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Events in 2025: Creating a Foundation of Connection

Smart Meetings

Imagine crafting an event like preparing a Thanksgiving dinner, where every ingredient, every dish, and every seat at the table has been considered with intention and care. Today, the events industry is cooking up something different—a transformation fueled by deeper human connection, inclusivity, and a touch of technological magic.

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Six Effective Tips To Improve Audience Engagement At Live Events

Endless Events

How to improve audience engagement? Turn your event attendees into event participants. Try these six audience engagement techniques at your next event. Have you ever been to one of those events that bore you out of your mind? Engaged audience members participate more, learn more, and are happier.

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Virtual Audience Engagement: Keep Your Remote Attendees Happy!

Endless Events

It’s high time we talk about virtual audience engagement. Because yes, there is a lot of unknown ground surrounding virtual events. And perhaps the biggest concern of all lies in the fact that engaging virtual audiences is hard. The latter is a common concern for planners trying to convert their events into virtual experiences.

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MPI Gears Up for EMEC 2025 in Türkiye

Smart Meetings

MPI, the largest association within the MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) industry, has announced it will hold its 2025 European Meetings & Events Convention (EMEC) in Istanbul, the site of the EMEC 2014. This is our signature European event. It is inherently a European experience,” says Holmgreen.

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The Importance Of Feedback & Follow-Up Meeting After Events

Endless Events

The final step in the event management process is a follow-up meeting after the event to discuss the event’s overall ROI, attendee and sponsor feedback, and make the necessary readjustments to the overarching event strategy. Event professionals have to come to follow-up meetings after events well-prepared.

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A Guide To Choosing A Hybrid Event Venue

Endless Events

Choosing a hybrid event venue presents its own set of challenges. While pre-COVID considerations also play into the decision-making process, the event landscape of 2021 brings more complexity to the table. But while we’re all aware of this, confusion might still linger when it comes to actually choosing a hybrid event venue.

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Business Events Industry Week 2025 Focused on Celebrations That Work

Smart Meetings

Four years into an experiment to replace an annual spring event in Washington, D.C. with a collaborative concentration of events organizations all gathering in the same place, Business Events Industry Week (BEIW) has built some popular must-attend features and announced that other pieces will shake off, either going away altogether or moving.

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