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MPI Gears Up for EMEC 2025 in Türkiye

Smart Meetings

Paul Van Deventer, president and CEO of MPI, said of the development, “EMEC has long been a cornerstone for the global events community, fostering professional development through innovation, learning and connections. MPI is currently preparing to release RFPs for the 2026 and 2027 EMEC events.

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3 Extreme Accessibility Experts Share Their Accommodation Mandates

Smart Meetings

As Megan Henshall , strategic lead for Google’s global events team and co-founder of The Neu Project, explained, helping this majority-minority community participate fully is not a compliance problem; it is a business opportunity. Most have multiple impairments, and that includes the audience and the speakers.

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Together, We Can Do Hard Things 

Smart Meetings

Think then about how event experiences can advance that purpose through alignment with the commercial objectives. Get to know your audience on a deeper level. Great leaders know their audience, whether its customers, partners, board members or team members. Be prepared to interpret data and respond.

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Tackling Commoditization In The Event Industry – #EventIcons Episode 157

Endless Events

He provides an entrepreneurial approach to innovative systems and thinking, moving the needle with audiences on what they think, feel, know and do. Are you looking to create a more engaging event? Will Curran of Endless Events ( @ItsWillCurran). The Biggest Takeaways from the Global Event Forum – #EventIcons Episode 154.

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Tips for Difficult Conversations from FICP22

Smart Meetings

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. By the Numbers.

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How to Test Your Assumptions About What Your Audience Really Wants — and Why You Should

Convene by PCMA

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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How to Plan Multilingual Virtual Events

Stova

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.