are most in demand?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. SM Your guide addresses a wide variety of topics in meetings like DEI. How and why are they connected?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. SM Your guide addresses a wide variety of topics in meetings like DEI. How and why are they connected?

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 27, 2025

See in action how planners can amplify it to multiply ROI. Smart Meetings Wellness Experience brought not-a-buzzword, capital-W Wellness to life in word and action. Read More: The Science of Event Happiness Featured at Smart Meetings Elevate Experience Wellness, now. Wellness is already in events DNA. The ripple effect begins!

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In recent years, many event organizers have observed a notable trend: despite offering enticing early bird registration discounts, many attendees are hesitant to commit to conferences well in advance. What’s Behind Attendee Hesitancy 1. Read More : Helpful Budget Tips for Event Planners in a Post-Covid World 2.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Hologram technology can increase engagement and attract hard-to-get speakers Meetings may be a mostly in-person experience but—as we learned during Covid, with the use of Zoom, Teams and other online video platforms—the use of communications technology has its place in the world of meetings and events.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. SM Your guide addresses a wide variety of topics in meetings like DEI. How and why are they connected?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. SM Your guide addresses a wide variety of topics in meetings like DEI. How and why are they connected?

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

A vast source of valuable data is attendee tracking – one of the most powerful ways event professionals can measure event marketing success. This blog post explores how event managers can track their attendees and the most significant benefits of attendee tracking. Attendee Tracking: The Basics.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. SM Your guide addresses a wide variety of topics in meetings like DEI. How and why are they connected?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. SM Your guide addresses a wide variety of topics in meetings like DEI. How and why are they connected?

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Convene by PCMA

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The recent death of a participant at an event due to a food allergy led a number of event organizers to comment about event planners taking attendees health concerns seriously. It is with deep sadness, outrage, and disappointment that I reflect on the recent avoidable death of an event attendee due to a food allergy, she wrote.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Behavioral health activities make your meetings THE place to be Meeting professionals and the attendees at their events have a high level of responsibility. How Behavioral Health Fits into Meetings How do we handle stress? Read More: Hey, Busy Meeting Planner, You Feeling Stressed?

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 16, 2024

These hotels are ideal for small meetings, with big results. Between meetings, your attendees will find perfect R&R in their refreshed guest rooms and plenty to do outside, whether relaxing poolside in St. For business groups meeting onsite, the hotel features a combined 3,800 sq. Across the 1,000 sq.

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Endless Events

MARCH 21, 2022

The competition among event platforms is stiff these days, so event planners must understand what makes a certain platform stand out from the rest. Remo is a map-based virtual event platform that has been building events and meetings since 2018. How do the floor plans work and how does an event planner get started?

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 26, 2024

For many meeting professionals, taking a well-deserved breath after a year of planning large conventions, attending the International Association of Exhibitions & Events (IAEE) Expo! An estimated 1,700 attendees passed through the West Hall doors at Los Angeles Convention Center the second week of December. is an annual tradition.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Highlights included experiential activations designed to inspire what comes next in designing better meetings. Download “Pathways to Clarity” a joint IMEX, Smart Meetings White Paper outlining the state of the meetings industry. The Smart Meetings team was on the expo floor getting updates and sharing snapshots of the action.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

BCD Meetings and Events G uide helps make events more sustainable BCD Travel released a sustainability guide for meetings and events earlier this year, offering planners global sustainability trends and best practices. SM Your guide addresses a wide variety of topics in meetings like DEI. How and why are they connected?

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Smart Meetings

JULY 19, 2024

Travel and meeting risk trainer offers insights for the future The news Friday morning that an update from the software protection company CrowdStrike crashed travel, emergency, hospital and banking systems all over the globe, was a reminder of the risks of planning events in a highly networked world. Example: What if cell service goes down?

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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. Let’s learn more. Her father had cerebral palsy, which brought its own needs.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 19, 2024

Travel and meeting risk trainer offers insights for the future The news Friday morning that an update from the software protection company CrowdStrike crashed travel, emergency, hospital and banking systems all over the globe, was a reminder of the risks of planning events in a highly networked world. Example: What if cell service goes down?

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 25, 2023

As event managers, our goal at the end of a long-awaited event is to ensure meeting planners and their constituents are happy. 2 destination for meetings in North America, and one can imagine our event spaces and hotel services at JW Marriott Nashville see great demand being that we are in the heart of the happenings.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 4, 2024

Event planners who embrace wellness not only meet the evolving demands of attendees but also create environments that foster deeper engagement and satisfaction. Enhanced Attendee Engagement and Satisfaction Wellness practices at events can significantly improve the attendee experience.

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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? Megan Henshall, global event solutions, strategic lead at Google and co-lead of the Google Experience Institute (Google Xi) spoke to Smart Meetings about her pioneering work in neuroinclusive event design.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Experts weigh in on what needs to change to work together better Editor’s Note : Hospitality sales consultant Steve Steinhart will be speaking at Smart Meetings Extraordinary Experience in Monterey, California, Nov. If all the meetings that we have re-scheduled for 2024 come through, we will show a very nice gain in the group market.”

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Refract Seattle 2024 was the largest yet, in the festival’s sixth year—and it’s a shining example of an opportunity for business meetings and events, from citywides to VIP groups, to get connected with the locale of their chosen destination in an unforgettable way.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 21, 2024

Blend wellness with corporate events For many groups and attendees wellness is a priority. Smart Meetings looked at several locations whose primary objective is creating a comfortable environment that supports wellness, self-care and restoration. Lucia Smart Meetings What can guests expect to get out of your wellness events?

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Bespoke experiences to Wow attendees These new and renovated spaces have one critical element that brings meetings to the next level: character. of meeting and event space, including a ballroom and breakout rooms, include state-of-the-art tech and optimize natural light. The nearly 5,000 sq.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 22, 2024

How planners can safeguard their attendees against hotel room breaches In 2022, at a private event in Las Vegas during “hacker summer camp,” as the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences have come to be known, a group of researchers found a flaw that could put millions of hotel rooms around the world at risk of being breached.

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