Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The ways in which health and wellness fit into the events industry continue to evolve. 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? to prioritizing the day-to-day well-being of people.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

When we think of events, our minds automatically go to entertainment, networking opportunities, the stage, and gamification, among many other things. But today, let’s take a few steps back and think about where do our events truly begin. Or is it much earlier, at event registration? Event Registration Basics.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2023

The success of an event includes many factors. 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. Smart Meetings spoke with several event experts whose main goal is to craft a personalized, engaging and educational experience.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 9, 2024

Are you ready for the next crisis to strike at your event? Crisis communication is an essential, if often overlooked, element for all events. This is what I learned from planning and communication with internal stakeholders to PR and event cancelation best practices with examples you can use. Do not rely on one method.

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Endless Events

MARCH 26, 2019

Commoditization in the event industry is real. With the overall business paradigm changing, entire job positions being eradicated by advances in AI and automation, and the wave of commoditization ready to be ridden, what are the options for those working in the event planning industry? Are you looking to create a more engaging event?

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Endless Events

APRIL 20, 2021

In today’s episode of #EventIcons, we fix our eyes on the future and talk about post-COVID events. 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.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

By doing that, we can solidify the role of events in business regardless of the economic climate. We felt it in the surge of events flooding back in 2022. We’re inspired by social organizations rallying communities through events that spread messages for a better future. Get to know your audience on a deeper level.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The good news is that the associations are returning to in-person events in great numbers. The challenge is designing events that speak to the needs of an audience that changed over the last three years. Most of our larger events have gone to face-to-face, especially when there’s that B2B trade show component.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As an event professional you probably feel like you’ve spent more quality time with your event budget than you have your loved ones during the last two years. Here are my top 5 tips to effectively managing my budgets in the current event landscape. Melissa Park. Increasing Efforts on Client Education.

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Traveler's Q

JULY 25, 2024

Discover the Key to Successful International Events In today’s globalized world, corporate events are no longer confined to a single location or culture. To create truly impactful and inclusive events, it’s essential to expand your horizons and embrace cultural diversity.

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Eventtia

JANUARY 15, 2025

Lets be honest: planning an event can feel like a big risk. You book the venue, organize speakers, send out tons of invitationsand then sit back, wondering, What is event marketing really doing for my brand? In this post, Ill break event marketing down into simple steps so you can plan successful events that get great results.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Wouldn’t the world be perfect if every person out there felt event FOMO? In particular for the event that you’ve put together? But the truth is, as event planners, we all wish we could snap our fingers and make everyone in our target audience feel it. And how to create those moments within a live event.

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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. The event’s name was redubbed “Access Live,” an extension of the association’s WSWA Access, a program that connects wine and spirits producers with wholesalers via education and mentorship.

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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

AUGUST 15, 2022

Now that events are going back to in person, how can meeting professionals deliver the same level of detailed success metrics to the executive team about the range of value delivered on the investment? Spoiler alert: It starts with understanding the purpose of the event and getting everyone to align behind that. . Meet the Experts.

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The MICE Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Hosting an event of such big scale during a pandemic requires high levels of collaboration, creativity, resilience and innovation. The ESC is one of the best examples of what a global event in the post-pandemic world can look like. We invest in a diverse and wide range of events for everybody. So, how did they do it?

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Endless Events

AUGUST 10, 2018

To many event professionals, trade show engagement is a worthy but often elusive challenge. Then, try to really engage visitors to achieve your event goal: to get leads. The AV system is one of the core components of any event, no matter the complexity. What You Can Do with a Personalized Event. Is Your Audience Bored?

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Maritz Global Events

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Earlier this year we ran a survey asking event strategists to rate their and their audience’s digital fatigue. The response was overwhelming … both were feeling quite high levels. They say numbers don’t lie and that is pretty convincing.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

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. Certification can range from four-hour courses to 30-minute webinars to sessions at annual events and more. Luepke’s commitment? “It

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Many plan both internal and customer events, incentive trips and sales meetings. Learn More: From Checkboxes to Strategy: Implementing and Leading Sustainable Event Practices Topics included AI adoption, succession planning, contract negotiations, neurodiversity affordances, transportation management and sustainable sourcing.

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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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Endless Events

MAY 9, 2023

If you’re new to AI for events, we’ve got you covered. 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. Simplify Event Planning Events have a lot of moving parts.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 10, 2019

Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh was the exclamation point on the message that business event strategists can and should be a force for good in the world. “No In May, he challenged the biggest players in the industry to sign The Ascent CEO Promise , a pledge to be more inclusive in their workplaces and events.

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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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Convene by PCMA

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Creating engaging future events will partly involve more active audience participation, says one events organizer. Henshall shared what she called the “4 Cs” — four pillars to keep in mind when designing engaging and impactful events in the digital, hybrid, and face-to-face space. Jacob Slaton Photography).

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Maritz Global Events

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

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

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 16, 2024

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. It’s 2024,” he said, “and I want you to repeat after me: I will not … compare my event … to 2019 … anymore.” What motivates them, what drives them?”

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Convene by PCMA

JULY 6, 2022

The events industry traditionally has relied on qualitative tools, like surveys and focus groups, for information about how engaged audiences are with experiences. But it’s a natural for the events industry, too, Zak said. Maritz Global Events was an early adopter.) How did you like the keynote?

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 23, 2023

Learning tracks cover challenges that keep meeting professionals up at night When what is expected to be the largest crowd ever for an events industry trade show arrives at Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas in October for IMEX America 2023 , the focus will squarely be on connecting people in new, effective ways. to 12:30 p.m.

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The MICE Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

The merger was completed in April 2021 and to launch their combination, the executives of both companies organised an event called The Combination of Siemens Healthineers and Varian – Day One Digital Event. Varian Day One event won the Best Interdisciplinary Team award at the ICE Awards in Munich.

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The MICE Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

SwissSkills organises a biannual event which will take place this year from 7 to 11 September at the Bern Expo in Bern. 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. .

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MeetingsNet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

At the IMEX America show in Las Vegas in early November, Greg Bogue, enterprise vice president of brand, experience, and innovation systems for Maritz Global Events, cited those five attributes of effective communication with potential event attendees. Attractive. In short, images work better than text. Personalized.

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The MICE Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It is necessary to explore and experiment with new event formats and seek creative solutions. But this is not enough; we also need to look more deeply into the global trends that involve technology, organisational structures, generational shifts, learning, values, leadership, etc. Will it influence the way we create our events?

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

10 during a COP26 session where the event industry’s Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge was introduced. With the launch of the Net Zero Carbon Events Pledge on Nov. 15, 120 events industry stakeholders, including PCMA, have signed the pledge. Kai Hattendorf, speaks Nov. Binit Bharadia/UK Government).

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Bizzaboo

APRIL 3, 2023

If you’re looking for the most comprehensive list of event marketing, event management, and event planning statistics, you’ve come to the right place. The COVID-19 pandemic may have forced the events industry to pause and pivot, but remarkable change and innovation came along with that.

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MeetingsNet

MAY 27, 2022

The collaboration with VSef, the global data format for virtual events, will speed the push to make data easily accessible from and transferable between different online platforms and analytics tools. Now, the Events Industry Council, representing more than 30 events-industry organizations, has announced its support for VSef.

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